Katia Grim

Level 54 while organizing an attack on two Odious Creepers^B5C50

52, after gaining experience for flooding Larracos^B5C3

44, up three levels alongside Carl^B4C28

41, three higher than the last time Carl saw her, over the five days he and Donut are detained^B4C19

37^B3C31

37^B3C23

24^B3C12

22^B3C6

21^B2C26

9^B2C21

Monster Truck Driver: Mordecai guesses it's a common combined class called Juggernaut, an earth version of Staunch Barrier mixed with Jouster^B2C21

A Doppelganger, though her interface still reads as Human, the race she's trying and failing to sculpt herself into^B2C21

Styled into a slick black bodysuit, poorly-shaped knee-high boots, and a purple mohawk at Donut's urging; looks ridiculous by Carl's account, with an expression reading as some mix of exasperation, despair, and desperation^B3C6

Reads as mostly-human and blond-haired again; the nose that got knocked sideways fleeing floor 3's collapse is willed back into place, seemingly without effort^B3C1

Her nose gets knocked completely sideways, ending up just below her ear, when her own Rush skill fires automatically and sends her crashing through a wall into Carl; she doesn't seem to notice^B2C25

Her Doppelganger disguise has improved further with practice; passes as human now, though Carl still describes her as looking like a burn victim who fell face-first out of an ugly tree^B2C23

A blond-haired woman of indeterminate age in a poorly-sewn tracksuit and blocky snow boots, her disguise still crude: eyes too big and too high on her face, a crooked and sideways nose, a lumpy chin, and individual hairs much too thick. Her voice sounds oddly overdubbed when she talks. Improves visibly over the chapter as she practices with a mirror shard Carl gives her, though the results are still rough; she compares her own face to a Juan Gris painting^B2C21

Doppelganger Body:

Built from clay-like mass rather than flesh: her old body plus her gear's mass, reshaped by mentally chiseling her own appearance, a skill she's still bad at and which hurts every time. Only reverts to her true, unseen form when asleep, and can't be reshaped in the bathroom either. Gains none of the abilities of a shape she copies, only the look, unlike a changeling^B2C21

True Form:

Reverts to her real, undisguised self once the Hekla impression drops: the same features Carl had previously only seen in production trailer footage, but with her purple mohawk kept in place of her natural black hair and her knee-high boots kept too, and noticeably taller now, credited to the extra mass from Ji-Hoon's looted armor^B3C10

Reveals her genuine, undisguised face to Carl and Donut in the green room for the first time: a stunning short-haired woman, black-haired, probably in her mid-thirties, pale, with light, wide-set eyes that sit at an odd angle on her face. Donut assumes it's just improved Doppelganger sculpting; Katia corrects her, calling it her real face^B2C26

Combat Shape:

Shifts into a shorter, more squat form with lengthened, forearm-bulged arms for the Yellow Line ambush, a shape Carl compares to a deranged Popeye; the faster she changes, the more it hurts, and she'd been practicing this specific shape in the new Training Room^B3C4

Arm:

Part of her arm spins away, revealed as metal rather than flesh, after she blocks a blade swipe meant for Carl during the Gore-Gore fight; the first direct on-page evidence her Doppelganger body isn't purely organic^B3C11

Hand:

Permanently missing the four fingers Gore-Gore sliced off last chapter; healing regrew a normal-looking hand, but the original fingers themselves never came back, replaced by flesh reshaped from elsewhere on her own body^B3C12

Mass Form:

A bulldozer-style plow scoop with a comb of thick metal spikes at chest height, anchored through the engine cab's broken windows like a toggle bolt; a pair of eyes and a mouth sit in a small divot near the top, still facing outward since she doesn't trust her ability to grow new eyes facing inward^B3C22

Pushed to about as large as she dares go and still barely fit through most doorways for the babababoon fight^B3C16

About half-full of transformation mass, styled as a pink-skinned, spike-backed build resembling a She-Hulk, with a leather outfit, black boots, and her purple mohawk back again^B3C15

