 Alternative Paracritter... FROM HELL, I'd run, I'd run like it's cool. |
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  Feb 20 2008, 03:19 AM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601  |
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Feb 20 2008, 04:37 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,188 Joined: 9-February 08 From: Boiling Springs Member No.: 15,665 |
Good God, I can almost see that thing eating infants. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif) Shotguns just started looking a whole LOT better! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Feb 20 2008, 04:59 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...no, a PJSS with EXEX.
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Feb 20 2008, 05:55 AM
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Cybernetic Blood Mage Group: Members Posts: 3,472 Joined: 11-March 06 From: Northeastern Wyoming Member No.: 8,361 |
DocTaotsu, you've brought a smile to my face as I now know what has led to the mass fleeing of the sprawl's Devil Rats. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif)
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Feb 20 2008, 06:37 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
I once saw a guro drawing of a child sitting in a giant frog's mouth and staring out despondently as it closed around her. To this day it is the most disturbing image I have ever seen, despite the total lack of gore. It haunts me in a way that the Blender Baby couldn't possibly come close to.
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Feb 20 2008, 08:25 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
Hehe... Ravor you just gave me a plot idea:
"What's eating the devil rats?" It's one of those questions that can only come up in SR and like many SR questions leads players to ask the all important question: "Do we really want to know?" |
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Feb 20 2008, 08:32 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
The thing doesn't really look impressive. Size like a cat, and not even a big one. It wouldn't make me get my .357 if I saw one.
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Feb 20 2008, 08:47 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,188 Joined: 9-February 08 From: Boiling Springs Member No.: 15,665 |
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 20 2008, 03:32 AM)  The thing doesn't really look impressive. Size like a cat, and not even a big one. It wouldn't make me get my .357 if I saw one. Except if you had an infant in the house and it was looking at him/her... then it would be shootin' time! |
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Feb 20 2008, 08:49 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
Not even then. It would be kicking and hitting time.
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Feb 20 2008, 12:18 PM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
Can a frog of that size still jump? The image of a bowling-ball sized frog leaping through your garden towards the house would very likely end in the thing being shot. And contrary to our times, in SR times everyone should be armed.
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Feb 20 2008, 12:30 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
I'd not shoot it, since I'd not want to risk missing, and hitting someone nearby. And I don't have a shotgun I could load up with shot that would minimise such a risk (and the thing's got some armor). So, probably baseball bat time (unless the things were as dumb as to sit still while I aim with my revolver).
But unless those are poisonous I think Dogs would deal with them anyway. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:32 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
I have a very vivid image of waking up to find my room filled with these creatures, all staring at me, all dead silent.
Until they finally strike. Thankfully I don't have the power of regeneration so I can only be eaten once. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:34 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,300 Joined: 6-February 08 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 15,648 |
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 20 2008, 09:49 AM) Not even then. It would be kicking and hitting time. Not if it had corosive secretions. And especially not if it had engulf and the froggy version of paralyzing howl. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:36 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
QUOTE (Rasumichin @ Feb 20 2008, 01:34 PM) Not if it had corosive secretions. And especially not if it had engulf and the froggy version of paralyzing howl. We're talking historical frog, not parafrog. And even if it had corrosive secretions - if it was near kids, I'd still hit and kick it, and would not try to shoot it with my revolver, too much of a risk to hit the kids. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:42 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,991 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Off the rock! Back In America! WOOOOO! Member No.: 15,601 |
I hadn't even thought about poisons or magical abilities.
I got hung up on the entry about "armor" and "teeth" Frogs should be neither armored nor teethy. It's just unnatural. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:45 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,300 Joined: 6-February 08 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 15,648 |
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 20 2008, 01:36 PM) We're talking historical frog, not parafrog. I didn't. Hence the thread title and stuff. But besides that, you're right, of course. |
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Feb 20 2008, 12:57 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 20-February 08 Member No.: 15,695 |
How heavily armored WERE these things, I wonder?
If it was thick enough, kicking it might not hurt the thing. It might go flying a little ways, but not have any lasting damage. |
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Feb 20 2008, 01:41 PM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 20 2008, 01:30 PM) I'd not shoot it, since I'd not want to risk missing, and hitting someone nearby. And I don't have a shotgun I could load up with shot that would minimise such a risk (and the thing's got some armor). So, probably baseball bat time (unless the things were as dumb as to sit still while I aim with my revolver). But unless those are poisonous I think Dogs would deal with them anyway. QUOTE (Fuchs @ Feb 20 2008, 01:36 PM) We're talking historical frog, not parafrog. And even if it had corrosive secretions - if it was near kids, I'd still hit and kick it, and would not try to shoot it with my revolver, too much of a risk to hit the kids. Yay, first multipost! You don´t seem to be much fun today Fuchs! Of course we are talking a parafrog, why stay mundane? And of course we talk shooting it while it jumps arround in the garden! You are not supposed to ever miss, and who would let that fun occasion pass without doing anything? I´m actually seeing a horde of the beasts invading a samurais backyard, the samurai trying to nail them all with a single-shot revolver, because he knows they would eat his cat. |
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Feb 20 2008, 02:11 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,755 Joined: 5-September 06 From: UCAS Member No.: 9,313 |
Mmmmm Froglegs! "Go get my harpoon gun!"
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Feb 20 2008, 02:46 PM
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Creating a god with his own hands Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 30-September 02 From: 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 Member No.: 3,364 |
give it spellcasting and it can be THE HYPNOTOAD.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD |
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Feb 20 2008, 03:05 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 160 Joined: 8-February 08 Member No.: 15,664 |
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Feb 20 2008, 03:39 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,300 Joined: 6-February 08 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 15,648 |
Even better, make just one of them the Hypnotoad, put them together with a dozen or so non-hypno paratoads (of course, they all look the same so it's nearly impossible to find out which one to shoot first) and let the fun begin.
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Feb 20 2008, 07:25 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...that is when you break out your ArmTech MPGL with the dual charage HE and White Phosphorous grenades. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)
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Feb 20 2008, 07:31 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,300 Joined: 6-February 08 From: Cologne, Germany Member No.: 15,648 |
QUOTE (Kyoto Kid @ Feb 20 2008, 08:25 PM) ...that is when you break out your ArmTech MPGL with the dual charage HE and White Phosphorous grenades. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif) Man, i have to get the picture of a hypnotoad-controlled parafrog picking a dual charge grenade out of the air with his tongue out of my head...the image of flaming bits of giant frog flying around everywhere will haunt me in my dreams. |
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Feb 20 2008, 08:00 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
If the frog has jaw strength proprtional to a bullfrog as described, that would make me a bit nervous about putting my foot anywhere near its mouth. It may finally be a good use for a cricket bat though, or a hockey stick.
Give it a couple critter powers (Say Hardened Armor, Corrosive Secretions, and Venom) make it dual natured, and it could be a real menace |
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