Editing The Constant Companion

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|caption1=|location=[[The Unterzee]]}}<blockquote>''"The fear of the wide black zee, and the things beyond."''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Terror#Quality_description|Quality description|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>

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."<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|General Information|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Constant Companions only appear if the player's terror is at 65 or above, and only when they are submerged."''</ref> Their carapaces are harder than steel,<ref name = "steel">{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|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 [...]"''</ref> and are molted and left behind as husks as the creature grows.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|Constant Companion|Sunless Sea|}} ''"A husk juts from the zee bed, discarded when its owner outgrew it."''</ref> Unnervingly, broken-off pieces may fidget and emit noises long after the creature's death.<ref name = "steel"/><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_her_gift|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."''</ref>

Morphologically speaking, Constant Companions resemble monstrously large spiders, with pedipalps,<ref name = "memento">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|Take a memento and leave|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] you hack clumsily at an exposed pedipalp. [...] its long hairs brush [...] against your suit."''</ref> mandibles,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|You have defeated a Constant Companion|Sunless Sea}} ''"Its mandibles clack gently in a zee-current."''</ref> greenish blood,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|Sever a limb and use it to brace the hull.|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] a spray of viridian blood, a fragment of spindly limb comes free."''</ref> and bodies covered in hair.<ref name = "memento"/> 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.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Constant_Companion|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."''</ref>