Can equip Carl's new Ugly Ass Backpack loaded with dense scrap metal and reshape her body around the extra weight into whatever armored form she wants, gaining a strength bonus and a dexterity penalty while it's worn. Her first attempt tops out around eleven feet tall carrying roughly a ton and a quarter, though she guesses she could reach twenty feet at a normal body density. Unequipping more than half the mass at once collapses her into a shapeless blob for a couple of seconds before she reverts to her regular human shape^B3C13

Third Eye:

A trained third eye, kept closed most of the time: opening it more than a minute or two brings on a bad headache, and having more than two eyes open at once makes her physically sick. Near-sighted and works only when its own field of view doesn't overlap her other two eyes, which lets her watch behind herself while walking^B3C18

She-Hulk Form:

Roughly eight feet tall and wide, riot shield strapped to her left arm kept deliberately in its original, unshaped form rather than reworked to look more imposing^B3C31

Accessory:

Wears a feather boa from a visit to the Penis Parade with Donut^B4C8

Queen Imogen's castle, coordinating the Masquerade plan with Carl^B5C65

Inside a guildhall, shaping a hasty Donut facsimile^B5C34

Leaves the Medium Dryad Settlement by caravan with Chris, Clay-ton, and Very Sullen^B5C4

Down the stairs to floor 6, per her own final chat message to Carl^B4C34

Ends the chapter at the Desperado Club's ground level, separating from Carl and Donut for the first time as Phase four begins^B4C33

Escapes with Carl and Tran through the completed Gate of the Feral Gods to a spot outside Pandinus^B4C27

Camouflaged across the Akula's own hull on watch while Carl, Tran, and Vadim explore inside; spots something larger than the sub itself closing in as the chapter ends^B4C25

Regroups with the rest of the party in Pandinus^B4C23

Escapes the sandcastle safely before it floods and collapses, unhurt; stays in contact with Carl and Donut by chat while they're trapped and swept away^B4C22

Greets Carl and Donut on the beach in her seven-foot warrior form, then leads them into the sandcastle's electrified doorway the moment lightning opens it^B4C20

Down in the Land Quadrant, flying the grounded house over after cutting its own roof open; Louis and Firas are already flying back up to rejoin Carl, and Langley's team is still up there with him watching Chris and Maggie^B4C19

Crosses floor 5's opening sandstorm with the party, then Hump Town^B4C1

Helps carry and position the portal cart onto the employee track in trainyard E, then walks the line back up to station 36 with the rest of the party^B3C34

Rides the Mindaro-line rescue cart with Carl, Donut, and Mongo to find Bautista's stranded group, spots the five fleeing crawlers near station 432 in time to warn Carl, then crosses through the abyss portal to yard H wearing one of the party's souvenir hats^B3C28

The Vermillion engine cab, waking up confused after nearly dying, then triggering Rush at Eva and accidentally killing Hekla instead^B3C23

Bolted to the front of the Vermillion train from station 72 through station 101, formed as a cowcatcher scoop^B3C22

The Royal Court's personal space to greet Hekla's arrival, then the Nightmare Express's cab with Carl and Donut, riding toward station 60^B3C21

Glimpsed only through a remote screenshot Carl takes of the party's own personal space: pointing at something for Hekla inside the training room, surrounded by roughly thirty women of various races who weren't there minutes earlier^B3C20

Climbs up into station 24's hidden five-stairwell room with Carl, then rides along checking stations 36, 48, 50, 58, 59, and 60^B3C18

In the Nightmare Express's cab through the Station Repair portal and the escape from Station E's trainyard^B3C17

Station 283's transit station platform fighting off a babababoon swarm, then the switching cavern near station 436, then back toward station 283^B3C16

Station 283's platform grinding monsters riding in from station 282, then a saferoom mall food court; reports the Purple line has stopped bringing trains entirely while the Mauve line keeps running^B3C15

Station 283's platform, left alone with Mongo's carrier once Carl and Donut head into the tunnel to try boarding the Nightmare Express^B3C14

Station 149's wrecked platform, crying alone at the top of the stairs, then a saferoom pho shop nearby with the others^B3C12

The wrecked ochre line platform, then the small transit station outside it where the fight against Gore-Gore breaks out^B3C11

The party's personal space, disguised as Hekla; later joins Carl, Donut, and Mongo grinding and training across the Iron Tangle lines, ending on the ochre line platform^B3C10

