Brain Cylinder
Used by: Mi-go
These shiny cylinders are used to preserve extracted brains.
Lovecraft described them as, “a foot high and somewhat less in diameter, with three curious sockets set in an isosceles triangle over the front convex surface.”
Each cylinder is filled with a nutrient solution that sustains the brain within. Three accessory machines—a tall rig with twin lenses mounted on front, a box with vacuum tubes and a sounding board, and a small box with a metal disc on top comprise the mi-go sensing apparatus.
These machines, when connected to the proper sockets, provide the brain with the faculties of sight, speech, and hearing.
The mi-go, not possessed of human senses, have done their best; however it is but an approximation of sound and vision. All visual input is grainy, of low general resolution and the audio is flat, like that of a monaural phonograph.
Speech, with all its nuances of inflection and emotion, is utterly lost on the fungi. The speech machine talks with a mechanical, monotone voice, devoid of emotion. When the sensory machines are disconnected or deactivated, the encased brain falls into a semi-insane sleep state filled with strange dreams and hallucinations.
Every month a human brain is enclosed within a cylinder, the brain must roll under or equal to its INT. If successful, the brain remembers it is stuck inside a tin can and loses 1D3 Sanity points.
