Re: Metacultures

I thought that beholders were created by gods to gather infromation for
them.

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> From: woodelf (lists) [SMTP:woodelph@????.net]
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> Subject:      Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Metacultures
>
> >".  first, i have a problem
> >  > >accepting any "Master Race" that both has no manipulative digits,
> and
> >  > >needs them.  beholder mouth-sticks?
> >
> >Hang on..Beholders have the telekinesis eye.  That's a pretty good
> >replacement for a manipulative digit.  In any case, since most Beholder
> tech
> >seems to be biological in origin...:)
>
> later stuff, yep.  i always figured that the beholders were an
> illithid creation (even in a magical world, i have trouble picturing
> them "evolving", and i doubt anybody less cocky than the illithid
> would create such a powerful menace).  and with the illithid penchant
> for genetic engineering, they coudl either be the source of the
> various beholder-kin, or have programmed the possibilities for them
> into the original beholders.
>
> am i the only one who remembers the mouth-sticks and other [silly]
> 'Realms expanded info on beholders (i believe it was pre-SJ, but i
> could be mis-remembering)?  mouth-sticks were a complex rod (don't
> remember if it explained who built them) with one or more manipulable
> digits/tools on the end, and control rods running inside that ended
> in control knobs/levers at the other end, so that a beholder could
> hold it in its mouth and activate/use it with it's tongue.
>
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