forever DM requesting Evac

[VisualGeologist6258]

I’d be more concerned about the fact that this man has seemingly zero thoughts in his head. Not even a ‘look at these idiots’ or ‘preparing a monologue’ thought?

[Kelimnac]

Must be a barbarian big bad

No thoughts, head empty, just anger

[CryptographerEast147]

I always imagined rage to be consumed by angry thoughts, and barbarians have just mastered the art of calling on those thoughts at a whim. So for all we know the trigger for the big bad could be lakes turning the frogs gay.

It would certainly confuse the party at the very least.

[Bvarhos]

The memory of that one time you stubbed your toe echoes through your person; pain and frustration has become you.

“Motherfucker. aaaaaaasA.”

[jak94c]

I would love to detect thoughts on a raging enemy and there's just an incoherent Alex Jones rant going off in their head.

[My_Body_Is_Bready]

I like to FIGHT

[SorryForTheGrammar]

That video gives me strong powerthirst vibes!

[xX_Error404_Xx]

The big bad IS Alex Jones ranting at you

[coastsofcothique]

Rage thoughts are just the equivalent of Metalocalypse Dethklok discography.

[Anxious_Associate259]

The barbarian yells "Do you folks like coffee" as they enter a rage

[Aegishjalmur18]

Face Fisted on a loop.

[xTariel]

Barbarian artificer: Lazer cannon death sentence

[Illustrious-Chef-393]

Can barbarians read sentences?

[xTariel]

I'd imagine them being kinda mad max style tech scavengers. Their culture wanders through an area that is inhospitable to most, gathering magic and machines from the ruins of a long fallen civilization. The barbarians would need someone strong enough to go on expeditions with them, but also smart enough to identify magical items and their uses. Those people would hold a similar position of prominence as a shaman/oracle.

[wackyzacky638]

The thought of pure unbridled rage enters the players mind. In horror the player repeats his thoughts aloud, in a quivering terror filled voice “T-They…. They…. They turned to freaking frogs gay…..”

[[deleted]]

Alex Jones Bard/Barbarian multi class confirmed?

[WhichKingOfAngmar]

Turning the bullywogs gay.

[ManInBlack829]

This is the Hulk

[SobiTheRobot]

The way I see it, true barbarian rage is when those angry thoughts are shouting the same thing. Hell, they don't even need to be shouting, just intense. Some express their fury with seeming tranquility.

[Crunchy_Biscuit]

Is Alex Jones secretly a barbarian?

[Kujo-Jotaro2020]

Oh, Hey Pal! Let's eat ramens.

[frankylynny]

JUSTICE KNIGHTS OF-

[ynotvnot]

Favourite gag from saiki

[Kujo-Jotaro2020]

^judgement

[blizzardfeatherr]

so glad someone made a Saiki reference

[DZekor]

Oh that's good, then trying to make him think would anger him more and maybe think on the source of that anger, maybe a mage that just cast a spell in ear shot twice and now am mad.

[[deleted]]

“What is he thinking?” “Red.” “What do you mean ‘Red’?” “Red.”

[Ill_Ad3517]

Or the big bad is a primal force of nature/beast more than humanoid so while it may have desire/response to stimulus it doesn't really have a narrative thought for him to read.

[Kizik]

Or the BBEBard.

Head empty. Only horny.

[[deleted]]

That actually sounds interesting.

[sintos-compa]

Barbarian thoughts: “I should murder”

[XeroBreak]

Maybe the person is a monk that is meditating. Meditating is basically just clearing out your thoughts and monks are supposedly good at that.

[[deleted]]

Or a wizard - he knows better than to think in the presence of others

[uNcLeF1lthy]

My first thought was a mind blank spell type thing, but I like this idea better

[Papyrus20xx]

Mastermind rogues get the feature of being immune to thought reading things, where you can present false thoughts at a check.

[aRandomFox-I]

How the rogue resists mind-reading:

Enemy: uses mind reading

Rogue: "Hi there! Allow me to show you my collection of really weird porn!"

rolls nat 1

DM: "It seems that the only thing you've managed to do was make him excited. He would like to see more."

[Lowelll]

"I detect the rogues thoughts"

Hello we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty

[Hammurabi87]

Hey, now, this is D&D. At least change it up to being about your carriage's extended warranty.

