Hekla

33^B3C21

28^B3C3

28^B2C26

25^B2C19

A Shieldmaiden, an earth class, per the recap show^B2C7

A Amazonian, chosen on the recap show's floor 3 race and class reveal^B2C7

About nine inches taller than Carl, bulging with muscle, an automatic crossbow slung over one shoulder. Her handshake nearly swallows his own, her grip like iron^B3C21

Shown on the recap show's race reveal a good foot taller and much wider than before, built like a professional bodybuilder, with a build that reads as strength-focused with a good amount of dexterity mixed in^B2C7

A crossbow-firing Icelandic woman, dressed by the AI in a glittering breastplate more suited to a harem fantasy novel cover than dungeon armor, playing up a Nordic shieldmaiden persona^B1C39

The Vermillion engine cab, alone with Carl, Donut, Katia, and Eva after sending the rest of Brynhild's Daughters outside; killed here before the chapter ends^B3C23

The Vermillion engine cab beside Eva, then station 101's platform once the train stops^B3C22

Leads about thirty of Brynhild's Daughters, including Katia and Eva, into the Royal Court's personal space, whitelisted in by Katia; then rides the Nightmare Express's back platform with them toward station 60^B3C21

Recording her own Planet Beautiful narration segment on Nordic mythology, cooperative with the assigned script unlike Carl, per producer Bin^B3C20

Glimpsed only through a remote screenshot Carl takes of the party's own personal space: physically present in the training room's doorway, watching Katia point at something inside, surrounded by roughly thirty unfamiliar women^B3C20

Shown skewering rat-like monsters with her crossbow in recap footage; exact whereabouts still unstated^B3C3

Guesting live on Danger Zone with Ripper Wonton; her team has mostly regrouped since scattering on floor 3, exact whereabouts otherwise unstated^B2C19

Unknown; seen only in broadcast footage, not on Carl and Donut's map^B1C39

Party:

Scattered upon entering floor 3, but mostly regrouped since; the team has taken out an owlbear borough boss^B2C19

Leader of the group, an ever-growing crowd of female warriors^B1C39

Carl:

Offers him and his party a clean break once the ambush is exposed, no hard feelings either way, and never actually answers his direct question about why she targeted Katia before Katia's own Rush attack kills her by accident^B3C23

Fights alongside him in the cab with a shield spell, twin curved blades, and an Enraged buff; Carl tries to talk Donut down from a fight rather than confronting Hekla directly himself^B3C22

Asks the Royal Court to help rescue roughly a thousand crawlers boxed in at station 101, an ask Carl can't easily refuse in front of the whole watching universe. Laughs when he needles her about not getting him killed; Carl catches a flash of genuine enjoyment in her otherwise stoic face and reads her as someone who likes the chaos as much as the rest of them^B3C21

Speaks with him directly for the first time; asks him and Donut, as a personal favor, to help a scattered member of her team level up^B2C19

Donut:

Tries to offer her a truce and a cigarette; gets called a traitor to her face and refused outright^B3C23

Caught in the act by Donut's sunglasses; called out by name and hit in the face with a full-strength Magic Missile once Donut confirms what she did^B3C22

Tells her now isn't the time for talk of combining safe rooms; Donut, starstruck as ever, trembles with excitement at the thought of fighting alongside her^B3C21

Speaks with her directly for the first time; Donut agrees to her favor before Carl can respond^B2C19

Her Husband:

Asked live whether she regrets leaving him to fend for himself when they both entered the dungeon; confirms she does. He's dead now; the exact circumstances and his name are never given^B2C19

Odette:

Described to Carl as not evil or psychotic, but coldly practical and cunning, lacking his own sense of justice; per Odette, she's grown fixated on recruiting Donut into her party permanently, chasing the access to Mordecai as a manager that comes as part of Donut's own package deal^B2C26

Eva:

Heals her fully after Donut's point-blank Magic Missile, then grabs her wrist to hold her back from attacking Donut in retaliation, discovering a fresh injury there and asking if she caused it herself, which Eva confirms; dies moments later when Katia's Rush attack, meant for Eva, hits her instead^B3C23

The only person Eva tells about her own PVP coupon book, keeping the information from Katia^B3C18

Katia Grim:

Her looted corpse yields the Vermillion train key and her own signature weapon, the Enchanted Repeating Crossbow of the Scavenger Mother of Mothers, both taken by Katia in the instant her reanimated minion state ends^B3C24

Killed by Katia's own Rush attack, aimed at Eva and thrown off by inches; Katia inherits her standing 500,000 gold bounty and jumps from level 24 to 37 off the kill^B3C23

Fires two invisible Dirty Little Phased Bolts into her scoop during the run, mixed in with ordinary arrows, draining her health without leaving a visible wound. Doesn't react to Katia's condition until the fighting stops entirely^B3C22

Comes personally to collect her, thanking Carl for leveling her and teaching her to fight; proposes strapping her to the front of a train as a living cowcatcher, an idea Katia reveals was actually her own. Visibly irritated when Carl insists Katia stay in his own party instead of transferring to hers for the mission^B3C21

Relayed through Katia, suspects Carl staged the recovered PVP Coupon as a loyalty test, a theory Katia doesn't buy; separately calls Carl a bit reckless but says she genuinely likes Donut^B3C18