User blog:Le Rottweiler/Can Shubby use mind control?

The Quake manual states that ‘ [ Grunts ] have probes inserted into their pleasure centers; wired up so when they kill someone, they get paroxysms of ecstasy.’ I originally interpreted ‘pleasure center’ as a euphemism for their… well, you know. But it was probably talking about their brains. When I first read this description, I just assumed that these probes were inserted as part of their conversion, but now I’m guessing that these devices were actually inserted prior to their zombification, or in other words, by the military. I think that this hypothesis actually makes more sense than the devices being a product indirectly implemented by Shub‐Niggurath. The Enforcers presumably have the same probes, but this is not explicitly stated.

But why are they assaulting just Ranger? I vaguely recall somebody on‐line (I don’t have the link, sorry) proposing that all of the monsters, including Rotties, Grunts, and Enforcers, are secretly controlled by Shub‐Niggurath. I don’t know of any good evidence to support this, but I’m also unconscious of anything official that contradicts this. Is it possible that she’s directly controlling every enemy in Quake?

One last thing: is it possible that Rotties, Grunts, and Enforcers aren’t really undead? They don’t get up like Zombies do, but they seem to be in better condition than Zombies. If the mind control hypothesis is correct, it wouldn’t necessarily contradict the suggestion that they aren’t undead.