← JournalNotes from the Kelp Forest

Driftlight Squid

Umbratus frondifer

Twilight26 cm mantle · Hovering · watchful

Field record

It hangs motionless under the canopy with its skin flickering through the same broken gold and green the fronds scatter across it, holding the pattern until the light itself seems to shift. When I get too close it doesn't ink — it kicks loose a cloud of torn frond-flecks and rides out inside that instead, so the whole escape reads as nothing more than falling debris.

Marginal note: “gold light under the canopy that thickens instead of moving on”

Habitat

ZoneThe Kelp Forest

Depth range640–3,000 m

DiscoveryOnly shows itself to a drone moving well under its own top speed. Ease off the throttle as you close.

Catching it

A Twilight-tier catch needs at least a Fine Mesh Net— anything under that rating can never hold it, whatever the throw. Bought at the Quartermaster’s counter for 90 crystals. A held net inks this entry for good and pays its ledger bonus on the spot.

Ledger bonus on capture+4 Pickup Radius

Full capture mechanics — sighting vs. capture, the aim ring, why a net below a creature’s tier always bursts — in The Ledger.