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A rare, parasitic monster. The Cursed Puppeteer is a blind, deaf, numb, and anosmic being. It stumbles about on undeveloped legs and periodically twitches its vestigial arms, attempting to make sense of a world it does not have the tools to understand. A Cursed Puppeteer is a conscious being, but has no self-identity. It is born instinctively knowing that its senses are limited, and feels a mixture of fear and anger towards its veritable prison of the mind. A Cursed Puppeteer's only sense is taste, and it uses this as a lifeline to hunt down any multicellular life it can.

A Cursed Puppeteer relentlessly attacks any complex lifeform it can find, often attempting to constrict the victim or otherwise leave them weakened without physically injuring them. It will eventually insert one of its tongues into the ear of the victim. From there, specialized nerve cells adapt and spread throughout the host brain, killing the existing consciousness and granting the Cursed Puppeteer access to its new host's senses and memories. A Cursed Puppeteer calms significantly after its first host. However, they still have a natural inclination to seek more advanced beings, and may slowly work their way up from rat, to goat, to monkey, to person. With three tongues at its disposal, a Cursed Puppeteer can permanently control three separate entities if it so desires, and it often does.

Cursed Puppeteers treat their hosts as extensions of themselves and try to ensure they are healthy and fit. Over time, a particularly intelligent host's memories can merge with the Puppeteer's own, contributing to its developing sense of self. Because of this, Cursed Puppeteers are known to mimic traits of those they have assimilated and even identify as their host or combination of hosts. Depending on their victim's moral compass, a Cursed Puppeteer may develop into a villainous mastermind, a hermit, or even an adventurer with good intentions. When the monster reaches this point, it develops an attachment to its host(s) and will never willingly swap them out, even in the face of a subjectively better target.

The Cursed Puppeteer was originally a nameless human who made a deal with outer gods. Whether they were tricked, punished, or received exactly what they bargained for is unknown. Since then, their form seems to have duplicated itself, turning a single unique monster into a species. Each new incarnation seems to be lost and confused, but it is said that the original is still alive somewhere in the world, its memory untouched, its mind planning...

Description
A rare, parasitic monster. The Cursed Puppeteer is a blind, deaf, numb, and anosmic being. It stumbles about on undeveloped legs and periodically twitches its vestigial arms, attempting to make sense of a world it does not have the tools to understand. A Cursed Puppeteer is a conscious being, but has no self-identity. It is born instinctively knowing that its senses are limited, and feels a mixture of fear and anger towards its veritable prison of the mind. A Cursed Puppeteer's only sense is taste, and it uses this as a lifeline to hunt down any multicellular life it can.

A Cursed Puppeteer relentlessly attacks any complex lifeform it can find, often attempting to constrict the victim or otherwise leave them weakened without physically injuring them. It will eventually insert one of its tongues into the ear of the victim. From there, specialized nerve cells adapt and spread throughout the host brain, killing the existing consciousness and granting the Cursed Puppeteer access to its new host's senses and memories. A Cursed Puppeteer calms significantly after its first host. However, they still have a natural inclination to seek more advanced beings, and may slowly work their way up from rat, to goat, to monkey, to person. With three tongues at its disposal, a Cursed Puppeteer can permanently control three separate entities if it so desires, and it often does.

Cursed Puppeteers treat their hosts as extensions of themselves and try to ensure they are healthy and fit. Over time, a particularly intelligent host's memories can merge with the Puppeteer's own, contributing to its developing sense of self. Because of this, Cursed Puppeteers are known to mimic traits of those they have assimilated and even identify as their host or combination of hosts. Depending on their victim's moral compass, a Cursed Puppeteer may develop into a villainous mastermind, a hermit, or even an adventurer with good intentions. When the monster reaches this point, it develops an attachment to its host(s) and will never willingly swap them out, even in the face of a subjectively better target.

The Cursed Puppeteer was originally a nameless human who made a deal with outer gods. Whether they were tricked, punished, or received exactly what they bargained for is unknown. Since then, their form seems to have duplicated itself, turning a single unique monster into a species. Each new incarnation seems to be lost and confused, but it is said that the original is still alive somewhere in the world, its memory untouched, its mind planning...