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Cellar Mantle Squid

Sepiola infimus

Twilight19 cm mantle · Jetting · reclusive

Field record

It holds to the deepest, blackest floor of the twilight water like the bottom shelf of a cellar nobody visits, jetting backward into a fold of rock at the first hint of light from above. I only found three in as many months, all of them wedged into the same kind of narrow crevice, facing out.

Marginal note: “wedges itself into the deepest crevice it can find”

Habitat

ZoneTwilight Zone

Depth range600–1,300 m

DiscoveryFound only in full darkness, well below where sunlight reaches — real depth, no lamp of your own to help you spot it first.

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+8 Fleet Haul

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