Understory Lanternfish

Field record

It keeps to the lightless floor of the twilight water, well below where any surface glow still reaches, in loose schools that flare their photophores only when something bigger moves through them first. I never once found it in the brighter shallows above — whatever it's avoiding up there, it isn't me.

Habitat

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.

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

Sharing this water

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