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    Default Re: How can Sunny is able to fly?

    Maybe the rest of their body is just lightweight enough to be lifted by bouyant gas
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    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    Beholders have 8 independently moving eyes at the tips of 8 independently moving tentacles. The amount of neurons and brainpower required to receive, process, and combine eight separate visual inputs would be incredible.
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    Meanwhile, the West Indian fuzzy chiton has literally hundreds of eyes. It's also, well, a mollusc. You can imagine how brainy it is (spoiler alert: not really).
    I was actually thinking about octopi regarding this line of logic, and they have actual brain matter in each of their tentacles, allowing for more flexibility and independent action. Maybe rather than all a beholder's eyes and tentacles feeding into a big ol superbrain, it shares the load with a bunch of mini-brain parts inside the tentacles. I honestly wouldn't put them all that far off from some sort of magically spliced octopus.

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    Having lots of little brains is more in line with abberation biology than one big superbrain anyway,

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    Wait, is Beholder flight Ex or Su?
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    Quote Originally Posted by danielxcutter View Post
    Wait, is Beholder flight Ex or Su?
    It's Ex. Same for it's all Around Vision (i.e. having multiple eyes).

    The eye beams and eye cone are classified as Su.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yanisa View Post
    I also like that Extraordinary Ability are "nonmagical, though they may break the laws of physics".
    Yeah, that's almost as good as the epic applications of skills (I mean, swim up a waterfall? It's not magic. Animate a rope to move and act on its own? Guy who does so is just really skilled.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Metastachydium View Post
    Yeah, that's almost as good as the epic applications of skills (I mean, swim up a waterfall? It's not magic. Animate a rope to move and act on its own? Guy who does so is just really skilled.)
    My favorite one is being so good at balancing on stuff you can walk on clouds.

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    My favorite one is being so good at balancing on stuff you can walk on clouds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by skim172 View Post
    The amount of neurons and brainpower required to receive, process, and combine eight separate visual inputs would be incredible.
    Like a spider

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    Or possibly opabinia
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jasdoif View Post
    I like squeezing through a gap too small for your head to fit through. It's a classic.
    This is why we need to evolve collapsible skeletons.

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    This is why we need to evolve collapsible skeletons.
    Hardly. We need to be supported by a system of fluid-filled bladders that-
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    ...That what?
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    ...That what?
    Dunno, Kif was always rudely cut off.
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    Dunno, Kif was always rudely cut off.
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