Stays behind at the personal space while Carl and Donut go clubbing, planning to go buy a craft table Mordecai once told her about^B3C8

Yellow Line train cars 2 through 6, largely stationed in the Employee Break Room with conductor Vernon while Carl, Donut, and Mongo check out the Reward Room, before regrouping there for the fire and ending on the empty platform at station 116, Banshee Station^B3C5

The Training Room, then the Yellow Line platform and a Yellow Line train car, station #83, floor 4^B3C4

Transfer station #83 on the Red Line, then Nirula's, the safe room there^B3C2

Aboard the Red Line train on floor 4 with Carl, Donut, and Mongo, riding out from car 20 toward Sirin Station^B3C1

The green room aboard Odette's set for Dungeon Crawler After Hours, then the interview couch^B2C26

Catches up with Carl and Donut on foot as they flee the settlement, running the rest of the way to the floor 4 stairwell with them^B2C25

Out on the settlement's streets when the evacuation quest and its countdown hit; last seen still there, moving NPCs indoors rather than taking cover herself^B2C24

Standing in the crowd outside the swordsmen depot warehouse, summoned over by Carl before the assault^B2C23

The One-Eyed Narwhal, waiting at Mordecai's table for Carl and Donut to arrive^B2C21

Organize the destruction of all but one known river bridge at Carl's request^B5C9

The Recital:

Receives Point Mongo's dinosaur-threat quest over party chat^B5C11

Charisma:

8^B2C21

Constitution:

Base Constitution is now over 100^B5C3

102^B3C1

51^B2C21

Dexterity:

30^B2C21

Intelligence:

8^B2C21

Strength:

49^B3C13

11^B2C21

Hanzo: Draws nearby mobs toward her^B4C32

11Catcher: Raised to level 11 by a skill potion out of her gold Survivor's Box, forced to drink it the moment it's opened^B4C2

Catcher: Not yet described; per Carl, appears to be the opposite of Dodge^B3C3

5Rooted in Place: Makes it much harder to be knocked over or knocked back; its own tooltip warns that's not automatically a good thing given ordinary physics^B3C29

4Crossbow: Still only at level four by her own admission, firing Hekla's old repeating crossbow from her sentinel-gun form at about two bolts a second, well short of the rate it had under Hekla^B3C27

Throws a heavy conjured weight from one arm to catch the Royal Chariot mid-flip after Carl's missile blast, then drops it once the vehicle rights itself^B4C9

Crowd Blast: Still rushes forward and slams the bulk of the damage into whatever she directly hits, but everyone else caught in a wide cone in front of her also takes 10 to 20 percent of that damage; usable once every five minutes instead of once a day^B3C29

Shapeshifts into three linked forms at once for the Vahana heist: the Royal Chariot's own missing back seat, the reanimated Wynne riding on it, and a fake Henrik in the cart behind, redistributing mass between them as needed^B4C11

Original plan is to copy the next Dromedarian who leaves City Hall well enough to walk back in and peek around; abandoned once she spots too many guards inside for a single disguised look to work^B4C6

Impersonates a Dromedarian well enough that the system pegs it at 95% accuracy; later forms a half-shell shape she'd been developing to block a gnome bomb run^B4C3

Her shapeshifting doesn't work at all inside the production trailer's secondary zone; she arrives in her full human self, heavy backpack straining on her shoulders, instead of the smaller-mass "regular" form she normally keeps to look taller^B3C35

Small, precise reshaping, like folding her own tongue into a tiny hand with a middle finger raised, now costs her very little effort; big changes still hurt just as much as ever^B3C28

Spends part of the chapter trying to shapeshift convincingly enough into a gnoll to trigger the interdiction cart's key consoles herself, reaching 98% accuracy at best before giving up; the system does briefly classify her as a gnoll on one attempt, though it still doesn't work for starting the cart^B3C26

Find Crawler: Upgraded from its prior level-3 state^B5C3

3Find Crawler: Puts every nearby crawler's name on her map, sortable and searchable by list; not yet able to track crawlers outside her map range or those using stealth^B3C25

