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 most likely have the most health out of any creature faced before when first encountered, thus resorting to combat is heavily discouraged. Spears may be used to disable their tentacles but this alerts them and will encourage them to explore the location the spear came from. Additionally, it is time-consuming to disable all of their limbs, and the fact that their core remains active and still has the ability to eat anything that touches it makes it a high-risk low-reward endeavour. An explosive spear, thankfully common in the Wastes, to their core typically kills 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 they are given a wide berth they will likely not notice anything that passes by. It is recommended to not throw anything at them as this will make them head straight to the location it was thrown from.

Evasion
Once a brother long legs has locked onto a target, it will give chase until it loses the trail, then continue patrolling its room. They are somewhat sluggish in comparison to other enemies but do not have to worry about the rocky and uneven terrain of the Wastes, meaning that depending on how much their prey struggles at navigating over the terrain, they can catch up quickly. Additionally, they can move through connection pipes, meaning moving to a different room does not guarantee safety.

Senses
Brother long legs are completely blind and deaf, and rely entirely on touch.

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 and daddy long legs are jointly one of the 10 backer-created creatures.
 * Brother long legs are unable to eat bigger creatures that exceed their own mass, 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 the earliest in the timeline, and is likely closer to when Five Pebbles initially attempted to flush out the Rot growing inside of him.