I hate rats, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Sure, Rats, No Options

[Weredigo]

Another Feature of my board, also something picked up from my Gm.

Demon Rats: Attributes and Powers, unknown. Genetic experiment that failed miserabley. An attempt to creat a cockroach with the intellegence of a rat. Instead they got a Rat with the Intellegence, and Survivability of a Cockroach. If encountered, leave alone, do not attract it's attention, and walk away. They can and will consume anything, people, dumpsters, garbage, nuclear waste, vehicles, magick, elementals, spirits, fruitcake, rubber, plastic, kevlar. The only thing they seem to dislike eating is Oricalchum, but they'll still eat it if put in front of thier nose. They are immune to Damage of any kind, and are usually attracted to it. It is especially a bad idea to throw spells at it, they eat magic, and immediately belch it back. (one fellow player threw a fireball at one, it tossed a chaos storm right back, he countered with a Redirect [will send spell right back if successes are equal to or more then the level/force of the spell], Rat tossed back a Manaball +1 Level/Force. I saw instantly it was a losing battle, but he didn't, and so Redirect-Teleport +2, Redirect-Toxic Blast+3, Redirect-Charm+4, BOTCH No Karma available for Save. The Rat Charmed my Buddy and was about to make him into a nice snack. I tried to drag my buddy away, when he resisted I clocked him out cold, threw him on the Bike, and took him to another mage that we knew to have the Charm Removed.)

When I GM I don't actively hunt characters with these, they are just in the background now and then, gnawing on a Dumpster. Until somebody decides to Shoot one. I'm sorry but I think it's common sense, a Rat is eating a Dumpster, I'd leave the thing alone, it's not doing anything to me. Ergo, to shoot at rat or cast spell at it is to draw it's attention, after that it's a simple choice between running away from it, or attempting to out "bad ass" it which will ultimately fail.

The only known way of Killing a rat is to have it fed live to a Dragon, which will ultimately die of indegestion. Thankfully the things do Die of old age eventually, and only reproduce (in which the female ingests the male) at a rate of 2 offspring per life time.

I'm interested to hear what nasty critters Players have faced, and GM's have created.