>>(Personally, I always thought a bandersnatch was a sasquatch with the
>>Human/Meta-Human Vampirism Virus. Or is that a wendigo?)
>
>The Wendigo was the HMHV Virus Sasquach... The bandersnatch was never
>really elaborated on, but it was most likely a mutation of it
>affecting Trolls.

Nope! Close, but no...uhm. I refuse to go there ever since about 96 or 97.

Anyway, the Human-Metahuman Vampiric Virus affects each of the five primary races in a different way:

Human-->Vampire
Elf-->Banshee
Dwarf-->We don't wanna know! =P
Orc-->Wendigo
Troll-->Dzoo-Noo-Qua

The dzoo-noo-qua is mentioned in one of Robert Charrette's Shadowrun books, probably Find Your Own Truth, I would imagine. It would also have been in one of the official supplements. The wendigo is a central feature of that same book, and its origin as an infected Orc is mentioned in its entry in the SRII base book, IIRC. Ditto for vampires. I don't recall where I heard the banshee-elf connection from, but I know it wasn't from any of the novels. I couldn't tell you which game book, tho. I've heard nothing about bandersnatches anywhere in the SR world, but I could easily see it as the result of an HMHVV sasquatch.

--"I invoke the rites of fiery Muspelheim, and give thy soul up to the inferno's embrace..."