We enlighten the people in foreign countries, not killing them. But some poor heathens there are just not strong enough to convert to the Holy Drop Bear... let's pray that their poor souls will enter paradise despite their lack of faith.

To serve the Drop Bear Warriors

Yeah enlightening thats whats we're doing...

wipes red stain off hand, yep lots of people enlightened.

[Run, mattness, run... Arghh...]

We Are the Borg Drop Bears. Resistance is futile

We should place a bounty on Mr. Platinums head.

Due to the celular nature of our conspiracy, having a fully trained platoon blast onto the scene is to be expected from time to time. Welcome mattness pl.

Do you accept payment in Drop Beer?

Foreigner: Were you trained in Anhk-Morpork by any chance? I hear that the assasins there hold human life in very high value, hence why they charge so much to take it away.

I say we allow Brother Foreigner and Brother Mortax both the oppurtunity to hunt dow the heretic/heathen Mr Platinum ('cause really, name calling just ain't nice, and is punishible by death, didn't ya know). The first one to come back with some vital (or embarrasing) body part will be raised to the rank of Zealot.

Brother mattness pl: welcome to the fold.

Happy New Bear Dumpshockers!

I promised myself that in 2006 I'll start a new diet:
Eucalypti candies (filled with BLOOD) for breakfest, lunch and supper.

And a Holy Crusade maybe?

are we only allowed to mention drop bear references, or can we point out vampiric panda references too?

nonsense... the inquisition would never be interested in me... i would certainly not expect them to bother with something so minor.


...

*waits for it*

[edit] oh, and uhh... Happy Pre-Emptive (subjectively, at least) New Year to you all! [/edit]

Shall we declare this the Year of the Drop Bear then?

Anyone know what year it is on the chinese calender BTW? Drop Panda by chance?

Indeed, year of the drop bear it is...

it was written by the great Nostrodamus.

"Yea in the 6th year of the foolish shrub the conclave of the masters of the falling menace of Terra Obscura Australia will complete their rise. The world will fall beneath a claw of blood and cough relief."

Its all there if you look. Happy new year. This is our year!!!

fistandantilus3.0:

I don't *think* so--although I might be able to give you a better answer if I knew what you meant. I don't believe I've heard of Ankh-Morpork.

PBTHHHHT:

Sorry, but I don't drink--alcohol, that is. Thanks for the offer, though.

--Foreigner

Ah.

I've heard of Terry Pratchett, but I haven't read any of his books.

Actually, I was paraphrasing a line from a film.

It was The Survivors (1983), starring Walter Matthau ("Sonny Paluso"), Robin Williams ("Donald Quinelle"), and Jerry Reed ("Jack Locke").

Synopsis: Paluso and Quinelle accidentally foil a bank robbery perpetrated by Locke--a presently out-of-work hitman who's turned to robbing banks to make ends meet. Locke, of course, vows to get even, and seizes his chance when he finds out that the two of them are going to attend a survivalists' camp in the mountains. (In Quinelle's words, to his girlfriend: "Survival camps can be fun! It's just like skiing, except with booby-traps!")

Anyway, at some point during the film, Locke utters that phrase--or something close to it, at any rate. Of course, he said "dollars", not "Nuyen".


--Foreigner

Happy New Drop Year Brothers. (yeah I know I’m a little late.)

Welcome mattness pl. I am excited to see the Holy Cult of the Drop Bear has reached Poland in spite of the cold there. Rest assured new eucalyptus plants are on the way via Drop Shipment Express Service. Look for them on rooftops everywhere starting in… hmmmmm… about 43 seconds. Hope you’re wearing your hard hat.


Mr. Platinum once agreed to join our cult, but it seems he did so to become a mole. Now moles are furry like Drop Bears, but they are the cute and cuddly kind of furry not the death from above kind of furry. In fact I don’t think they would do much damage if dropped from a eucalyptus tree. They don’t even eat eucalyptus. For this I have unleashed to very special Extra-Heavy Holy Drop Bear Cleric Assassins to step on the mole.

Now how much was that bounty? The Temple is always open for donations.

One wonders, if moles could learn how to jump straight up, so as to attack their prey from the most vulnerable point, would they simply be an upside down ally of the drop bears (or perhaps, right side up, seeing as Australia, being on the bottom of the earth, is completely upside down), or are they truly our mortal enemies?

Must we ally ourselves with our own moles because they are our brethren in attacking enemies from ambush? Or have they found the way to hide from our beady black eyes, and are simply competition?

I've always thought that Bunyips would be a great ally to the drop bear movement.

As for moles? Hmmm... not sure. I would hazard that their poor eyesight might be a detriment to the cause. But who knows.

nezumi: thatwould be the Earth Q'wirl from ED. Meaning that they'll "pop" back up eventually (pun intended). Check 'em out if oyu have any ED books (specfifically the creatures book , which is a good read IMO).

Foreigner:The assassins guild in Ahnk-Moorpork places a very high value on human life, which is why they charge so much to take it away. In fact, that's one of their mottos. They don't kill anyone that they're not paid to, including guards.

