Rootlings Rootlings are the worst thing in a kaiju attack, and they're the smallest. Human-sized, skeletal runners of hollow black bone with a green core pulsing through the ribcage. They come up from underground in waves of 30 to 60, run straight past the mechs, and go for the people. What they are Bipedal, 1 to 2 meters tall, hunched forward on long arms that end in hooked claws. Their heads are smooth and featureless except for a single vertical slit glowing pale green. The body is mostly hollow, and the core that drives it is visible through the ribs. What they do Rootlings don't fight mechs. They come up through subway tunnels, sewer grates and cracks in foundations, and they flood into the city after civilians, evacuation routes and barricades. They move wrong: skittering, jerking, too fast in a way a body shouldn't move. A mech can crush a hundred of them, and one wave still gets through somewhere. This is why the shelters are underground, and why the shelter doors lock from the inside. Specs Type: Spawn, infestation Size: 1 to 2 meters Numbers: Waves of 30 to 60 Glow: Pale green