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Louis's teammate, now openly possessed by the goddess Ysalte via a memorial crystal — a lightning-fast player-killer who slays Osvaldo and vanishes through the escape portal.
Britney, the barbarian crawler on Louis's team, is revealed to be host to the goddess Ysalte, carried in the same non-charging memorial crystal type Osvaldo once hunted. In the rigged final heat she stops running, waits for the speeding Osvaldo to stun himself against the portal wall, then — moving 'just as fast' as the dungeon's fastest crawler — leaps up, kills him, and lands atop his corpse, a golden player-killer skull blazing over her as she claims his bounty. Samantha explains the stakes: to be rid of Ysalte 'for good,' Britney must reach the Basilica or 'Vulgar Temple' (or the Halls of the Ascendency or Sheol) and set the gem in a plinth — otherwise the goddess keeps taking her over.
The telepathic entity had earlier pressed Carl to 'just survive.' When Carl engineers the casino escape and sends Chris through the Nothing portal to the stasis holding-area, Britney jumps in right behind him without a word, immediately leaving the party — gone from the floor, her possession unresolved, Samantha and Carl now hoping she reaches a temple floor to shed the goddess for good.
A haggard barbarian crawler woman, red-rimmed eyes now glowing with divine possession, moving with unnatural god-granted speed.
The Ysalte-possessed crawler who kills Osvaldo and escapes through the Nothing portal, her goddess still riding her.
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