THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Elle McGibbons

also known as Crawler #12,330,800, Elle McGib

First seen: Book 1, Chapter 31

A Frost Maiden fairy who changes from Blizzardmancer to Tundra Princess during sixth-floor specialization.

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Level

Reached level 51 after becoming a Tundra PrincessB5C36

47, up from 35 at chapter 17B4C34

35, up from 33 at chapter 4B4C17

33B4C4

17B3C3

13B2C26

Physical

Transformed into a blue-skinned, white-haired elf-like being that floats instead of walking, shown on the recap show shooting icicles from her palms to skewer a troll-like monster in a subway carB3C3

Build:

Shrunk to about four and a half feet tall, skin now a light blue like a clear-sky day; her white, haphazardly-cut hair looks about the same as before but suits her smaller frame and no longer reads as sicklyB3C8

Movement:

Floats about a foot off the ground and never actually touches down, even walking her legs as if climbing invisible stairs; her privacy bubble sits around her head like a halo, giving her the look of a haloed figure out of a renaissance painting. Still wears the anti-slip socks from Meadow Lark underneath it allB3C8

Location

Ballroom A at the Butcher's Masquerade, attempting to calm conflicts among the crawlersB5C67

First of the group down the station 36 stairwell, declaring she'll be happy never to see another train againB3C34

Flies close air support over trainyard E during the Death Challenge, pelting Grull with icicles and drawing his heat-ray breath attack before landing on a derailed train near the main gateB3C33

Reaches station 12 with her own team and confirms its soul crystal already blew: every monster in the room dead, the crystal reduced to a dead, marble-sized husk floating over a burnt-out generator, and a new hole in the floor with nothing coming up through itB3C32

Zips between station 36's chokepoints during the siege freezing pools of caustic acid to stop them burning through the defenders' feet; sent by Imani to check out a pair of distant explosions near station 12 once the ground shakesB3C31

Leads her own away team, guided by Tizquick, to the correct colored line and on to the exploded station 72, where the caved-in ceiling has been cleared around the surviving circle of stairwells; spreads word that it's a place to descend without a fightB3C28

Trainyard D, floating above the ghoul swarm at the breached gate, then sheltering in the Iron Tangle administrative building outside itB3C19

Camped near the drug-tunnel's ghoul cart carousel with Imani's team, debating a ride down the conveyorB3C18

Following the drug-tunnel's secret downward passage out of the robot room, exact position not givenB3C16

Stop 275 on the Camel Line, stranded once their connecting train to station 277 never arrives; plans to backtrack through a drug-tunnel portal to station 272 and hike from thereB3C15

Inside one of the Iron Tangle's five-stop transfer platforms with Imani's team, relayed to Carl only over party chat; exact line and station not givenB3C10

Station 131's Desperado Club, its members-only dance hall, leaning on the bar with a single guard, Clay-tonB3C8

Descends through the stairwell hole to floor 3 with Meadow Lark's residentsB1C41

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, recovering on the floor after being carried inB1C38

Riding the parade float's last car, floor 2, alongside Jack and one other residentB1C37

Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, just helped in by CarlB1C31

