the deserter was literally addicted to the phasmid's mind control chemicals, after you photograph it and it leaves, the deserter becomes entirely unresponsive and incapable of even basic speech, just shuddering if you touch him.
Yeah, I know, but he's spent 50 years being the Union Bosses' assassin and he was already fucked up from fleeing his comrades. It's not just the phasmid.
it's the
phasmid
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Lol I also thought of the Phasmid but it did give the Deserter some brainworms.
Deserter already had most of those brainworms.
Stick insect did nothing. Stick insect is innocent of the crime.
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the deserter was literally addicted to the phasmid's mind control chemicals, after you photograph it and it leaves, the deserter becomes entirely unresponsive and incapable of even basic speech, just shuddering if you touch him.
Yeah, I know, but he's spent 50 years being the Union Bosses' assassin and he was already fucked up from fleeing his comrades. It's not just the phasmid.