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Up here beholder decorations and carved, polished, and oddly shaped areas. Because beholders think in terms of their own shape, everything is round and spherical. For example, they are in a 40-foot diameter tube that runs in a great circle around the area. Qeqtoxii tells Alzar that there is a stone golem shaped like an umber hulk guarding the area to the left. It patrols the entire 1200 foot round tunnel as it circles, but he can make it out a bit. There’s no one else here, so Alzar heads to OtherSpace for 5 minutes or so and Qeqtoxii shifts back to his beholder form in order to avoid any attention.
From here, we can go directly to Ixathinon’s lair, the hive mother. At this time, Alzar summons and conjures allies. He has a different set of items as well, since the Hive Mother and other beholders have anti-magic properties. He doesn’t normally like to use it, but he places the turn Face of Xenous on his, and his complexion changes to hers. He’ll keep it on during the battles against these beholders . Anti-magic stuff doesn’t work on artifacts. The Bright Barrier is the same.
Alzar uses the Face to conjure a 16 HD earth elemental, 16 hd Air elemental, and then he conjures an earth, a stalker, and summons 8 shadows, then grabs Aegis and will use it behind the others to flank things off. Alzar will actually keep his allies in the hallway until battle commences.
There is an outer chamber that is the home of a beholder, very loyal to the hive mother, named Zulnethrac. The Hive Mother is past it. Zulnethrac’s door is just two down on the left. They open the door, and its very Spartan in here, the beholder spends little time her (and can only be found here 30% of the time – I roll 61, nope). Alzar brings his army into the chamber, and then they prepare. He uses the Ear Ring to check and see and get a feel for the next room. No noise. They head in, Alzar leading with the Star of Mo-Pilar and using it to sweep the room for anything unusual.
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