Gear Head: Good at fixing engines, despite never having actually fixed one; she was an art teacher on Earth^B2C21

Pathfinder: Acts strangely on floor 5, showing nothing behind the party but the mountain wall despite otherwise mapping the way to Hump Town^B4C1

3Pathfinder: Helps her find stairwells easily; has to keep her map open to train it, and by her own account needs a training guild to really push it further^B3C1

Pathfinder: Helps her find stairwells easily^B2C21

Queasy Resistance: Builds up naturally after repeated exposure to the cornets' nausea attack; stops the Queasy debuff from landing at all once earned^B3C6

Rush: Launches her body forward anywhere from about five to twenty feet with no consistent pattern to the distance or a perfectly straight line, and knocks the wind out of her completely whether or not she connects with anything; limited to one use per thirty-hour day^B3C23

Rush: Uses her own body as a battering ram; usable only once per 30-hour day^B2C21

Second Fuel Tank: Absorbs damage and reflects some of it back; triggers randomly and only once per fight^B2C21

Grows large enough to carry Carl and Tran together with a strapped-on pressurized rocket and Ruckus's buzzsaw, a combination she calls herself not quite big enough to pull off safely^B4C27

Forms a full diving bell on the fly, something that used to physically hurt her to attempt; still can't manage faces without her own makeup table^B4C25

Steely Skin: The lower her health, the thicker her flesh^B5C3

Walk in Their Shoes: Copies Carl himself convincingly enough, boxers and all, to fool Grull from a third of a mile away, clearing the 90% display-name threshold with room to spare^B3C33

Walk in Their Shoes: Copies another crawler's, monster's, or NPC's appearance and swaps the name shown over her head to match it, but only once her copied look reaches at least 90% accuracy^B3C10

Party:

Joins at Hekla's request, over Carl's worry it'll dilute the party's shared experience; Donut agrees before he can even weigh in^B2C21

Guild:

Helps bring the Royal Court into Imani's guild before disengaging^B5C21

Carl:

Explains she needs to split off starting next floor to protect Hekla's former followers; accepts the Left Fang of the Green Sultan from him to return to its rightful owner and shares one last long goodbye hug as Phase four begins^B4C33

Relays coordinate calculations through the bathroom stall's secret notepad, replacing the quill and paper after clearing it for a run of refugees, but doesn't get it removed again before Louis walks in^B4C32

Asks whether he ever wanted children, then gives her own account of being disqualified from adopting alone in Iceland without explaining why^B4C15

Builds the Royal Chariot with him at the engineering and metalworking tables, largely off her own Earth Hobby potion knowledge; not won over by his suggestion they eventually build her into the vehicle's own chassis as "Katia Prime"^B4C4

Admits she's a terrible swimmer, relieved the entry wheel doesn't land the party in the Sea Quadrant; unsettled when he asks about her flying skills instead once it lands on Air^B3C35

Tells him she wishes she'd gotten to use her Bolt of Ophiotaurus against Grull; talked out of the regret once he explains the gift was likely a message to her brother rather than a weapon meant to actually kill a god^B3C34

Directs him over chat to run back toward his own portal-entry point once help is on the way, then draws Grull off him entirely with the Carl decoy^B3C33

Controls the station-36 portal's power switch on his order, cutting it to let Prepotente speak across the hole and flipping it back on once he's done; guards the back of the spare interdiction cart on the ride to trainyard E, then pins one of the two mantaur guards to the ground under her own weight during the fight^B3C32

Fights beside him at a breached chokepoint, activating Crowd Blast to slam into a packed hallway junction while he throws boom jugs down both forks; Donut puddle jumps all three clear before the blast lands, though acid still burns both of them^B3C31

Walks him through her folded-paper theory that each train line runs along both sides of a mirrored loop, working out along the way why there might only be six Station Mimics despite one of them turning out big enough for five or six stations' worth of mass^B3C30

Forms into her sentinel-gun tripod shape to cover him from range against a mutated stage-three monster; works out mid-fight that its body shrugs off damage like armor and its exposed tentacles are the real weak point^B3C27

Leads the effort to strip a spare auxiliary cart's engine down for parts using her Gear Head knowledge, confident it can be rebuilt onto something else; raises the derailment risk in the cart plan along with the danger of the portal scoop catching stranded crawlers together with wrecked trains and mobs^B3C26

