Crushing Hand

“A severed hand that never got the news. It scrabbles over the ground on its fingertips, looking for a throat.”

Fighting it

• It swings back once every 3 of your combat inputs, whether your attack hit or not.
• A kill is worth about 7,616 Melee or Ranged XP, or 10,472 Magic XP, plus about 2,542 Hitpoints XP. XP is paid per point of damage and shared out by your stance (a stance that sends half to Defence pays it at Defence's rate of 8). A finishing blow that overshoots adds a little more; poison and Vengeance damage pay nothing; XP bonuses from gear and food add on top.
• Its hits roll from 0 to 8 (half its Strength, plus one). The prayer Bladeguard blocks them completely.
• Soft or unarmoured: Melee and Ranged tear in; Magic only lands normally.
• With the Mounted Crawling Hand built in your Holding it hits you 10% softer.

Slayer

• You need Slayer level 5 to attack it at all.
• Each kill gives 38,080 Slayer XP, whether or not you are still on task.

A superior

The superior form of the Crawling Hand. With the Slayer unlock Bigger and Badder, every on-task kill of one has a 1/200 chance that the next to appear is this instead. It fights the same way, a good deal tougher. A kill counts once toward your task and gives 38,080 Slayer XP. It rolls its normal drops 3 times, plus a 1/172 chance at one of these:

• Imbued Heart (12.5% of those)
• Dust Battlestaff (43.8% of those)
• Mist Battlestaff (43.8% of those)

It vanishes if you change target, die or log out before it appears. Its kills are counted separately from the Crawling Hand's.

Drops

Every row rolls on its own, so one kill can drop several things. Drops go straight to your bank (a pet goes straight onto you). Gear and potions that raise your rare find chance don't change these odds.

Item	Amount	Chance per roll (3 rolls a kill)
Gold	20–60	Always
Bones	1	Always
Cloth	2–4	30%
Thread	2–4	30%
Seeds	1–2	10%
Unidentified Herb	1	4%
Leather Body	1	3%
Topaz Ring	1	2%
Crawling Hand Trophy	1	1/26,000

After a kill the next one appears 2.5 seconds later. Dying costs nothing but time: a 15-second wait before you can fight again. The Agility perks Hot Pursuit and Second Wind shorten both (see Combat).