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Level 16 Level 26

Crawling Hand

Release date	26 January, 2005 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	16
XP per kill	15.4 (and 5.1 experience)
Slayer level	5
Slayer XP	8 (?? on contract; 9.6 on special contract)
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	Gimme five. Actually, don't.
Combat stats LP Max hit 200 32 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 8 8 1 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No No Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No Attack style Weakness Melee Fire spells

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Crawling Hand

Release date	26 January, 2005 (Update)
Members?	No
Combat level	26
XP per kill	36.6 (and 12.1 experience)
Slayer level	5
Slayer XP	9.4 (?? on contract; 11.28 on special contract)
Assigned by	Turael or Spria, Mazchna or Achtryn, Chaeldar
Always drops	Bones
Examine text	Now that's handy. I'm glad it's just the hand I can see... A big severed hand. Give the guy a big hand.....
Combat stats LP Max hit 650 52 Attack Defence Ranged Magic 13 13 1 1 Other Immune to Poison? Immune to Stun? No No Attack Speed Speed 6 (Interval: 2.4 seconds) Aggressive? Poisonous? No No Attack style Weakness Melee Fire spells

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Crawling hands are Slayer monsters that require level 5 Slayer to kill, and are the first Slayer monsters that beginning Slayers can kill. (Below level 5 Slayer, players are assigned other monsters.) They frequently drop gloves and rings, since they are reanimated severed hands. They are also one of the creatures that will sometimes "die" in a perfect form allowing you to get it stuffed by a taxidermist and mounted in your player-owned house. The stuffed hand along with 5 zeal points can also be exchanged for a creeping hand Summoning pet at Soul Wars.

Players can also kill skeletal hands and zombie hands as part of a crawling hand Slayer task. These monsters yield more slayer and combat experience than crawling hands and have better drops. Skeletal and zombie hands are found in the Meiyerditch Dungeon, which can only be accessed during and after the Legacy of Seergaze quest.

Despite common perception, crawling hands are living, so Salve amulets have no additional effect.

LocationsEdit

• Morytania Slayer Tower ground floor
• Taverley Slayer Dungeon (lvl 16)

Crawling hands also appear within Daemonheim. For more information see Crawling hand (Daemonheim).

DropsEdit

100% dropEdit

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Bones	1	1 Always	91

CharmsEdit

Charm drop percentages

No charms
89%	9–10%	0.7–0.8%	0.6–0.7%	0.1–0.2%

Represents 90% confidence range, based on a sample of 43,925 kills.
1 charm is dropped at a time.

Please add to the log (only if 50 or more creatures killed).

Weapons and armourEdit

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Leather gloves	1	2 Common	30
	Gloves (grey)	1	2 Common	903
	Gloves (yellow)	1	3 Uncommon	1,365
	Gloves (red)	1	3 Uncommon	1,014
	Gloves (teal)	1	3 Uncommon	966
	Gloves (purple)	1	3 Uncommon	3,634
	Mystic gloves (light)	1	5 Very rare	403,890

JewelleryEdit

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Gold ring	1	3 Uncommon	150
	Sapphire ring	1	3 Uncommon	414
	Emerald ring	1	3 Uncommon	929
	Ruby ring	1	3 Uncommon	1,088

OtherEdit

	Item	Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	5,8,312,442	2 Common	Not sold
	Ashes	1	3 Uncommon	377
	Hand bone	1	3 Uncommon [1]	Not sold
	Crawling hand corpse	1	5 Very rare	Not sold
	Starved ancient effigy	1	5 Very rare	Not sold

Rare drop table dropsEdit

This monster drops items from the rare drop table.
The ring of wealth improves the chances if equipped but is not required to access the table.

