Kreekiki

Kreekiki
FRIC Number 17 Grouping Mammalian Location Mining Site S Rarity Rare Standard Variant Bronze Time Per Stage 36 Hours
Delves Kreekiki Crevice Kyanite Corridor Updog Overhang Weaknesses Electric Fire Resistances Shadow Solar Basic Attacks Wing Slap Swoop Special Scraps Common: Photo Whisker Rare: Torn Ear Scrap Resistances Common: Solar Obsidian Rare: Shadow Bronze
Release Date July 13, 2020: Beta Artist Keileon

The Kreekiki is a Rare creature released on Protochroma during Beta. It is found only in Mining Site S, its associated Regular Delve, Kyanite Corridor and its associated Limited Run Delves, Kreekiki Crevice and Updog Overhang. Its standard variant is Bronze.

Descriptions

Baby

It resembles a baby bat, but it has four wings, four ears, and no eyes or legs. It is alert and responsive to its environment, but can't fly away from predators or researchers yet.

Juvenile

The young animal is beginning to flap around its environment, and despite its blindness it almost never flies into anything—when it does, it is due to general clumsiness, rather than not knowing there's an obstacle. It chirps loudly as it flies, using its four wings and webbed tail to fly through the air with a sort of ungainly movement. Also curiously, it shies away from bright light, though how it can tell the light level of its surroundings is a mystery.

Adult

The Kreekiki is a curious animal, resembling a giant bat with four wings, and is a distant relative of the Lutreo. It lacks eyes, but makes up for its blindness with a set of four ears and long whiskers to navigate its environment. Its superb sense of hearing and shrill, high chirps during flight combine to create impressive sonar, allowing it to avoid obstacles and predators as if it had perfect vision. Its whiskers can sense even the slightest vibration in the air, and have photoreceptors near the roots, so it registers and instinctively avoids high light levels. The sensitivity of these whiskers registers not only air vibrations, but also subtle vibrations in the walls; Kreekiki are known to use this trait to fly away from an approaching Tunnelwyrm before it even knows the bat was there.

Kreekiki live in vast underground tunnel networks, where cave walls trap their sonar and give them a three-dimensional impression of the tunnels and caves around them. Though they fly to the surface to eat fruit and the occasional insect, they naturally subsist on bioluminescent moss and lichen. The photoreceptors in their whiskers let them determine where this moss grows. The patterns on their wings, however, seem to serve very little purpose for the bats themselves; they are not used to attract mates, are often too bright to serve as camouflage in the dark tunnels, and most patterns are not striking enough to intimidate predators. However, the remnants of eye sockets in their skulls suggest the Kreekiki once had eyes, and if this is the case, it is likely the wing patterns are simply leftovers of that earlier creature.

Delving

Kreekiki Crevice

Species	Image	HP	Spawn Conditions	Additional Notes	Attacks	Weaknesses	Resistances
Kreekiki		65	Trap: Massive Stalactites	--	Wing Slap Swoop	Air Electric	Shadow Solar
Kreekiki		145	Boss	Room 6	Wing Slap Swoop	Electric Fire	Shadow Solar

Kyanite Corridor

Species	Image	HP	Spawn Conditions	Additional Notes	Attacks	Weaknesses	Resistances
Kreekiki		60	Trap: Green Glowing Patch	--	Wing Slap Swoop	Electric Fire	Shadow Solar

Updog Overhang

Species	Image	HP	Spawn Conditions	Additional Notes	Attacks	Weaknesses	Resistances
Kreekiki		55	Trap: Iron Ore Deposit	--	Wing Slap Swoop	Electric Fire	Shadow Solar

Images

Image Type	Images
Baby		--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Juvenile		--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Common Female
Common Male
Rare Female
Rare Male

Trivia

• Several of the variants are based on real bats:
  • Orange: Painted bat, Kerivoula Picta
  • Bronze: Giant golden-crowned flying fox, Acerodon Jubatus
  • White: Generic albino bat
• Two variants are based on the Pokemon Noivern: Obsidian (normal) and Emerald (shiny).
• Kreekiki derive their name from an onomatopoeia for a bat's screech.