D6x6 Mingy Mind Flayers

Alternate names to evade product identity when using mind flayers with the serial numbers filed off*: Brainbusters, Cerebro-Slurpers, Skullfuckers, Chris Angel’s Mindfreaks, Dudes Trying To Get Some Head

*However I would say that keeping the serial numbers as is is pretty neat. They’re like post-humans from the sunless future what’s not to like.

Table automator can be found here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6	These mind flayers eat brains
1	to preserve others’ memories beyond the span of a single life.
2	because they’ve got anodyne souls and only experience intensity of emotion from stolen vicarity.
3	because they contain vital hormones that mind flayers can’t produce themselves.
4	as a panpsychist mission to unite all disparate consciousnesses.
5	because they’re addictively delicious.
6	as a symbolic performance to reaffirm themselves as the only beings deserving of rational thought.

D6	These mind flayers eat brains by
1	scooping them out in pieces through peoples’ nose/ear/eye holes with their long, hooked fingers.
2	smashing people’s heads in with hooked maces then plucking off the bits that get caught on the hooks.
3	applying a resonant device to people’s heads that liquefy their brains into a jelly that drips out of their orifices for easy slurping.
4	biting people’s heads off and swallowing them whole.
5	overloading their minds with psychic energy so their skulls explode.
6	massaging softening slime into peoples’ skulls then absorbing them through the weakened membrane (kind of like in Rabbit of Seville when Bugs Bunny’s massaging Elmer Fudd’s scalp).

D6	These mind flayers’ psychic powers
1	are in fact stolen from the brains they eat. The mind flayers cover the brains of human psychics both active and latent.
2	are the only way they can perceive the world, through the eyes, ears, and thoughts of other thinking creatures.
3	are released in a burst of poltergeist activity when they are killed.
4	are limited to replicating what they’ve personally experienced. For example their telekinesis might mimic the sharp swing of a sword or a charging bull, but not a mountain falling on you. Ditto for implanted hallucinations and memories.
5	can literally flay your mind, creating a more-or-less accurate copy of it for them to interrogate and torment.
6	cause stark cognitive decline in those exposed too often to them.

D6	These mind flayers come from
1	exposure to a memetic virus that corrupts the mind-body relationship.
2	a philosophical cult’s failed transition to forms of pure intellect.
3	the genetically-engineered intellectual caste of a fallen civilization.
4	extraterrestrial brooding chambers embedded within the planet’s crust. The chambers activated when they detected the evolution of centralized nervous systems on the surface.
5	the laboratories of a secret inquisition, which made them as the ultimate censors.
6	a new generation of divine beings who seek to usurp the gods as the gods usurped the titans.

D6	These mind flayers’ greatest weakness is
1	prions. Their feedstock must be pristine or they’ll suffer rapid neural degeneration.
2	sincerely-held superstitions. The interaction between the belief imbued in these superstitions and the mind flayers’ psychic abilities renders them effective against the creatures.
3	the undead, and necromantic magic. The mind flayers dread them and cannot wield them.
4	that they can get a potent “contact high” from touching the minds of intoxicated people.
5	is their own pride. They’ll underestimate their enemies at every turn.
6	is direct physical violence. Despite their mental power their bodies are fragile.

D6	These mind flayers scheme
1	to do some Truman Show-style gaslighting on the party to make their minds suitable for implantation in a paranoia-core.
2	to stalk the children of an orphanage, inducing various phobias in them to create a critical mass of nightmares that will sink into the waking world.
3	to test various, potentially very unsafe and/or mutagenic nootropic mixtures supplied to the hyper-competitive students of a renowned university.
4	to infiltrate an archaeological dig and retrieve a fossilized brain unearthed there which contains antediluvian knowledge in its silicate folds.
5	to feed information to a secret police force through patsies, making them believe that the mind flayers’ enemies are actually rebels and dissidents to be crushed.
6	to engineer an idyllic micro-society wherein the people will become contented cattle ripe for unbothered harvest.