ROUND 2
Borimer is recovering and slightly dazed from being hurled across the room, and loses his typical initiative bonus.
The beholder has significant initiative bonuses and begins its attack.
First, the wall of flame dissipates as its central eye focuses an anti-magic ray that hits it and extends out toward the entry point of the room. The anti-magic ray causes a 90 degree arc to extend in front of the beholder that causes all magic to cease to function. This essentially extends from the entire left side of the beholder (your right) diagonally to the corner of the room to your left. The area is slightly illuminated by pinkish light. The ray moves with the central eye, and no spellcasting or magic is effective in that area of effect.
It also goes into an Eye Frenzy due to the massive damage it suffered last round.
It centers a disintegration ray at Donovan again. This time, Donovan is not so lucky. He screams in pain as his body, including all his gear, disintegrate into nothingness.
It centers its next attack against Borimer again with a new eye stalk. This one sends out a cause serious wounds against Borimer. (Borimer succeeds in saving throw, taking only half damage, but it is still 23 hp damage!)
Its next eye stalk next attempts a charm person spell against Kahan, but Kahan shakes it off because he is standing in the anti-magic ray zone.
Its final eye stalk sends out a death ray toward Tahldar, but Tahldar is also in the anti-magic zone and avoids being instantly killed.
The beholder begins moving toward Tahldar and Kahan.
Due to the anti-magic ray, the spells of Tahldar and Kahan instantly fail.
Borimer is drawing his bow and arrows to fire. He is also along the left hand wall where he was thrown by the Beholder and outside the anti-magic zone.
Shae is moving up the left-hand wall (which is outside the anti-magic zone) toward the fallen giant chest. She begins casting, but then is interrupted as something surprising happens...
The chest is not a chest at all! A pseudopod lashes out from the chest, and you realize it is some sort of hard-shelled creature mimicking a treasure chest, down to the pigmentation of its skin. The pseudopod catches Shae by surprise, hitting her directly in the chest. (10 hp dmg.) Further, the pseudopod is covered in some sort of glue-like substance that sticks fast to Shae. Shae's spell is interrupted and lost.
Lukas fires but misses with both arrows.
Leo fires his blowgun but misses. He has successfully moved behind the beholder in the darkness.
Borimer misses with both arrows.
Shapfren had been in the sidelines on the left side of the room, and is just out of the range of the anti-magic ray. She casts a magic missile spell, and hits the beholder as five magic darts shoot from her fingertips. (25 hp damage.)
NEW ENEMY:
Killer Mimic
Hp: 90
AC: 7
Attacks: 3d4 (pseudopod smash)
Special: Camouflage, Glue
Beholder:
HP=58