Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords/Secret Academy

Meeting Chamber
After entering the and speaking to Atris, she exits the meeting chamber to return to her  on the right side of the academy, leaving you at its exit on the left side, flanked by a Handmaiden Sister to either side. If you speak to them, or any other Handmaiden Sister in the academy:

You don't need to speak to them, but after your meeting with Atris there may be one reason why you'd want to do so:

You'll also have plenty of chances to initiate this as you ask questions. If you've yet to free your party from and you ask about them, then you can be told about Atton's Echani training, which gives you later opportunities to gain or lose influence and move closer to the light or dark side of the Force when you next speak to :

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Meditation Chamber
If you cross the and exit the right side to follow Atris up the walkway to her meditation chamber, you'll find it locked:

Entrance Chamber
Exit the on the left side to go back down the walkway to the entrance chamber. The turbolift seal in the west wall is now locked, so you cannot return to the ../Polar Plateau/. There's a door in the top left wall, and Handmaiden stands to the right of a short tunnel in the bottom left wall which ends in another door. If you speak to her:

After one of these is your first response, you can simply go, or ask her something. Otherwise:


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After asking one of the Handmaiden Sisters about this place, why Atris is here and the artifacts, and being persuasive about seeing them, you can ask if she's the "last" of the Handmaidens:


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If Persuade rank < 4, persuasion fails:


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Otherwise:

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In both cases:


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Otherwise, you only move closer to the light side of the Force if you haven't already said combat is not the Jedi way:


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Saying you heard she knows something of the relics Atris has stored here is also unlocked:

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Once she's told you she's seen a few of them:


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You move closer to the dark side of the Force if this is your first response, and when you first ask the following:

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Before you leave her for the first time, she asks what it feels like to have touched the Force:

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Handmaiden Quarters
Beyond the door at the end of the short tunnel exiting the bottom left of the is a room with a long table with four chairs on each side to the left and two Handmaiden Sisters to the right, standing in the left corner between a door in the top left wall, beyond which is a short tunnel to one of the doors of the, and another short tunnel in the bottom left wall leading to the door of the Handmaiden quarters: inside, beyond the two doors in each of the three remaining walls are their individual quarters, around a central training mat with a pillar at each corner. There are plasteel cylinders in all but the quarters behind the right door in the back wall opposite the entrance. Those behind the doors in the wall to the left upon entering are unlocked:

The three remaining are locked:

If you speak to any of the five sisters in the academy and you're looking for a fight, then all will be happy to oblige:

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You follow to the Handmaiden quarters to the southwest, where one of the sisters now stands across from the player on the training mat while the other four now watch from around its perimeter:

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As the first fight begins, any active buffs are cancelled and any clothing, robes or body armor and weapons are removed: if you equip them again, use any Force power, grenade, stimulant, medpac, shield or mine, or leave or get knocked back off the training mat, then the fight is over. Although any mines set before a fight remain, the sisters have Mine Immunity so they won't trigger them.

After the first three fights, depending on the outcome:

If the first fight wasn't a success:


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Every Handmaiden Sister is unarmed but can use, trebling damage on a critical hit, which also has a chance to knock you back, possibly off the training mat, if a Fortitude save fails. Although any clothing, robes or body armor and weapons are removed and cannot be replaced in the first fight, all other equipment remains in place: any, , , , , and unarmed  bonuses may help (as may Immunity: ).

The first two fights without the Force will be particularly difficult for a unless early feat selection focused on improving (unarmed) combat capabilities (for example, improving or mastering,  and ).

and Force points aren't restored to maximum before or after each fight, so save game beforehand or free Kreia from the if she can. Once the first fight is a success:

However, using higher Echani forms doesn't seem to have any effect, and every Handmaiden Sister fought seems no different from the first (perhaps Power Attack is used more often?). Although any clothing, robes or body armor is removed at the start of each remaining fight, it's possible to replace it before any attack is made without losing, and any weapons can now be used, not just melee weapons.

