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Screaming to be brought back the instant Emberus stopped touching her, Samantha was dropped with the Xistera and clunked to the ground, heavy and smoking — burned ten times worse than before, barely recognizable to Carl. She reported cheerfully that Emberus had meant to eat her, that he threw her into the volcano as planned, and that since he was blowing up the world they should probably go.
She thanked Louis for the loan of his body, then announced she now got to use his, floating up and blowing into his gills until he begged her to stop; Donut told her she looked like a piece of popcorn shrimp stuck to the bottom of an oven for two years and to be gentle with Louis, who had just gotten a divorce — news Samantha received with immediate interest. When Bautista mentioned Kimaris, she zipped over demanding the Kimaris Figure, insisting he was one of her best friends and the one who gave her the potion that let her carry her baby when she couldn't get pregnant — then stopped cold, unable to remember how or when they had met. She retreated into the Saferoom, leaving a black charred smear across the door.
Appearance
A blackened, smoking, heavily burned form barely recognizable as herself — Donut compares her to a piece of popcorn shrimp left on an oven floor for two years — trailing char onto everything she touches.
Role
The chapter's surviving volcano weapon, whose blank spot around Kimaris hints at tampered memory.
Relationships
Emberus — Carried and burned by him in the volcano; he intended to eat her.
Louis — Borrowed his body, then flirts with him on hearing of his divorce.
Kimaris — Claims he is one of her best friends and gave her a fertility potion, but cannot remember meeting him.
Donut — Teased by her about her burned appearance.
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 51 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 5
- The being whose neck hole Carl stuffed with traps and teleported into, earning three separate achievements.
Chapter 6
- The team's resident spirit, conspicuously missing since the party landed on the eighteenth floor.
Chapter 7
- The all-caps hellcat rolling across the eighteenth floor screaming for vengeance against her arch enemy Tish.
Chapter 9
- Sapient sand-ooze head bent on murdering Tish and reuniting with her ooze daughter in the dwarven castle.
Chapter 10
- Louis's shoulder-riding companion who cheerfully claims the airship's ball turret without knowing what one is.
Chapter 11
- Team member left behind in the saferoom under strict instructions not to wander off alone again.
Chapter 14
- Absent friend Donut expects to be furious that she missed Louis and Juice Box's first ceremony.
Chapter 16
- Talks her way onto Party Planner's first flight, possibly still unaware of Louis's wedding.
Chapter 19
- Louis's tiny, snot-soaked companion, devastated at being excluded from the wedding she swears she would not have disrupted.
Chapter 20
- Rolling, cackling ally whose distinctive style of movement Carl sees mirrored in the newly grown Rend.
Chapter 27
- Shouting sapient companion who stows away aboard the Party Planner and is ejected out the bomb bay for everyone's safety.
Chapter 28
- Furious with Louis, who has blocked her from chat again while holding position for the counterattack.
Chapter 36
- Target of Minge's escape from the Nothing, the attack that annihilated Toyotomi's squad.
Chapter 39
- Floating ally who arrives caked in leaves and dirt after Louis accidentally dropped her out of his airplane.
Chapter 40
- Undead companion who spends the war council chewing on Louis's ankle and seconding his questions.
Chapter 49
- The deranged sex doll head whose automatons were sent charging at the hunters' guns on the sixth floor.
Chapter 50
- Carl's friend, invoked by Donut as the benchmark for how badly the entire base now smells.
Chapter 54
- Sex doll head who joins Carl's potion mission, quivering with excitement and "Miss Me?" on her forehead.
Chapter 56
- Decapitated sex doll AI who spends the pre-assault tension giving Bautista horrifying relationship advice.
Chapter 57
- Chaotic small ally who rides Bianca, taunts Prepotente about his dead mother, and bites Carl's finger.
Chapter 58
- Revealed as Theia's daughter, and one of the four crawlers about to breach Khepri's temple.
Chapter 59
- Wriggling asset carried two-handed by Katia and called into Club Vanquisher the moment the guards are summoned.
Chapter 60
- Rolls into the ruined Club Vanquisher lobby chewing, only to find the massacre already over.
Chapter 61
- Foul-mouthed sentient doll head whose damned status and teeth crack open the faith-gated door into Khepri's temple.
Chapter 63
- Heard screaming somewhere in Club Vanquisher as the portal chaos erupts.
Chapter 64
- Charred, furious minor deity who discovers the goddess Theia is actually a male skyfowl imposter.
Chapter 66
- One of the crowd drawn to the edge of the privacy bubble during Carl's interview.
Chapter 67
- Carl's default suspect for any divine chaos — but apparently not the one who let the gods into Club Vanquisher.
Chapter 69
- The disembodied, foul-mouthed head who rides along on the bomb run sporting new 1940s victory rolls.
Chapter 70
- Talking severed head riding in Carl's lap, cheering the bomb run and coining the phrase "cheese dick."
Chapter 71
- Floating companion who jumps with Carl into the Reavers' realm and is left behind to heal Elle.
Chapter 72
- Samantha tends to Elle, mutters about war mages, and steps through the portal after spotting a dragon overhead.
Chapter 73
- Loud succubus ally parked at a Feral Gods gate, gleefully waiting to fight whatever demon emerges.
Chapter 74
- Escaped demon riding with Carl's group who flees on sight when the god Yarilo comes bellowing for her across the realm.
Chapter 75
- All-caps crawler being chased in circles by the god Yarilo, unaffected by Eris's ritual and unimpressed by her.
Chapter 76
- Foul-mouthed ally who shakes off the god Yarilo's pursuit and is dispatched by Carl to rescue the falling Louis.
Chapter 77
- The disembodied companion racing toward Louis while he gathers unstable explosives on the Reaver roof.
Chapter 78
- All-caps AI voice hunting for Louis and improvising a rescue plan he has to trust her on.
Chapter 81
- All-caps chat presence whose report of a conscripted god blows the war mages' plan wide open.
Chapter 82
- Sent to rescue Louis, she haggles a hall pass night into her payment for a new body.
Chapter 85
- Sobs in chat over Yarilo's death while waiting for a patrol to clear so she can free Louis.
Chapter 90
- AI locked in a constant, rolling fight with robot dogs who control the Reaver Castle's shifting walls.
Chapter 91
- The robot inside the Reaver castle impatiently demanding the rescue team hurry, and holding Juice Box to their deal.
Chapter 92
- Disembodied head who spent the raid distracting the robot dogs and adopted one of them as a pet.
Chapter 93
- Still a blackened, scorched ball, Samantha flies alongside the convoy giving Bigs advice on how to seduce someone.
Chapter 94
- The scorched floating orb narrates the birth with running commentary on whether the babies are ugly.
Chapter 95
- Grieving disembodied head who gives up her promised flesh golem body so Louis can live, becoming an unlikely hero.
Chapter 96
- Demigod hell-hound whose confession to her father Emberus dooms the ninth floor.
Chapter 97
- Accompanies Rosetta and Tipid to the saferoom after Zerzura is confirmed successful.
Chapter 98
- Carl launches the foul-mouthed talking bomb at Emberus to stall the god while the tent plan runs.
Chapter 99
- Burned nearly beyond recognition after her volcano trip, Samantha escapes the ninth floor and discovers a hole in her own memory.