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SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#1: Feb 25th 2011 at 6:52:26 PM

Quick! I need some monster that can be the equivalent of the Kraken for modern day drivers...NOW!

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#2: Feb 25th 2011 at 6:56:21 PM

Magnetic montrosities that feed on iron content. Including human blood.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
SandJosieph Since: Dec, 2009
#3: Feb 25th 2011 at 7:02:05 PM

I'm picturing those giant electromagnets suspended from cranes. Sounds like something that could be easily avoided.

Vyctornian Toph-Nata from City of Adventure Since: Feb, 2011
Toph-Nata
#4: Feb 25th 2011 at 11:42:28 PM

Motorists have all kinds of fables surrounding the road, demon bikers (see: Biker's Bell.) Ghosts of the past (Horse riding ghosts, or ghosts cars.) Undead Hitch hikers, you could easily adapt this, maybe into some kind of beast.

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Durazno Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#5: Feb 26th 2011 at 12:01:28 AM

A vast creature that slinks through the desert by night, then falls upon a gas station/rest stop and devours it, taking its place. It doesn't drop its act until you pull in and turn your engine off.

Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#6: Feb 26th 2011 at 8:56:33 AM

^ That's an interesting idea, especially since it is basically a modern version of an old Appalachian folk monster, the Gardinel. Manly Wade Wellman describes a Gardinel:

"They look some way like a shed or cabin, snug and rightly made, except the open door might could be a mouth, the two little windows could be eyes. Never you'll see one on the main roads or near towns; only back in the thicketty places, by high trails among tall ridges, and they show themselves there when it rains and storms and a lone farer hopes to come to a house to shelter him. ...

The few that's lucky enough to have gone into a gardinel and win out again... tell that inside it's pinky-walled and dippy-floored, with on the floor all the skulls and bones of those who never did win-out; and from the floor and walls come spouting rivers of wet juice that stings. ... and all at once you know that inside a gardinel is like a stomach."

It would also work as a lonely motel, or isolated store.

edited 26th Feb '11 8:56:57 AM by Madrugada

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