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Item		Quantity	Rarity	GE Market Price
	Coins	250; 381; 450; 3,000; 9,000; 12,000	2 Common	Not sold
	Uncut sapphire	1	2 Common	1,082
	Uncut emerald	1	2 Common	1,903
	Uncut ruby	1	2 Common	3,112
	Uncut diamond	1	3 Uncommon	7,034
	Loop half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	11,742
	Tooth half of a key	1	3 Uncommon	19,052
	Uncut dragonstone	1	4 Rare	12,885
	Dragonstone	1	4 Rare	10,585
	Dragon dagger	1	3 Uncommon	16,976
	Rune javelin	5	4 Rare	1,215
	Adamant javelin	20	5 Very rare	1,260
	Rune 2h sword	1	5 Very rare	37,933
	Rune spear	1	5 Very rare	11,988
	Dragon spear	1	5 Very rare	36,917
	Dragon dagger	50 (noted)	5 Very rare	848,800
	Rune sq shield	1	5 Very rare	22,727
	Rune kiteshield	1	5 Very rare	32,404
	Shield left half	1	5 Very rare	65,284
	Dragon helm	1	5 Very rare	59,501
	Adamant bolts	200	3 Uncommon	19,800
	Onyx bolts	150	4 Rare	1,305,000
	Rune arrow	150–200; 500	4 Rare	29,850–199
	Battlestaff	200 (noted)	4 Rare	1,680,000
	Air orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,587,000
	Fire orb	1,000 (noted)	4 Rare	1,723,000
	Vecna skull	1	5 Very rare	92,454
	Water talisman	1	3 Uncommon	5,311
	Earth talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	19,025–26,635
	Fire talisman	25–35 (noted)	3 Uncommon	47,950–67,130
	Chaos talisman	1	3 Uncommon	177
	Nature talisman	1	3 Uncommon	193
	Pure essence	500–15,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	34,000–1,020,000
	Nature rune	47–77	4 Rare	5,452–8,932
	Soul rune	20	4 Rare	2,480
	Law rune	45	4 Rare	8,550
	Death rune	50; 121	4 Rare	167
	Blood rune	50	4 Rare	13,900
	Raw swordfish	125 – 250; 1,000 (noted)	3 Uncommon	36,000–288
	Raw shark	250–500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	257,000–514,000
	Big bones	150 – 500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	67,350–224,500
	Coal	150–7,500 (noted)	3 Uncommon	38,250–1,912,500
	Adamantite ore	150–800 (noted)	3 Uncommon	214,650–1,144,800
	Silver ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	11,100
	Runite ore	100 (noted)	4 Rare	1,056,000
	Adamant bar	1,000–7,000 (noted)	4 Rare	2,876,000–20,132,000
	Rune bar	1,50,150 (noted)	4 Rare	13,069–1,960,350
	Clean ranarr	33 (noted)	3 Uncommon	75,900
	Clean toadflax	25–250 (noted)	3 Uncommon	88,175–881,750
	Clean snapdragon	30–120 (noted)	3 Uncommon	106,230–424,920
	Clean torstol	10–100 (noted)	3 Uncommon	94,140–941,400
	Saradomin brew (4)	250 (noted)	5 Very rare	64,750
	Watermelon seed	3	3 Uncommon	5,859
	Yew seed	1–50	4 Rare	60,155–3,007,750
	Magic seed	1–6	4 Rare	164,810–988,860
	Palm tree seed	10	4 Rare	1,058,660
	Snapdragon seed	1	4 Rare	2,127
	Torstol seed	1–31	4 Rare	50,268–1,558,308
	Fellstalk seed	2	4 Rare	1,000
	Yew logs	100–20,000 (noted)	4 Rare	53,600–10,720,000

1. ^ Only while doing the Fur 'n' Seek wish list.

TriviaEdit

• The concept probably originated from the story, "La Main Gauche" from French author Guy de Maupassant. This theory is backed up by the ability to display the hand in one's home, as in the story. Another possible origin of the crawling hand might also be a reference to the Wallmasters/Floormasters from the Legend of Zelda series or Thing from The Addams Family. Another possible inspiration was from the B-movie "The Crawling Hand", in which an astronaut burns up and crash lands with his hand being the only surviving part, which becomes animated via radiation.
• One could surmise the idea of these crawling hands coming from Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, in which Christopher Lee's character (Marsh) is haunted by the severed, crawling hand of his enemy that committed suicide.
• With the release of Smoking Kills on 5 June 2008, their appearance was changed.
• The black markings seen on some of the crawling hands is very similar to the appearance of Ash's possessed hand from Evil Dead 2, which he severs with a chainsaw, after which crawls about on its own
• All crawling hands seem to be right hands.
• There are no monsters in Runescape large enough that the crawling hands could have been 'severed' from to be the actual size that they are. It's possible that they are human hands which have been zombified and then enlarged (unless you count Glod from the 'grim tales' quest).
• Crawling hands are the lowest level monster that drop the Vecna skull.