The Carrion

The Carrion, formerly called "The Tomato Sauce Monster" or "The Teratoma Terror," is a sentient mass of red flesh that appears at spawn from time to time. It is created from unicodes and Symbols for Legacy Computing.

It is unclear whether there is a single creator behind The Carrion, or if it's a shared idea between many different users.

Gallery

November 2024

"IT SPREADS, MY SPAWN OF TISSUE AND BLOOD" "STAGE 3: CYSTS DEVELOP, BURSTING INTO NEW GORE TO SPREAD MY INFECTION. IT IS BEAUTIFUL, IS IT NOT?"

First recorded instance of The Carrion on November 11th, 2024. This prototype was covered with yellow warts and had eyes made from block characters. It did not contain any Symbols for Legacy Computing, nor did it make use of the ability to customize cell background colors, since that feature wouldn't be enabled at spawn until much later.

"BLOOD SPILLS FROM THEIR WOUNDS, IT FEEDS THE MASS; GROWING LARGER, MORE BEAUTIFUL."
"THE TENDONS, GIVING THEM THE GIFT OF THE INFECTION, MAKING THEM BEAUTIFUL AGAIN."
"THE MARROW PRODUCES MORE FLESH; IT IS BEAUTIFUL; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT UNDERGOING."

Slightly updated design with the warts removed(November 11th, 2024)

A new design which utilizes customizable cell background colors for the creatures' myriad mouths(November 22nd, 2024)

November 23rd, 2024

December 2024

First recorded instance of the current Carrion design, which uses SLC for the creature's eyes(December 20th, 2024)

January 2025

January 1st, 2025

"Coalition Against the Flesh Eating Super-organism"(January 17th, 2025)

February 2025

The Carrion invading an artwork by Lime(February 6th, 2025)

March 2025

March 13th, 2025

March 14th, 2025

April 2025

Easter 2025

Carrion vs. Void(April 12th, 2025)

The Carrion as featured in the April 13th issue of Your Newspaper of Text

"Friendly Carrion"(April 14th, 2025)

May 2025

May 1st, 2025

The Carrion visiting /owotify(May 3rd, 2025)

May 5th, 2025

May 5th, 2025(From /spawnhistory)

May 13th, 2025

June 2025

June 3rd, 2025

June 23rd, 2025

July 2025

July 11th, 2025

July 12th, 2025

First appearance of the large Carrion eye(July 17th, 2025)

~July 23rd, 2025

C-carrion???(July 25th, 2025)

August 2025

August 2nd, 2025

August 17th, 2025

The Carrion reacting to its appearance in JRT's "OWOT at a Glance"(August 17th, 2025)

September 2025

September 6th, 2025

September 8th, 2025

September 18th, 2025

October 2025

"YOU CANNOT DEFEAT US
WE ARE BEYOND DEATH

WE ARE BEAUTIFUL "

October 3rd, 2025(Griefed, if you have the complete version then please upload a new version of this file)

October 4th, 2025

"THE HEART
IT BEATS WITH FURY
SPREADING OURSELVES

MAKING ALL BEAUTIFUL"

October 4th, 2025

How to Make a Carrion

The color of The Carrion's flesh is #d00000 . Most of its body is composed of the full block character "█"(U+219).

As an amorphous creature, the Carrion's body can be whatever shape the artist desires. It is covered by multiple eyes and mouths, which can be arranged in any order.

The Carrion's eyes and mouths make use of several triangle symbols:

Sides of the Irises: ◄, ►
Corners of the Eyes ◤, ◥, ◣, ◢
Teeth: ▼, ▲
Corners of the Mouth: 🭡, 🭖, 🭐, 🭅 (Can't be rendered on the wiki due to them being Symbols for Legacy Computing)

The first three set of symbols must be typed with the bold text decoration in order for them to appear at the correct angles. You can enable text decorations using the command ctrl/alt+q.

Characters inside The Carrion's mouths can also have [tbd] as their cell background color, though there are some iterations of the creature where the interiors of the mouths are simply white.

Structure of The Carrion's Larger Eyes(^*Not actually formatted for pasting, unfortunately)

Without Colors/Text Decorations:

◤    ◥
  ██  
 ◄██► 
  ██  
◣    ◢

With Colors/Text Decorations:

�Fd00000◤⃸    ◥⃸
  �x█⃸█⃸�Fd00000  
 �x◄⃸█⃸█⃸►⃸�Fd00000 
  �x█⃸█⃸ �Fd00000 
◣⃸    ◢⃸

[...]

Structure of The Carrion's Smaller Eyes

Without Colors/Text Decorations:

◤    ◥
  ██  
◣    ◢

With Colors/Text Decorations:

�Fd00000◤⃸�x    �Fd00000◥⃸
  �x██  
�Fd00000◣⃸�x �Fd00000  �x �Fd00000◢⃸

[...]

Structure of The Carrion's Biggest Eyes

Without Colors/Text Decorations:

████🭞🭜🭘      🭣🭧🭓████
██🭝🭚            🭥🭒██
█🭠🭗    🭋████🭀    🭢🭕█
🭡      🭅████🭐      🭖
🭛      ██████      🭦
       ██████       
🭀      ██████      🭋
🭐      🭖████🭡      🭅
█🭏🬼    🭦████🭛    🭇🭄█
██🭌🬿            🭊🭁██
████🭍🭑🬽      🭈🭆🭂████

With Colors/Text Decorations:

�bffffff�Fd00000████🭞🭜🭘      🭣🭧🭓████
██🭝🭚            🭥🭒██
█🭠🭗    �x�bffffff🭋████🭀�Fd00000    🭢🭕█
🭡      �x�bffffff🭅████🭐�Fd00000      🭖
🭛      �x�bffffff██████�Fd00000      🭦
       �x�bffffff██████�Fd00000       
🭀      �x�bffffff██████�Fd00000      🭋
🭐      �x�bffffff🭖████🭡�Fd00000      🭅
█🭏🬼    �x�bffffff🭦████🭛�Fd00000    🭇🭄█
██🭌🬿     �x�bffffff  �Fd00000     🭊🭁██
████🭍🭑🬽      🭈🭆🭂████

[...]

Structure of The Carrion's Mouths

Without Colors/Text Decorations:

🭡▼ ▼ ▼🭖
🭐 ▲ ▲ 🭅

With Colors/Text Decorations:

�Fd00000🭡⃸�x▼⃸ ▼⃸ ▼⃸�Fd00000🭖⃸
🭐⃸ �x▲⃸�Fd00000 �x▲⃸ �Fd00000🭅⃸

[...]

^*Note: These are only the most common designs for The Carrion's orifices. Other variations exist, as seen in the gallery. You can also create your own designs.

Trivia

The anonymous creator(s) of The Carrion is friends with CCL, who joined OWOT at around the same time as the flesh mass' first sightings.