Githyanki Fortress with out bloodshed.

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KSC
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You are a Psion, with a touch of larcenous skills, slowly wading through the slimy water where a chest sits partially submerged. Beyond the chest on a ledge stand a group of Githyanki. The Gith are alert but oblivious to your presence. Reaching the chest you slip your tools into the lock and silently open it, noticing a trap in the process. Checking the Gith remain oblivious you start to build energy in your mind a sensation unique to this particular power you envision a clock running backwards, sands falling upward in an hourglass, quickly at first then slowing tightening like a spring. With a snap the energy surrounds the Gith and they vanish, unaware they are moving forward through time. For your part you begin to count seconds as you start to render the trap harmless, knowing you have just over a 90 count before you catch up to the Gith and you must be concealed again. More than enough time.

The next chamber now, the last pack of Gith stand watch over an empty chest and having your way this pack will soon be joining them. From the shadows only much further away this time you raise a fog of ectoplasmic tendrils drawn from the astral essence around the pack of Gith. Their vision blocked they are at least disciplined enough not to panic and run, but not so quick on their feat to try and find a way out of the fog just yet. While they assess, you plunder. By the time they decide on a course of action you are on your way to the next chamber.

And then the next, and the next. Through a combination of time jumping, stealth and psionic fog you emerge from the Gith fortress, not a single arrow loosed not an axe drawn and a feel of bulk in your bag of holding if not of weight.
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