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<blockquote data-quote="Samloyal23" data-source="post: 7545472" data-attributes="member: 21432"><p>An Illithid who has been studying humanoid behaviour. For a long time it forced thralls in captivity in its city to commit vile crimes against each other while it read their minds to learn how they felt about different types of torture. Now it has decided to go and study thrall races in their "natural environment" by switching bodies with a humanoid so it can go out and steal, rape, and murder in humanoid cities while reading the minds of its victims. It then returns to its own body, leaving the innocent thrall to deal with the consequences of the crimes committed by the mindflayer while it was in possession of his or her body. Using its other psionic powers, the illithid can covertly observe the situations and psychological trauma suffered by the possessed target and any crime victims. With the knowledge gained, the braineater thinks it can develop new and better ways to breakdown the minds of thralls so they can be controlled better. It has been trying to get others of its kind to participate by using the same techniques to verify its discoveries. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, it is leaving a long trail of people framed from for horrible crimes and an even longer line of traumatized crime victims. Some of these thralls are in prison, others have gone insane, a few are dead, and others are just physically crippled by torture and mutilation. The worst part is, none of them understand what happened to them or who the real villain is who has committed the evil deeds plaguing their city. Despite all the protestations of innocence by the illithid's puppets, all of them end up in prison or on a gallows. Those who believe them are losing faith in their government and fellow man, those who do not are quick to distrust those who do, creating suspicion and resentment between neighbours and friends. Civil society is slowly breaking down as the crime spree continues, each evil deed becoming more twisted and sick as time passes. The illithid does care about these, so long as it gets its data...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samloyal23, post: 7545472, member: 21432"] An Illithid who has been studying humanoid behaviour. For a long time it forced thralls in captivity in its city to commit vile crimes against each other while it read their minds to learn how they felt about different types of torture. Now it has decided to go and study thrall races in their "natural environment" by switching bodies with a humanoid so it can go out and steal, rape, and murder in humanoid cities while reading the minds of its victims. It then returns to its own body, leaving the innocent thrall to deal with the consequences of the crimes committed by the mindflayer while it was in possession of his or her body. Using its other psionic powers, the illithid can covertly observe the situations and psychological trauma suffered by the possessed target and any crime victims. With the knowledge gained, the braineater thinks it can develop new and better ways to breakdown the minds of thralls so they can be controlled better. It has been trying to get others of its kind to participate by using the same techniques to verify its discoveries. Meanwhile, it is leaving a long trail of people framed from for horrible crimes and an even longer line of traumatized crime victims. Some of these thralls are in prison, others have gone insane, a few are dead, and others are just physically crippled by torture and mutilation. The worst part is, none of them understand what happened to them or who the real villain is who has committed the evil deeds plaguing their city. Despite all the protestations of innocence by the illithid's puppets, all of them end up in prison or on a gallows. Those who believe them are losing faith in their government and fellow man, those who do not are quick to distrust those who do, creating suspicion and resentment between neighbours and friends. Civil society is slowly breaking down as the crime spree continues, each evil deed becoming more twisted and sick as time passes. The illithid does care about these, so long as it gets its data... [/QUOTE]
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