Exploding halflings?

So, my long lost brother, Chris runs a 3.5E D&D game. He had in a mind a fun little horror type dealio wherein a whacky religious sect of the Mind Flayers (aka The Throon) were invading this little backwater of a planet.

The Throon have this passion for fucking with Nature. One of their techniques is to invade your favorite brain case with a parasite who can juice your body far beyond it's natural limits. The downside to this amping up is that your body explodes from "too much energy."

One of the possessed beings that his PCs ran into was a halfling who went totally apeshit on the party and then blew up. Only one party member witnessed the kaboom. Later, another possessed (this one a dwarf) started to get that exploding feeling (picture that guy, Thunder, from Big Trouble in Little China) and runs away pursued by the aforementioned party member. She watches the dwarf explode and seems non-plussed by this chain of events.

Chris asked why it was that she hadn't reported this happening before, to which she replied: "I don't know. I figured it was exploding halfling syndrome or something!"

Thanks to her, I have a name for my blog. Bless you, Alicia!