Psamathe
Names: PsamatheSamanthaSam
First appears in Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods, chapter 21 (21)
Appearances
What you know
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 21A council letter tells Ghazi the creature he summoned is Psamathe, a banished lesser deity accompanied by an ooze familiar.
- Ch 21The council believes Psamathe posed as Yarilo to trick Ghazi and then took over the necropolis ghost, Queen Quetzalcoatlus.
- Ch 24Psamathe is a minor deity banished to the Nothing by her father; half her essence was trapped in the Lika doll as a withering spirit.
- Ch 24The head, which Carl calls Samantha, repeatedly threatens to kill his mother and wants her body pieces reassembled.
- Ch 28Samantha, the possessed sex-doll head and Donut's new trainer, says Emberus is her great uncle and possibly also her cousin.
- Ch 34Samantha's real name is Psamathe; Donut has renamed her Samantha in the chat now that she is hired staff.
- Ch 34The multi-armed god who tore Slit apart was Samantha's mother, jealous because she too was sleeping with Samantha's father.
- Ch 34Samantha's father sent her into the Nothing for having a baby with her king.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 17Samantha, a reanimated severed sex doll head, screams for Carl to take her to Tsarina Signet after Donut lets slip they've met.
- Ch 17Samantha claims Signet is a distant relative who can give her back her body.
- Ch 22Samantha is a withering spirit with a single hit point but is practically indestructible; she can now roll, open her mouth and bite.
- Ch 23Donut worries Samantha is growing stronger than Mordecai predicted a withering spirit could, but Carl needs her for the naiad castle assault.
- Ch 25Samantha asks Signet to give up her body to her; Signet refuses but vaguely promises a possible spell for a permanent body later.
- Ch 26Samantha tells Donut she is the goddess of unrequited love; Donut thinks she is more a goddess of crazy ex-girlfriends.
- Ch 26Samantha wants a body, to collect her sand ooze child on the ninth floor, then reach the king she wants back.
- Ch 27When Carl recalls Samantha, the boss she is biting teleports with her, appearing on the shore.
- Ch 28Samantha offers to rule the naiads herself and reminds Signet of their deal to get her a body.
- Ch 34Samantha, carried by Vrah, gave the hunters a slightly wrong arrival spot for Carl, but a dryad snitched the truth.
- Ch 39Carl and Donut recover Samantha from under a log south of town; she resents Donut abandoning her to the Rottweiler.
- Ch 60The crawlers use the indestructible Samantha to lure spider bombs to anti-air guns.
- Ch 68Samantha is carrying a potion ball inside her, waiting impatiently to be sent on her task.
- Ch 70Samantha is tasked with travelling the cat tunnels to the castle's security room to disable the inventory and magic block.
- Ch 70Samantha left the sleep potion ball with Clay-ton, but reaches the security room to find its five elf guards already dead.
- Ch 71Samantha replaces the soul crystals, re-blocking hunter magic just before a draconian's spell, then locks herself in against Diwata.
- Ch 71Samantha chomps down on all the soul crystals, blowing them up and knocking Diwata out, damaging the floors between the ballrooms.
- Ch 73Samantha calls Princess Lunette 'cousin' and wants the golem as her body; Nadine says to find a Pulpmancer.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 4Samantha flew back to the saferoom and is gaining powers withering spirits shouldn't have, which worries Mordecai.
- Ch 4Samantha demands the flesh golem in Carl's inventory so a mage can animate it as her body; Mordecai says not to give it yet.
- Ch 6Samantha is sent out alone as recon to report monsters for a monster map, and wants the party to find a mage for her body.
- Ch 10Samantha has been eaten by a demi-goddess spider mage she believes can restore her to a body.
- Ch 13Samantha has a crush on Louis and messages him relentlessly.
- Ch 22Samantha is held captive in a spider's web, and Carl's group is a few days from reaching her.
- Ch 27Samantha claims her new best friend, the spider Shi Maria, will give her a body and join their adventures.
- Ch 28Samantha plans to get a body, find her king, help Shi Maria find her husband, and kill her own mother.
- Ch 28Samantha refuses to leave Shi Maria, who knows about the cards and expects to be flagged.
- Ch 31Samantha briefly glows blue and hot as if to unleash a power, but fizzles out, saying she used it all up.
- Ch 33Samantha tells Clarabelle she plans to kill her mother; Carl covers for her to get her into the club.
