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A loathsome creature of Chaos, a parasitic eyeball resembles a normal
eyeball – of any size from a dog’s eye up to those of an ogre – with a
trailing mass of nerves and muscle fibres. These tissues are animated
and allow the eyeball to move, squishing along in a trail of clear
juices. They are also capable of burrowing into flesh and digging out a
cavity for the eyeball to rest in. This is the manner in which parasitic
eyeballs are normally found; attached to another creature.
Parasitic eyeballs seek out living creatures with blind instinct. When
they feel the touch of warm flesh the tendrils immediately latch on and
begin digging. The tissues integrate themselves into the host’s nervous
system, ensuring that removing the eye is every bit as traumatic as
having one of your natural eyes put out. The eye itself settles into
its new socket – which could be anywhere on a living creature – and
draws an eyelid around itself from the surrounding flesh. The whole
process takes about two minutes and is painful beyond imagining.
Of course there are some who choose to allow a parasitic eyeball to
attach itself to them. Because the eyeball becomes part of the host’s
nervous system it can be seen through as if it were a normal eye, which
can be an advantage if you have one on the back of your neck or in the
palm of your hand (to enable safe peering around corners). Parasitic
eyeballs can also bestow mystic powers on their host, although this is
not a safe gamble by any measure.
Symbiosis: A host can benefit from only one parasitic eyeball per Hit
Location. Multiple eyeballs can certainly install themselves on one
Hit Location but the host only gains the benefits (or drawbacks) of
the first one they gained on that location.
A parasitic eyeball is not difficult to destroy. Just make sure you are
wearing boots when you stamp on it…
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