Friday, December 23, 2022

D6x6 Disembodied Brains

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Special thanks to Spwack for the generator automator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D6This brain is the brain of
1a child prodigy who made great strides in fields both theoretical and applied.
2a renegade academic-turned-cult leader whose doctrine combined cutting-edge scientific discoveries with syncretic religious beliefs.
3a military scientist who headed a black budget research & development program.
4an elderly scientist who made themself a household name in popular education.
5a former pope, who strongly supported Jesuitical science.
6a filthy rich technology mogul.
D6This brain was disembodied
1in a radical medical procedure to save them from a disease that was ravaging the rest of their body.
2to escape the indignities of physical form for a life of the pure intellect.
3as an extravagant punishment by a rival, which the brain eventually turned around on them.
4because a routine scan revealed abnormal formations within it that could have represented the next step in directed human evolution.
5to serve as the key organic component of a transcendent quantum supercomputer.
6as one step in a larger, faltered process of conversion into a being of living neuro-electricity.
D6This disembodied brain can communicate
1with a mechanical speaker hooked up to its language center.
2with a saccadic keyboard controlled with its still-attached eyes.
3with the help of an interpreter who's learned how to read the ripplings of its folds.
4with its telepathic power that was unlocked by its transformation.
5by plugging a cable into the base of its interlocutor's skull, allowing direct transfer of their thoughts.
6by expanding, contracting, or rearranging the membrane of chromatophores that envelopes it.
D6This disembodied brain gets about
1by slithering on the modified remains of its spinal column like a snake.
2only by being carried by an assistant.
3by way of a neurally-controlled, motorized exosketelon originally designed to grant mobility to quadriplegics.
4by infiltrating its nerves into non-sapient animals and manipulating their musculature.
5by being pumped through a system of hydraulic tubes while suspended in nutritive fluid.
6by floating with its telekinetic power that was unlocked by its transformation.
D6This disembodied brain can interact with the world
1only through willing (or unwitting) proxies.
2with grafted cybernetic devices that can manipulate magnetic fields.
3with its advanced predictive logic, able to set up complex Rube Goldbergian series of events after a few moments of analysis.
4by using its implanted mind-computer interface to hack electronics.
5with mucal tentacles it can extrude from and retact into itself at will.
6with a pair of remotely-controlled robotic hands that crawl around at its mental direction.
D6This disembodied brain desires
1the utter annihilation of external reality, which they believe they've proven to be - hallucinatory invention of their unconscious.
2to immanentize the digital singularity, so that it may have a (self-perceived) intellectual equal.
3to rule over less-rational embodied humans in a benevolent dictatorship.
4to create a simulated paradise where the only limit on the fulfillment of human wants is computational capacity.
5to find someone who can love it based entirely on its personality.
6to liberate all people from their prisons of flesh and bone.

2 comments:

  1. I like disembodied brains in general, but you've done a really good job with the categories for the generators on this one to make it interesting. One might think there'd be only so much you can do with a disembodied brain, but you've done it.

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  2. Just in time for #Dungeon23 stocking - most megadungeons are improved by a disembodied brain to communicate with.

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