Editing Shadowling (section)

==What To Do: If You're Non-Shadowling Crew==
So the shouts over the radio weren't wizard, ops, or blob, but shadowlings? Your work is gonna be cut out for you, soldier. Shadowlings are terrifying foes and can do much in their power to avoid you. They can even extinguish lights, save for fire-based sources and yellow slime extracts, and even then they can extinguish those fires. Don't get caught alone or you'll live out the rest of your considerably shortened lifespan in mindless servitude.

===Things you SHOULD do===
* Travel in groups
* Get burn-based weapons and lots of light sources (flares are good, so are slime extracts if xenobio is doing their job, and if all else fails botany can make torches)
* Carry flashbangs or flash powder grenades from security or the medbay
* Be extremely wary
* Avoid areas that seem unnaturally dark
* Don't fight anything alone
* Watch for suspicious activity
* Don't fight anything alone
* Be prepared for anything
* DON'T FUCKING FIGHT ANYTHING ALONE

===Things you SHOULDN'T do===
* Hoard the entire armory and secede from the station as your own force
* Run up to the shadowling and ask to be enthralled. Seriously, it's a dick move to everyone and the admins will ban your ass for it.
* Prowl the maintenance tunnels alone armed with your trusty screwdriver and PDA flashlight
* Refuse to talk or communicate - a silent vigilante, as proven by the mime, is the best vigilante
* Attack an ascendant
* Ask to be enthralled by an ascendant. They'll seriously just make you explode.
* Be near an ascendant
* Consider approaching an ascendant
* Look at an ascendant in a suggestive way
* Think about ascendants

===Is that a horrible wail in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?===

So you're in the maintenance tunnel with your group of vigilantes and ready to fight a shadowling. Suddenly you hear a horrible wail in your head and all the lights blow up. '''Not good.''' This means a shadowling has ascended. You're basically fucked over since all the shadowlings can ascend when one can.

===In Case of an Ascendant===
If you see an ascendant, it'll probably look something like this:

[[File:Shadowling_ascendant.gif]]

That guy just exploded.

'''''RUN.'''''

Run far and fast. There is no way to fight a shadowling ascendant. They are completely invulnerable to normal attacks, can phase through walls at zero cost, and possess a slew of abilities designed to make you and all you hold dear explode. They can make the air explode, they can make reality explode, they can make objects explode, they can make your corpse explode, they can make ''you'' explode, too, so run. They can instantly enthrall you, so run. Not that it'll do you any good since they move faster than you. They'll probably just make you explode like they did the seven guys before you it found. The now-exploded seven guys. Oh, and they also hit harder than an esword with their melee attacks.

You're probably gonna explode, too, so just accept it and hope they're either merciful, somehow friendly, or want to enthrall you.

Again, though, you'll probably just explode.

[[Beyond the impossible|Or maybe, somehow, you can kill it?]]