- Ch 33Samantha's role in the plan is to cause trouble at the bar to lure Astrid out.
- Ch 34Samantha wandered into the casino, and a demon escaped the Nothing through its entrances hunting her.
- Ch 34Samantha is responsible for the demon Minge rampaging through the Desperado Club.
- Ch 35Samantha says she and Minge used to be friends, and that Gash is the mean one.
- Ch 56Samantha grows stronger as a floor goes on; Carl suspects she gains power whenever someone dies.
- Ch 57Samantha turns out to be able to enhance spells greatly, despite earlier denying it.
- Ch 59Samantha admits she sometimes feels stronger and can enhance spells unpredictably, but cannot teleport; she fears being useless.
- Ch 59Samantha says that before her banishment to the Nothing, she gained power from prayers, and her father later took her power away.
- Ch 63Samantha believes Sister Ines must be getting outside help to control Amayon at all.
- Ch 67Samantha mumbles confusedly about a prince opening a path through the river and tree, and denies boosting Elle's spell.
- Ch 68Ysalte recognizes Samantha as Psamathe and is still furious at her for mocking her child; her god-swung pickaxe bounces off Samantha.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 7Samantha rolls off vowing to kill a woman named Tish, her self-declared arch enemy, until Katia catches her.
- Ch 9Samantha senses her child is in the dwarves' castle in Larracos, still underwater, and wants a body to reunite with her.
- Ch 27Samantha stowed away on Party Planner to save Louis from a dangerous mission, so Carl ordered her dropped out the bomb bay.
- Ch 39Samantha arrives covered in dirt after Louis accidentally dropped her from his aircraft.
- Ch 57Samantha taunts Prepotente about his dead mother; Carl and Katia warn her never to mention it again.
- Ch 61Samantha opens the faith-gated door to Khepri's temple by biting the handle.
- Ch 64Samantha entered Theia's temple and found a male skyfowl instead of her mother, and now calls him an imposter.
- Ch 69Samantha's forehead now reads 'Fuck the Cheese Dicks', and she has been giving 'moral support' to soldiers.
- Ch 92Samantha bonded with a jawless robot sentry dog she named Buster and wants to keep it as a pet.
- Ch 95Samantha believes her daughter died in the acid, blames Tish, and has a nuke taken from the robot dog Buster.
- Ch 95Samantha proposes giving Louis the heart and lungs of Princess Lunette's flesh golem body, sacrificing her own chance at a body.
- Ch 95Samantha says King Blaine and her parents cast her out, and admits she may have had a hand in Geyrun's death.
- Ch 96Emberus's quest names Samantha as Psamathe, a demigod who admitted taking part in Geyrun's murder.
- Ch 98Carl fires Samantha from his xistera into the volcano so Emberus can interrogate her, stalling him while they prepare to leave.
- Ch 99Samantha returns badly burned after Emberus interrogated her; she says she told him everything and he is destroying the floor.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 1Samantha has claimed Carl's unused room in the personal space and is redecorating it with sluggalos' help.
- Ch 1Samantha's thoughts grow fuzzy whenever she remembers her dead child, and she feels a strange relief.
- Ch 8Donut refuses to bring Samantha on any race, saying she would get them killed.
- Ch 12Samantha still has a nuke hidden in her neck that Carl needs to extract.
- Ch 27Samantha dominates the safe room's Mario Kart games, playing with the controller in her mouth.
- Ch 55Samantha grows more powerful as each floor goes on and can now float up to Carl's eye level.
- Ch 55Samantha says Carl smells like Chalchiuhtlicue, whom she calls Chachi, and teases him about Eris and his 'new wife'.
- Ch 71Samantha demands Grigori find her a compatible body and perform the procedure, and drags him off to her place.
- Ch 72The war mages believe Samantha's sand-ooze daughter is the Scavenger's Daughter, which Carl finds hard to believe.
- Ch 73Samantha says she dislikes Grigori and claims to have a secret plan of her own, just like Carl's.
- Ch 84Samantha unexpectedly appears in Carl's truck at the start of the final heat.
- Ch 85Donut adds Samantha as a driver, and she steers Carl's truck with her mouth.
- Ch 86Samantha says Britney must place the gem in a plinth at the Basilica or the Vulgar Temple to be rid of Ysalte.
