Whirlers

Whirlers are entities which were once human who have had their minds corrupted by the use of bloodshine into their present state. They are known to eat human flesh. There may been more then more variant if u/skabonk submission is to be considered ported over.

As the name suggests, they whirl through the vents, finding food and more fooms to fuel their addiction. It has not been stated what this whirling entails or why they are named what they are.

Half-Life-citizen#0283 - https://discord.com/channels/1026888162041139231/1026923001926647921/1027628241827147797 I like to think whirlers function like rats on a ship, slinking behind vent covers, crawling in their own filth and shit, covered in dust and grime.

But imagine the difference between the levels, the higher levels have little whirlers, these ones are always new, lingering warmth in their eyes and in the process of being hunted down.

But a whirler deep in the bowels of the earth?

Feet blackened from frostbite and coal dust, faces contorted into monstrous forms, hair knotted and fetid, wrapping around itself and harbouring nothing but filth; hands with nails-like claws, calloused hands that had run raw from years, or decades crawling around in the vents.

I'm thinking that whirlers cannot go back up, only down, nobody knows where the vent system leads to but it's all connected, sharp corners pinning the larger ones, screaming and banging against the thin walls as they try to free themselves as another creeps up from behind and starts taking chunks out of the other one.

Sometimes, you can see fingernails broken off in panic and frustration, snapped and bleeding while a crumpled mummy lies next to it, you can go too deep.