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“The Good People” (Z-96 “Mask of Sadness” and Z-779 “p.AI.nter”), Dupe, and Seek: All “Good People” doors are replaced with Dupe, whose solid physical body was captured after a couple of failed attempts with its specter-like duplicates. After breaching containment, Dupe (and any possible duplicates) settled in dead-end rooms (or simply rooms where Z-96 would usually hunker down in) across the Blacksite, though unable to alter the door numbers on its own. Instead, p.AI.nter’s the one helping it out as it normally does with Z-96.

What happened to Z-96 for p.AI.nter to have to work with Dupe? The first dialogue option from p.AI.nter when you fall for the false doors is:

“That… black goo… took over everything.”

What was secured from the Seek aggregate by Urbanshade can be regarded as only a small sample: It continues to roam the Hotel and Mines, while the humanoid part of it (along with a few of its eyes) was brought into the Hadal Blacksite and, after a brief debate over whether it was more similar to Pandemonium, Mask of Sadness or Valcula Void Mass, was contained like Pandemonium. Yet, by the time the expendable protocol begins, the Seek aggregate has already grown exponentially and is visible in many parts of the Blacksite. This mass, of course, didn’t come from nowhere.

p.AI.nter still did its best to try and lure Z-96 away from corruption.

“Seekerlights” and the Crucifix: With the unlucky expendable incident allowing* Seek to corrupt yet another life form, part of it escapes the Blacksite using the reanimated Searchlight —now dubbed “Seekerlight”— to where the External Repellent System is found, and breaks into a whole community of Searchlights (which I assume can gather peacefully since three of them hunt in one spot at the end of the game), making it so that the final cable repair section is entirely under the gaze of up to three Seekerlights.

However, this does give the players who’ve found a crucifix a small advantage: Guiding Light’s (GL) intervention couldn’t stop the Searchlight itself, but it can sabotage Seek and thus the Seekerlight. If a player is about to be impaled, holding up the crucifix will have GL’s chains pushing the goo-covered harpoon back into the Seekerlight’s orifice, while also covering its lights for a couple seconds to allow the player to hide or escape. The crucifix is spent after this, as usual.

*To be fair, Seek could’ve corrupted the Searchlight with or without the expendable bait. However, since the latter has been entirely off the ground (and away from any wall) the whole time and the former simply never appeared under its light, Seek found far easier prey before ever encountering the Searchlight.

((Mahnnn Seek is so OP mahn lolol))

Rush and Angler: Rush and Angler hunt for very different reasons. In my headcanon, Rush is an entirely anomalous spirit-entity that simply kills for the thrill, through a more metaphysical method; meanwhile, Angler is semi-biological semi-anomalous and actually kills prey to “feed on the neuron signals through contact” so to speak, rendering the neurons incapable of depolarizing/repolarizing anymore and ending neurotransmitter release, effectively ending all communication between neurons and killing the victim ((this is very brief research ahah sorry /gen)). Still, they both want to get the first kill in, and truly they don’t possess enough intelligence to cooperate lol.

In the event that both a regular Rush and a front Angler spawn (or a regular Angler and front Rush, since we learned that’s possible from Floor 2), players can observe/interact with mysterious black soot on the spot where the two met. If they survived both of monsters, of course.

((In the more self-indulgent version of this, where all entities are more humanized: since neurons can still fire after death, Angler can feed from what Rush leaves behind. At least one of them has enough intelligence to domesticate the other, who’s about as smart as a cat.))

((joke drawing HDSNBS))

Screeches and Squiddles: Both manage to coexist in dark rooms. In my headcanon, Screeches are biological combined with something more demonic, and act like zombies. Squiddles are semi-biological semi-anomalous (since they can teleport), not entirely a wild animal like Vultus Limunaria but also have multiple members of their species.

Squiddles regularly scare Screeches off with their own proximity defense mechanism: the faces they generate are enough to discourage Screeches like someone’s looking at them. So, as mentioned before, they both vibe in different corners of the dark rooms.

The real disadvantage is for the player, who can neither turn on the light (Squiddles will be aggravated) nor keep it off in peace (Screeches attack easily in the dark.) Not the biggest challenge —personally I have completed Lightless and can detect Screeches quickly— but definitely annoying considering how the Mines are with Screech.

Speaking of…

Mines: This area is still being explored by Urbanshade ((can’t get past door 150 huh LMAO)), as noted in the first Hotel document I made. Even after entities are discovered, there’s a chance they just won’t be sent to the Hadal Blacksite if other sites have more suitable containment procedures in place. Still, Giggles and Grumbles would certainly be fun additions to the cast.

The crucifix: I’ve seen this item on my successful Lockerless run and I think it still brought me luck lol. If this AU was actually in the game, the spawn frequency of the crucifix in heavy containment would be increased, and it would have Guiding Light’s blue glow around it. The player can actually pick it up and use it against the Doors entities!

((my edit))

Spoilersss but I want the grand event of Enthalassophobia to be the Seek aggregate meeting the Searchlight in the first Searchlight section!!

TLDR: Seek wins.

CW: Descriptions of bodily harm, both human and nonhuman

MY HEART IS POUNDING /pos I JUST BEAT PRESSURE LOCKERLESS‼️‼️

I didn’t even think I would beat it on this run I just went in like “aight let’s give it a shot why not” when there were other attempts I took much more seriously HDHDHD

I had really good RNG, didn’t encounter Pandemonium once and Rift went by pretty fast

I found the Doors crucifix on the same run it brought me luck :333 /hj

The Hotel

D-314 - Codename: “The Hotel”, is a floating building exhibiting anomalous properties.

Discovered on the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of #######, U.S. after a report made by an anonymous source, the Hotel appears as a cozy, vintage-styled hotel comprised of various rooms and sections. Almost all interior spaces are made of wood, along with other amenities such as couches, beds, bookshelves, and fireplaces. A heavy storm perpetually rains on outside, shrouding the hotel in an ambience that is particularly noticeable in rooms with windows. [1]

After the initial discovery, Urbanshade teams quickly moved into the lobby of the building and tasked patrol units to secure the waters around it. No historical records or official documents belonging to the hotel requiring expungement were found, and as such, the only source of information has been manual exploration of the building, accessed through several elevators lining the lobby.

Multiple new entities, both biological and anomalous, were discovered and secured during the expeditions done. After experiments conducted in the nearest Urbanshade site, they have been transported to the Hadal Blacksite as the staff there are informed and equipped to contain entities sharing similar properties.

Further exploration has revealed an entirely new level of the building resembling abandoned mines, entered through an industrial elevator shaft found in the electrical room. Expeditions to this floor are still ongoing.

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[1] The orange-colored section of this paragraph was taken from this Doors wiki page on the 10th of September, 2024.

I don’t care about any comparisons between the two games, I can make my own judgment. I love both of them to bits, my blorbos <3333