- Ch 101Samantha whispers to Taranis and leaves with him and Krakaren, as Taranis claims two of his mother's four pieces.
- Ch 105Samantha says she slipped away from Taranis and Krakaren, who are trying to make his mother-wife whole but are missing a piece.
- Ch 105Samantha says she is in Sheol to kill the demon mother and her son, who tricked her into giving birth to a world-destroying monster.
Connections
- related toSand oozethe ooze is her familiar
- related toQuetzalcoatluspossesses the ghost
- enemy ofMad Dune Magetricked him by posing as Yarilo
- related toMrs. Ghazi, the Sand Oozeminion of Psamathe
- related toLika Love Doll Headpossesses the doll head
- family ofSand oozethe ooze is her child
- related toMad Dune Magemanipulated him into opening the Nothing
- family ofEmberusgreat uncle and possibly cousin
- enemy ofSlit
- family ofTsarina SignetSamantha claims to be her third cousin thrice removed, by marriage
- ally ofTsarina Signet
- enemy ofDiwata
- family ofPrincess Lunettecalls her cousin
- related toCarlcompanion who threatens him
- related toShi Mariaswallowed Samantha
- partner ofLouis Santiago 2one-sided crush
- friend ofCarl
- friend ofShi Maria
- friend ofElle McGibbons
- enemy ofMinge
- partner ofCharles
- related toLouis Santiago 2Samantha adores Louis
- enemy ofYsalte
- enemy ofTishSamantha calls her arch enemy
- family ofTheiaTheia is Samantha's mother
- enemy ofGash
- enemy ofYarilo
- related toKing Blainecast her out
- enemy ofEmberus
- friend ofKimaris
- partner ofKing Blaineex-boyfriend
- related toTaranistakes her with him
- related toApitoCarl suspects a connection
Key moments
- Book 4 · Ch 21The council's letter
Ghazi's satchel holds a letter revealing he summoned Psamathe, who now possesses Quetzalcoatlus, and orders him to banish the necropolis into the Nothing.
- Book 4 · Ch 24The talking head
The de-crystallized Lika doll head pops out of Carl's inventory and is revealed to be possessed by the withering spirit of Psamathe.
- Book 4 · Ch 24Keeping Samantha
Over Carl's objections, the group decides to keep Psamathe's head in the training room, and Carl plans to finish the last castle and rescue people.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Samantha explains Orthrus
Mordecai brings out Samantha, who reveals the released creature is Emberus's dog Orthrus from the Nothing, confirming Carl's group caused the crisis.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Slit attacks
Slit, a feral demon, attacks hunting Samantha; Carl uses his sponsor's gift to throw Samantha's head far into the Lacuna, drawing Slit away.
- Book 5 · Ch 17Samantha demands to see Signet
Samantha screams through the saferoom until Carl agrees to take her to Signet during tomorrow's assault on the Naiad castle.
- Book 5 · Ch 22Samantha as a missile
To stop elves shelling Point Mongo with a poison catapult, Carl uses a potion-boosted Ping to locate them, then throws a missile-strapped Samantha, killing one elf.
- Book 5 · Ch 22Akland captured
Samantha drags back the unconscious second elf, Akland; healed and handcuffed, he begs for his life and explains the Dream's hunt for Louis before Carl marks him.
- Book 5 · Ch 23Samantha grows stronger
Samantha rolls off to harass an ursine cleric, and Donut warns Carl that the head is getting stronger and faster.
- Book 5 · Ch 24Looting the Dream's trebuchet
Carl finds the second dead elf hunter and takes the Dream's poison trebuchet, noting its hidden high-tech parts.
- Book 5 · Ch 24Lightning at the all-tree
On the way to join Signet for the Fort Freedom assault, a lightning blast strikes near the all-tree; Donut's map shows two dead hunters among Signet's forces.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Samantha meets Signet
Samantha asks Signet to surrender her body so Samantha can take it; Signet declines and offers a vague promise of help later.
- Book 5 · Ch 25Assault on Fort Freedom begins
Carl launches Samantha into the river as a distraction, an alarm sounds deep in the castle, and Signet's summoned paper monsters and assault team move on Fort Freedom.
- Book 5 · Ch 26Signet storms the castle
Signet's paper battle squad and allies cross the river and enter Fort Freedom while Samantha, stuck in a vent, relays fighting and blood in the water.
