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Turfcutter Beetle

Attributes:

Dexterity: 8 / 2d6
Strength: 9 / d8+d6
Toughness: 8 / 2d6
Perception: 7 / d12
Willpower: 7 / d12
Charisma

Characteristics

Initiative: 14 / 2d12

physical Armor: 8
mystical Armor: 4
Physical Defense: 10
Spell Defense: 10
Social Defense: 8

Wound Threshold: 10
Unconsciousness Rating: 46
Death Rating: 53
Recovery Tests: 2

Knockdown: 15 / d12+2d6
combat movement: 14
full movement: 14

Skills

Ambush:	10 / 2d8
Flashing Mandibles:	The turfcutter beetle can make multiple attacks with its mandibles.
Stealthy Striden:	15	As the skill, Player’s Guide, p. 170.

Talents

Hamstring (Turfcutter Beetle, Mandibles):	May spend an additional success on an Attack test to halve the opponent's Movement Rate until the end of the next round. If the attack causes a Wound, the penalty lasts until the Wound is healed.

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Notes

Adult turfcutter beetles grow to roughly the size of a large dog, and that size requires a good deal of food. They have a means of hunting not normally seen in anything that large, likely evidence of interference by a Horror. Turfcutter beetles use their long, curved mandibles to slice a disk out of the ground, cutting through the thick mat of prairie grass roots. They then hollow out a cavity in the soil large enough to crouch in and pull the sod over themselves, creating a trapdoor. When anything large enough to be a mouthful wanders by, they pop up from their hiding place and seize their prey, usually slicing them into multiple pieces with the first stroke of their scythe-like mandibles. The beetles do not hesitate in attacking very large animals; while strong bones do stop their powerful jaws, this hardly dissuades them.

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