alright that makes sense
If anyone found a lvl 5 identify dagger in the mage's shop in the merchant area or whatever, do the guys you're facing freeze about 75% of the time you attack, then after you kill them the blue goes away, but they keep standing for a few seconds and even turn if you walk in a different direction before falling down to die?
It's because they are not very bright, so they don't know they're dead yet, and then it dawns on them what just happened and they keel over ... <grin>
Seriously, I've had the same effect. Some of it may have to do with s.th. like this: you keep dealing damage until it reaches 0. But it's still frozen, so it doesn't keel over. Then it thaws (displaying the thawing animation regardless), it seems to get dealt another bunch of damage by the frost spell sometimes (if you've cast one) and then it falls over. Something like that. I'm sure it has to do with how the program evaluates (in which sequence) what graphic display to use ...
-Peter