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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infinite Monkey@Work" data-source="post: 364820" data-attributes="member: 4729">I just had an idea that I might use for my uber-bad guys:What if mind flayers were just floating heads.  If they eat your brains, they sometimes then tear off you whole head and psychicly reanimate your body and use it to move around and do stuff that is easier with hands.They might be slightly more powerful while without a body too, seeing as they won't be using up psionic powers in animating the body.  They would still have the trademark emaciated look, seeing as they aren't going to bother feeding a dead body that they are just using for convenience's sake, so the body quickly becomes very thin.So, thoughts? ideas? suggestions?  what sort of extra powers would mind flayers need as standard to pull this off (I don't have my books on me atm)creepy things this could lead to?  e.g. character is killed in a battle with flayers,  and next time you fight them one of them is still using your comrades body, or really pissing off a conclave of flayers, so they all go and invade your home village just so they can wear you families bodies when they hunt you down.</blockquote>