by the readers of the Spelljammer Mailing List

Hey, the ugly beasties have to be good for something!

  1. A Foosh Ball for a giant
  2. Makes a great back-scratcher when attached to a tree (use those spider legs!), just ask the Good Ship GUMP ;-)
  3. Stick it in the corner, and have a Bean Bag sitting chair before Styrofoam is invented!
  4. Skin makes a great multi-person Halloween outfit
  5. Works as a "whoopee cushion" for really large creatures
  6. Nail it to the wall and use the outstretched legs as a sword rack.
  7. As above, but for hanging clothes.
  8. Use the head/neck for a puppet ("Neogi heads, neogi heads, roly-poly neogi heads...")
  9. Animate it and use it to carry drinks at parties (a la R2D2 in Return of the Jedi).
  10. Trampoline for kobolds
  11. Target practice for giff (aim for tattoos).
  12. Set it up in the front yard of your next-door neighbor who has all of those cats.
  13. Put it in the window to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses.
  14. Put an "I love Lolth" t-shirt on it and catapult it onto drow ships.
  15. Pop their legs off, and let giants use them as bowling balls.
  16. Scare away Little Miss Muffet.
  17. Hang it from a tower with a bungee cord for a fun ride.
  18. Use it as compost for extra sturdy elven man'o'wars.
  19. Pinate (sp). 'Nuff said.
  20. Take the legs off, cast levitate on it, and impress your groundling friends with your "pet Beholder".
  21. Use in large numbers to make Neogi Creole - a Spacesea Giant favorite.
  22. The legs make great shiskabob skewers.
  23. Outfit the head with a mouthpiece, drill holes in the legs, and use as bagpipes.
  24. Animate a bunch of them and jettison them onto an enemy ship - its loads of fun.
  25. Use as a Magic Jar for someone you really don't like - great practical joke.
  26. Lick their stomachs and stick them from the roof. Hang candles.
  27. Send friendly surprise packages to your local Elvish Armada.
  28. Use their skins to make a giant flag embroidered with NEOGI SUCK. (Was actually done once).
  29. Extra catapult ammunition.
  30. Speaking of ammo, use them in a jettison. Dead neogi don't care.
  31. Sell them to those backward bumpkins on Oerth as Giant Space Spider Things. Better yet, display one and charge admission.
  32. Fill them with feathers, they make great pillows.
  33. Animate a bunch of them and get a marching band going. Chitter-chitter...
  34. Archery practice. Don't want to shoot your ship up, do you?
  35. They make wonderful hats.
  36. Tastes great, just like hairy chick mixed with eel
  37. Neogi Szechwan, 'nuff said
  38. Makes a good pillow for any 10'tall humanoid
  39. Makes for great ballast in hot-air balloons, although they can get a little messy when dropped too far.
  40. Stick a pole through the bodies, and create the first Spelljamming Ship Wash-O-Matic! (The gnomes would love this one)
  41. Use as a table centerpiece during a diplomatic function, especially if you don't care about the outcome.
  42. A chandelier for the person who has everything.
  43. A hood ornament for a Gnommish sidewheeler.
  44. Be the life of the costume party. (Old Masters are especially good for this.)
  45. Young neogi, when filled with oil and given a wick, make great hanging lamps.
  46. Instead of using as a lamp, take the aforementioned young neogi and use them as hanging planters.
  47. When petrified, they can add that "extra touch" to a large rock garden.
  48. Cut the legs off and use as a snowboard.
  49. Take two, discard all but two legs, strap the neogi to your feet and use the legs as poles. Presto! Cross-country skies.
  50. As above, but modify for use as water-skis.
  51. Put a mummified young in your supervisor's/ advisor's/ teacher's desk. It's a million laughs.
  52. Take three or four and stick them in someone's closet, then be sure to catch the look on their face the next time they open it!

OK, we lied. There are 52 uses for a dead neogi.