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Crustling Eel

Anguilla incrustata

Midnight52 cm · Boring · patient

Filed in the field ledger, but not yet swimming in any water reachable today — real content, not a placeholder, waiting on its own unlock.

Field record

It does not live in the crust so much as become indistinguishable from it, a long grey line lost in the fused rubble until the crust itself is chipped away and the line moves. I have never seen one leave a crust it had already claimed.

Marginal note: “it bores into the coral crust and waits out the dark”

Habitat

ZoneMidnight Zone

Depth range1,300–2,100 m

DiscoveryFiled in the field ledger, but not yet swimming in any water reachable today.

Catching it

A Midnight-tier catch needs at least a Braided Net— anything under that rating can never hold it, whatever the throw. Bought at the Quartermaster’s counter for 300 crystals. A held net inks this entry for good and pays its ledger bonus on the spot.

Ledger bonus on capture+2% Yield

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