Diet: Omnivore
Danger Level: 7
Social Ability: 9
Observation:A nocturnal creature that uses bioluminescence chemicals to communicate with its kind over long distances. These bioluminescence mixtures are controlled in the same way that an octopus controls the pigment of its skin in order to camouflage itself on the ocean floor, which implies that the brain level of this creature is extremely high. The mixtures are stored on its back in the “light bulb” feature that lines the spinal column.
Some of these displays are only visible to the creature thanks to a special lens covering its eyes that exposes infrared light. This is often used when communicating that a predator is in the area.
This same special lens allows it to see ultra-violet light during mating season. The use of this spectrum of light is to confuse and disorient predators who become unfamiliar when the area begins to change colors.
The reporting observer spent a lot of time trying to decode the various light patterns used by this creature. The species have clearly produced a complicated language system, which is one of the first signs of becoming sentient. From what is recorded, messages are sent in a series of flashing and traveling lights. Lights that travel up or down the spine are verbs; flashing lights are nouns. For example, if a parent is calling a child home, it will first perform a pattern of lights that travel down the spine followed by another pattern of flashing lights that is read as the word for "home." These two patterns are repeated until the creature observes another pattern of lights that indicate the child got the message and is on their way back to the nest.
~Zeek Slider
