Do I have beholder helm's in the game

[Loudent2]

Someone mentioned they had a beholder helm and I can't recall ever putting them in the game (but my memory isn't what it used to be)...

[ariakus]

If that's the one that casts Finger of Death, then yes. I don't remember the name offhand, but it casts Finger of Death 1/day and one other spell 1/day I believe

[profmonkeys]

Beholder Crowns do drop from witchy. Quite a few of them are in the game currently.

[Beldar]

The other spell is flesh to stone. I like giving these to my lowbies so that they can one shot bosses.

Once you get to a certain level, they become superfluous because opponents need to roll a 1 to die or get stoned (heh, heh).

[Kilian Caltrop]

Hi--
I personally know someone who was wearing a beholder helm when we met in March, 1979.

His name was Ildemaar, on Kardula, Jaynar.
I met him and a few of his constituents in a bar in Mirney, Kardula, and signed on to a land-clearing expedition on behalf of one Sir Haldemaar, who had been given a land grant from the [late] King Goudonoff. t was a very rewarding and insightful experience.......

I have Asperger's syndrome, and had suffered as much ridicule and practical jokers' brunt on Jaynar as I ever did here. People are people, and there are no greener pastures anywhere else than there are here on Earth. Other worlds are no paradise~~ they have war as much as we do, nearly 2,000 light-years away.

About the subject of your inquiry:--
The beholder helm Ildemaar word had the following capabilities:--
Seamless, 360-degree visual perception, at levels of acuity far beyond what the human eye can see.
Once per daily cycle, his beholder helm could:-
Transform flesh to stone,
Death Ray,
Disintegrate,
Cause serious wounds,
Anti-Magic Ray,
Cone of Cold,
Polymorphism:-- I never learned the full extent of this.
Create food and water,
Telempathic projection: I don't exactly know all the functions, either.
Speak with animals/Tongues:-- this eliminates language barriers.

The Beholder helm cannot be voluntarily removed by the wearer, or any third party, forcibly or not, without the use of a full Wish. If the wearer should be killed or petrified, the helm immediately falls off. It remains bonded to its wearer, and has virtually no footprint of weight or encumbrance. One can sleep very comfortably wearing this miracle of magical innovation.
Full, waking-state vigilance is maintained even during deep sleep.

Value:-- in nearly a decade going from here to there and everywhere, I never saw or even heard of another beholder helm. Ildemaar turned down offers equivalent to over $20 million in today's dollars & cents, without hesitation.

This is all I know about the Beholder Helm...

[Kilian Caltrop]

The owner of the Beholder helm was Sharkov, a close friend of [Sir] Haldemaar. I met them both about 37 years ago on Jaynar, Kardula, Smitcove, a small town on the west coast of Karldula about 40 miles north of the nearest major city, Mirney..........
Before my arrival, Haldemaar had petitioned [King] Goudonoff [sic] for a land grant to build a castle in close proximity, then clear/develop the land and construct a safe road running southward to Mirney. I participated in this endeavor, a truly unique experience. It took several months to complete this task.

Years later, I was diagnosed here with Aspergers~~ socially incapacitant, always the brunt of practical jokes everywhere.......
Development of the Internet has produced a planetary database and library superior to Kristopan, this a veritable metropolis ~~ nearly 30,000,000,000 books, covering thousands of years of history, literature, research, metaphysics, basic science as understood and practiced here-- the last time I was there [1987,] I never imagined any other assemblage of knowledge could approach the content of that incredible library.... I was attending Harvard College; their assemblage is over 4,000,000,000 texts=== but today, that is dwarfed by the Internet, content accessible by boolean expression, such as this galaxy has never known.
The laws of physics operate differently on other worlds, for many different reasons. Jaynar is hollow;  gravimetric behavior, such as acceleration, electromagnetism, manasam, chemistry, and biology are  outworldy, and rightfully so. Electricity does not function at all, nor does the pendulum. Teleporting poses its own set of nasty problems; Before we met, Sir Haldemaar lost his legs by coming in low on a botched teleport sequence. pi= 3.141592653589790312. That brought me in with a geodesic error margin of 0.7 cm, but tangential inconsistencies could mean height differential of 30 meters of more. Haldemaar addressed this problem by building a granite shaft 85 meters high, 6 meters wide, packed with hay at the bottom. You lay on your back and assume a tight fetal position before incanting. Use of protection for the head and neck is highly recommended; a modern motorcycle helmet is the best.
Of course, pi has been calculated out to billions of decimal places, but the value I have in my head is good to go for distances up to 3,000 light years. Sadly, Jaynar will not be accessible for 50+ years....