Tracks bloody footprints through their shared personal space at station 75 despite trying not to, cementing without anyone saying it that she's now permanently part of the team; trades embarrassing childhood stories with him and Donut afterward^B3C25

Breaks down once the adrenaline fades, admitting she didn't mean to kill Hekla; jokes with Carl about needing a shower before any kissing happens, and the two of them end up laughing together with Donut over having nowhere in the gore-filled cab to sit and have a proper breakdown^B3C24

Feels her heartbeat for the first time when he rests a hand on her metal plating, fast as a jackrabbit's; he pulls two invisible bolts out of her shoulder by hand once Donut spots them, and orders her to disengage and drop her mass to save her life^B3C22

Argues with him privately over chat about the cowcatcher plan, telling him he's being a backseat dungeon driver and that this is what she's for; agrees to stay in his party for the mission rather than transfer to Hekla's, then hugs him and thanks him for something she never names^B3C21

Asks to speak with him alone in station 24's stairwell room, tells him about her third eye and how she used it to catch Donut hiding a coupon with his name on it, and hands the coupon over^B3C18

Spears ghouls off the train's exterior through the broken windows alongside him during the escape from Station E^B3C17

Fights beside him against the babababoon swarm; tells him afterward, shaken but pleased, that she thinks she can shape traveling spikes out of her own metal mass^B3C16

Greets him back at the platform after clearing debris from the tracks with Mongo; teases Donut's new prize box rather than spoil it, and confirms to Carl she still hasn't gotten anything from her own sponsor^B3C15

Warns him beforehand that Hekla told her to be careful around him, since he'd likely get her killed; stays back on the platform as ordered and watches, horrified, when the runaway train drags him off^B3C14

Comforted by him after the loss of her fingers sinks in, told she's still herself no matter what gets cut away; doesn't sound convinced but gets back on her feet^B3C12

Fooled briefly by her Hekla disguise; reacts with visible horror on learning she spent both table-upgrade coupons on her own Makeup Table instead of saving them^B3C10

Reminds him again she has no Desperado Club pass; he suggests she try for Club Vanquisher access instead rather than explain how he and Donut got theirs^B3C8

Trades travel stories with him over Arby's at station 131, admitting she's never even heard of the chain; asked directly about her own history for the first time, and stays silent rather than back Donut's push for Carl to pick the enchanted chaps off the Prize Carousel^B3C7

Defends her to Donut and Zev as an overwhelmed art history professor rather than a circus poodle, then tells her to just be herself once the makeover push starts; she says she isn't sure what that even means^B3C6

Catches a bonker's club swing with her arm behind the blow instead of in front of it, redirecting the creature into a stumble for him to finish; tells him afterward it stung more than it hurt^B3C4

Shows off her shield-arm at his prompting, then answers his question about how far her Doppelganger shapeshifting can go once metal armor is involved^B3C2

Sent in first through each gangway door for her higher Constitution; agrees despite visibly trembling, and is knocked flat by an overexcited Mongo the first time^B3C1

Runs with him and Donut to the stairwell down to floor 4; her Rush skill triggers on its own during the fourth precursor burst, sending her through a wall and into Carl, breaking his arm on impact. At his instruction, pulls out the backup detonator and presses it as they open the floor 4 door^B2C25

Reluctantly agrees to hold the detonator for the warehouse assault after he insists, told to stay about a block back before pressing it^B2C23

Gives her a broken mirror shard, looted from the gym on floor 1, so she can see her own face to practice sculpting it^B2C21

Hekla:

Kills her by accident, a Rush attack aimed at Eva veers off course by inches and slams into Hekla instead, killing her outright^B3C23

Shot twice with invisible Dirty Little Phased Bolts hidden among Hekla's ordinary arrows, nearly killed without any visible wound or debuff; forced to disengage and drop her entire mass form to survive^B3C22

Comes in person with about thirty of the Daughters to collect her, calling her a lost lamb; proposes turning her into a living cowcatcher for the station 101 rescue, an idea Katia reveals she actually came up with herself^B3C21

