THE CRAWLER'S COMPANIONpatch notes for the apocalypse

Ruby

First seen: Book 4, Chapter 2

Seen in person for the first time, among the children Carl herds into the party's personal space during the bombing scare: stuck without arms and with a visibly sunken head, walking with a limp, suffering an active debuff called Compression Sickness that neither Carl nor Mordecai has ever heard of. Explains, unstated on the page, why Flint expected her life to go the way he described back in chapter 2.

NPCCompression Sickness

Location

Evacuated into the party's personal space during the bombing scareB4C10

History by chapter
Book 4
Chapter 2
  • TAG NPC: One of the few children who survived the bombing of Skarn's home changeling village
Chapter 10
  • LOCATION Location: Evacuated into the party's personal space during the bombing scare
  • TAG Compression Sickness: An active debuff neither Carl nor Mordecai has ever heard of; visibly missing both arms with a sunken-in head
Chapter 15
  • TAG Compression Sickness: Explained at last by Juice Box, a worsening birth-defect condition from her people's incomplete adaptation to this world, now affecting one in four births and leaving the afflicted sterile