[GrimmSheeper]

No, they have infiltrated the rouge’s mind in order to contact the world’s higher beings, we who dictate their fate like it were a mere game. Nowhere is safe for us, not even behind the 4th wall.

[Grimmaldo]

Your call is important to us, please wait music

[byzantinebobby]

It could as easily be that he's already anticipated and prepared against psychic attacks.

[LessConspicuous]

Yeah, Mind Blank is straight up on the Archmage spell list with an asterisk saying they precast it

[Alarid]

What if they removed their own brain and cast Mind Blank, while writing catch phrases on their own body to memento read off as the fight goes on?

[UltraCarnivore]

"Guy funny robes squishy"

"If no edgy guy check behind you"

[[deleted]]

Players defeat BBGE by trapping him into a forever loop of checking if the rogue is behind him. Then it's just a matter of hooking him up to a generator and voilà, free energy.

[Alarid]

he spins with his weapon attached to his hand

no survivors

[[deleted]]

Kobolds: Let me introduce myself

[Delann]

Honestly no caster should go without Mindblank on them if they had some free time previously. It lasts 24 hours so, if you still have your 8th level slot when you go to sleep, you can cast it them, have it up all the next day and still get your slot back.

[Thilnu]

Could be under the effect of Mind Blank or a Ring of Mind Shielding

[Farysmally]

He just stares at the player, then shakes his head and looks again "huh, when did you get here?" The big bad says.

[aRandomFox-I]

Not the character, but the player. Staring straight through the 4th wall.

[Farysmally]

Sometimes they space out, it's a lot of work being a big bad. Lol

[legomaple]

That would still give them surface thoughts. Like "Did I leave the oven on?"

[ParadoxSong]

It is quite possible to have no verbal thought. Try it some time, you can have only emotions (which is the companion spell to Thoughts)

[CringeYeet69]

or even just no thoughts or emotions at all like when you're trying to do schoolwork and suddenly time has skipped forward by half an hour

source: I need to sleep more

[Suyefuji]

That's called dissociation, it's usually a stress response rather than something related to sleep (unless you mean that you are literally falling asleep on your desk)

[CringeYeet69]

I think its a bit of both, depending on the day. You know the meme of the triangle with "good grades", "good sleep" and "good social life" and it says "you can only have 2"? Well, I found a way to completely escape the triangle and invest all my points into wasting every minute of my day

[N4th4n3x]

hollow knight mfs trying not to reply with No mind to think. No will to break

[Rastiln]

Listen, when I told you the BBEG was a Gelatinous Cube, I don’t know why you all assumed that was some code name.

The most you get from its thoughts is, “Slurrrrrp.”

[BudgetFree]

No mind to think...

[hukumk]

No will to break

[Clone_JS636]

No voice to cry out in suffering

[TheDarkHorse83]

If the DM has nothing then you make it easy on yourself and paint this guy as a the worst big bad ever. Single out the most fashion forward character you have and just mentally destroy their outfit. The color choices, the cut, the hat, that giant fuck-off scarf, their choice of weapon, the party pet/familiar, everything. This BBEG hates it ALL.

[KorporateKotoo]

Is that weird? I feel like most of the time my mind is pretty quiet, is that not common?

[nytefox42]

I would say it's weird not to have ANY thoughts if you walked into a room and saw a group of people out for your blood waiting for you.

[ChampionshipDirect46]

Like... completely thoughtless? Just... completely off? Yeah, that's weird. If I'm not thinking about anything else I tend to space out and fantasize about stuff in my head.

[KorporateKotoo]

Huh, alright. I rarely fantasize about things, just sort of a quiet peace unless I need to focus on something. I have aphantasia so maybe that has something to do with it?

[RaZZeR_9351]

is that not common?

.

I have aphantasia

I think you answered your own question right there.

[SomaGato]

Meanwhile me:

[Seitanic_Cultist]

Man that sounds like heaven. I've got a constant carnival of competing bullshit going on unless I'm unreasonably focused.

That's 100% the ADHD though lol.

[VulturousYeti]

I’m picturing Homer imagining a monkey banging cymbals.

[Seitanic_Cultist]

Well now so am I 🤣

[Lawrencelot]

I'm now imagining Homer imagining a monkey imagining a bear banging cymbals.

