Creature · ICARUS 3.0.26 · Week 248
Towering, skeletal insects that move like nightmares on stilts. Clickers stalk the swamp shallows in eerie silence, their translucent limbs swaying with each step. Long tendrils hang from their segmented underbellies, trailing through the air - contact with one delivers a paralytic jolt that leaves most creatures helpless. They aren't aggressive by nature, but their height makes them oblivious to smaller life below.
Genetic markers indicate a hybridization of terrestrial roach and crustacean genomes, designed to thrive in high-humidity waste zones. Exposure to both exotics and radiation spurred unchecked growth and neurotoxin adaptation - their paralysis effect originally intended to subdue carrion for recycling. Left to breed unchecked, they've become slow-moving hazards, drifting through the mire like ambulatory traps.
"You don't hear them first - you feel it. Legs like scaffolding all around you, and then something brushes your neck... and you faceplant straight into the marsh."
Spawn weight is relative within a zone, not a percentage. Level bands are the zone's, not this creature's.
| Zone | Median level | Max level | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELY Swamp 1 | 60 | 40 | 20 |
| ELY Swamp 2 | 60 | 40 | 20 |