Heh...was throwing together a mini-run for last session and I brought up to one of my players that "you guys should hunt a drop bear in the sewers".

It got a groan...

Because of the sewers, i'm sure.

Heh, well that and he is a reader of this thread...

Last time they were in the sewers they had an encounter with a cerebrus hound, and the time before that the had problems with hellhounds...oh, and a devil rat pack. I did warn them yesterday that the thing terrorizing the sewers had escaped from the zoo....

One of players started reading this thread after i muttered about Drop Bears on several sessions. He stsopped after reading the first 3 pages.... he was too weak, as not everyone is able to face the truth about Drop Bears.

I played an encounter at the sewers of Miami, as a player. Our GM let us hunt an escaped and genetic modified alligator. Was a lot of fun even though we had to fight against devil & demon rats as well as a pack of ghouls. Too bad the GM never heard of Drop Bears and this thread.

You people all scare the crap out of me. Seriously. You do...

We aim to please.

Can you imagine one of us GM'ing for ya? Yeah, thought that would make you scream.

Luckily I am the sick, demented bastard that GMs shadowrun for my crew. I get to inflict, not be inflicted upon...

Same here.

I convinced a former player to do the GM-job when we're playing SR as i'm the GM at our weekly Earthdawn-campaign for nearly four years now.

But i'll never tell him about Drop Bears.

Everyone, sing along

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Drop Bears
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Drop Bears
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Drop Bears
Heroes in a half-shell eucalyptus tree
Turtle Drop Bear power!

I'm very afraid now.
What if all marsupials have "Drop" variants when infected with HMHVV?
You might end up with Drop Kangaroos, Drop Tasmanian Devils, and Drop Bandicoots...
Hold me, I fear the Drop-Beasts.

Drop pandas and Drop-(other)bears brings up a further worry.
We have yet to figure out if a panda is a bear or a raccoon.

Imagine it, you've locked yourself in your safe-room, hit the panic-button and begun to pray. The 'star will be there in a few minutes, but meanwhile the drop-bears are held at bay by the reinforced doorway.
Then you hear a scratching at the door that's different from the normal attempts of your dull-eyes predators; something more deliberate.
To your horror the door slowly swings open, a drop-bandit hanging onto the door-knob with one paw, and a bit of wire in the other paw.

You're not safe anywhere!

ya' know, it's always so reassuring when I go away for the weekend, and see tha you have all done so well while I was gone. Warms the heart it does.

I've been kinda tossing around an idea. How well would a drop Panda adjust to the differnet climate of say, some place like...... Seattle. Para-animal smuggling, and all that fun. Run idea was kinda smuggling in a bunch of drop bears into an arcology, or perhaps something REALLY funt like the MCT towers in downtown. Drop bears in a zero zone. Paratrooping in. Good stuff.

no... but I do have a character that's a beast master that killed a preces and carries around it's foot. Kisses it when ever he gets into a tight spot. Maybe he;ll give it to MountainShadow eventually....

My group is heading towards the jungle in south-west Cara Fahd. I'm sure there will be a place for jungle Drop Bears

My favourite animal so far had been blood apes. Nearky killed the whole group twice. Nasty critters.

Oracle, i would invite you to my current group, but we're already 6 players and a GM and that's enough. Sorry.

you're more than welcome to come to my group, but we are in Utah. Long walk, from anywhere really. Nastiest thing my beastmaster has fought so far was a cow. Seriously. Fought a couple horror.s Killed 'em. Fought a bunch of sky raiders. Killed 'em. Fought a nasty corrupted beastmaster. Killed 'em. Twice.

Beat up a cow. Damn thing got back up. Knocked it out again. Damn thing got away. Now my beastmaster (of all people) has serious issues with cows.

the worst part was..... it was on an airship, and we were raided, and captured the other ship! I have no idea how the damn thing got away!

The whole point was that I was supposed to go capture 4 cave crabs in order to get a couple of pieces of knowledge from good ol' Icewing, and the cows were food for the trip back (for the crabs). That one cow had been giving me attitude the whole trip there. So I was looking forward to having it being the first one fed to the crabs.

And the damn thing just dissapeared! Damn COW!

So yeah, thanks for the cow hatin' love JJ.

damn cows

It's so simple: it was a Drop Cow, able to jump off the ship and land unharmed.

Oracle is living roughly one hour drive away, so it would be possible that he joins my group.

Take the train, won't take you much longer. And a good ED session is woth one hour train ride. Escpecially when facing Drop Bears during the game, eh?

I don't think the drop bears would have much fun while dropping on me. I used to play a blood elf nethermancer. That would be at least as painful for them as for me...

What about Blood Drop Bears? Queen Alachias special unit?

Not yet, as far as I know. But it sounds like a reasonable idea. I will bring the matter to her majestys notice as soon as possible. Spikey death from above will hit all those creatures of minor races trying to trespass the borders of our beloved and most beautiful home. *crazygiggling*

Blood Drop Bears would even be noticed between all the other scary'n'strange critters living in Blood Wood, i'm sure.

What is wrong with giant carnivorous red squirrels?