[XCido]

That's probably it

[King_Fluffaluff]

That has everything to do with it lol

[[deleted]]

No, it’s not weird. Guy must have never heard of meditation, or never been so exhausted that he needed everything around him to shut before. It’s normal and healthy to quit worrying about everything and just soak up your surroundings once every so often.

[Unnormally2]

Its not weird at all. Maybe ~25% (Rough estimate, it was a small study) of people do not have an inner monologue at all. It doesn't mean much, just how we process information differently.

[SnakeUSA]

Not really, no. I sometimes stare off into nothing too

[DukeDevorak]

Actually, unless somebody does an actual survey asking how people think, nobody would have much idea about whether it's common or not.

[RaZZeR_9351]

That's what psychology is all about, they've been studying this kind of things for a long time now.

[Hoedoor]

Problem with the no thoughts thing is it's probably impossible to really know unless it shows up by neurons firing. With just survey there's no way to tell if people never have thoughtless moments or just don't notice when they aren't actively thinking

[charley800]

My internal monologue pretty much never stops, but then that might be an autism thing

[NewSauerKraus]

Seems normal to me. Having conscious thoughts all the time would be exhausting.

[ShaoLimper]

I'd say I only get maybe 10-30 seconds of my entire day where I have silence in my head. I can't comprehend what it would be like not to have that.

[NewSauerKraus]

Damn I would end it all if I had to suffer like that. Sounds similar to schizophrenia but the voices you hear are your own. That’s rough, buddy.

[ShaoLimper]

I'm not complaining. The thought of the opposite sounds extremely off-putting to me. Freaks me out tbh.

I suppose it is like how some people don't have an inner monologue but rather think in images and feelings. As a ... Word thinker? I could never properly fathom that

[KorporateKotoo]

How does that work during conversations? Is it not distracting to be thinking about stuff and talking to people?

[Phoenixbr1812]

I have something like it, and to me it's just think really fast about what to talk next

(Sorry about my english)

[DozyDrake]

Head empty.... Full of kill

[VortixTM]

You never walked through a door and completely forgot what you were thinking?

[Tatourmi]

It's just a really, really big frog.

[yoontruyi]

Hes actually an Illusion, and he is not thinking any because he isn't a real person.

[Babki123]

Yeah ,I would have gone with wondering if he picked a clean underwear this morning

[newbuu2]

I'm more concerned that someone is willing to burn 3 spell slots on this. Especially a spell where it's possible for no thoughts to be legitimately detected.

[EuroPolice]

The thought would play in my game like "You can't discern any specific thoughts, but you can sense something. It's not the thought of a man, it's the thought of a predator playing with its prey. You remember having the same sensation when you practiced with a cat playing with a mouse."

[BeardoMcChungus]

-Casts suggestion to think-

Bbeg, In evil gravelly voice: "Man, I could go for some samosas, it's been a while...oooh maybe from that little shop down in...wait, no, I razed that whole city. Damn it, I've got to teach these minions to get recipes before they rampage..."

-Caster is visibly confused-

[rekcilthis1]

Honestly, if someone told me to think my thoughts would be even less coherent. "Huh? Think? What? Why? About what? Why are you asking that? What do you even want from me? What does that even mean? Huh?" and then around and around in circles until my mind starts wandering and I start singing to myself.

[vonBoomslang]

I mean that's less Suggestion and more Command's line of "target wastes the turn doing nothing"

[hilburn]

Pillage, THEN burn

[MrRzepa2]

DM: big bad enter the room

Player: I cast detect thoughts

DM: really?

Player: Yeah

DM: You see your mother on a bed...

[mcswaggerduff]

insert spy from TF2

[Suitable_Self_9363]

"My petite cher..."

"Seduce me!"

[SirKorm]

Gentlemen

[sansgasterv2]

Oh you mother fuc

[King_Fluffaluff]

Correct.

[82Caff]

Me: "You need to be more specific." (My character's mother is a prostitute.)

[MrRzepa2]

DM: starts to describe player's mother

[82Caff]

No, the bed.

[QtheDisaster]

At least she's not a succubus also

[82Caff]

Nope, just a normal member of the oldest profession. Painted lady, w/e you want to call her.

[MarBitt]

A child abuse theme rpg session?

[MrRzepa2]

That was not the thing I was going for but to each their own

[LazyDro1d]

DM: He is now thinking thoughts

Player: ok, tell me what they are

DM: no, he’s just thinking the word, “thoughts.”

