Character · from book 2

Katia Grim

Crawler #9,077,265, a former art teacher and one of Brynhild's Daughters, sent to Carl and Donut by Hekla to level up: a doppelganger who must sculpt her own face and gets it wrong, in a Monster Truck Driver class whose constitution climbs with speed. Level 9 when she arrives at the One-Eyed Narwhal; 21 when she leaves the floor with them.

Race and class, since book 2: Doppelganger · Monster Truck Driver

First appears: Book 2

Series arc

As of book 2. The party's third member from book 2, chapter 21: a doppelganger tank with a Pathfinder skill and a mechanic's hobby, sent by Hekla and — per Odette — Hekla's unwitting hook. Her face is her own by the epilogue.

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
Hekla's design on Donut	B2 ch. 26	open — She wants Donut for the permanent manager; Katia is the hook, per Odette.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 2

Joins the party in B2 ch. 21 and leaves the floor its third member: Hekla's gift and, per Odette, Hekla's unwitting hook. Her tank build, her Pathfinder skill and her mechanic's hobby answer three problems Carl has been carrying since book 1. Her face is her own by the epilogue.

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario	6/26	Ch. 21, Ch. 22, Ch. 23, Ch. 24, Ch. 25, Ch. 26 · the book's own page

By book

Katia Grim in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Katia Grim arrives in ch. 21 as a level-9 Monster Truck Driver with a Juan Gris face — a doppelganger whose guide talked her into a race she cannot control, sculpting herself with a health potion for a mirror. Carl gives her a shard of gym mirror; Mordecai teaches her ears. Constitution 51, strength 11, a Rush ability, a Pathfinder skill, an art teacher's Earth Hobby Potion that made her a gear head. Hekla sent her; Hekla wants her back.

She holds the detonator outside the warehouse (ch. 23), is named a host of the blast quest with no way into the club (ch. 24) — which is why Carl closes the glass case rather than run — and Rushes through a wall when the fourth pulse fires her hotlist (ch. 25). On Odette's couch she has her real face, short-haired and pale, and twelve new levels (epilogue). Odette's warning is not about her: 'I don't think she's in on it. Not willingly.'