It's dead, how is it still flying.

[orbitalfreak]

I'm pretty sure that they fall after you kill them.

Yeah! Fireball a few thousand flies and watch them fall to the ground. What a cool visual.

 

[Crothian]

I'm pretty sure that they fall after you kill them.

Ya, that was posted higher up the thread. It wasn't as cool a visual though.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, depending on how you destroy the beholder, it could still be 'deflated' and still be floating. Basicly it's insides splatter, and now it's just an empty, floating sack.

What a visual.

 

[Kai Lord]

Basicly it's insides splatter, and now it's just an empty, floating sack.

Coolest. Visual. Ever.

 

[Xarlen]

To explain why it's buoyant is perhaps the buoyancy is due to an organ (like an air bladder), or the Beholder's very skin. On second thought, Beholder bodies are sort've like a hard shell, so it Could be that the buoyancy is due to a hollow point at the center of their bones or shell, a chemical or gas. But over time the armor, after death, would degenerate until it's like a hanging sack. But the buoyancy would stay.

 

[Xarlen]

Also, the Death Tyrant, an undead Beholder, also floats, and they usually have holes in them.

 

[Pylar]

Oooo, a graveyard full of UNDEAD floating beholders...Now that is a cool visual!

 

[Roland Delacroix]

Even better. A floating jungle graveyard of those tiny beholdekin, the ones you can get as a familiar. Hundreds of little dots in a strange clearing in the deep jungles. Make them renegade pygmy beholders or something. Then place an evil pyramid nearby, inhabited by an eldritch Shugenja/Monk, like Lo Pan. Final battle takes place ON the floating, dead, beholder corpses 50' off the ground while the forest burns around the party. Think 'Iron Monkey'. THATS a cool visual.

 

[Crothian]

THis thread name needs to be changed to: Cool visuals with Dead Beholders. Then it needs moved to the General Forum!!

Edit: And we need a dead, floating Beholder to do it. That's an interesting visual.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I'm just imagining the following scene:

The beholder turns on the players, it's eye-beams dancing across them. The wizard is turned to stone, and the manly barbarian runs for his life.

The fighter stands his ground though, and stabs savagely with his spear. It bites deep, and the beast is surely done for.

With a mighty rasperry noise, the beholder spirals away across the room, like a rapidly deflating baloon.