They are scary, but not as scary as our Master Blood Drop Bears!

How bad am I if I only log onto DS to check the drop bear thread?

Is that bad?

Don't be afraid, young padawan.

The people who don't pay attention thos this thread are the bad ones, the fools!

They will never know the true power of the drop bear ordo maximus panda conspiracy...

Damn, you made me say too much!

<<Run, jrayjoker, run!>>

hyzmarca:

Gotcha.

I just wasn't sure if that "slip" was accidental or deliberate.

You know the old saying about making assumptions....

Besides, the idea of a "ninja lawyer" is very intimidating.

The only thing worse would be hearing a knock on your door, and answering it to find a very large, heavily muscled man--wearing motorcycle leathers--whose dark glasses couldn't quite conceal the GLOWING RED EYES behind them....



EDIT: Although I can't seem to fathom the idea of an Awakened-Metahuman-or-critter-turned-shadowrunner/superhero going by the Street Name "Liberace"....

<SHUDDER>

Although, come to think of it, the white tuxedo and sequins would DEFINTELY qualify such an individual for the "Distinctive Style" flaw....

--Foreigner

For all your Ninja Lawyer Training needs.

On that note...
Where can I find Drop bear sized power suits and briefcases?

And on an unrelated note, Why hasn't anyone made "Boxercases"?

Well, first of all, they aren't drop bears. Then there is all the cud.

Need I say more?

Umm.. well... yeah. *curious*

Look, you guys need to understand. Cows and I have a history, and it isn't a pretty one either.

Back when I was a boy, living in south western Wisconsin near the Kickapoo River, we had cows. Not just cows mind you, but dairy cows.

Now everyone will tell you that dairy cows are some of the most placid, stupid beasts in the world, but they are WRONG! Those conniving bastard took my woman, they killed my family, and they took my SWOOOOOOOORD!

Sorry, I think I just channeled Conan for a minute there. Ahem, sorry.

Anyway, growing up in south western Wisconsin, particularly near the Kickapoo River, we had some of the most content cows you will ever find. That is until my family decided it would be a good idea to double the herd. With doubling the herd we needed to get more pasture, and it had to be adjacent to our land, otherwise it would be pointless. Luck would have it that our neighbor had some decent bottomland adjacent to our land, so we took it off his hands for a fair price and put up some fence, all the way down to the Kickapoo River.

If any of you have been to south western Wisconsin, particulary near the Kickapoo River, you know that there are a lot of sandstone bluffs and loose sand slopes as you approach the river, and the land we bought is no exception. So putting up the fence was simultaneously easy (the digging) and perilous (the bluffs and loose soil near the bluffs).

While we were out installing the fence I was watching the cows to make sure that none of them wandered away or fell off a cliff. Let me tell you, that was an easy job. The cows are not as stupid as you might think, and they had figured out that falling to their deaths was bad, so the cliffs were not a problem. On the other hand, they like to eat grass, and there was a lot of grass around us. Problem was, not all of it was on our land. So I was mostly running around every half hour or so and herding the cows back to the land we owned.

Well, one cow in particular was dead set on eating the neighbor's grass, not ours. She wouldnt move if you paid her. So there I am, standing on a sandstone bluff in south western Wisconsin, within a stones throw of the Kickapoo River, trying to talk a cow in to eating grass way over there instead of the perfectly good grass right here.

Reasoning with a cow, even the intelligent ones that have figured out gravity and not dieing being good, is never a winning strategy. All they do is chew their cud and look at you. This can be a pleasant way to spend the afternoon if you aren't at all emotionally invested in the outcome, and aren't too bright yourself. Unfortunately for me, I am not a complete moron and I took the outcome seriously.

At this time the rest of the cows are taking it pretty easy, eating the correct grass, not falling to their deaths, etc. So I don't have too many worries about them. But this one cow is starting to give me the eye, all the time chewing her cud and not going where I want.

It has been maybe a half an hour and I am starting to get a bit frustrated, so I start immagining the meals I could make out of such a fine cow as this. Ribs, steaks, burgers, sausage, you name it. And I told her all about it while I tried to move her.

Like I said before, cows aren't as dumb as you might think, they just take a bit longer to pay attention. And when they start paying attention you had better watch out! This cow inparticular was bright, I could tell by the look in her eyes that she had an idea of what I was talking about, and she did not like it one bit

So in the span of time that it takes me to finish telling you this story, that cow got me good. I was pushing on her butt to get her to move, and she cuts loose with a cow pie the size of a Buick and walks away. I fall face first into said Buick/steaming dung heap, and the cow then decides to wander over to the rest of the heard.

Now here comes the part where I let you in on why I hate the cows to this day...As she was walking away, she turned her head to look back at me, chewed her cud exactly three times, and winked at me.

So there I sit, in my neighbor's pasture, on top of a sandstone bluff, within a stones throw of the Kickapoo River, eating a cowpie, and taking sass from the cow that made it for me.

And that is why the cows and I have never spoken to each other since.

I swear to you that this entire story never actually happened.

That and they are not drop bears.