Cable Crow

Cable Crow is an antagonist in Zardy's Maze.

Appearance
Cable Crow is a scarecrow made from burlap clothing on a simple frame. Its head is a burlap sack with a large flap cut in it for a mouth and two eyes, one of which looks like it was roughly scratched out and the other appears to be winking. It wears a brown jacket that covers his arms and back, with the ends of the sleeves frayed. Its arms are rectangular, with a metal cable emerging from the end of each. At the end of each cable is a metal, four fingered claw.

Behavior
Cable Crow moves around using the poles that spawn when the maze is generated. It clings to the pole with one hand, and reaches out to another pole, extending its cable to another pole. The claw latches on, and it retracts while Cable Crow lets go of the current pole, causing on to be pulled along by the cable. If the player make contact with them, Cablecrow picks them up and slams them into a pole using its claw, killing them.

Strategy
They move around in a pattern meaning that when they go to a new pole they will not immediately go back to the one they were originally on. Dealing with the Cable Crow relies on the player being able to remember where the nearby poles around them are as well as listen to audio cues to figure out when it's moving. The Cable Crow poses a great threat to a distracted player in that it can not be stalled with the flashlight like most enemies can, relying solely on the player's ability to pay attention. Depending on the positioning of the poles, the Cable Crow can easily kill the player when they try to cut through the corn due to the reduced move speed, again relying on the player's ability to track the Cable Crow so that they are not killed.

Trivia

 * Cable Crow was originally named Cable Scarecrow
 * Alongside with Zardy, Cable Crow appears in the game Friday Night Funkin' (As a mod made by SwankyBox)