Once the second fight is a success:

From now on you can use the Force, although if you won the first two fights reasonably comfortably then you might not need it (yet). Once the third fight is a success:


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Once the fourth fight is a success, save game because, unlike the previous fights, you only get one attempt at the fifth and final one:

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You're outnumbered five to one, with three in front and two behind, but from the dismissive reaction if you lose, you'd think those odds were reversed:

If it taking more than two of them to defeat a single low-to-mid-level Jedi without a lightsaber hasn't taught them humility, then maybe only defeating all five will do so (although refusing a rematch may be taken as a tacit admission of that being possible).

However, this may be easier said than done, particularly on Difficult: you may be high enough level to have improved Force powers, but not mastered them, and your Force points may run out before the end of the fight, which means you should still be prepared to slug it out in combat.


 * Improved can (significantly) reduce damage in the absence of Mandalorian  (although you, Atton or Bao-Dur should be able to create s at the  in ), reducing the frequency with which you need to  or use ).
 * Force users should use Knight Valor to increase maximum Force and Difficulty Class (among other things), while more combat-oriented Jedi should use Knight Speed for a Defense bonus and added attack.
 * The dark side powers Horror or Insanity are likely to be the only Force powers available that offer area of effect debilitation.
 * The dark side powers Improved and Force Lightning are likely to be the only powers available that can damage multiple targets
 * The Handmaiden Sisters can be tricked into stepping off the mat with carful maneuvering, taking them out of fight. Force Whirlwind can also be used to knock them back if they fail to a Reflex save; move to one of the corners and allow the Handmaiden Sisters to cluster around you to maximize the chances of affecting as many as possible.

Prison
There are three plasteel cylinders at the top right end of the room beyond the door in the top left wall of the :

The room beyond the door in the top left wall at the bottom left end is empty: beyond the door in its top right wall is another room with a Handmaiden Sister standing to the right by the bottom right wall, and a short tunnel in the top left wall to the door of ; beyond the door in its bottom left wall is a short tunnel to the door of the prison, which can also be accessed from the to the bottom left.

Kreia
When you open either door to the prison, Kreia turns toward you in the middle cage on the left side, gets up and speaks:


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Otherwise, you can tell her about Atris:

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If you then say you may have to kill Atris:


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Atton begins to wake up after his 'sleep' in the cage to the right:

If you speak to Kreia again before leaving the academy:


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Bao-Dur
Unlike Atton, Bao-Dur speaks to you after he regains consciousness in the cage to the left:

Even if you tell Bao-Dur to come with you, you can still change your mind and choose the other two. There's a plasteel cylinder by the north wall of the prison:

If you speak to Bao-Dur again before leaving the academy:


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Atton
If you speak to Atton again before leaving the academy:

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If this is the first time you've asked:

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However, there's not much point doing so unless you spoke to one of the Handmaiden Sisters before freeing him, and she told you about his Echani training:

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Otherwise, you can interrogate him:

If you speak to him again after persuading him with the Force or skill, or saying you think he's lying to you:

If you interrogate him about his Echani training again, you can repeat this dialog and have second opportunities to gain or lose influence and move closer to the light or dark side of the Force.

Hangar Control
Hangar control is on the top left side of the (bear right), and above the  (bear left). When you open the door you see T3-M4 trapped in a force field, and the Ebon Hawk in the hangar below through the window in the wall behind. When you enter, T3-M4 speaks:


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Workbench
There's a by the bottom left wall of, with a plasteel cylinder to the right, in the top corner of the alcove by the top left wall.

Lab Station
There's a by the top right wall of : to the left is a door, beyond which is a ramp down to the top left side of the academy, and the hangar bay below.

Hangar Bay
The entrance to the hangar bay at the base of the ramp down from is in its top right wall. There's a plasteel cylinder in the right corner, by the bottom right wall.

Otherwise, all that remains is to board the Ebon Hawk. If you try to do so before freeing your party from the :

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Handmaiden
If your character is male then as you leave the secret academy in the Ebon Hawk, two Handmaiden sisters approach Atris:

The ../Handmaiden/ has indeed stowed away on the Ebon Hawk, and she joins your party. Later, Atris stands facing the pillar in the middle of the meeting chamber as two Handmaiden sisters enter behind her:


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Later still, two handmaiden sisters stand at the window overlooking the empty hangar bay:


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