- Book 5 · Ch 26The assault turns into a trap
Lightning and explosions erupt from the castle, bodies of naiads, paper monsters and allies float up, and Samantha calls it a trap; Carl prepares to dive in.
- Book 5 · Ch 27Claude teleported ashore
Recalling Samantha brings along the boss Claude Sludgington the Fourth, which had swallowed her and Holger; it appears beside Carl's group on the riverbank.
- Book 5 · Ch 27Claude killed
In a thirty-second fight, Carl's Protective Shell launches Claude skyward, Donut's Fireball opens his belly, and Mongo eats through him to kill the boss.
- Book 5 · Ch 28South shore massacre
Samantha scouts the far shore and finds the ursine defenders killed by a large dinosaur, which Areson identifies as Big Tina, triggering the quest The Recital.
- Book 5 · Ch 29Arrival at Alucarda
Rushing south to a saferoom before Carl's CrawlCon transfer, Carl and Donut reach Alucarda and learn Lucia Mar is its mayor just as Carl is transferred away.
- Book 5 · Ch 34Carl coordinates his return
In his last minutes in the green room Carl sends the team a plan; Donut and Samantha report Lucia in the saferoom and hunters fighting outside.
- Book 5 · Ch 37Recap shows Donut versus Lucia
The recap shows Lucia trapping Donut between her dogs; Donut escapes with illusions and Hole, kills Cici, and Lucia vows all must die.
- Book 5 · Ch 39Massacre at Prepotente Town Number Four
Carl, Donut and Samantha arrive at a shadowed ursine town to find its streets covered in day-old bear corpses and pink feathers, all killed by Big Tina, with a few survivors hiding.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Planning the castle
Carl and his allies study Edgar's castle map and learn Donut's contest entries were accepted, while Prepotente heads their way with a present.
- Book 5 · Ch 60Coordinated hunter raids
With hunters scattered by the brambles and blood bar, Carl, Donut, Katia's team and Imani's crawlers launch coordinated raids on hunter-held towns, starting another with traps, Ping and spider bombs.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Raid on the hunter town
The crawler alliance destroys the hunters' anti-air gun and kills nearly all hunters in a fast coordinated raid; Donut scores five kills.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Diwata's brood revealed
Carl and Mordecai work out that Diwata is still on the floor, birthing endless mantis babies after curing Vrah.
- Book 5 · Ch 69Ferdinand arrives
As Zev deflects Carl's questions, Ferdinand appears on Carl's shoulder, and Carl signals Samantha to go while the cat is distracted.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Samantha enters the tunnels
Samantha sneaks into the cat tunnels but has forgotten the map, so Firas guides her toward the security room while the talent show begins.
- Book 5 · Ch 70Security room guards found dead
Samantha reaches the security room without the sleep potion and finds the elf guards already dead.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Diwata's sabotage countered
Samantha finds Diwata had killed the guards and restored hunter magic; she replaces the crystals, foiling a draconian's attack, and prepares to fight Diwata.
- Book 5 · Ch 71Samantha blows up the soul crystals
Fighting Diwata, Samantha bites the soul crystals, causing an explosion that knocks Diwata out and blasts holes between the castle floors.
- Book 5 · Ch 73Vrah dies
The velociraptors attack the hunters; Mongo and Kiwi maul Vrah, Samantha bites her, and Mongo finishes her off on Carl's order.
- Book 6 · Ch 4Reunion with Mordecai as a cyclops
Carl and Princess Donut enter the saferoom to find Mordecai transformed into a Hills Cyclops, Samantha returned, and Bomo the last bodyguard.
- Book 6 · Ch 5Carl opens his celestial box
Carl opens his boxes, including a tattoo kit, an automaton kit, a reflecting shield and a Defiler nipple ring; the celestial box yields only a divine back patch.
- Book 6 · Ch 6Entering Old Havana
Carl, Donut and Samantha leave the saferoom into a replay of Old Havana; ghostly tourists walk through them, stripping clothes, and Samantha is sent south as recon.
- Book 6 · Ch 10Samantha swallowed by Shi Maria
Samantha reports she was eaten by Shi Maria, a spider demi-goddess at the island's southern coast, and Carl plans to rescue her and possibly capture the monster.
- Book 6 · Ch 27Preparing for Shi Maria
While the crab migration passes, Carl studies Shi Maria in the Bahamas book and chats with Samantha, who calls the spider her best friend.
