Brother Long Legs



Brother Long Legs, or BLLs for short, are an early-game enemy found only in Garbage Wastes, predominantly roaming the bottom-most areas of the region and guarding a wealth of pearls. They have a huge health pool, and are difficult to dispatch with combat, but have very few senses, providing a challenge for those who wish to pass through the bottom of Garbage Wastes or those who wish to ally with scavengers.

Appearance
Brother long legs are large, black bulbous masses, with several brownish-green-tipped tentacles extending from their core, accented with brownish-green X shapes. The number of cores and tentacles they have may vary.

Proto Brother Long Legs
Proto Brother Long Legs appear exclusively in Garbage Wastes, on Hunter mode. They are a stationary hazard (and as such are unkillable), but can latch onto the player with their stubby tentacles and drag them in, consuming them. The long tentacles connecting patches of proto-growth can be safely grabbed onto like poles.

Combat
Brother long legs will most likely have the most health out of any creature faced before when you first encounter them, thus resorting to combat is heavily discouraged. Spears may be used to disable their tentacles but this alerts them to your location and it is time-consuming to disable all of their limbs, as well as the fact that their core will remain active and still have the ability to eat anything that touches it. An explosive spear, thankfully common in the Wastes, to their core will kill them, but the writhing of their tentacles tends to intercept the spear, thus it's easier to opt for other strategies.

Stealth
Stealth is the best way to deal with brother long legs as they are both blind and deaf. They usually patrol linearly around the rooms they spawn in, investigating anything that touches them, thus as long as you give them a wide berth they will likely not notice you. It is recommended to not throw anything at them as this will make them head straight to you.

Evasion
Once a brother long leg is on to you, it will pursue you until it loses the trail, then will typically continue patrolling the room. They are somewhat sluggish in comparison to other enemies but, unlike you, they do not have to worry about the rocky and uneven terrain of the Wastes, meaning that depending on how much you struggle at navigating over the terrain, they can catch up with you quickly. Additionally, they can move through connection pipes, so don't assume you're safe just because you've gotten to a different room.

Variants & attributes
Like many other creatures in Rain World, Brother Long Legs vary greatly in appearance, having different numbers and sizes of bulbs and tentacles randomly connected, and even having different shades of brownish-green.

Trivia

 * Brother long legs are unable to eat bigger creatures such as green lizards or vultures.
 * In Hunter mode, Garbage Wastes suffers from a slightly larger infestation, including Proto Daddy Long Legs.
 * This is because the Hunter campaign is earliest in the timeline, and is likely closer to when Five Pebbles initially attempted to flush out the Rot growing inside of him.