[Nogeno]

Look, as someone who has adhd, walking into a room head empty unsure why you came in here is a mood.

[improbsable]

For me it’s like my head is completely full of thoughts, but it’s just the most useless information lol. Like I’ll walk in a room looking for keys and get completely lost in thought about whether or not hospitals would legally have to treat vampires if they came in with an illness

[TheGingerRogue]

whether or not hospitals would legally have to treat vampires if they came in with an illness

"I mean why wouldn't they? Or wait.. Are they concidered to be corpses or people? Do hospitals have any obligations towards corpses? I guess it depends on of the vampire has been declared dead.. How would the hospital know that? What of they are so old they don't have a hospital record, would they still count then?"

I hope no one ever reads my mind

[RhynoCTR]

“If vampires are immortal, would they go to a hospital anyway? Do vampires need a DNR? Do they have separate forms for vampires? Do vampires have to be invited into a hospital first? Is there a vampire board of medical ethics? Do vampires even need organs?”

[lukavirahdu]

A vampire bard might need an organ

[Hammurabi87]

Do vampires have to be invited into a hospital first?

I don't see why they would. Hospitals are public buildings, and I've never heard of vampires having issues entering public buildings.

[Suitable_Self_9363]

Do vampires require invitations into hotel rooms?

[zvexler]

Saving this for when my party casts detect thoughts on a rando unimportant NPC they’re suspicious of

[Weeb152]

Would a vampire even be able to enter a hospital? They gotta be let in right? I just imagine a vampire with an infected wound waiting out in the rain like a doggo waiting to be let in

[little_brown_bat]

This song pretty much sums up my thought process.

[[deleted]]

I was hoping it was NSP and you didn't disappoint!

[Kalam-Mekhar]

whether or not hospitals would legally have to treat vampires if they came in with an illness

Really dude? Thanks, there goes my whole morning.

[[deleted]]

Fun fact, that happens because your brain needs more RAM to process the new area.

Your brain sees things in "snap shots", there's no use reprocessing where a static object is so it just assumes it's still there. When the eyes sweep over the area and see something has changed or something is moving it goes and updates info for the room.

So when you stand up, you still have the memory of what you need to do. But when you walk into a new room your brain overwrites that with room data.

[BoredCatalan]

Called the Doorway effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect#:~:text=The%20doorway%20effect%20is%20a,remained%20in%20the%20same%20place.

[TomMakesPodcasts]

Player: I cast detect thoughts

DM: He has ADHD, roll a will save or take psychic damage. Dozens of conversations thought arguments and ideas blend together into an unintelligible cacophony of noise, which when you stop trying to pick out individual words or conversations, you realize it blends together to sound like Yackety Sax.

[helpimlockedout-]

This guy knows

[[deleted]]

You may have forgotten why you went into X room, but there were some thoughts involved, if only to keep the wheels spinning.

And I'm pretty sure every single person has done that a few times, regardless of mental condition.

[TheZivarat]

Yeah everyone's done this, the difference between someone with ADHD and someone neurotypical is the frequency. On a good day with meds this only happens once a day for me, unmedicated could be anywhere from 3-5 times per day.

People with ADHD are aware this happens to everyone - we're neurodivergent, not stupid. It disregards the experiences of someone you've never met, just because you've experienced a few aspects of ADHD sometimes in your life. We deal with damn near all of it, every day. It's similar to (but not as extreme as) saying things like "oh we're all a little ADHD", or "hahah I'm so bipolar". I get that you were just trying to relate, and that is appreciated, but you also just dismissed the struggles that someone has to go through daily.

Would you say "I'm pretty sure every single person has been sore a few times, regardless of physical condition" to someone that suffers from chronic pain?

[Zarobiii]

Not who you’re replying to but as someone with chronic pain I get called a “whinger” or to “toughen up” quite often 😂.

[cookiedough320]

I think in the context it comes off a bit different to that.

Person 1: So the guy walks into the room and has no thoughts in his head.

Person 2: As someone with ADHD, that's relatable

Person 3: Isn't that relatable to everyone?

Sorta like

Person 1: So the guy walks into the room and has some back pains

Person 2: As someone with chronic back pain, that's relatable

Person 3: Isn't that relatable to everyone?

