Trap level: over 9000.
But seriously, one does not listen to the enemy priestess after she politely shows you where your goal is, lets you in, offers no resistance, and knows damn well you will be coming.
Well, you can do but if you’re a beholder like Bob, you then disintegrate her so she isn’t around to pull the lever for the trap she just invited you to float into.
…Ooooooor, it might be just a bit more well-thought out than what you thought? If there’s more to this place than meets the eye, then it’ll have to be more than meets the eyes of a beholder.
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Hmmm… this set-up reminds me of an anti-beholder trap I’ve seen before. Tall shaft with a huge slab suspended above it using an anti-gravity based spell, slab weighing in at over a ton. Beholder floats up to bait (or hostage in this case), the beholder’s anti magic central eye dispels the slab’s ability to float and because of the sheer weight of it, the beholder’s telekinesis eye can’t stop the slab from falling. The size of the slab also partially negates the beholder’s disintegrate eye from destroying the slab before it hits… crushing the beholder like a grape.
A beholder can see out of all its eyes, unless it’s using an eye beam which will effectively blind that eye, this doesn’t count for the central eye as the anti-magic effect is constantly on. So technically the safest place to stand on a magical defensive POV is directly in front of a beholder… until it either closes its central eye or floats over and eats you.
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Sooo… Bob goes in, the door gets slammed behind him, and the door and walls are beholder eye beam-proof thus trapping him?
The walls probably move to crush them.
This is a trap, isn’t it?
According to Admiral Ackbar
Trap level: over 9000.
But seriously, one does not listen to the enemy priestess after she politely shows you where your goal is, lets you in, offers no resistance, and knows damn well you will be coming.
Well, you can do but if you’re a beholder like Bob, you then disintegrate her so she isn’t around to pull the lever for the trap she just invited you to float into.
Is she above him or ahead of him?
Also, given the rate at which we’re losing characters, is this whole Ranna Triumphant storyline the final chapter in the YAFGC saga?
Since the far wall has no detail I’m inclined (narf narf) to believe Gren is above him.
Put a piece of bait in a vertical shaft… something that beholders tend to use to get around their own lairs… While a trap not a well thought out one.
…Ooooooor, it might be just a bit more well-thought out than what you thought? If there’s more to this place than meets the eye, then it’ll have to be more than meets the eyes of a beholder.
😉
Hmmm… this set-up reminds me of an anti-beholder trap I’ve seen before. Tall shaft with a huge slab suspended above it using an anti-gravity based spell, slab weighing in at over a ton. Beholder floats up to bait (or hostage in this case), the beholder’s anti magic central eye dispels the slab’s ability to float and because of the sheer weight of it, the beholder’s telekinesis eye can’t stop the slab from falling. The size of the slab also partially negates the beholder’s disintegrate eye from destroying the slab before it hits… crushing the beholder like a grape.
That does make me wonder, can a beholder see out of all its eyes?
A beholder can see out of all its eyes, unless it’s using an eye beam which will effectively blind that eye, this doesn’t count for the central eye as the anti-magic effect is constantly on. So technically the safest place to stand on a magical defensive POV is directly in front of a beholder… until it either closes its central eye or floats over and eats you.
Bob: nice guy (for a beholder). Not always the sharpest bowling ball in the shed.
But you have to admit that the author has written him with a well-rounded personality.
It’s surprising, though, that all beholders aren’t victims of circular reasoning.
He follows the proud YAFGC tradition of going ballistic when it comes to protecting loved ones.
Given the longevity of Beholders, he may still be an adolescent. He certainly behaves like one.
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Many eyes but not much I.Q