“They talk about something low, pressed against the carpet, that you hear before you see. That’s as far as anyone gets, honestly, not one more detail.”
The Crawler is the frailest of the legacy records: thirty health points, according to the reports. From the name it is assumed to drag itself, and the few accounts that mention it speak of something at floor level, pressed against the carpet.
What survives
- A name and a health figure, thirty.
- It doesn’t hurt, and it has no visible body or recorded sound.
What it would be for if it came back
Wanderers who have read the reports imagine it as a loud, barely dangerous presence, something that gives away its nearness before it touches you. That is an assumption of the archive and nothing more.
Why it isn’t seen today
The current Level 0 rewards gaze and silence (the Watcher, the Grille). A creature that fights with blows doesn’t fit that way of surviving, and so perhaps the most recent reports leave it out.
How to survive
No advice of its own. Keep your flashlight low when you cross dark stretches of Level 0, because anything at floor level is the first thing you step on. Stop and listen (how sound travels).
What is said
One person swears to have heard something dragging itself under the drop ceilings. Others put it down to the hum of the fluorescents (see). No one has managed to see what it was.
See also
Shared entry: Legacy Records. Its siblings: Lurker and Shadow.