There's definitely some great stuff in both the beholder and illithid lair. And with the Cloak of Cheating, you can just stand around and let the beholders kill themselves (except watch out for those bloody elder orbs that cast maze on you! For some reason, even though I wasn't soloing, it ended my game). The illithid lair is much more difficult. It's not too hard if you have a fighter/mage in your party. Otherwise I'd recommend doing this: grab your mage and cast chaotic commands. Stoneskin and mirror image, then draw an illithid out (make certain you only take them on one, or at the very most, two at a time). Have a whole slew of minute meteor spells memorized and use them to take out the illithid, making certain you keep your stoneskin and mirror images up at all times. This only works if your mage has a good dexterity. If you do have a fighter/mage, use the same tactics, except dismember them instead of nuking them with minute meteors.
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