THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Chris Andrews 2

First seen: Book 1, Chapter 22

Per Brandon's message to Carl, no longer Human race as of his group's own race and class selection; unlike Brandon, who stayed human, Chris chose something else, though the message doesn't say what.

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Level

35B4C14

9B1C37

8B1C27

6B1C22

Physical

Taller and leaner than Brandon, clearly related. Wears a metal skullcap and doesn't appear to carry a weapon. Confirmed the older of the two brothers this chapter.B1C31

Taller and leaner than his brother Brandon, clearly related. Wears a metal skullcap and doesn't appear to carry a weapon.B1C22

Location

Carries the paralyzed Carl into the Medium Dryad Settlement personal space and drops him on the couchB5C2

Healed by Donut after collapsing, then walks into the stairwell alone, ahead of Carl and Donut, without looking backB4C34

Dropped through a Hole into a sealed, partly flooded chamber beneath the street, alongside MaggieB4C14

Approaches Carl in person outside Hump Town for the first time since floor oneB4C13

Bubble #543, first confirmed here; occupies the Bridge of the Akula, liberating the Water QuadrantB4C9

Station 41's Desperado Club bar, per The Sledge's secondhand account: gets into a fight with Frank Q, kills him, then walks out and is banned from the club for itB3C20

Descends through the stairwell hole to floor 3 with Meadow Lark's residents, helping push one of the cart system's 'people buckets'B1C41

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, helping build the MOABB1C40

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, watching the recap episodeB1C39

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, helping pull residents insideB1C38

A side hallway off the main corridor, bordering the kobold quadrant, floor 2, pulling the parade floatB1C37

Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, sitting in a corner with his head low, possibly cryingB1C31

Heading to the group's safe room to tell the 30 people waiting there they're free to leaveB1C27

The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, fighting the Ball of SwineB1C26

