but without meta gaming:
- Do we know that the prisoner in this pod is a potential party member?
- Do we know she has an artifact?
- If the Illithids know about the artifact why did they not take it?
- If they did not know, why put her in a special pod?
When I first started playing this game, before I knew anything about it, I tried to free Us even though the narration told me the creature was a servant of the mind flayers.