Chapters tagged exhibitionist

by Zeebop

Chapter 15

> Some extraterrestrial accounts maintain that on their home planet, some preferred host species evolved in tandem with brain slugs and willingly sought out possession upon adulthood. Other extraterrestrial records maintain that this is brain slug propaganda, used to lull potenti...

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Chapter 17

> North American Brain Slug hosts formerly used elaborate "courting" behavior to attract potential hosts. Human governments considered these behaviors coercive and passed laws restricting the hives' actions to attract potential hosts by offering material goods or sexual services....

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Chapter 21

> A hallmark of North American brain slug hives is coordinated activity. In pre-industrialized settings, it is theorized that this allowed the hive to effectively undertake community projects like rearing structures, digging wells, and managing factory-line style physical labor....

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Chapter 38

, By the time you read this, it will be too late. I'm sorry I couldn't bring myself to tell you in person, but I knew you might have stopped me. You're the only one who would have. But this is what I've chosen. I've finally found acceptance. I love you. Please remember tha...

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Chapter 40

> Most brain slug hosts possess excellent hearing, and brain slugs are fluent in the same languages as their hosts; brain slugs whose hosts are in contact with one another can share understanding or rapidly teach new languages. Initial integration strongly affects the host's abil...

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Chapter 43

> Just as a brain slug's eyespots complement the host's vision, the brain slug's chemoreceptors complement the host's sense of smell and taste. Most brain slugs emphasize connections to these sensory organs and their processing structures in the brain, which can make them very se...

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Chapter 52

> These subtler senses of brain slug hosts are not merely passive. They are channels of communication that are actively used. Low-level emission of electrical impulses, microwave radiation, infrasound, and other signals is constant. Human beings around brain slug hosts are being...

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Chapter 65

> Humans are social animals; most humans need some level of social interaction for their continued mental health. Isolation is one of the key punishments in the human justice system for this reason. When the first criminal human hosts were supplied to brain slugs, the hive minds...

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Chapter 68

> Brain slug hosts prefer sex when brain slug hosts equal or outnumber human partners, and in rooms with clearly accessible exits and with mirrored surfaces. The latter enables both the brain slug's eyespots and the host's eyes to keep track of their partner, a double visual conf...