Rast wrote:1. If you paralyze a rolling boulder beetle, you get "The boulder beetle suddenly stops moving!"... but it keeps rolling. The message should be fixed.
Actually, if the boulder beetle is rolled up into a ball when you paralyze it, it should remain rolled up into a ball and keep on rolling, just as a person who is falling would not stop falling if they were paralyzed.
Isaac Newton wrote:I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
But I note that the OP said that the message should be fixed, which is correct. The beetle shouldn't stop moving, it should just keep right on rolling until it hits something, and then either stop and stay rolled up, or else deflect off and continue rolling in another direction. With enough rolling beetles, long enough lasting paralysis, and force lance to act as a cue stick, this would allow one to play a game of billiards.