- Book 6 · Ch 28Meeting the Bedlam Bride
Samantha leads Shi Maria to Carl and Donut; the spider admits she can't animate Princess Lunette's body yet and breaks down when Samantha threatens her mother.
- Book 6 · Ch 28Samantha won't leave her friend
Carl tells Samantha she's part of the team, but she refuses to abandon Shi Maria, who is prepared to become a card.
- Book 6 · Ch 29Shi Maria becomes a card
Carl turns Shi Maria into a card and, travelling north with Donut, Mongo and Samantha, gains new cards from La Ciguapa and tests his Scavenger Daughter.
- Book 6 · Ch 30Deck practice in the mall
In a 1980s mall simulation, Shi Maria kills Uzi Jesus after he shoots her, then destroys Rude-Dolph's puppet reindeer with her fifth eye and rips Rude-Dolph in two.
- Book 6 · Ch 31Defeat by Der Schachmeister
In their first deck-versus-deck practice, Der Schachmeister locks and burns Donut's cards and his wolf strikes her, failing the simulation.
- Book 6 · Ch 33Samantha gets into the club
Carl smuggles Samantha past Clarabelle into the Desperado Club, where she starts harassing the badger bartender Charles as a planned distraction.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Ambush on Astrid goes wrong
Astrid bypasses the trapped secret passage and heads down the main stairs as an alarm announces a containment breach in the casino.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Minge breaks out of the Nothing
The level 225 demon Minge escapes into the club hunting Samantha, slaughtering NPCs while Katia refuses to abandon the Astrid mission.
- Book 6 · Ch 34Minge rampages through the Desperado Club
The demon Minge devours club guards while Sai and croc guards charge her; Carl uses an invisibility potion and an alarm ball playing 'Material Girl' as a distraction.
- Book 6 · Ch 35Vorpals released on Minge
Carl sends an automaton to free the vorpals and hits Minge with holy-water bombs, then flees upstairs with Samantha; the vorpals kill Minge.
- Book 6 · Ch 35Death of Charles Ellis
Minge grabs the bartender Charles Ellis from Samantha and tears him in half.
- Book 6 · Ch 55Pinpointed on the road
Riding east toward Imani with Donut on Mongo and Samantha on the handlebars, Carl's location is revealed by an unknown caster's Eye in the Sky scroll.
- Book 6 · Ch 56Samantha's recon
Thrown toward the coast, Samantha reports a giant snake covered in zombie seals and crabs, with surviving seals singing and Sister Ines riding its head.
- Book 6 · Ch 56Forcing a battle with Sister Ines
Carl and Donut prepare traps and spells while Samantha bites Sister Ines, letting Carl pull the nun in for a card battle.
- Book 6 · Ch 57The mass summon
Carl's summon, amplified by Samantha, drops Sister Ines, Madre de Aguas and thousands of creatures around him, breaking her charm spell and freeing dozens of full-power demons.
- Book 6 · Ch 58Race to stop Quan
Teleported into swampy woods, Carl warns Imani and Tserendolgor's squad to delay the slug-infected Quan at the exits while he forms a new plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 59Samantha's confession
Pressed by Carl, Samantha tearfully admits her powers are unpredictable and that she cannot teleport, sparking Carl's teleport-trap idea.
- Book 6 · Ch 59Teleport trap plan
After Florin finds traps can't be set in stairwell chambers, Carl loads teleport-trap automatons into Samantha and throws her toward the capitol building as Quan arrives there.
- Book 6 · Ch 60Amayon arrives
Madre de Aguas dies and rises as a zombie, letting the Demon Prince Amayon slip into the realm; Carl earns an achievement and a quest to question him.
- Book 6 · Ch 60Death of Quan Ch
In a chaotic battle at the capitol building, Quan steals Ren's death worm, killing Chuluuna, before Donut's totems strip and overwhelm him; Carl returns his ring before he dies.
- Book 6 · Ch 62Regrouping in Havana
Carl throws Samantha to retrieve Donut, and the three sneak through zombie-filled Havana toward the church where Imani waits.
- Book 6 · Ch 63Amayon's sky portal
Samantha explains that Amayon is fighting Sister Ines's charm to open a huge soul-hungry portal to Sheol above Havana.
