If you gaze into the Abyss . . .

[blargney the second]

And one day, horribly changed by the obscenity it has witnessed, your eye will come after you...

Beholder!

 

[SiderisAnon]

And one day, horribly changed by the obscenity it has witnessed, your eye will come after you...

Well, the endless abyss having a somewhat twisted effect on time anyway, so the eye may spend more time in the abyss than the character actually can perceive ...... what if when this all gets resolved, it turns out that the eye was behind the opening of the abyss in the first place, somehow trying to get back to the PC?

 

[RangerWickett]

Man, some of your ideas are brilliant, guys. I was just planning to play it alternately for horror (you see the creatures you just slew having their souls tormented), gross humor (something nasty finds your eye and holds onto it as it does nasty things that I can't post due to the Grandma Rule here), or occasionally exposition (you spot a minion of a villain you'll be meeting in a few levels).

But vengeful evil eye, time traveling sentient eye, and dual roaming eyes would be great. In fact, growing up, one of the PCs' uncles fell into the Abyss. Maybe I could do Battlestar Galactica-esque "meanwhile in Uncle Artep's Abyssal torment" vignettes.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Along with the time-travelling and beholder thing, maybe it turns out to be the Ur-Beholder, Ancestor of All Ocular Madness.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

If you don't mind having to deal with inflated player ego...

Consider the legend of Odin, who sacrificed his eye in exchange for drinking from the Well of Wisdom. What could the sacrifice of an eye to the abyss be worth- especially since it still sees.

Bonuses to KS checks on Arcana/Demons/the Abyss? Some kind of oracular ability, albeit warped by evil and chaos?

 

[Wik]

I have a player like that. His favourite moments are when crappy things happen to his pc. "what? I lost my finger in a knife fight!? COOL!"

Also, *I* happen to be a player like that. Although why he didn't just put a minion on a rope and dangle him down a pit for a while, I'll never know...

 

[coyote6]

Why not use the rest of the thread's title? The Abyss gazes back -- so now something down there can now see through his eye remaining eye -- and he knows it. Maybe he has a dream, or maybe the malevolent entity has a conversation with his falling eye, or maybe he just has a creepy, crawling sensation when something is looking back out.

 

[Filcher]

First, Ranger Wickett for DM of the year.

If you don't mind having to deal with inflated player ego...

Consider the legend of Odin, who sacrificed his eye in exchange for drinking from the Well of Wisdom. What could the sacrifice of an eye to the abyss be worth- especially since it still sees.

Bonuses to KS checks on Arcana/Demons/the Abyss? Some kind of oracular ability, albeit warped by evil and chaos?

I like this. Well of Horror instead of Well of Wisdom, but I'd totally bloat the player's ego with his "unique" knowledge ... and then have his own transformed eye/beholder return to wreak havok. Maybe it is two way ... you can see through the eye, but it also knows your thoughts ...

 

[Wystan]

I would have the missing eye seem to regenerate but he cannot see out of it. It is being used by some Abyssal creature to return the favor that he has had granted.

 

[Pyrex]

I would have the missing eye seem to regenerate but he cannot see out of it. It is being used by some Abyssal creature to return the favor that he has had granted.

Or, instead, at some point the eye stops falling and is found by a demon. Who grafts it into his empty eye socket. Now, through a quirk in the magic, the PC can see everything the demon sees (because the demon is using his eye), but strangely enough, the demon can see everything the PC sees through his other eye...