Told about the coupon before Carl was; relays back Hekla's guess that it was a staged loyalty test, which Katia doesn't believe, and Hekla's read on Carl as reckless but likable through Donut^B3C18

Relays word through Katia that she's been sponsored by an interstellar ranch, and passes along fresh route intelligence for Mordecai's map^B3C12

Passes along Donut's question about her signature kick-into-crossbow move and reports back that Hekla has officially named it the "Donut Kick"^B3C5

Talks to her directly over chat while the others sort loot, apparently promising her something; Mordecai reassures Katia the party's new coupon purchases will travel with her even if she leaves to keep that promise^B3C2

Warned her that Carl was crazy before sending her off, a warning Katia repeats back to him once she sees the detonator plan^B2C23

Sent by Hekla as a personal favor, to be leveled up and kept out of danger while Hekla's own party fights a boss nearby^B2C21

Mongo:

Grinds monsters alongside him while Carl is away; her larger transformed form makes hauling debris off the tracks easy, though some still remains as the chapter ends^B3C15

Knocked to the floor when he leaps past her into a just-opened car, dropping her axe in the process^B3C1

Sniffs her over warily, decides she's not a threat, and curls up on the floor^B2C21

Mordecai:

Works through the train map with him, snatches the pen to redraw the Syndicate logo from different angles once he explains it, and keeps pushing past his own explanation into her own folded-loop theory about the map's true shape^B3C30

Ends up soaking him along with everyone else when a new inventory patch forces out every drop of blood she'd been storing since her time bolted to the train's front, spraying in every direction for about twenty seconds without a single drop landing on her^B3C29

Gets a "You look different" from him on first sight back at the personal space, still mid-makeover under Donut's direction^B3C7

Relays Vernon's growing rundown of stations, monsters, and connecting lines to him in real time for his rail map; he grumbles about being reduced to their secretary but keeps taking it all down^B3C5

Examines her new shield-arm and identifies its Shatter enchantment; reaffirms the plan to keep training her strength up^B3C2

Already getting tips from him on shaping her Doppelganger face before Carl and Donut arrive; he calls her a trainwreck but genuine, and floats poaching her from Hekla if she can be trained up^B2C21

Donut:

Teased by Donut's own dislike of Tserendolgor, the dog-soldier crawler manning a nearby flamethrower; jokes with Donut about her history with cocker spaniels once Carl breaks up the argument^B3C31

Promised by Donut that the party will never abandon her or lie to her, and urged to stay rather than leave with Hekla and Eva^B3C23

Backed up by Donut in objecting to the cowcatcher plan; tears up once she explains why it matters so much to her that Hekla's team came back for her^B3C21

Confirmed, per Donut's own account to Carl, to have had a second PVP Coupon printed with Katia's name, never recovered like Carl's was; Donut says she threw it out in the trash at station 41's Hotdog on a Stick without Katia ever knowing it existed^B3C20

Immediately spots the flaws in her Hekla disguise, no eyeshadow and the wrong size, but calls it a really good job anyway^B3C10

Pressured by her into a mohawk, bodysuit, and new boots after Donut lies about Zev never calling her boring; goes along with it while visibly unhappy^B3C6

Tells her she could pass for the liquid-metal Terminator with practice; Katia says she's never seen the movie and doesn't like violence, drawing a "you're in the wrong job then, honey"^B3C2

Asks her, half-joking, whether Donut's all-caps typing is because she's four-legged; slams doors shut behind the party twice during the retreat through the train^B3C1

Complimented on her sculpting and told Donut prefers her with black hair; corrected once Katia explains it's actually her real face^B2C26

Donut wants to go back for her once the evacuation quest hits; Katia refuses over chat, telling her she understands and to just run^B2C24

Odette:

Teases her on air about impersonating Carl so convincingly it seemed practiced, and asks if there's anything she needs to confess; Katia recovers on her own this time, joking she might try impersonating Odette next, a noticeably steadier performance than her prior lackluster showing^B3C35

Introduced on air as the newest member of the Royal Court of Princess Donut; answers Odette's first round of questions with one-word, deer-in-the-headlights responses^B2C26

Wendita:

