THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Agatha

First seen: Book 1, Chapter 22

A crawler with a shopping cart, now level 12, who enters the stairwell before the floor 5 collapse.

CrawlerQuest Important

Level

12B4C33

8B3C34

4B1C27

2B1C22

Physical

An elderly homeless woman, closer to seventy than the facility residents' nineties and up, wrapped head to toe in scarves, skin like a shriveled prune. Wears a red checkered trapper hat with ear flaps and leans on a shopping cart piled with blankets and odds and ends, including a plastic pink flamingo with an arrow stuck in its head.B1C22

Stairs to Ramp:

The station 36 stairwell turns into a ramp the instant she reaches it, letting her push her cart straight down; no mechanism given for how or why this happensB3C34

Location

Pulls up out of nowhere near Li Jun and Li Na's bubble and goes down the stairs without a word before the six-hour mark; Carl's only response over chat is to keep ignoring her, same as alwaysB4C33

Reappears at the station 36 stairwell, her first on-page appearance since book 1, chapter 47, and heads straight downB3C34

Wheels her cart into the floor 2 stairwell room and heads down to floor 3 alone, minutes ahead of Carl and DonutB1C47

Wanders off alone partway down the ramp toward floor 2, unnoticed at firstB1C27

The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, bleeding from the head after the redoubt collapsesB1C26

At the encampment beside a round maze's drawbridge gate, floor 1B1C22

History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 22
  • TAG Crawler: A fellow human crawler, level 2, homeless before the collapse, now camped with Brandon An's group
  • LEVEL Level: 2 (Race: Human, class not yet assigned)
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: An elderly homeless woman, closer to seventy than the facility residents' nineties and up, wrapped head to toe in scarves, skin like a shriveled prune. Wears a red checkered trapper hat with ear flaps and leans on a shopping cart piled with blankets and odds and ends, including a plastic pink flamingo with an arrow stuck in its head.
  • LOCATION Location: At the encampment beside a round maze's drawbridge gate, floor 1
Chapter 26
  • TAG Quest Important: Forces her way into the borough boss fight over the others' objections
  • LOCATION Location: The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, bleeding from the head after the redoubt collapses
Chapter 27
  • LOCATION Location: Wanders off alone partway down the ramp toward floor 2, unnoticed at first
  • LEVEL Level: 4 (Up from two, purely from being present for the borough boss kill; she isn't in the Meadow Lark party and lands no blows herself)
Chapter 31
  • TAG Missing: Still absent from the group; edited out of the episode's own footage of the fight, which has the others fearing the worst
Chapter 47
  • TAG Missing: Resurfaces alive at the floor 2 stairwell; no longer missing, whatever happened to her in between
  • LOCATION Location: Wheels her cart into the floor 2 stairwell room and heads down to floor 3 alone, minutes ahead of Carl and Donut
  • TAG Quest Important: Resurfaces alive at the floor 2 stairwell, still level four, wheeling the same cart. Carl's own inventory History tab ties that cart to unexamined Valtay Corp tech gear, deepening rather than resolving the chapter 31 mystery of what happened to her
Book 3
Chapter 34
  • LEVEL Level: 8 (Up from 4 last stated outright at book 1, chapter 47; still flagged as human, still no class chosen)
  • LOCATION Location: Reappears at the station 36 stairwell, her first on-page appearance since book 1, chapter 47, and heads straight down
  • PHYSICAL Stairs to Ramp: The station 36 stairwell turns into a ramp the instant she reaches it, letting her push her cart straight down; no mechanism given for how or why this happens
Book 4
Chapter 33
  • LOCATION Location: Pulls up out of nowhere near Li Jun and Li Na's bubble and goes down the stairs without a word before the six-hour mark; Carl's only response over chat is to keep ignoring her, same as always
  • LEVEL Level: 12

Notable quotes

“Them critters already know I’m here. They just don’t know what to do about it.”

Book 1, Chapter 47 (Agatha, brushing off Carl's offer to fix her cart's squeaky wheel on her way down to floor 3 alone.)

“You’re not doing this without ol’ Agatha.”

Book 1, Chapter 26 (Agatha, pushing her way past Yolanda's objections and into the entrance hall ahead of the borough boss fight.)