Might have been mentioned before, but maybe the Mud in the picture is less being dissected/surgically screwed up to make brew, but rather, they're testing brew on them, possibly by injecting it directly into the bloodstream? It would somewhat explain the distant, trancelike stare, he's in some kind of Brew-indused trance. The 'strain' would be different combinations of ingredients for the brew, and they just keep injecting and testing until they can find something that's less likely to violently kill the mudokon before the sligs can.
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