Goes out to get food and comes back with a full free spread Wendita already had waiting, including raw meat for Mongo; remarks she's never seen a Bopca in such a good mood^B3C3

Vernon:

Left alone with him for much of the chapter, drawing out everything he knows about upcoming stations and connecting lines; thrown off her feet by the moonshine explosion in the same fire trap that kills him, but makes it out with the others^B3C5

Eva:

Reports Eva has been racking up more player-kill marks, and that Silfa and her two daughters died after rejoining Eva's party despite Katia's own warning; cites it as the reason she needs to gather and protect the rest of the former Daughters before Eva reaches them^B4C33

Confirms she's still alive and still on her own chat list, though not confirmed to be sharing Bubble #543^B4C2

Still asks after her twice even after everything Eva said and did, and is relieved to learn through her own chat that Eva survived being thrown from the train^B3C24

Endures a vicious tirade revealing Eva abandoned her on floor 3 and threw old confidences about Fannar and a denied adoption back in her face; becomes the actual target of Katia's Rush attack, which misses her by inches and kills Hekla instead^B3C23

A friend from before the dungeon, still in touch by chat; passes along Eva's report of an identical robot-and-cart room found in another warren entirely^B3C6

Gore-Gore:

Blocks a blade swipe he aims at Carl with her own arm, losing a chunk of it in the process; calls him the weirdest thing she's ever seen the moment he first climbs out of his wrecked car^B3C11

Dismember:

Braces the barricade against him alongside Carl, reshaping her shoulder and legs into a thicker brace to hold the line^B3C12

Zev:

Tells her over chat about the party's new teleportation ban and that she's filling in as PR agent again while Carl and Donut are missing^B4C19

Learns through Zev that Odette formally amended her contract with a Katia option requiring her at post-floor interviews, with a rider demanding she come across as more "zippy"^B3C25

Told she stays behind in the dungeon while Carl and Donut are booked on Planet Beautiful without her^B3C13

Princess Formidable:

Sends her a silver emergency benefactor box shortly before Chris Andrews 2 turns hostile, likely costing her a real chunk of her own net worth per Mordecai^B4C14

Still hasn't sent Katia anything; per Katia, none of Hekla's other Brynhild's Daughters have gotten a sponsor prize from theirs yet either^B3C15

Fire Brandy:

Retreats to the back of the cab to escape the heat during the ride back; tells her she has no kids of her own, having been about to adopt before aliens destroyed her planet^B3C16

Widget:

Jumps back from his oversized wrench when he leans through the broken window to point out the train's controls^B3C17

Eva Sigrid:

Confirms to Carl and Donut that Eva is an economics professor from her own university back on Earth, a lunch friend rather than a close one, and that Eva has known Hekla even longer, as her psychiatric patient in Reykjavik^B3C21

Silfa:

Called a murderer and a traitor to her face once Silfa is caught hiding; the accusation goes unanswered^B3C24

Left mostly unhealed through two separate crises: Silfa insists on a 25%-health threshold during the first, then abandons the fight entirely during the second^B3C22

Daniel Bautista 2:

Shakes his hand once the rescue cart reaches his group; her idea starts the crowd's hat-tribute line in front of Donut afterward, per Bautista's own credit to Carl over chat^B3C28

Joins Carl in pointing out flaws in the first draft of the cart rescue plan alongside him over chat^B3C26

Growler Gary:

Tells him not to call himself useless when he does it out loud; stays behind in the party's personal space rather than take part in killing him, saying she understood why it had to happen but didn't want to be there for it^B3C26

Prepotente:

Never named directly; he asks Carl after "the murderer" with him, a sign the nickname has spread among other top-ten crawlers rather than just people she's fought personally^B3C32

Grull:

Baits him into chasing a perfect Carl decoy across the trainyard, dropping from a derailed train to flip him off before vanishing^B3C33

Brynhild's Daughters:

Asks over chat whether any of her old sister-crawlers share this bubble; gets no answer^B4C2

Earth Hobby Potion:

Gives her working knowledge of engines and mechanical parts, put to direct use disassembling and later rebuilding cart machinery^B4C3

Louis Santiago 2:

