Urban Nightmares
While the Rookery houses many varied dragons, a good number of them have arrived without context in other nearby locations. Keenan has tried to keep a tight watch on these renegades or confused arrivals, but... sometimes they get caught up in things considerably stranger than even he can understand.
In the ruins of Albuquerque nearest the Rookery, several dragons have come to this world and been... altered. Considerably. Perhaps it's the remnants of some interdimensional portals, cross-pollenating so to speak with other dimensions? There are zombies and headcrabs aplenty, but these are something else entirely.
All of these share Origin: Adopted from Guildknight (HH) on Deviantart, based on enemies from Left 4 Dead by Valve; Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland
Dragon
Name: Witch
Gender: Female
Size/Shoulder/Length: Medium 9' s / 33' l / 60' ws
Colors: grey with mottled light and dark dots, darker grey belly, medium dorsal scales; tan and khaki wingsails, tan-beige spikes, bloody forepaws, glowing yellow eyes
Features: Icewing heavily altered by cross-dimensional effects
Powers: Winged Flight, though she doesn't particularly fly any longer, preferring to skulk around subway tracks and in random isolated train yards, Witch can still fly. She more likes to use her long wing talons to pierce walls or cement floors, digging in and climbing to improbable nooks in broken sky scrapers.
Communication, that wailing she is doing might have been singing, but it's so desperate and sad, she longs for something. Come see what it is.
Really Scary Claws, those spikes on her paws, neck, tail, wings... they mean business. Formerly used to grip ice and glaciers, now in this weird hellish broken Scavenger city she's more used to taking apart any living thing that comes near enough to grasp. She will chase prey, but only for a short distance, before returning to her nest and continuing to wail.
Parentage: Unknown
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Based off of: The Witch
The Witch is highly sensitive to light and the close presence of uninfected humans. Shining a flashlight on a Witch or approaching too closely will "startle" her and trigger an attack. Hitting her with any damage has the same result. She is completely unresponsive to Infected and the passage of nearby bullets.
When alerted to the presence of an uninfected human or flashlight, she will look in the Survivor's direction and make a low warning growl: this signals an incipient attack. If the Survivor backs away, switches the light off or moves quickly out of her presence, she will settle back into a passive state after about half a minute of inactivity.
However, if the Survivor is still nearby, she will slowly stand and flail her arms in a threatening manner; if the Survivor does still not move, she will single them out and run at incredible speeds. She is able to incapacitate her victim instantly whereupon she frenziedly slashes that person with her clawed hands, only stopping if either she or the victim dies.
Dragon
Name: Charger
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: huge, 17' s (quite a bit bigger than a normal Mudwing, or nearly any from his world) / 60' l / 110' ws
Colors: Mostly slate and medium grey, pale foggy grey, graphite, and blood
Features: Modified Mudwing
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Based off of: The Charger
The Charger's mutations appear similar to the Tank's mutations in terms of increased muscle mass, though noticeably asymmetrical. Most notably, the Charger's right arm and shoulder have grown significantly and have increased in thickness, resulting in his right hand becoming a swollen lump with stubby fingers.
This causes him to lean to the right while moving. His left arm, inversely, has atrophied to the point of being useless (possibly from his body breaking it down to add bulk to his right arm), hanging limply to the Charger's side and flapping around with every movement.
Like other Special Infected, the Charger has a distinctive sound.
He is loud, making noises vaguely similar to speech and barking at enemies in a high-pitched tone. He will also screech upon spotting Survivors and release a loud yell when charging.
Dragon
Name: Boomer
Gender: Male
Size/Shoulder/Length: large 12' s /
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Features: Modified Mudwing
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Based off of: The Boomer
The Boomer has undergone extreme external and internal mutations by some adverse reaction to the Infection .
The most notable observation of the Boomer is their extremely bloated belly, most likely caused by their stomach (and possibly most, if not all of their gastrointestinal system) being hijacked by the Infection to overproduce bile in massive amounts.
The sheer tension on their skin and organs has resulted in a breakdown of the epidermal and dermal layers, causing the skin to become thin and fragile. In some places, the skin has even ruptured, exposing some of the bile-filled internal organs.
This enormous buildup of internal pressure makes the Boomer quite vulnerable to any outside agitation, as even the slightest gunshot wound or melee shove will result in the Boomer violently exploding, sending blood and bile everywhere — hence the name, and the extremely low health.
