The Constant Companion

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"The fear of the wide black zee, and the things beyond."[1]

The Constant Companion is an enormous monster that scours the depths of the Unterzee. These beasts sense fear like a shark smells blood, and they aggressively pursue any underwater interlopers with strong "scents."[2] Their carapaces are harder than steel,[3] and are molted and left behind as husks as the creature grows.[4] Unnervingly, broken-off pieces may fidget and emit noises long after the creature's death.[3][5]

Morphologically speaking, Constant Companions resemble monstrously large spiders, with pedipalps,[6] mandibles,[7] greenish blood,[8] and bodies covered in hair.[6] Like many species of spider, they carry their offspring on their body. These yellowish grubs appear passive, but they can be dangerously vicious or even cunning should they feel threatened.[9]

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  1. ↑ Quality description, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ General Information, Sunless Sea "Constant Companions only appear if the player's terror is at 65 or above, and only when they are submerged."
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sever a limb and use it to brace the hull., Sunless Sea "The creature's carapace is difficult to scratch, [...] Pliers, saws, a mallet - all break. [...] they complain about a recurring tapping sound from without [...]"
  4. ↑ Constant Companion, Sunless Sea "A husk juts from the zee bed, discarded when its owner outgrew it."
  5. ↑ Accept her gift, Fallen London "She presents you with a pair of cufflinks [...] you can hear a faint but persistent whine, like the scream of tormented metal."
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Take a memento and leave, Sunless Sea "[...] you hack clumsily at an exposed pedipalp. [...] its long hairs brush [...] against your suit."
  7. ↑ You have defeated a Constant Companion, Sunless Sea "Its mandibles clack gently in a zee-current."
  8. ↑ Sever a limb and use it to brace the hull., Sunless Sea "[...] a spray of viridian blood, a fragment of spindly limb comes free."
  9. ↑ Bring a grub aboard, Sunless Sea "The wriggling children of the Companion still cling to their parent's husk. [...] one of the small grubs pops free. [...] the curled, yellow mass wriggles [...] before whitening and falling still. A crewman [...] approaches. The grub writhes to life, burrowing into him [...] both crewman and grub are dead."
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