There are 23 biometric safes in total 8 found on Floor 1, 8 on Floor 12, and the last seven on Floor 25. I expect there to be yet others revealed before this book is completed.Biometric safes are scattered throughout the ministry, and it’s your job to find them all. Her expressed attitude of "preserve the gate no matter what it costs" leads to a huge menu of flexible options.
She's imported all kinds of monsters from the D&D/OoTS/Fantasy catalogue to defend the gate befriending a few of them along the way as they wait, decades, for the expected attempts on the gate makes good sense for a gregarious halfling rogue. Serini having a beholder ally makes, to me, perfect sense.
Yet ye who follow the Way of Necktie shall be for dinner dressedĪs with most things from the far planes and aberrations in general, they don't fit nicely into any particular pigeon hole, which then means to me that they can have pretty much any morality or any moral compass, and beyond that can switch and swap for their own alien, and likely inscrutable, reasons.Ī beholder can make friends with whomever they like, for as long as they like. Ye who walk with the Path of Bacon shall be with dinner blessed. For comparison, nature made some scorpions glow in the dark so they could see in the dark and didn't give Pandas the ability to properly digest the only thing they can eat.Ī solitary creature wouldn't have language, as the entire point of language is to deal with other people.Īnd the whole eating your young thing is widely inefficient except under some specific conditions which don't apply here and form rules wouldn't really let us get into.īut then again, the book is called "Lords of Madness", so I supposed a shocking life cycle is appropriate even if it doesn't make sense. It also isn't a recipe for growing up with a sunny disposition.Biologically, that's a very stupid creature design. That doesn't build a strong foundation for trusting future would-be caretakers. The young Beholder then flees the nest in terror. Well, according to Lords of Madness, again, very nearly the first experience a newborn Beholder has with other creatures is to witness its mother eating most of its siblings. So making friends with one ought to be harder than making friends with an innately-sociable lifeform.Īs for the presumed scenario of Sereni meeting Sunny when Sunny was very young. But Lords of Madness seems to indicate that Beholders are biologically predisposed to a solitary existence. I don't want to get too deep into the psychology of imaginary creatures here. (I use "typical" here to mean, every single one I'm aware of either first or second hand.) Because ultimately Invincible is a very different story than the typical superman story. But Omniman doesn't have superman's miscellaneous powers (heat vision, frost breath, ability to act/react super quickly) for no essential reason, but probably because the author didn't like those aspects of superman.īut then there's also some changes essential to the story being told changes that undermine the very concept of superman. Omnimans' strength, invulnerability, flight, and secret identity basically all work like superman's. They typically also change some unimportant things just to make the character their own.įor example, consider Superman and the expy character Omniman.
When any author worth their salt includes an expy of another character as anything but a bit character, they change some things to suit the story. It's fair to assume the totally not a beholder here works different or something like that but the strip is clearly presenting this as close enough to a beholder with all that implies, at the very least I stand by how impressive it is that Serinri managed this.If's fair to expect some similarities, but it's not fair to expect each specific similarity.
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