Kreekiki

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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

Weaknesses

Electric
Fire

Resistances

Shadow
Solar

Basic Attacks

Wing Slap
Swoop

Special

Scraps

Common: Photo Whisker
Rare: Torn Ear

Scrap Resistances

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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 and its associated Regular Delve, Kyanite Corridor and its associated Limited Run Delve, Kreekiki Crevice. 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.

Additional Lore

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


Images

Image Type Images
Baby
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Juvenile
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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.