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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unsung" data-source="post: 6635379" data-attributes="member: 6781406">[ooc]Identifying beholder subtypes would be an Arcana check, but if there's something I think your character would just know (that goes for everyone, not just Shandrizar @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=20323" target="_blank">Quickleaf</a>), I'll usually just tell you outright, unless there's some situational reason where time is a factor or getting the exact right answer is crucially important.In Shandrizar's case, I think the problem is one of too much knowledge rather than too little, hence the following...[/ooc][sblock=Shandrizar]Bix has at least seven intact eyestalks that you can see from this angle, and counting eyestalks is one of the ways of telling the various beholderkin subspecies apart. Of course, there are other possible explanations for why a beholder might be missing an eye, and even among 'true' beholders there are many apparently minor features that can make a world of difference between separate hives (size, skin colour and consistency, number of teeth, eyestalk reticulation and functionality of various optic rays, comparative buoyancy...), leading to ostracization and outright civil war within the species, let alone between beholders and other creatures. The mere fact that Bix isn't overtly suppressing its instinctive territorial aggression and is seemingly well at home in this humanoid bar marks him out as an eccentric, and likely outcast, among his own kind. You'd almost guess he was a spectator, but he definitely has too many eyes for that.[/sblock][sblock=Wisdom (Perception) DC 12]A poster has been wheatpasted onto the creature's chitinous side, emblazoned with a rather distinctive symbol.<img src="http://uo-planescape.wdfiles.com/local--files/fazioni/free-league.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />[/sblock]The huge central eye widens at Shard. "Demons? What kind of demons?" A faintly sick expression twists the broad maw, and the thing shrinks away from the door. Perhaps until the mention of demons Bix was content to hide in his room until the trouble blew over. Its eyestalks seem to be trying to retreat behind the curvature of its own bulk. "Barstle wants...me to take you?"</blockquote>

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