Dog-faced dark grey fruit bat

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A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat is an automated NPC that flies around Cysaegir. It spends most of its time flying around the town aimlessly or eating. It is only found at night.

Description

Covered from head to toe in shaggy fur, this large bat is almost completely a dark grey-black color, save for a bright rust-orange ruffed collar about its neck.  With a pointed muzzle and long, triangular ears, the creature's face has a very canine shape.  The bat stares out at the world with large, slightly bulging deep brown eyes, its inquisitive demeanor accented by the constant movement of its wiry body.

Idle and Movement Scripts

  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat glides in.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat flaps its wings, looping large circles in the sky.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat hangs upside down from a swaying tree branch, its wings folded to mantle its slender body.
  • Leaping into the air, a dark grey fruit bat soars overhead, kept aloft with slow, steady wing-beats. Seemingly satisfied, the creature lands upon the trunk of a nearby tree.
  • Apparently startled by something, a dark grey fruit bat lets go of the branch upon which it was roosting. Dropping towards the ground, the bat catches itself and with much effort, finds its way back into the canopy.
  • Opening its narrow muzzle and showing off its long, pointed teeth, a dark grey fruit bat lets out a raucous squawk!
  • Peering down from its perch with half-closed eyes, a dark grey fruit bat stretches its neck and grinds its teeth.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat stretches, displaying its large membranous wings. Nibbling at its jointed fingers, the bat quickly settles back into a resting position.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat hangs upside down from a slender branch, its weight causing the narrow limb to bend almost to the point of breaking. Wriggling its body around, the bat loses its grip and wings upwards to find another roost.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat finds something fig-like in a clump of leaves and begins tearing at the hard fruit with its teeth. The bat soon looses interest and drops the half-eaten morsel to the ground.
  • A dog-faced dark grey fruit bat forages around in the dense foliage of a heavy tree branch, sticking its snout into a large white blossom as it chatters to itself.
  • The bat flies off.