THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Psamathe

also known as Samantha

First seen: Book 4, Chapter 21

Still a reanimated, severed Lika sex doll head in the party's training room, Psamathe claims Tsarina Signet is a distant relative by marriage who can restore her body. Carl agrees to bring her on the planned Naiad castle assault if she stops screaming.

LoreWithering SpiritBackstoryDivine Domain

Location

Leaves Ballroom A by flying down through the castle floor as the transfer beginsB5C75

Above the castle security room after using Ferdinand's tunnelsB5C72

In the saferoom with Carl's group before the Creeper attackB5C50

Rolling with Carl's group toward Fort FreedomB5C24

Carl and Donut's training room, awaiting the planned Naiad castle assaultB5C17

Carried outside the saferoom by Carl against Mordecai's warning, then launched at Slit using a sponsor-made xistera attachment; returns to Carl's feet once the fight endsB4C34

Hired as an NPC trainer and left in the corner of the party's own training room in Pandinus, to keep her from summoning a hostile god by leaving the saferoomB4C24

History by chapter
Book 4
Chapter 21
  • TAG Lore: A banished lesser deity; tricked Ghazi into summoning her instead of Yarilo, and is theorized by the college council to be seeking out Quetzalcoatlus to occupy
Chapter 24
  • TAG Withering Spirit: Half of her essence, split off during a failed first escape from the Nothing, possesses the decapitated Lika sex doll head; not fully alive or dead, and nearly impossible to kill outright
  • LOCATION Location: Hired as an NPC trainer and left in the corner of the party's own training room in Pandinus, to keep her from summoning a hostile god by leaving the saferoom
Chapter 34
  • TAG Backstory: Per her own account, banished for having a baby with her king; her jealous mother, also involved with him, swore to kill her if she ever escaped the Nothing
  • LOCATION Location: Carried outside the saferoom by Carl against Mordecai's warning, then launched at Slit using a sponsor-made xistera attachment; returns to Carl's feet once the fight ends
Book 5
Chapter 17
  • LOCATION Location: Carl and Donut's training room, awaiting the planned Naiad castle assault
Chapter 24
  • LOCATION Location: Rolling with Carl's group toward Fort Freedom
Chapter 26
  • TAG Divine Domain: Calls herself the goddess of unrequited love
Chapter 50
  • LOCATION Location: In the saferoom with Carl's group before the Creeper attack
Chapter 72
  • LOCATION Location: Above the castle security room after using Ferdinand's tunnels
Chapter 75
  • LOCATION Location: Leaves Ballroom A by flying down through the castle floor as the transfer begins

Notable quotes

“DON’T SLUT SHAME ME. I’M GOING TO KILL YOUR MOTHER.”

Book 5, Chapter 34 (Samantha, objecting to Donut's teasing over group chat while stranded with the hunters.)

“Hi Carl. I told you I’d kill it.”

Book 5, Chapter 27 (Samantha, after Claude's death and a thoroughly inconvenient trip through the boss.)

“Take me to her. To Tsarina Signet. She’s the granddaughter of Princess Yungsten of the Naiad, which makes her my third cousin thrice removed, and she has the ability to give me back my body. So take me to her, or I will kill your mother.”

Book 5, Chapter 17 (Samantha, making her case for inclusion in the Naiad castle assault.)

“He told me you smell like the asshole of a Felch demon! He says he’d rather fornicate with a razor elemental than stick it in you ever again!”

Book 4, Chapter 34 (Samantha, shrieking insults at Slit mid-fight, claiming Slit's own man said it about Slit herself.)

“I’m going to kill your mother.”

Book 4, Chapter 24 (Psamathe, repeatedly, whenever Carl's questioning frustrates her; becomes a running non-sequitur through the whole conversation.)