Last one. With millions of stupid-looking Koalas staring you to insanity.

Not to spoil all the funny things being said about the poor, poor drop bears, but their mythology is fascinating. It's my guess, this conclusion is also supported by the wiki entry, that the drop bear originated as a way to keep people from lingering under eucalyptus trees since they are prone to drop dead limbs randomly. It's interesting to point out that the drop bear is just about as deadly as a falling limb, in my games falling limbs take a 7S damage code and count as having a called shot to the highest point on the body, it doesn't stage the damage on bypasses the armour of the rest of the body. Once a Drop bear were to hit the ground a good swift kick would be all that was needed to silence the little bastards.

Who ever suggested it that drop bears should hunt in packs had a good idea. Most predetory animals hunt in packs so a five or six strong group of blood sucking teddy bears wouldn't be unreasonable.

I can just see it now:
"Hey is that the bounty bear, you know the one from the commercials?"
"Yeah it is, aw and he's got his friends with 'em."
scuttle scuttle
"OH MY GOD, Jeff are you alrigh-"

@ Grinder Lol "Those cold dead eyes" *Rocks back and forth*.

Thanks

I don't have T:AL here so correct me if I am wrong, but the drop bears don't do essence drain they are just mean and prone to dropping, right?

Right, never understood that part myself. Thinking Eucalyptus might be more than a tree, but that could be my paranoia.

With Essence!

no

they drop branches on you if you try.

well, pine tres are sticky, but poplar sap is downright toxic... awakened toxic trees, this could be fun

Is anyone else worried that the drop bears thread has made it to 3 pages?

Our group just got attacked by Blood Kites tonight. I don't know if my GM has even read this thread, but I blame it anyway.

No injuries so far, but so damn annoying... And apparently, able to tell what a gun is.

Were Drop Bears riding the Blood Kites?

How'd you know they knew what guns were? Did they use some? I can see it now a bunch of birds flying around shooting people.

EDIT- I realize they probably went for the guns, I was making a funny, and failing miserably.

And who says there aren't corporations who have manipulated Drop Bears for use as security?

Equip some with a bit of cyber, perch them over your entrances, on the inside. People who they don't recognize, they drop on 'em.

LOL This thread is cracking me up. I love it.

Hmm, send the runners into MR corp execs apartment, and he has pet drop bears! bwahahaha!

Also, I think I just thought of something new and exciting to add to astral quests. Place of the Drop Bears.

The only time I'd be worried about Drop Bears is if they started showing up with visible tattoos of an open-top skull on their bellies.....





(waits for someone to get the reference)

Carebear tattoos would make them all the more fearsome. They wouldn't even need the Blood Kites they could drop off of rainbows. There would be no stopping them!

Actually I had my newest runner debate on whether releasing Drop Bears from the Arcology Mall Zoo would be a good distraction...unfortunately that pasky shutdown happened before he could find out the capabilities.

There are Drop Bears somewhere in my Arcology tho...

Just hope they don't find the gummybeary juice. Ahh... having childhood flashbacks. Everybody now "Dashing and Daring, Couragous and Caring, Faithful and Friendly, with stories to share..."

Oh those good old times...

Drop Bear survival horror in Amazonia... Yes, yes that will do nicely.

And dead drop bears will be risen to unlife by a master shedim.

We have a winnah! Shrapnel gets 25 Geek points for getting it right on his first post, with an additional 10 for naming them. I'm still waiting for Palladium to update them & bring them into the new After The Bomb system.

Sadly, Angelone loses 25 Geek Points for mentioning those wretched creatures that the Doom Bears are parody-ing.

Eyeless gets 10 points for pointing out the Something Positive strip that I missed, but no more due to the wrong guess.

Thank you for your participation. I now un-hijack this thread & return you to your previous discussion, already in progress.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can incorporate Drop Bears into the Chinatown district of Seattle?

Well, not for "drop bears" spacifically, but could you modify them to be "drop pandas" and have them as ornaments on the roof of a building?

I was going to say that pandas are more closely related to racoons than bears, but really, koala bears aren't bears either. Is there some sort of HMHVV infected version of racoons? Evil Bandits or something? They know how to pick maglocks, will break into your apartment at night and steal everything from your trash compactor?

Or the Triads could be shipping some in for a AA corp that wants to experiment with them on the QT.

Yeah, but I was un-hijacking my part. I had fun though.

Alright, deep resurrection here...Anyone here use these bastards in a game because of this thread?

I really plan to - my current campaign is based in Metropole and i guess there's a chance some silly owner of a private zoo has some of these nice fluffy critters. Somehow they escape/ are freed and roam through the city, feeding on the poor souls there.

Interesting thing I learned watching animal planet. Those buggers (koalas) might look docile, but that's because they're usually loaded up with those leaves that they have to eat that makes them sluggish. Not sure if it's true, but the announcer says they can be rather vicious with their sharp claws. Or, could it be that the announcer is saying this so that tourists won't go and take a koala home? *insert ominous song*


That'll be a good one, a rich corp and his family take a bear home as a pet. Runners are hired to clean up the mess or something.

Nice hook. Daddy, can I have the cute bear with glowing red eyes? Sure thing pumpkin, I'll pull a few strings...

A koalas could be in for a privet zoo (that’s what you call it when you give in to your daughter and get her a koalas) and get infected with HMHVV latter.

It is true that koalas can be dangerous, they wont attack but if they decide they don’t want to be hugged any more… well you ever tried to force hugs from a cat, koalas have bigger claws, there used to climbing hardwoods with thin bark.

Another interesting thing about koalas is that they are one of the few creatures to stupid to die after a bush fire. They sustain injuries that would be fatal on any other animal but they just won’t stop living as if thay cant understand the consept.

They have to be this stupid because brains use a lot of energy and koalas are not totally immune to the poison that is there only food. There day consists of a short meal followed buy a long nap to purge the toxins from there body.

To be honest some of us are not convinced that they weren’t stupid before they decided to take on a diet consisting exclusively of poisonous eucalyptus leaves.

Edward