- Book 6 · Ch 64Donut stays with Carl
Carl tells Donut he must kill Sister Ines and free Amayon; Donut refuses to leave without him.
- Book 6 · Ch 67Assault on the demon horde
Donut casts Minion Army while the sluggalos charge early; Elle's supercharged Graupel then obliterates the demons outside the FOSCA building.
- Book 6 · Ch 68Ysalte arrives
Ysalte rises from Sister Ines's corpse, vows Louis will suffer, and attacks Samantha, whose head deflects the goddess's pickaxe.
- Book 6 · Ch 69Refill the world with souls
The battle freezes for a quest update requiring the world be refilled with souls before Amayon can be powered up; Carl prepares to leap toward Samantha.
- Book 6 · Ch 70Carl takes the deck
Donut plays Midnight Express, making Carl the deckmaster on the beach; he summons Raul the crab and Alpha Male Carl.
- Book 6 · Ch 70Carl teleports into Samantha
With under a minute left, Carl steps into his teleport trap trigger, teleporting to the trap he left inside Samantha.
- Book 6 · Ch 71The city burns
Carl triggers Martyr's Path from inside Samantha in Amayon's hand, setting the city on fire and powering the demon's homeward spell.
- Book 6 · Ch 71Carl delivers Emberus's question
Carl asks Amayon about Geyrun's fate; Amayon trades the answer for help killing his brothers, then drops Carl toward the fire.
- Book 7 · Ch 7Samantha hunts Tish
Samantha chases a woman named Tish through a college in Larracos, vowing to kill her, until Katia catches her.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Naming the pet and fixing Carl's hair
Friends argue over a name for the tummy acher while Katia regrows Carl's eyebrows and lashes with hair tonic.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Sir Rendlegore named
Louis proposes Sir Rendlegore as the tummy acher's name to honour Ren, and Carl accepts it immediately.
- Book 7 · Ch 10Tour of the Party Planner hangar
Louis takes the group up the new airship elevator to the hangar, where they examine his stealth light bomber Party Planner and discuss Faction Wars armor rules.
- Book 7 · Ch 27Carl heads to the southern front
Carl ejects Samantha from Party Planner via Louis, sends the eager kids and Jamal back, and leads his Personal Guard toward the naga border.
- Book 7 · Ch 39Bracing for the main assault
Reinforcements arrive as the enemy's main armored force, possibly led by Prince Stalwart, approaches the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Carl prepares the assault
Carl checks in with his commanders, then collects hundreds of potion balls from Mordecai and sets off with Samantha.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Race to the temple portal
Carl, Katia, Prepotente and Samantha cross the blood-soaked club to the temple portal and dial Khepri's temple, where Vinata is visible.
- Book 7 · Ch 61Entering Khepri's temple
Samantha opens the door and the team storms in, only to find Vinata immortal-tagged and Khepri himself present.
- Book 7 · Ch 64Operation Head Banger
Carl berserks the mantaurs with alarm-trap music, nimbuses a Basilica ogre and uses Profane Iron to fight through to his friends.
- Book 7 · Ch 69Open Hostilities begin
Operation: Ruin starts. Reaver seeker missiles target Party Planner, and Bonnie, a stowaway, shoots down the last three, while Dream artillery opens fire.
- Book 7 · Ch 70Bomb run on King's Point
Louis drops an overclocked bomb load that cracks the orc castle's shields; a long-range death ray narrowly misses Party Planner.
- Book 7 · Ch 71Carl jumps into Reaver territory
After the eruption damages Party Planner, Carl and Samantha jump out over Reaver territory to meet Elle at the feral gate; Eris is summoned and Team Retribution seizes two throne rooms.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Aftermath of the war mage betrayal
Elle recovers, Carl collects the war mage bodies before their heads explode, and Victory explains the War Mage Rebellion before leaving for an adjutant hearing over Drick's foul.
- Book 7 · Ch 72Carl and Elle go through the gate
As Boomer begins the raid on the Reaver castle, Carl and Elle step through the feral gate toward the Madness castle, while Samantha spots a dragon overhead.
- Book 7 · Ch 73Boomer overrules Carl
Boomer insists Louis continue the bomb run despite the dragon; Carl apologises and makes Samantha an officer to paint the dragon for missiles.
- Book 7 · Ch 73Yarilo emerges
The feral gate times out with Samantha nearby, and the Feral God Yarilo enters the realm.