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

History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 22
  • LOCATION Location: At his group's encampment beside a round maze's drawbridge gate, floor 1
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Taller and leaner than his brother Brandon, clearly related. Wears a metal skullcap and doesn't appear to carry a weapon.
  • TAG Boss Stars: One bronze star, earned with Brandon, Yolanda, and Imani on this quadrant's second neighborhood boss, a floating crystal creature Brandon shattered with his hammer
  • LEVEL Level: 6 (Race: Human, class not yet assigned)
  • TAG Quest Important: Pitched on Carl's plan to storm the borough boss guarding the floor 2 stairwell together; the chapter ends before anyone gives an answer
  • TAG Crawler: A fellow human crawler, level 6, Brandon An's brother; birth order not yet stated
Chapter 26
  • LOCATION Location: The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, fighting the Ball of Swine
  • TAG Boss Stars: Second star, silver this time, earned killing the Ball of Swine borough boss (Not narrated as a star at the kill; confirmed only at chapter 31)
Chapter 27
  • LOCATION Location: Heading to the group's safe room to tell the 30 people waiting there they're free to leave
  • LEVEL Level: 8 (Skips level seven entirely off the borough boss kill)
Chapter 31
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Taller and leaner than Brandon, clearly related. Wears a metal skullcap and doesn't appear to carry a weapon. Confirmed the older of the two brothers this chapter.
  • TAG Crawler: A fellow human crawler, level 8, confirmed here as Brandon An's older brother
  • LOCATION Location: Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, sitting in a corner with his head low, possibly crying
Chapter 37
  • LOCATION Location: A side hallway off the main corridor, bordering the kobold quadrant, floor 2, pulling the parade float
  • LEVEL Level: 9 (Stated only via Carl's observation that Yolanda is "now level nine, equal with both the brothers")
Chapter 38
  • LOCATION Location: The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, helping pull residents inside
Chapter 39
  • LOCATION Location: The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, watching the recap episode
Chapter 40
  • LOCATION Location: The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, helping build the MOAB
Chapter 41
  • LOCATION Location: Descends through the stairwell hole to floor 3 with Meadow Lark's residents, helping push one of the cart system's 'people buckets'
Book 2
Chapter 8
  • IDENTITY Race: No longer Human, per Brandon's message to Carl; his group's own race and class selection is underway, and unlike Brandon, Chris didn't stay human. New race not named
Book 3
Chapter 3
  • TAG Missing: Left the party after a bad fight with Brandon, taking a few others with him; per Brandon's own final message, everyone who left with him is now dead except Chris. His chat status still reads alive, but he won't accept Brandon's messages, which Brandon guesses might mean he's blocked him
Chapter 8
  • IDENTITY Race: A Igneous, named for the first time, per Imani C's secondhand account. Looks made of lava rock, covered in small holes, and got very strong, but the change reshaped his personality along with his body
  • TAG Missing: Still alive per his own chat status and the only one of the men who left with him confirmed to still be so, per Imani C, but won't answer messages from her or Elle; Imani says he's actively looking for Carl himself
Chapter 20
  • LOCATION Location: Station 41's Desperado Club bar, per The Sledge's secondhand account: gets into a fight with Frank Q, kills him, then walks out and is banned from the club for it
Book 4
Chapter 9
  • LOCATION Location: Bubble #543, first confirmed here; occupies the Bridge of the Akula, liberating the Water Quadrant
Chapter 10
  • TAG Cut Off: Per Imani, stopped responding to her messages after taking the Igneous race; owns a submarine per Carl's own message to Imani
Chapter 13
  • LOCATION Location: Approaches Carl in person outside Hump Town for the first time since floor one
  • TAG Crawler Killer: A trio of player-killer skulls visible over his head, per Carl's own look at him; an unspecified "whole mess" of boss stars sits alongside them, no exact count given
Chapter 14
  • IDENTITY Class: A Zulu Warrior, shown on his examined card
  • TAG Possessed: Confirmed under total Infiltrator control by Maggie My since sometime after floor three; conscious but powerless inside his own body throughout the party's whole confrontation with her
  • LOCATION Location: Dropped through a Hole into a sealed, partly flooded chamber beneath the street, alongside Maggie
  • LEVEL Level: 35
Chapter 25
  • TAG Backstory: Per Vadim's own account of the original Akula assault: some unnamed ability made his body invisible to the corridor gun, letting him solo the bridge's borough boss alone and loot an unshared escape-tube key code afterward
Chapter 29
  • TAG Enslaved: Listed separately from Maggie My in the group quest chat, tagged Enslaved; still fighting and killing at what reads as her direction, but now voicing his own commentary rather than staying silent
Chapter 33
  • TAG Missing: No sign of him during the extraction; the general read is that he went down the stairs already, though Carl privately isn't convinced
Chapter 34
  • TAG Missing: Found at last, surfacing from the sand dune atop the bowl under Maggie's control
  • LOCATION Location: Healed by Donut after collapsing, then walks into the stairwell alone, ahead of Carl and Donut, without looking back
  • SKILL Camouflage and Burrowing: A racial Igneous ability that lets him vanish into sand while moving nearly silently; explains how he and Maggie evaded detection since floor 3 (First shown on the page this chapter, used by Maggie to stalk the winding box)
  • TAG Free: In full control of his own body again for the first time since sometime after floor three, though left grieving his brother Brandon
  • TAG Enslaved: No longer under Maggie's direction now that she's dead
  • TAG Possessed: Freed for good once Carl pulls Maggie's Scree worm form out of his own head and Mongo kills her
Book 5
Chapter 2
  • LOCATION Location: Carries the paralyzed Carl into the Medium Dryad Settlement personal space and drops him on the couch
  • TAG Kill: Crushes Tootsie, Hunter Zabit's Night Weasel Scout, with his foot before it can bite the paralyzed Carl

Kills

Notable quotes

“He really did have a weird-looking dick.”

Book 1, Chapter 39 (Chris, breaking the silence once the recap episode snaps off; only the third time on the page Carl's heard him speak at all.)

“I liked that show.”

Book 1, Chapter 26 (Chris, during redoubt practice, replying to Donut's A-Team comparison; the only time Carl has heard him speak.)