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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5878066" data-attributes="member: 8835">there is a many bodied entity that is infecting the population.It sends its agents to seek out new people, the agent tells the person "I have a secret for you" and whispers the true name of the entityinto their ear.  That person is now infected and has joined the network of minds.The entity does not refer to itself as "us" or "we".  To its perspective, each individual is not an individual, it is the entity.  So the entity's agents do not speak to each other, as there is no need to transfer knowledge.  When speaking to the unaffected, each body refers to itself as "I"To detect these infected people, you could make a lense out of a piece of amber and look through it.  The properties of an amber lens will show a stream of particles travelling very fast between infected bodies.  There is no central host, merely lines of traffic between every infected body.The effect is a neural network of minds linked together.  Because even a single mind has sufficient brain power to be clever, devious and powerful, killing the bodies does not offer any immediately obvious change in behavior.  Thus, if the PCs managed to catch the infection early, and wade through 100 infected down to the last 3, there would not be any functional difference in their behavior from the perspective of the current combat.From the strategic and long term view, this massive neural network (which is basically merging and rewiring each brain's neural network into a larger one) means this system is able to process all the channels of sensory input from each body and use that data to make plans and coordinate the bodies as a force, better than non-infected entities.This means the agents do not make mistakes because they are operating on superior intel.  This can be reflected by being able to send reinforcments immediately, or to counter the PCs new direction and have agents ready to meet them because they anticipated such a move.As noted before, the entity refers to itself as I, regardless of which body it is speaking through.  The I has a goal of integrating every intelligent being.  It is in competition (as in survival, not sports) with other massive entities, like the one Coce05 described.</blockquote>

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