Re: With the right koalafications everything goes as plant
OOC: Okay, a bunch of people have said to move it forward, AND it is Thursday so I need to put up an in-game post. People are welcome to decide whether they're attending or not. I'm just going to move things forward.
Dr. Birwin receives you in his house, a cute little bungalow tucked away a quarter mile from the campus. As he opens the door for you, a four-foot hellhound leaps out from between his legs and lunges for Firefox.
"Down, Bengie. Down! You're a bag of trouble." He grabs the hellhound by its collar and hauls it off. "Sorry for that. He's just happy to meet friends."
The main room is decorated sparsely, and there are still a few cardboard boxes tucked away under tables and in corners. The walls and most flat surfaces are covered with crazy little objects; tusks, a forty-foot snake skin, some sort of a seed or husk the size of your fist. Other than a pair of cough drops lost underneath the china cabinet, the room is tidy.
"Ah, so you're interested in drop bears! They're fiesty little nippers, I tell you. They spend their time sitting high in the eucalyptus tree, where they eat three times their body weight in leaves. They're tough blighters to see. They use their para-natural camouflage ability to practically disappear. That's a handy defense strategy for the drop bear, because they sleep most of the day.
"They don't need to drink. They get all of their water from the eucalyptus, and from the blood of creatures that walk beneath. Drop bears are what we call opportunistic predators, and ambush predators. If you walk below, they drop down on you. That's why they call 'em "drop bears". When they drop down, they use their teeth and claws, and the weight of the drop, classic attack, they punch right through armor. They got a nasty bite, and boof, crack the skull right in half and kill the prey.
"Drop bears, they're called that but they aren't really bears. They're closer to koalas, which are also not bears. In fact, they're closer to wombats. Mind you, wombats are not really bats. In fact, they're closer to wallabies. Mind you, wallabies are not really bees.
"Koala bear populations have been hit hard by diseases and poisons. This is a real tragedy. But it is also boosting drop bear populations, because they are more resistant."
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:57, Thu 20 Feb 2014.