The Brother Long Legs, or BLL for short, is an early-game threat found mostly in the bottommost areas of Garbage Wastes. They have a large health pool and are difficult to dispatch but have very few senses. They provide a challenge for those who wish to pass through the bottom of Garbage Wastes or those who wish to ally with Scavengers.
Brother Long Legs are large, black bulbous masses, with several brownish-green-tipped tentacles extending from their cores. Each core is accented with a brownish-green X shape. The number of cores and tentacles they have may vary. In The Rot, Brother Long Legs appear as blue similar to the color of Daddy Long Legs.[v1.9 Downpour only]
Brother Long Legs have too much health to be reasonably killed with standard Spears, and they tend to investigate the source of thrown weapons, making combat risky and impractical. Spears may be used to disable and escape from their tentacles if necessary. Tentacles that are damaged, but not deactivated, are intermittently stunned, which is more likely to occur the lower their health is. An Explosive Spear to the core can kill a Brother Long Legs instantly.
Stealth
As Brother Long Legs are both blind and deaf, they are easy to sneak past. 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 are unlikely to notice anything that passes by. It is sometimes better to not throw anything at them, as this makes them head straight to the location it was thrown from.
Evasion
Once a Brother Long Legs has locked onto a target, it gives chase until it loses the trail, then continues patrolling its room. They are slow in comparison to other predators, but they can easily traverse uneven terrain, meaning that they may catch up quickly if their prey struggles to navigate. Additionally, they can move through connection pipes, meaning that moving to a different room does not guarantee safety. Brother Long Legs temporarily shut down after eating a creature, so feeding them other creatures may provide an opportunity to escape.
Abilities & Behavior
Senses
Brother Long Legs are completely blind and deaf and rely entirely on touch.
Brother Long Legs vary somewhat in appearance, having different numbers and sizes of bulbs and tentacles randomly connected, and having slightly 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 creatures that exceed their own mass, such as Green Lizards or Vultures.
From the Spearmaster's campaign it can be seen that the Brother Long Legs are a descendant of the much larger Mother Long Legs initially dumped into the Garbage Wastes at the time of the Spearmaster's journey.