“They show up in the old reports and in the odd floor note, and that’s it. When they stopped showing up on the runs, nobody knows.”
The Legacy Records gather three names the archive keeps from another era: the Lurker, the Crawler and the Shadow. They are sightings from old reports that no recent expedition has been able to confirm. There is no body to describe and no sound to recognize, because the creatures are neither seen nor heard.
What the reports say
The reports agree that they don’t wound, and their attacks, if they had any, no longer exist. The resistance figures are the only thing preserved with certainty, and nobody knows what they were for.
Why the archive keeps them
Long ago, Level 0 was traveled in a different way, with creatures you could stand up to. Today what you meet is resolved with the gaze and with silence (the Watcher, the patrol creatures). The legacy records don’t fit that logic, though they don’t vanish from the notes either.
How to survive
There is no advice of its own. If something moves in a way that doesn’t fit the known creatures, keep your distance, don’t run and look for a shelter. What works against the Smiler and the Skinstealer works here.
What people say
Some swear they have heard the name of one of the three on a floor note or in graffiti. Others maintain they are still there, only deeper down. There is no proof of one or the other, and even less of whether they will return.
See also
Lurker, Crawler, Shadow, Adult Faceling, floor notes.