All of this was at MIT; this was my first choice for college. I attended high school in Vermont that had a bilingual English/French program~~ I also speak German fairly well. My SAT scores were 790, 710, and 450 in reading......
That high school had a horrible shaft built into their GPA system. According to them, I graduated with 2.86. Sans phys-ed, my actual GPA was 3.47.
When I applied to MIT, my [wealthy] father said that if I could get in, he would pay everything........
MIT issued me a letter of conditional acceptance, citing a need to improve that terrible reading score, and another semester of each high school physics and calculus. With Dad paying the $$$, I complied.
Just after the Christmas break, I had a meeting with one of MIT’s admission directors. The woman sat behind a huge, leather covered desk, and told me that my chances for admission to their school was  “literally hopeless.” Prune-faced biddy, so thin all her bones showed through her clothes, and a voice that reminded me of archaic black & white horror movies.........
Kicking my chair aside, I walked out of her office in tears. Late January, 7-above. I called my father in Vermont with the news; he was so wicked pissed he drove down Cambridge [after we set up another meeting with Broomhilda,] and we walked into her lair together.....
I had met all the initial prerequisites they asked me to complete that semester. A in Physics, Calculus was a B, and another A for French. I spent that entire semester cramming French very tables. Fluent, Yes--- but I want to be perfect. My third language, German, is an ongoing challenge.
Dad was pissed too...... then he made a final proposal:-- $130,000 cash up front, which would at that time have covered the entire cost of my 4 year college education. He pulled out his checkbook and he asked to whom he should make it payable. Multi-millionaire, Dad was president of the largest private medical firm in state of Vermont, second only to Burlington Collaborative comprising 130+ physicians.


Ms. Biddy sat there in front of us shaking her head. $130,000 cash [1980 dollars] was on her desk. All she had to do was say Yes. As she balked, my father upped the ante to $140,000. What did this skeleton with one foot in the grave and the second ready to follow, have to prove? The results of my remedial reading tests were still pending; over the past several years, I had been reading alot more in French than in English.....
She sent us away. A “we regret” letter followed on shortly thereafter.......
Several years later, after having earned an Associate’s Degree in Industrial Electronics, I applied to Harvard, and got in. “We are pleased to inform you.”== My last two years were on full scholarship.. I had threatened transfer to La Sorbonne in Paris to complete my education; Harvard said, stay here... Douggieboy.... they paid everything; all tuitions, books, expenses, full access to all campus facilities, Blue Cross Master Medical to back up their own private health insurance, $1000/month stipend and a $188/mo. rent control apartment 2 blocks away from Harvard Yard......

Given a choice between here and there at that time, the decision I made required little in the way of thought or reflection:~~ half-way through Harvard, and also engaged to be married. Aspergers is as it is, no matter where I am or where I go. There’s no practical Utopia; that’s a fantasy... we have war here, and Yes-- there is also war on Jaynar. The society that never experiences war will have no word for it in their native tongue. Harvard linguistics major, I have limited proficiency in a few uncommon ones:~~ Sanskrit, Malinke, Haitian... all have words for war... but Malinke has no word for ice, as this tribal dialect is spoken primarily in West Africa, where it never gets cold enough to freeze or snow.
Before a word can be authored in any language, there must first arise an abstract conceptualization of what that word is to designate. Another word is thereby created, or an assemblage of words in the native speakers’ language may arise by putting one or more words together.
In French, there is no word for “both,” so they say “the two.”
In English, there is no differentiation in meaning of the word “know.” Do you know the answer?" "Do you know my friend George?” Both French and German have their own words to eliminate confusion:
the French infinitives are savoir/connaitre; German infinitives are wissen/konnen. English, “to know.”
In English, the infinitive is always indicated by the preposition “to” appearing in front of the root verb.
English has no specific articles designating gender and number, as do most other languages. English has one way to say “the” [definite article,] and one ½ ways to express indefinite articles, “a” or “an,” the ½ indicating proper pronunciation of a syllable starting with a vowel sound; “the” is also usually pronounced as “thee,” in front of a vowel sound, or occasionally as an explicative, “Thee” foremost...
English has a few gender specific nouns, e.g. waiter/waitress; actor/actress, but no agreement in the gender or number of articles/adjectives with respect to these terms is ever required. Easy English.....

In French, there are 3 ways to say “the,” and three ways to say “a/an.”
These are feminine, masculine, and plural:--- La, Le, and Les.......
Many French noun reveal their gender by terminaison:-- how they end...

...et, eau[x], ier, on, er[s,usually,] are masculine..... Le for the, Un for a, Les always for plural

...ette[s,] elle[s,] iere[s,accent grave,] eille[s,] are feminine. La for the, Une for a, Les always plural

Some French words give you no clue as to gender. In this case, you just have to memorize the gender along with the word as you learn it. Sorry, that’s the only way.
A few French words can mean two entirely different things, based upon a noun’s gender. Same word, but something subtle changes the meaning entirely. Le voil, veil; la voile, sailing.
Falling asleep now----

[Kilian Caltrop]

I think it was ILDEMAAR