Homework: Read Terry Pratchett. That is all, move along.

Ah, so does fistandantilus know of the ancient relationships between the Q'wirl and the drop bear? Is the q'wirl simply a drop bear turned upside down? A drop bear that has kept its objective understanding of the world whilst changing its location? Or are they a foul corruption of the Drop Bear truth?

Unrelated. The Earth Q'wirl would be closer to the awakened, pack 'hunting' version of the mole. No HMHVV for one. They usually rove in packs, leaping out of the earth to snatch fruits off of tress if there's no vegetables in the ground. If they feel the need to attack something above ground, well... picture dolphins leaping out of the waves, but make it a doberman sized mole, with a beak. yeah... fun.
They have a magical ability to move thro9ugh the earth by making the earth in front of them as resistant as air.

So really they're completely the opposite of the noble Drop Bear. That isn't a bad mind you (except being the opposite of noble I suppose), just different. Can't wait for them to reappear, like the so called 'horned bear'. Agriculture will be so much more fun then. Imagine shadowrunning for an awakened gopher hunt.

Quietly wonders what happens when a "horned bear" get HMHVV...

He becomes even meaner - and bloodthirsty?

Okay, thats the simple explanation.

But he might also get to go all predator/ruthenium suit like the bandersnatch... That would be nice, almost as dangerous as a fully trained drop bear ninja.

nothing is as dangerous as a drop bear ninja Brother Ophis. You are treading on dangerous ground. Be careful that you do not invite a visit form the inquisitors (or angry drop bear ninjas defending their drop-honor).

Of course brother I would not suggest any thing different. However the HMHVV horned bear would prove a valuable addition to our forces, one almost worthy to be used as something other than a cannon fodder distraction away from the insertion of our Glorius Drop bear warriors.

I humbly offer penance of Drop Beer all round if I caused offence.

Brother Ophis is far from being heretic. He's a hero of our succesful Denmark Crusade and owner of the mermaid statue, after all.

Btw, we need a status report of our inquisition of the two heretics...

yeah... apparently we're knida bad w/ paper work and hot irons around here. Shame on us. Really need to practice with those irons more.....

funny mental image of a horned bear sitting in a tree with a bunch of drop bears in it. Some runners start walking by, see the massive bear grinnig in the tree, decide to go around. The drop bears get pissed and throw sticks at their stupid cousin Carl from the states.

fistandantilus3.0:

Gotcha.

Jaid said essentially the same thing on the preceding page.

EDIT:

Whoops.

Sorry about that.

I *hope* that I didn't come across too strongly. I got back from a long walk about 20 minutes ago, and I'm a little worn out ATM.

--Foreigner

Last report had tisoz & PiXeL01 in the hands of PBTHHHHT and his Drop Flame Thrower inquisition techniques. Maybe we can get an update from him on the status of these two suspected heretics.

Alas! I have some terrible news, the two heretics have escaped! Their followers hired several runners who seemed aware of drop bear ways and managed to extract heretic tisoz and PiXeL01 from their holding cells. The inquisition drop bear are in a frenzy at the insult and we have already flamed a few of the runners and several traitors who were aiding them. I fear our organization have been infiltrated and we must be on our guard. Please deploy several hunter-killer drop bear units after tisoz and PiXeL01, before they can hide into the shadows!

no worries, they'll be easy to find. Jus tlook in to some of hte other threads, and we'll jump 'em there. Hopefully Adam won't get too mad about derailing other threads with drop-retribution.

Ever feel kinda like batman, where everything comes special by putting 'bat' - before it, like the bat-ladder, that is really just a ladder with a sign that says 'Bat Ladder' at the bottom?

I apologize that it's taken so long to create an adequate sig., I hope this one works out well for me.

In other news, I completely deny any connection to the escape of the dirty rotten heretics. Plus, as we all know, I am a horribly inept Runner of the Shadows.

If he doesn't appreciate it, that just means that he hasn't been properly brainwa....err... converted yet. Someone talk him into reading the Drop thread all the way through. THat should do it.

Good luck Adam! Hope you make it through the crucible!

So do you drop bears have the record for longest lasting thread yet? I wonder how much flaming this thread could withstand before Bull found it in his heart to close it (Get away from my neck you vermin, I was only kidding!!!)

Well, the platoon of Albino Ninja Drop Bears placed at Bulls house probably helps a lot

We would have received a warning call by Adam or Bull otherwise.

But seems as if we have to continue our Scandinavia Crusade and visit Sweden...

People who posts on here usually know what they're getting into and know we're here to be silly and such. flaming is not fun so I can see folks who do come here not wanting to do that.

That said... the Holy Drop Bear Inquisition requests a budget increase for this year to increase security for our premises in light of the tisoz and PiXeL's escape from our facilities and also requests aid in increasing our Drop Beer production. Though we deny any correlation between our level of security and the Drop Beer consumption/production by the Inquisition. There's merely speculative.