#The searchlights

[purplehoover]

"We need you to fix the cables."

Current wip, all on one layer, limited brushes because it's Magma

[shandzii]

doing my duty as the fish lady enjoyer 😔

creechur Searchlight design by @sleepyeule lmao we love fish yuri in this house

[it-grrl]

💜🚨💜 BWOOP BWOOP ATTENTION @CLEOLINDA THERE IS A BABY PALLAS CAT 💜🚨💜

[asksearchlights-archive]

"Where is she. . ."

@ask-eyefestation

[cosmokrill]

A moment of your time?

[chaotic-minds-think-alike]

Hello everynyan

[pretzel-box]

Sebaatian and Painter are probably your biggest supporters after you wrapped them around your fingers with your charmed personality and funny jokes.

"I know I'm looking good in this diving suit, Seb."

"Yeah, as if you fell straight out of heavens."

Naturally, the two of them would watch you trying to get to the ridge, but before: You had to pass Searchlights.

So imagine the surprise when they saw you get yoinked upwards by a hook in the first 15 seconds the Searchlights appeared.

"Oh my, that doesn't look healthy at all." Painter mumbles as he broadcasted the video footage. But Sebastian chuckles. "Looks like heaven wanted them back after all. Let's go pick them up from the death room."

[eliscz]

game got me all stressing but at least I have a fire music in background

[effira]

pressure trading cards idk

[sunlit-mess]

DROP ANOTHER ART W SEBASTIAN AND MY LIFE IS YOUURS

I actually have backlogs of sebastian sketches/doodles in my files...

[thinkingimages]

Behind the Scenes with Emma Stone for Poor Things. Photography courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.

[ayowotsdis]

THE STUDENTS OF BANGLADESH ARE DYING.

The so called students league called BCL or Bangladesh Chatro league, who are basically the rabid dogs of the rolling government of Bangladesh are attacking, assaulting and killing the students protesting against the Quota system that gives off government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters of the liberation war. Our own prime minister called us rajakar (traitor who betrayed Bangladesh to Pakistan in 1971) and said anyone who isn't the child of declared freedom fighter is a child of a rajakar. So the students created a slogan "who am I? Who are you? Rajakar, rajakar!" Ignoring the irony of the slogan, the pm set her rabid dogs on the students, my people are dying because she (pm) refuses to let go of nepotism. We can't use our freedom of speech. Please help us.

Our Internet is being cut off, our accounts are being hacked, our electricity is said to be gone soon. SPREAD THE WORD.

[cyanide-cafe]

Nymph Searchlight

The Nymph Searchlight is a young [20 year old: a baby, for its species] Searchlight specimen that Urbanshade has carefully raised to document Searchlight behaviors and lifespans. Its purple coloration is due to its age, as Searchlights start off pink/purple in coloration to prevent Squiddles from becoming hostile to the otherwise defenseless babies.

[See below the cut for extra lore, explanation of mechanics, and transcript of the image.]

TRANSCRIPT OF REFERENCE

Found in Heavy Containment in an XXL tank. Spawns with 1-5 Searchlight Kibble nearby. No document, as this is a normal, non-experimented, but young, Searchlight.

This searchlight can be used as a flashlight-like item, needing Wall Dweller Flesh [80], Searchlight Kibble [25], and Party Special [500] to stay lit. Its light is dim, and it tends to stare at Squiddles, Turrets, False Doors, and hidden Wall Dwellers.

However, having this baby Searchlight in your inventory will wreak havoc upon you and your teammates when you encounter the Adult Searchlights in the Grand Encounters.

This Searchlight is only about a foot in length despite its age [23yo] and is purple due to an adaptation of Searchlights: they only gain their orange coloration later in life when they're capable of of easily killing and eating Squiddles, which are otherwise a big threat for these small babies.

TRANSCRIPT OF BADGES

You Monster

Kill the Searchlight Nymph by letting it out of its container in a dry room without picking it up within 30s.

Are you proud of yourself?

Take the Searchlight Nymph back to Urbanshade alongside the Crystal. Rewards the player with 100 extra kroner.

Happy Ending

Release the Searchlight Nymph to its family in the Final Encounter. Rewards the player with the Nymph jumpsuit: a black jumpsuit with orange and purple coloration on the bands and Urbanshade logo.

EXPLANATION OF MECHANICS

The Searchlight Nymph is a flashlight that requires Wall Dweller Flesh, Searchlight Kibble, or Party Special to stay charged. If you have a Gummylight, you can also give that to the Nymph, which it will slowly extract charge from [takes 1m] and then spit back out.

However, this cute baby is not just a flashlight, it is an actual living thing.. with parents that are looking for it. Searchlights aren't good parents, usually, having large communal clutches reaching to the millions, but this offspring is extremely healthy, and the last alive of its siblings, due to the Anglers, Squiddles, and Parasites killing the rest of them.

The Nymph only spawns at room 60 or higher, but cannot be found in The Ridge, as it only spawns in Heavy Containment rooms. You have to swim into its tank with the Nymph Container item, catch the Nymph [as it swims away or thwacks you with its hooks, dealing 1 damage every 10 seconds] and then it can be used.

It can be released into any room with water [though why would you want to do that?] and can be dropped into dry rooms, in which it will die after 30s if you don't pick it up again.

The Nymph is also, admittedly, not a very good flashlight. It looks wherever it pleases: though it can warn the player if there's a Wall Dweller, Squiddle, Turret, or Good People, as it likes to stare at these threats.

However, the Nymph's usefulness quickly turns to hazardous, as during the first Searchlight Grand Encounter, the Nymph will cry out to its parent, rapidly circling its small enclosure and bopping its head against the glass, causing the Adult Searchlight to spin around the room 15% faster than before. You can release the Nymph in order to get it to stop crying, but this will kill the searchlight, and that's just plain cruel, since you're doing it in sight of its parent.

During the second Grand Encounter, the Nymph will repeat the same bullshittery it did in the First Encounter, causing all three Searchlights to go into a frenzy looking for the crying Nymph, increasing their speed by 20%. However, they will occasionally butt heads, starting a small scuffle, allowing the player to continue repairing the cables.

However, you now have the opportunity to release the Nymph back to its parents, which will cause one of the adult Searchlights to stop looking entirely, instead, keeping an eye on the Nymph, retreating to the outskirts of the Trench. This will also change the Lucy cutscene at the end, in which two Searchlights chase after you instead: one being crushed, and the other narrowly escaping Lucy's foot, quickly turning back to care for the Nymph instead.

This also minorly changes the end cutscene as well, the Nymph poking its head out of the submarine dock, waving goodbye with one of its hooks, before popping back into the water. [This was something Urbanshade staff accidentally trained the Searchlight to do.]

[alic0rez]

Which one is your favorite

[tea-the-not-understanding]

I'm eating chips right now and it goddamn good

@eventide-triptych @jestervsm

[scavengedluxury]

Anti-aircraft searchlights behind Buda Castle, viewed from the Danube bank in Pest, 1937. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.