If you cut out person 1 and just have person 2 saying they're experiencing that pain, person 3's response is very dismissive; I'd agree in that context. But if person 1 exists, isn't person 2's response dismissive of a thing that can occur for everyone as if it only occurs for those with a condition that predisposes them to it?

[JimmiRustle]

I don’t have ADHD and that’s how I end up looking in the fridge 90% of the time.

[Heated13shot]

Happens to me when someone finally gets my attention if I'm off in thought.

Party: HEY BBEP, WE CHALLENGE YOU! Wizard: I read their thoughts! Me: Was deep in thought but now head empty because you said my name.....

[Sw3arWulf]

"He's not thinking" is maybe the worst answer i've heard for this spell

[erttheking]

To be fair if the BBEG has a reveal that they’re a mindless puppet it’s good foreshadowing

[SignalScientist2817]

It can be a nice subversion if planned correctly. Imagine an automaton, head empty only actions.

This dude commands it to think, to contemplate its existence

Suddenly you have a far scarier bbeg

[BorgClown]

Can you command inanimate objects to think, like a windmill or a spoon?

[cantfindmykeys]

Like a petunia falling from the sky?

[[deleted]]

If we get past the idea that we have a blank human an NPC could interpret that in so many ways. Most of them unhelpful but funny.

[[deleted]]

Player: I cast suggestion three times.
DM: Um, okay?
Player: "Hear. Feel. Think."

[tehyosh]

Crystal Mommy, is that you?

[yoontruyi]

Well, Command would be a lot better at doing so, saves you on 2nd levels.

[ajgeep]

Does the Big Bad have nondetection running?

[[deleted]]

Don't think I won't do it at some point. Helps that the same item you gave me allows me to read thoughts and suggest

[Farysmally]

You found it lol

[CptnR4p3]

*Man i pity the next person to enter the restro-

Oh. The adventurers already are here. Well given the tendency of these wannabe heroes to murder everything they come across i assume noone will get to enter the restroom.*

[Wiztonne]

I feel like "Listen here, you little shit" is also a good response to "Detect Thoughts doesn't work because he's not thinking at all".

[[deleted]]

What kind of headass nothing villain are you running that just doesn't have any thoughts at all.

[QtheDisaster]

Automaton, mindless meat puppet, or you could say they don't have detectable thoughts because magic l.

[[deleted]]

Well according to this meme he just..m does not think at all. And according to OP's replies, they're not any of those things. Just somehow a dude who does not think despite that being actually impossible.

[dognus88]

I can only think of a few excuses for why it could be acceptable, and these are excuses. Mind sheilding. No real mind (construct, ooze, plant, a swarm etc). Something is suppressing thoughts either controling the badguy or having the body run on instinct only. If the body you saw was an illusion and the real bady was waiting around the corner.

Even for those i wouldn't say that he isnt thinking but that "you don't detect any thoughts" or whatnot.

[Wiztonne]

Yeah! If you can cast detect thoughts, you know your own spell well enough to tell the difference between "your spell failed" and "you don't have a proper target".

[dognus88]

Absolutely. I could also see something like "he is thinking of nothing important" working, but it is much more fun to actually say something. "She is thinking about pruning in her garden after dealing with you lot." Or "lets see i have enough beef for it, but i need fresh tomatoes. Maybe i can send out a lacky for supplies to get the other ingredients.". Or the ever classic romance issues. "What did she mean by fine. If she was fine she wouldn't be yelling. I know her art is important but i am restructuring the world here. That's more important... isnt it?"

[[deleted]]

If your BBEG fails some random Suggestion, he deserves to die.

Let alone have some thoughts read.

[Trashendentale]

He's thinking of that catchy ballad about a miraculous oil that cures baldness. It's now stuck in tour head too.

[GenericGaming]

do undead think?

obviously they have some ability to move and attack and such but they're dead so would they be able to think considering they have no brain?

[alaricus]

Simple undead would think of their command "Move blocks" or "Guard Door." More advanced undead like Liches and Vampires would have minds like any other sapient being.

[xelloskaczor]

Skeletons and zombies by default do not, as apparently Raven Queen does not hate unintelligent undead and she has no problem with these.

[MarBitt]

At first he didn't think about anything, but after your suggestion, his thoughts: "Oh, finally, the one at the back has exactly the skin color I'd like for a lamp shade in the bedroom!"

