But that was the point, wasn't it.

Clue, Murder by Death, Student Bodies, all sucked, but rocked as well.

PBTHHHHT: I love that Tourism Board thing, and have been sharing it with friends. Now, however, they want me to quote sources (my fault a bunch of my friends are librarians). I looked, but can't find it on the current Australian Tourism Board website. To get them off my back, could you tell me where and when you got it (and a url, if possible, my friends love details).

Many thanks.

Great now I have this image of Colin Machery, Wayne Brady and Ryan Stiles arm in arm singing one word at a time... Thanks...

any time. You just gave me the most wonderful idea for a shadowrun actually.
I've been tossing around the idea of running a BS run (as in bull shit, not Brainscan) using completely random characters, like the troll w/ Int 1, the color blind incompetent-flaw-wielding demolitions 'specialists', the Face w/ short term memory problems (ala Dory from Finding Nemo), and the gnome albino otaku of course.

Problem was I didn't have a run for them... until now...

Extraction: Famous improv star... probably w/ ADD

Now if I could just figure out how to work a drop bear into it....
maybe doing an appearance on a 'Letterman-ish' show, where some crazy 'Crocodile-man' has one..... excelleentt *Mr. Burns Fingers* (we need a smiley for that)

Somehow, it doesn't seem like that group would be complete without a vehicle rigger with a highly recognizable face and Phobia:right turns. Former stockcar driver who only tried to turn right once in his life while on his way to the Renraku Arcology mall. His wife died in the resulting crash.

hehe... base the run in San Francisco, where you have to turn right three times to turn left.

Okay, see now I have this image of a Drop Bear spirit possessed VW Bug (a la Herbie) careening down the road.. Why have the rigger when you can just have the car itself? Though this does lead to the whole clown car scenario when the team tries to all get out of the car... they would just have to tie the troll to the roof. On second thought, tie the Troll to the roof, give him an assault cannon and call it "anti-vehicular weaponry". Problem Solved. ... I really need to stop thinking about this.

Umm, what part is Ben Affleck playing?
I only ask because neither him nor Matt Daemon can take a piss without the other one zipping him up, Bourne movies aside.

And Ben liason with JLo aside too. Don't want to imagine Matt and Ben and.... a Drop Bear!

Here's the pitch: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as DROP BEAR HUNTERS! *cue the banjo song from Deliverance* JLo can play the tragic love interest killed in the first 5 minutes of the film (Jersey Girl, anyone?)

Scene One:

JLo: Oh, what a cute little koala. Come here cute little koala. Awww, he's snuggling my neck..wait, that tickles...AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

-Fade to Black-

Have her play a lesbian who discovers her feelings for Ben's character after a long and painful process of self realization, only to have her die shortly afterwords.

If you are going to go that far, you might as well randomly throw in Jay and Silent Bob, too. They could be Alanis Morissette shamantic magician's way bongsaber (lawsuit by George Lucas pending) adepts of some sort.

Ben Affleck is going to play the Troll’s assault rifle; I just haven’t worked out how yet. J-Lo sprayed mace in my eyes when I tried to give her a script so I guess she’s out, she must be busy with something else. Jay’s going to play the crazy scientist that builds a super nuke laser to destroy the drop-bear possessed car, but Silent Bob has been strangely mute on the whole issue. Maybe I should call Kevin Costner, this sounds like a movie he would like to direct. PS: you shouldn’t joke about George Lucas, Drop-bears are scary but his lawyers are truly terrifying .

It's only fair. After all, all but his last Star Wars movies were a bad joke that he inflicted on us. Turn about's fair play.

Thought Ocean's 11 had been made when Ben was flirting around with JLo? Sure he wasn't allowed to join his best buddy.

Haven't seen Ocean's 11

I can't tell if this thread is alive, or undead. Hmm, it is about drop bears.

It just keeps regenerating.

And it's about so much more... including the great fraggle/gummy-drop bear conspiracy. THey're working with the Immortal elves ya' know. I thjink they secretly own a candy company or something. Something to do with little cookies or chewy things. Diabolical really

Wait, it all makes sense!!

The Fraggle Rock/Gummy Bear/Drop Bear/Magog/Animal Hybrid car conspiracy is HORIZON!! There's never dissent among any of those groups, how else could they manage it?? And they use their Jim Henson/Disney powers to draw all the humans into following!

But where does Elvis and the Raliens fit in?

Elvis is an Immortal Nazi Elf. The brain behind the conspiracy is probably one of them.

Nah. Elvis is the one behind the plot. The Raliens are his body guards/elite assassin team/chefs.

Mmmmmm, fried peanut butter sandwiches, the diet of IEs everywhere.

Remember that when you see someone eating it.

So would the Drop Bears have existed back in Earthdawn?

Not in Barsaive.

Iopos? I'm sure they have their bataillion of Drop Bears. The so-called "eucalyptus branch".

And they all wore Obsidemen(sp?) skin armor, to display their battle prowess.

*thinks of a Drop Bear trying to bite an Obsi*

-Thinks of a drop bear landing on one, shattering it instantly-

Can anyone think of a practical way to modify Drop Bears so that they might be effective even when not used as traps waiting to be sprung?

Make them faster, give them some inate spells and give them limited gliding ability.

Or, give them the compulsion and desire reflection powers.

"Ahh I just have to hug it. It is soo cute." Add innate Control Emotions (induce love) and call them Care Bears.

I wonder if Pinky and the Brain are involved with the whole drop bear plot...


Immortal nazi Mice?

You can't make a Drop Bear more effective they are the paragon of predatory evolution. If you were to try however, maybe magic tattoos would do it, Increased Reflexes or Reaction, maybe Increased Strength. Perhaps you could train them in the ways of the Adept, path of the Warrior or Silent Way. "WTF! Did a Koala just distance strike Johnny's adams apple out the back of his throat? AAARRGGHHH" As another throws a Eucalyptis leaf through his head.

Its easy enough to add Drop Bears to a run, simply make their urine the special ingredient in some telesmatic ritual, requiring that they "milk" the angry DB for the "purest sample". Its just the kind of gift that a GM can give to himself. 3 runners up a tree chasing ornery DBs with a "squeezer" down below simply has too much of a hilarity factor. Hidden cameras for the Channel 5 news are just icing on the cake.

Nah, that's a bad rip-off of the usual "you need dragon's sperm" run.

Welcome to DS, btw.

I'm disturbed.

Currently my phys-ad is wandering in Australia, although it has been promised sometime in the future, (the sadistic glint in my GM's eyes suggestive of the pain to come) she has not yet found them. Having read through this, I have to say, I am filled with more than a little dread about the entire situation.

Thankfully I don't need a urine sample, neh?

hyzmarca, you're the devil. Yep yep

Heimdall, thanks. Now I've got a second run for my "bumbling group of shadowrunners".