Eyechedelic

The Eyechedelic is a slothful psychoweapon whose beeping, pulsing eyes have an opioid effect on sighted organisms.

Constantly shifting in color, most of an Eyechedelic's oculars are usually concealed beneath a chitinous faceplate, exposed only to unleash the full brunt of their debilitating effects or allow individual eyes to temporarily break free and roam the spirit's territory. In most sentient beings, close visual contact with even one of these organs induces immediate, steadily escalating euphoria and a heavily distorted perception of time as mental processes unpredictably speed, slow or even "run backwards."

Any complete loss of visual contact with the spirit's eyeballs triggers equally immediate, torturous withdrawal effects, including sharp migraines, panic, a sense of catastrophic loss and a terrifyingly heightened awareness of time's natural passage. Creatures enslaved by these effects are typically forced to nourish the Eyechedelic in exchange for continued stimulation, willfully allowing the spirit to puncture arteries with its impressive talons and guzzle blood directly through its many eye sockets.

An Eychedelic's metabolism is monolithically sluggish, not unlike that of a fungusloth or sewer cucumber, and the monster has been known to sit in place for years at a time, growing fat and happy off the labor of one or more addicted servants until they are literally bled dry. Though it has little malice, its sheer laziness outweighs any sympathy it might have for its victims. In remote locales, the roaming eyes of Eyechedelic are believed to be responsible for native legends of "swamp whisps" or "fairy lights" luring mortals to their doom.