Borrows his own trick from his mother's minivan, cutting the house's roof open, to get its stairwell working and fly it to the Land Quadrant^B4C19

Asks his age point-blank; gets a jab back calling her "Punky Brewster" instead of an answer to his own return question^B4C5

The Squim Conglomerate:

Named as her second sponsor; doesn't recognize the name until Carl explains what they are^B4C7

The Tomb Raiders:

Gives them a general map of the tomb's upper levels and a detailed path to a lower town; calls them tense trainwrecks who keep losing Bobby D.J.'s trap-detection lead man to bad luck^B4C8

Gwendolyn Duet:

Holds Gwen off from raiding the sandcastle the easy way for nearly a full day at Zev's own insistence, straining their friendship; explains to Carl that she's stopped tolerating Gwen's bullying the way she used to put up with Hekla's^B4C20

Spends the five-day gap arguing with her while helping fight off the Land Quadrant's scorpion men^B4C19

Ghazi:

Carries him out of the castle per Carl's instructions, hoping his removal would decrystallize it; when that fails, kills him in a brief, unseen fight and loots a note off his corpse that explains the winding box before his body turns to sand^B4C22

Lusca:

Watches her close in through the bridge's porthole and confirms she isn't the same creature that first dragged the sub down; swallowed alongside the sub as the chapter ends^B4C26

Tran:

Confirms he's already down the stairs with Gwen's team before she finishes her own part of the operation^B4C34

Skull Empire:

Marked on Hunter Arwick's map as claimed by the Skull Empire^B5C15

Followers:

Almost 10 Billion^B3C6

Helmet:

Combined with the greaves and shoulder pads for +8 Strength and +4 Dexterity, plus extra body mass^B3C10

Apothecary's Beanie:

Crown of the Sepsis Whore:

Transfers from Eva's armor and melds into her head^B5C78

Shoulder Pads:

Combined with the greaves and helmet for +8 Strength and +4 Dexterity, plus extra body mass^B3C10

Ugly Ass Backpack With a Completely Useless Design that Only an Idiot Would Wear:

Widened to hold more metal, with rubber layered between the metal and her own flesh to absorb impacts; lets her build herself even bigger than before^B3C21

Loaded with metal poles and small metal balls as her first test run^B3C13

Adjustable Mass Storage Backpack:

Adjustable and unbreakable, with retractable stilts; gives a stability enhancement and lets her add mass much more quickly^B4C28

Enchanted Wrestling Belt of the Great Gorgo:

+5% Strength, +5% Constitution, and the Avalanche benefit, which lets a full-speed body check hit as though she weighed twice as much^B3C25

Greaves:

Combined with the shoulder pads and helmet for +8 Strength and +4 Dexterity, plus extra body mass^B3C10

Glowing Axe:

A small, glowing axe; not a strong weapon in her hands, since her Strength is too low to get much out of it^B3C1

Arm Bracer:

Holds up under a direct hit; the spiked club mostly scrapes against its metal surface rather than her skin, leaving her only mildly stung^B3C4

Reshapes into a buckler-sized shield on command, visually matching whatever surrounds it rather than looking like metal; rings like metal when struck despite the camouflage. She thinks she can get it to hold other shapes with practice^B3C2

Enchanted Repeating Crossbow of the Scavenger Mother of Mothers:

A unique, female-only repeating crossbow that never runs dry of its own ammunition, weaker in Katia's hands than it had been in Hekla's per Carl's own assessment^B3C24

Enchanted Auto Buckler of the Peach Pit:

Enchanted Shade Gnoll Riot Forces Crowd Control Shield:

+5% Constitution, +5 to Rooted in Place, and upgrades her Rush ability into Crowd Blast; requires the Rush ability to equip^B3C29

Crossbow Bolt:

Replaces her crossbow's free, unlimited basic ammo with an armor-piercing round that scales damage off her own level^B4C13

Bolts of Petrify Rock Class:

×10 Fired repeatedly to keep the parasite-controlled Chris Andrews 2 petrified^B4C14

Ring of Constitution:

×15 Adds 15 Constitution^B2C21

Desperado Pass:

A dagger tattoo on her neck, granting access to the Desperado Club and permanently ruling out Club Vanquisher instead^B3C25