Charlie StrossMar 2

AS I KEEP REPEATING ENDLESSLY—(no, not "with the Right it's *always* projection", although yes, that too)—*do not trust* an oviparous lagomorph, lagomorphs are universally viviparous, an oviparous one is *obviously* Wrong, there is obviously some ghastly parasitic reproductive cycle in play here and it will all end in tears and screaming when the "egg" opens.

This toot bought to you by the Easter Egg Marketing Board.

Show threadE. C. BigribsMar 2
@cstross This apparently non-oviparous bunnyoid is totally ok though, right?
Show threadHugo MillsMar 2
@eedly @cstross That's not the bunnyoid itself. That's just the fruiting body.
Show threadCharlie StrossMar 2
@darkling @eedly It's a subspecies of Ophiocordyceps unilateralis that infects mammals, right?
Show threadE. C. BigribsMar 2

@cstross IIRC it was just a grab-and-eat type monster.

@darkling

Show threadLudwig VielfrassMar 2
@eedly @cstross @darkling Seeing a reference to "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" was not on my bingo card today.
Show threadE. C. Bigribs

@lerxst I was twelve or thirteen when it came out, and forty-five (yeesh!) years later, this still tops my mental list of malignant easter bunny images.

And three cheers for the Internet Archive for hosting it:

https://archive.org/details/tsr09033s3expeditiontothebarrierpeaks/mode/2up

@cstross @darkling

Tsr 09033 S 3 Expedition To The Barrier Peaks : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Show threadQ.H. StoneMar 3
@eedly @lerxst @darkling And later included in the Monster Manual II.