The Origin
Standing 6 feet (2 m) tall at the shoulder, this monstrous creature, resembling a bison bull with overdeveloped horns and a weirdly carnivorous maw, roams the Midwest. It digs into the ground or the basement of an empty warehouse during the day, and sleeps in a hard-to-find location. By night it hunts, preferring animals but settling for people if it can find one alone. Despite its bulk, it's a stealthy creature. And thanks to its meta-animal abilities, it's also fast, hard to hurt, and deadly.
The Bear Butte Monster gets its name from a geological site near where it was first sighted in South Dakota.
Motive: Hungers for flesh
Environment: Alone, roaming the Midwest
Health: 30
Damage Inflicted: Major wound (8 points)
Armor: 4
Movement: Short; burrows an immediate distance each round
Modifications: Stealth tasks and breaking through solid walls as level 8
Combat: The Bear Butte Monster attacks with wickedly curved horns, attacking everyone within immediate range. If it focuses on a single target, the creature's successful attack inflicts 12 points of damage and on a failed Might defense roll, throws the target up to a short range away (which inflicts another 3 points).
The Bear Butte Monster can spit a gobbet of its especially potent stomach acid at a target within short range, which deals damage each round for three rounds. Thankfully, the monster can only do this once every hour.
If pressed, the Bear Butte Monster can get at prey (or escape) by smashing through wood and even stone and brick walls of standard structures.
Interaction: The monster is a clever predator that knows enough to not be lured into a trap.
Use: Something is killing regular people. The PCs are asked to investigate so that someone official doesn't show up and find innocent metahumans to blame instead.
GM Intrusion: The monster headbutts a nearby structure (level 5), causing it to collapse on the character, inflicting 8 points of ambient damage from crushing each round until the target can escape.