Perhaps it was both...

Lofwyr, of course. Drop Bears can't talk.

Remember, it takes a team of at least 4 runners with tactical computers and the correct SUT specilization to properly fellate an adult dragon. More are required if the dragon is Great or if the personel lack the proper training.

maybe from now on, every team that goes after a dragon should include drop bears clinging to rotodrones. death from above. Hell, while you're at it, might as well load them in to a Great Dragon launcher. vicious buggers

fistandantilus3.0:

Why do I have a sudden mental image of guards in the Renraku Arcology launching drop bears over the walls/through the windows with a ballista or a catapult?



--Foreigner

I was actually thinking something similar strangely.
I'm running a group the the arcology (still, 'cause you bastards keep missing games!) and was thinking of 'dropping' (hehe, *laughs at own pun*) in some Drop Bears.

A little Deus experimentation. "Let us see how they deal with this! Release the infected Care Bears Pax"

And good times were had by me.

I dunno, ya think drop bears would take away from or add to the feelings of desperation and horror of an arcology run?

"Crap! Banded! CRAP! DROP BEARS!"

When Drop Bears fight Juggernauts, everybody wins.

~J

wonder what happens if a juggernaut gets infected with HMHVV?

Something awful will be the result. Mean, dirty, vicious.... like a Drop Bear!

but...bigger..... and with less hair.... I hope

Imagine a tribe of Drop Bears riding into town on Juggernauts.

~J

actually I was thinking of a wendigo with a variant of control pack and his hungry/loyal drop bear army. Imagine Drop Bear as a totem

"My ass isn't fat! It's a sign of my totem!"

Remember there is a zoo in the first floor of the arcology...and paraanimal labs on the 250s.

SHHH!! My group is still in the Arcology.. and I swear by all that is holy, if I come across a group of Drop Bears mounted on Medusa.. I am blaming all of you!

yes, yes it can, something akin to poor fido at a young age, unsure of what these sensations are, or why he's doing it, vs. a hunk of unloving metal...

New type of drone that deploys zoo animals. Drop Bear launcher strikes again!

Don't want to post too much Drop Bear ideas in other threads, but: If SF includes Drop Bears... oh that would be great

The true reason for the Crash 2.0 revealed!

I do believe that this is a cry from the greater Shadowrun community for more Drop Bears in canon Shadowrun.

Darn right! I mean, they don't have raccoon shamans in SR4 any more...so we need our drop bears!

I got this one*!

Shadowrun 3rd Edition

Drop Bear Totem
+2 Dice for Spirits of the Fall
+2 Dice for Illusion Spells
Willpower(6) Test to pass up Eucalyptus Leaves sautèd in blood.

Spirits of the Fall (No, not the season)
B: F + 2, Q: (F + 1) x 2, S: F + 1, C: F, I: F, W: F, E: F(A), R: F
INIT: F + 10 + 1D6
Attacks: (F + 2)S
Powers: Accident, Concealment, Guard, Materialization, Movement, Search


Shadowrun 4th Edition`

Drop Bear Totem
+2 to for Spirits of the Fall
+2 to Body Tests to be Heavy™
Willpower Threshold 3 Test to pass up Eucalyptus Leaves sauted in blood.

Spirits of the Fall
B: F+1, A: F, R: F, S: F+1, C: F, I: F, L: F, W: F, EDG: F, ESS: F, M: F, INIT: Fx2 IP2
Attacks: Drop DV 6P, AP 0; Bite/Claw DV 4P, AP 0
Powers: Accident, Concealment, Guard, Materialization, Movement, Search


*See I even dual statted it for more Drop Bear Goodness!
`Anybody that actually has the SR4 rules is welcome to correct this.

That's just wrong.

In the spirit of boycott, or opposition.... err.... ornerieness I guess, my first 4th ed character WILL BE a drop bear shaman, in protest of dropping Raccoon!

(Of course, my one and only raccon shaman did die on a rating 2 Astral quest thank you very much Fygg Nuuton. Yes, that really happened, it wasn't jsut a 'witty' sig).

That's the right spirit!

In celebration (or mourning, depends on the person) of Shadowrun 4 we ought to petition for a Drop Bear emoticon. :drop:

EDIT: Wait, Rating 2 Astral Quest? You poor, poor thing. Were you already injured, or was it just really bad rolling?

really, really bad rolling.

Shaman, managed to have to go to ALL of the planes available for the quest, so I think like 8 stops totals. You'll have to ask Fygg Nuuton, becuase it was over IRC, and he was running the dice roller program, but it just kept picking away, got me to a mod, then I got trashed in the place of battle. I was just trying to learn a spell a little easier! So yeah, that's a lesson learned. That lesson: orks are bad luck for me.

I have a friend that dies everytime he plays an ork. Guess it's contagious

Maybe he's a Spike Baby and can't play an ork.

It's sad, it's really an issue. He's gone through 5-6 orks, died on the first run EVERY time. He's got other characters that have done fine - to- great, but ... well, you know

He doesn't play his orks like stupid thugs with a deathwish i hope?

nope. He's really good about varying characters style and personality. One of the few people I know where no two characters are the same. Very distinct differences. Has played a few reckless types, most notable being a street mage human called Wise guy (and he is, just no 'family' relations). HE hasn't died! Just the orks! (sad to say, I've killed most of 'em)

Possibly he didn't meet some Drop Bears in the place of battle, did he? That would of course explain it, I guess...

Fear the wrath of the Drop Bears!

I had a player at my ED-campaign who lost four characters in a row. Every character at the first evening - and it wasn't his fault, it was just bad luck, plain and simple.

it was a big frickin' cat actually. I'd have much preferred a drop bear. At least then it would seem justified (or at least cooler)

If killed then by a Drop Bear. That's a honorable death. Or a ridicoulous one.

Fistandantillus, you complain about them dropping Racoon? Ain´t that the dropping of bears this movement demands, altough NA-style?

Maybe Racoon isn't gone, he just got bit by Drop Bear and is off in his den turning into Drop Racoon. Sure, they can't give your runners HMHVV, but maybe they can spread it to other animals/totems.

So, now the question is "does a Drop Sloth drop fast or slow?"

Well, street magic will be our friend, I suppose.

On the racoon thingy: Before "Who hunts the hunter", most totems where not interesting enough for me. That one really opened my eyes. So yeah, racoon IS cool.

Who is to say that there are no Koala shifters?

I would imagine that once they are infected with HMHVV(Humvee) they would become dropbear shifters. Imagine walking into a back alley and having a grown man falling on your head from above...

*edit* Pesky acronyms

We already parachute bears into hostile regions...

Parachuting Teddy Bears in Iraqi

Other names for them are para-bears and “teddy-troopers”.

But remember, there is nothing to laugh at when a drop bear parachutes onto your head...

But there is something to laugh at when they parachute onto the person standing next to you. (It's all about perspective... )

That's just asking for it. Next time in our game, when a para-drop-bear lands on your head, and you're buried in it's chute and it;s claws, and Zraith is too busy laughing at you to help, remember , it's all karma.

I'm sorry. Zraith is apparently on a Caribbean vacation.. so there's nothing I have to worry about. So there..