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Roulette city NPC: Brian McKenzie

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Name: Brian McKenzie
Height: Around 9 meters from floor to the tip of the cocoon
Weight: Impossible to measure, but assumed relatively light compared to mass
Age: ???
Voice: Glenn Shadix.
Brian was a beech seed lying under Ukraine soil many years ago. He experienced the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and almost died, but a few mutated particles from his inner core managed to survive and ride with the wind. Thanks to various storms and other completely random events he got carried into space where he mindlessly floated around and got exposed to all sorts of cosmic rays and alien spores before ending up in Roulette City. He settled down inside the ceiling in the slums where he slowly started to grow into what he is today.
The authorities of Roulette city and Brian came to an agreement about allowing him to stay as long as he does not eat any of the station’s inhabitants, and is willing to lend out his complex venom for medical research.

Personality:
Brian suffers from DID and thus has two sets of personalities.

Primary personality:
Like a Chinese lung dragon Brian is a gentle giant, highly intelligent and curious. He is generally polite and loves to chat, but he still demands that you show him respect. When speaking to him it is best to refer to him as Mr. McKenzie or Sir unless he tells you otherwise since he gets offended if people are rude or talking down to him, but as long as you treat him the way you want to be treated he is very friendly and cooperative.
Brian does not care about justice or what is right or wrong. If two beings involved in an ethical drama separately came to talk to him he would support both stories. Of course, he would not take it well if one of the beings was lying and he found out. Dishonesty is a thing he cannot tolerate.

Secondary personality:
The other side of Brian is everything you would expect a creature of his appearance to be; aggressive, territorial and primitive. He does not speak in this state, and his only interests are eating and protecting his hide.
This personality is only triggered when Brian feels threatened or reaches a certain level of anger.

Abilities:
Reproducing tentacles
Stretchable and tough skin
Fast learner
Immune towards any kind of poison

Fighting Style/ Weapons:
Venom/spores
Teeth
Tentacles

Downfall/weaknesses:
Immobility
Fire
Sharp objects

Anatomical information
:bulletgreen: Brian’s tentacles have such advanced motor skills that he is able to pick up things with them.
:bulletgreen: He does not have a single bone in his body. His long neck and tentacles are made of strong, flexible muscles, and his head and cocoon is of an unknown, unbreakable material making him an impermeable fortress.
:bulletgreen: He can coil up and withdraw into his cocoon to protect himself. That is also how he sleeps.
:bulletgreen: Smaller, sticky tentacles along with most of the cocoon are dug into the ceiling to keep Brian in place.
:bulletgreen: He has two brains; one inside his head, and one in the humpback behind his neck. They are made of a green liquid matter that – apart from looking a lot like his venom - can be seen through the three membranes on each side of his head. These membrane-covered holes function as “eyes” making him capable of registering temperatures, so his vision is somewhat similar – yet more evolved - to that of a snake.
:bulletgreen: The cocoon is filled with an unknown kind of olive-green venom, the same he uses as a weapon, and the same that is being collected by those who want it. It can penetrate through ridiculously small holes, and one pint can kill a fully grown human after one and a half hour. The venom etches through hard skin to poison the victim if it has no holes to penetrate, and “bathing” in it – like if someone was trapped inside the cocoon – would result in complete disappearance of a human body within three minutes.
People that are poisoned with Brian’s venom will experience failure of motor skills and have their skin slowly rot and fall off, a bit like Desomorphine, but more effective.
:bulletgreen: Despite containing this horrid venom – in which he occasionally floats around - and the fact that his skin is damp and feels like rotten wood and slimy scales it is not fatal to touch Brian; it is mere water and mucus that makes him moist. The venom does not attach to him when he comes out of his cocoon; it is only released through his mouth, if one cuts off his tentacles or if he opens the “nozzle” wide open pouring out the cocoon’s entire content – this last thing is a defense mechanism only used in desperate situations as it leaves Brian in a weak state until he manages to produce enough venom to fill up the cocoon again.
:bulletgreen: The horns on his head are actually sensitive organs that senses vibrations in the air.
:bulletgreen: Brian has a pretty special way of communicating with others. He emits spores that “infect” the brain and create a link between him and the infected. That way he can hear and understand what the infected can hear and understand, even sense what kind of mood they are in with help from their brain waves. A very flexible muscle down his throat makes him able to imitate the words he hears through others, which is how he leaned to talk. The spores are not dangerous in any manner, and they disappear after a while so new spores will have to find their way to the brain if the link wants to be kept - also the link cannot reach further than the slums.
:bulletgreen: Because of this way of communication Brian cannot understand non-organic beings. A creature with a brain and ears would have to be present as “translator”.
:bulletgreen: Brian’s food is being digested on its way up his throat, and energy is directly absorbed through the inside of it. Whatever useless waste there is left reaches the top of the cocoon and is processed into venom.
:bulletgreen: He has no tongue.

Random facts:
:bulletgreen: He feeds on compost and all kinds of flora and fungi no matter what condition they are in. His food is brought to him by farm workers.
:bulletgreen: Rumor says that Brian has sharp teeth because he sometimes seeks out more intelligent food. Nobody knows if this is true since it has never been reported, and he does not come with a straight answer when asked. He did, however, once said that if a person has received the death sentence he would be happy to be the executioner.
:bulletgreen: He smells of soil and fresh potatoes.
:bulletgreen: It has been told that some of the slums’ dwellers collect Brian’s venom to turn it into drugs or weapons, and apparently that is totally fine with him.
:bulletgreen: He named himself Brian McKenzie because he thinks that he also has the right to have a name, and defines himself as a male since he associate the word “it” with non-living objects.
:bulletgreen: Brian’s favourite response to when friends ask him how it is going is “I am just hanging”, which reveals that he is able to utter harmless jokes, also about himself.
:bulletgreen: He would like to go to a psychiatrist to treat his personality issues, but he has not succeeded in finding one willing and capable of helping. He does, however, receive a calming blend of tea made by Meghaja that somewhat helps him cope with his aggresive self. In return he lets her collect his venom although he would have let her even if he did not get anything in return.
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Kill it with fire !