History by chapter
Book 1
Chapter 31
  • TAG Crawler: An elderly wheelchair-bound resident from Brandon An's evacuated eldercare group
  • LOCATION Location: Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, just helped in by Carl
Chapter 37
  • LOCATION Location: Riding the parade float's last car, floor 2, alongside Jack and one other resident
Chapter 38
  • LOCATION Location: The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, recovering on the floor after being carried in
Chapter 41
  • LOCATION Location: Descends through the stairwell hole to floor 3 with Meadow Lark's residents
Book 2
Chapter 26
  • TAG Leaderboard: Tenth place on Odette's tentative first draft of the Book 2 leaderboard, listed under her crawler tag Elle McGib; Carl recognizes the name with disbelief
  • TAG Bounty: 100,000 gold, per the same draft leaderboard
  • IDENTITY Race: A Frost Maiden, per the leaderboard
  • IDENTITY Class: A Blizzardmancer, per the leaderboard
  • LEVEL Level: 13 (Per the leaderboard's own listing; started floor 3 at level one, per Carl's own reaction)
Book 3
Chapter 3
  • PHYSICAL Appearance: Transformed into a blue-skinned, white-haired elf-like being that floats instead of walking, shown on the recap show shooting icicles from her palms to skewer a troll-like monster in a subway car
  • IDENTITY Race: A Frost Maiden, per the recap show and the leaderboard
  • IDENTITY Class: A Blizzardmancer, per the leaderboard
  • LEVEL Level: 17 (Up from 14, per Carl's own observation watching the recap show)
  • TAG Leaderboard: Tenth place on the floor 4 leaderboard, listed under her crawler tag Elle McGib
  • TAG Bounty: 100,000 gold, per the leaderboard
Chapter 8
  • PHYSICAL Movement: Floats about a foot off the ground and never actually touches down, even walking her legs as if climbing invisible stairs; her privacy bubble sits around her head like a halo, giving her the look of a haloed figure out of a renaissance painting. Still wears the anti-slip socks from Meadow Lark underneath it all
  • PHYSICAL Build: Shrunk to about four and a half feet tall, skin now a light blue like a clear-sky day; her white, haphazardly-cut hair looks about the same as before but suits her smaller frame and no longer reads as sickly
  • LOCATION Location: Station 131's Desperado Club, its members-only dance hall, leaning on the bar with a single guard, Clay-ton
Chapter 9
  • TAG Crawler Killer: First skull, earned killing the unnamed woman crawler who'd stunned Donut's guards and was lining up a second attack; a two-foot icicle through the eye socket from behind, in full view of the crowd
Chapter 10
  • LOCATION Location: Inside one of the Iron Tangle's five-stop transfer platforms with Imani's team, relayed to Carl only over party chat; exact line and station not given
Chapter 13
  • TAG Leaderboard: Moved up to eighth place on the floor 4 leaderboard, per Carl watching the recap episode's header
Chapter 15
  • LOCATION Location: Stop 275 on the Camel Line, stranded once their connecting train to station 277 never arrives; plans to backtrack through a drug-tunnel portal to station 272 and hike from there
Chapter 16
  • LOCATION Location: Following the drug-tunnel's secret downward passage out of the robot room, exact position not given
Chapter 18
  • LOCATION Location: Camped near the drug-tunnel's ghoul cart carousel with Imani's team, debating a ride down the conveyor
  • TAG Crawler Killer: Has her own skull, per Imani, earned at some unspecified point; unlike Imani and Donut, never received a matching Savage box or coupon book for it
Chapter 19
  • LOCATION Location: Trainyard D, floating above the ghoul swarm at the breached gate, then sheltering in the Iron Tangle administrative building outside it
Chapter 25
  • TAG Leaderboard: Falls off the newly-updated top-10 leaderboard shown after the Hekla tribute episode, per Carl's own reaction watching it with Donut and Katia; last held eighth place at chapter 13
Chapter 28
  • LOCATION Location: Leads her own away team, guided by Tizquick, to the correct colored line and on to the exploded station 72, where the caved-in ceiling has been cleared around the surviving circle of stairwells; spreads word that it's a place to descend without a fight
Chapter 31
  • LOCATION Location: Zips between station 36's chokepoints during the siege freezing pools of caustic acid to stop them burning through the defenders' feet; sent by Imani to check out a pair of distant explosions near station 12 once the ground shakes
Chapter 32
  • LOCATION Location: Reaches station 12 with her own team and confirms its soul crystal already blew: every monster in the room dead, the crystal reduced to a dead, marble-sized husk floating over a burnt-out generator, and a new hole in the floor with nothing coming up through it
Chapter 33
  • LOCATION Location: Flies close air support over trainyard E during the Death Challenge, pelting Grull with icicles and drawing his heat-ray breath attack before landing on a derailed train near the main gate
Chapter 34
  • LOCATION Location: First of the group down the station 36 stairwell, declaring she'll be happy never to see another train again
Book 4
Chapter 2
  • TAG Legendary Deity's Box: The only other party member besides Carl to receive one, for being physically swiped at by Grull without being hit; opens it to find the Graupel spellbook
  • SPELL Graupel: A costly, powerful ice-storm spell from a new spellbook; her strongest spell yet, though she tells Carl over chat she's wary to actually try it (50 mana, long cooldown, per her own account to Carl)
Chapter 4
  • LEVEL Level: 33 (Per the newly-populated floor 5 leaderboard, up from 17 at book 3, chapter 3)
  • TAG Leaderboard: Eighth place on floor 5's newly-populated leaderboard, back on the list after falling off it before floor 4 ended
  • TAG Bounty: 100,000 gold; no x2 modifier, since she wasn't in the top 10 when floor 4's collapse timer actually hit zero
Chapter 10
  • SPELL Ice Spell: Works out how to use it to shield the team from the oil rig castle's own fireballs, per Imani; still can't get the team close enough to the castle itself
Chapter 17
  • TAG Bounty: Still 100,000 gold; no x2 modifier
  • TAG Leaderboard: Still eighth place on floor 5's updated leaderboard
  • LEVEL Level: 35, up from 33 at chapter 4
Chapter 32
  • TAG Objective: Helps interview crawlers requesting extraction alongside Katia and Imani, using an apparent knack for telling when someone's lying to weed out a few misreporting their quadrant's population
Chapter 34
  • LEVEL Level: 47, up from 35 at chapter 17 (Per this chapter's own top-ten leaderboard list)
  • TAG Leaderboard: Up to seventh place, from eighth, per this chapter's own top-ten list
  • TAG Bounty: Still 100,000 gold; no x2 modifier
Book 5
Chapter 8
  • IDENTITY Class: Tundra Princess, changed from Blizzardmancer in the broadcast recap
Chapter 36
  • LEVEL Level: Reached level 51 after becoming a Tundra Princess
Chapter 67
  • LOCATION Location: Ballroom A at the Butcher's Masquerade, attempting to calm conflicts among the crawlers

Notable quotes

“Anybody else want to try something? You come for Donut or Carl, you come for all of us. I will freeze the blood in your veins and make your genitals shatter like glass!”

Book 3, Chapter 9 (Elle McGibbons, daring the crowd to try anything after killing the second attacker, comma-before-attribution trimmed to a period at the splice.)

“Yo. Whose dick do I gotta suck to get another drink? Christ.”

Book 3, Chapter 8 (Elle McGibbons, hailing the badger-headed bartender at the station-131 Desperado Club, not yet noticing Carl and Donut behind her.)

“Poor Yolanda. She was such a good kid. And Randall. Dumb as a pigeon, that one. But he deserved better than that. At least it was quick.”

Book 1, Chapter 38 (Elle McGibbons, safe inside the Big Shot Chicken safe room, summing up the deaths of Yolanda and Randall right after calling Jack an ass.)

“I loved my Barry, but he wasn’t the prettiest man to look at. If you were in the tunnel of love with me, I’d have let you do more than touch them on the outside of my clothes.”

Book 1, Chapter 37 (Elle McGibbons, reminiscing about her late husband and flirting with Carl as the parade float rolls past.)

“Thank you, honey. Can you put Divorce Court on the television? My Barry used to watch that show. It reminds me of him.”

Book 1, Chapter 31 (Elle McGibbons, thanking Carl for wheeling her into floor 2's safe room, comma-before-attribution trimmed to a period at the splice.)