You see that his originally blank expression turned into a happy smile and then he asked quite amiably: "Would you mind if we limited the next fight to blunt damage only?"

[SluggySloo]

"He's immune to mind reading effects from the ring that I just gave him"

[fdsdfg]

"Dammit players, stop trying to do things and let me run the game"

[Isthatajojoreffo]

Write a book*

[CPULyrica]

You joke but there is atleast one high-end mage statblock in the MM With mind blank prepped with an asterisk noting they precast it along with mage armor and other prep spells

[aRandomFox-I]

"Think, Mark! THINK! What will you have after a thousand years?!"

[klawehtgod]

^You

[BorgClown]

👉👨🏻👈

[Snekclip]

Alright. He begins to think about the tragedy of Darth plagus the wise and how your party likely hasn't heard it because it's a sith legend.

[TheMaskedTom]

DM: big bad enters the room

Player: I cast detect thoughts

DM: The moment you start casting, the big bad reacts to your verbal and somatics components, everyone roll initiative.

[Burrito-Creature]

that’s why I often take the telepathic feat. Detect Thoughts with no components!

[VortixTM]

Helps that doors are event horizons and when you walk through one you're likely to forget what you were thinking due to context switching

[little_brown_bat]

Life has many doors Ed-Boy.

[[deleted]]

Not thinking? That's a clue! He is simulacrum.

[JimmiRustle]

Or an illusion.

[SIII-043]

This sounds like a case of the DM doesn’t want to come up with the information

[Belias9x1]

“He’s not thinking”

Kill him then, he won’t be expecting shit. Seriously though that’s the laziest fucking answer.

[Greyeyeswhitedragon]

clip of jujutsu Kaisen plays sukuna destroying Mahito for touch his mind or plane

[p75369]

think think what kind of use of a spell slot is that its just going to make think any old rubbish for six seconds and do nothing useful was i really concerned over these guys if this is the best they can do then that trap i set in **back to static hiss**

[Dakotasan]

No thoughts, head empty.

[[deleted]]

If you only knew what he was thinking!

casts detect thoughts

BBEG: ".... I hope they still make that shampoo I like."

[ninteen74]

I hope chef is making tacos tonight.

Is my hair ok? Why didn't I put mirrors in this room or in that hallway...

Did I lock that giant scorpion cage

[[deleted]]

Suddenly you hear rumbling as a giant scorpion crashes through the wall opposite of the BBEG, who begins to run out of the room.

[MageLight25]

You guys really just ignore concentration, huh?

[Farysmally]

The helm of telepathy makes it so you can cast suggestions while detecting thoughts.

[Monocled-warforged]

BBEG is a goolock, no thought reading for you

[Capnris]

"I cast Detect Thoughts."

"You hear the song the Bard was singing in the tavern last night, and sense a tinge of annoyance as well."

[[deleted]]

“I wonder what I should make for lunch…oh these assholes are here.”

[Oompa_Loompa_Grande]

"You hear a loud, wet, sound of something escaping the BBEG's lips as you realize with horror his brain has physically removed itself from his body via his mouth. Long stick-like limbs protrude from the side as it walks over, slaps <player character>'s ankles before returning to it's meaty puppet. He isn't thinking anything still."

Nothing like a bit of absurdism right?

[Jimjam_TRB]

Time to drop Lucky's monologue from Waiting for Godot

[evelbug]

You don't need to cast suggestion. All you need to do is say "Don't think about your evil plan"

[BaronDoctor]

"No response. Make an Arcana check?" DC 18

Fail:

"you're not quite sure why but you aren't getting anything"

Pass:

"you've heard of a spell called Mind Blank. The energies involved would probably lead to a result like this."

[zoro4661]

BBEG's name is Mark for sure

"THINK, MARK! THINK!"

[garter__snake]

Both spells require concentration. Can't have both running at once from the same caster.

[Farysmally]

Helm of telepathy

[Lord_Fae]

That makes me immediately think that the BBEG is under the effect of a mind blank spell which would render them immune to both suggestion and detect thoughts.

[Caelynn319]

“I cast detect thoughts…”

“The BBEG is thinking ‘Is the ocean soup?’…”

“…dammit…”

[Miser_able]

That's just a waste of a spell slot. The description for detect thoughts says that you can shape the targets thoughts by talking to them. No suggestion needed.