- Book 7 · Ch 76Party Planner is destroyed
The dragon tears Party Planner in half; Louis falls toward the Reaver castle, and Carl sends Samantha to save him.
- Book 7 · Ch 81War mages target the gods
War mages launch at the gods: Bianca downs one, another ejects Nami from Eris, and another conscripts Yarilo using potions bought by trading away the feral gate.
- Book 7 · Ch 82Juice Box's deal with Samantha
Carl meets Juice Box, who frantically asks about Louis; learning he is bound in the Reaver castle, she offers Samantha a new body to save him.
- Book 7 · Ch 95Samantha's plan to save Louis
Samantha suggests transplanting Princess Lunette's golem heart and lungs into Louis, giving up her body; Juice Box takes a Fleshmancer form to operate.
- Book 7 · Ch 95Emberus enters the realm
Right after Samantha admits a possible hand in Geyrun's death, the system announces that Emberus has entered the realm.
- Book 7 · Ch 96Emberus threatens the 9th floor
After Samantha's slip, Emberus arrives and the system gives the Posse 66 minutes to win Faction Wars and escape before he burns the floor.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Samantha is thrown to Emberus
With Prepotente spotting, Carl launches Samantha to Emberus at the volcano to stall him while crawlers flee down to the 10th floor.
- Book 7 · Ch 99The crew leaves the 9th floor
Samantha is recalled from Emberus, and the remaining crawlers say goodbyes and enter the stairwell as Emberus destroys the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 1Samantha's Faction Wars recap
While redecorating Carl's room, Samantha gives Tipid and Bigs a garbled recap of the 9th floor, ending with Katia's departure, the Nothing breaking and Scolopendra waking.
- Book 8 · Ch 12Rishi's junk floods the safe room
Carl's legendary fan box spews Rishi's burned household junk until it fills the safe room to the ceiling, to Donut's disgust.
- Book 8 · Ch 25Dong learns Corcunda is nearby
Bucket Boy reveals Corcunda is drugged in the Lady Dominators' garage, and Dong, Samantha and others rush to bang on its door.
- Book 8 · Ch 55Samantha identifies Chachi
Samantha recognizes Chalchiuhtlicue's scent on Carl and describes her as an unstable goddess who sacrifices children, alarming Carl about Lucia Mar.
- Book 8 · Ch 63Dong and Porky meet
Carl leaves Dong alone with Porky, the other half of Dong's split lover, who still wears Dong's scarf.
- Book 8 · Ch 71Grigori meets Samantha
Samantha discovers the fleshmancer Grigori and demands he find her a body; he agrees to examine her.
- Book 8 · Ch 73Samantha's secret plan
Samantha bursts in having ditched Grigori, and when Donut describes Carl's plan, Samantha says hers is just like it.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Scolopendra's first attack
The AI launches the Nine-Tier Attack quest. A wheel lands on the Beast of Burden Sin, Transformation. Donut, Jamal and Samantha are spared, but Carl is hit and transformed into a four-legged creature.
- Book 8 · Ch 89Mimic ambush in the casino
Everything in the Desperado Club casino turns out to be mimics; the crawlers, with Mongo and his clockwork copies, kill around fifty of them.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Louis enters the Nothing portal
After the mimic fight, Imani reopens the wheel portal; Louis says goodbye and jumps in, and Carl swears to free those sent away.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Leaving the cursed floor
Back at Hungry Eyes, Donut collects two more mounts, comforts the giant dream-Imani, and the truck heads for the stairwell.
- Book 8 · Ch 94Building the Vengeance procession
The team decorates five vehicles and three giant mounts with dahlias and Gurkha gear, assigning drivers and riders for the parade.
- Book 8 · Ch 101Taranis departs
Taranis returns Penny, banishes Khepri, spares Carl and Donut, and leaves with Samantha and Krakaren Prime, ending the battle.
- Book 8 · Ch 104The contenders are shown
The AI shows images of gods and contenders, including Taranis, Eris, Odette as Nekhebit, Princess Donut, Carl, Lucia Mar, Samantha, unknown figures and finally the Unwashed, before a one-hour countdown to the Ascendency.
- Book 8 · Ch 105Samantha reveals her plan
Samantha messages Louis that she slipped away from Taranis and Krakaren to kill the demon mother and her son.