Scavenger's Daughter Upgrade Patch

This article contains unmarked spoilers for Book 6.

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"The stitch quality is just divine," she said. "But the image itself is quite disgusting. Are you really going to put that on your back?"^[1]

The Scavenger's Daughter Upgrade Patch is an Upgrade Patch given to Carl on the Eighth Floor in a Celestial Predator Box rewarded to him for the Apex Predator Achievement.

AI Description

Initial Description

The Scavenger’s Daughter.

Upgrade Patch. Back Patch.
This is a divine item.
This is a unique item.
This is a fleeting item.
You may only affix one back patch at a time.
This patch depicts a pile of scary skulls, all stacked up nice and neat. I wonder if there’s a story there?
If this upgrade patch is affixed to an eligible garment, it will imbue the following upgrades:
(Hidden until it is affixed and then worn.)
Warning: Upgrade patches are fleeting items. You may remove them, but they will be destroyed in the process.
Warning #2! This is a divine item. This means it gains differing abilities, buffs, and possibly debuffs depending on your proximity to certain deities and demons. It makes for new and exciting combinations!^[1]

Additional description after patch is affixed

You have equipped a divine item.
There are no deities in the area.
The Scavenger’s Daughter Patch has gained the following upgrades:

All patch stat point benefits are now doubled.

In addition:

Plus 25 points to Dexterity.

Plus 25 points to Strength.

You will receive a notification every time a deity enters the area.

The Climb Benefit.

The Soul Reaper Benefit.

The Mysterious Bone Key Benefit.

This patch will imbue additional, varying benefits when it is in the presence of divine entities.

exciting combinations!^[1]

Description

This patch is a thick, black piece of fabric embroidered with a white pile of skulls from various creatures, stacked up neatly into a pyramid.^[1] There is additional transparent stitching forming the image of a giant centipede crawling through all the skulls.^[2] The centipede stitching glows and becomes visible when Carl's soul essence bar is filled. The threading appears to glow with the same color as the soul bar, whose color is dependent on the type of soul with which it is filled.^[3]

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Soul Reaper

This skill adds the soul essence bar and the ability to charge it with the essence of killed mobs. The total amount of soul essence that may be stored increases each time it is filled and then drained.^[1]

Failing to drain the soul essence bar in time will result in some as-of-yet unknown negative effects.

AI Description

Yeah, baby.

Now we’re talking.

For every creature you kill with a melee attack, the Scavenger’s Daughter patch is charged with the essence of the fallen. Once fully charged, you may transfer this energy to a single melee attack, which will completely drain all the essence. This attack will have varying effects depending on the nature of the essence stored.

The associated essence bar is now visible in your interface. The total amount of soul essence you may store increases each time your essence bar is topped off and then drained. In other words, the more stuff you kill, the stronger you get.

Warning: you know how asbestos is really bad for you? Like, it doesn’t hurt you immediately, but it builds up in your lungs and eventually screws you over? Actually, you know what? Just ignore this warning. Forget I said anything. Carrying corrupted essence around on your back builds character. You already have a ring that’s doing much worse to you anyway.^[1]

The Daughter's Kiss

When the soul essence bar is filled, the patch affords The Daughter’s Kiss skill. Once activated, the bar drains and makes the user's next melee attack extra powerful. Each time the bar is filled and drained, it grows, meaning it'll need more souls to fill it and also that each attack is more powerful than the last.^[3]

This attack will have varying effects depending on the nature of the essence stored.^[1]

If the captured souls are all of the same species, the attack will be almost twice as powerful and the residual effects of the attack will be stronger.^[4]

Temporary Divine Effects

You are in the presence of a deity. The Scavenger’s Daughter has opened her eyes. She fills with power.

Deity	Temporary Effect
Ogun	All-Smash Related Attacks +300%.^[5]
Yemaya	All healing skills and spells cost no mana. They have no cooldown.^[6]
Eileithyia	All damage you strike against female opponents is quartered. All female members of your party strike with a melee power of 500%. Girl power, bitches!^[6]
Amayon	All your fire spells utilize Sheol fire instead of regular fire.^[7]
Ysalte	All potions you quaff or physically handle outside your inventory will turn to vinegar. They will return to a more powerful version of themselves upon her banishment.^[8]

Book 7 Spoilers

Deity	Temporary Effect
Khepri	You are immortal for the next 90 seconds.^[9]
Harpocrates	Level 15 Pied Piper skill.^[10]
Yarilo	Protection from all venereal diseases.^[11] Originally, this was a debuff that would cause the user's head to explode^[1] but the AI fixed it.^[11]
Meatus	Your dick will fall off if you get an erection.^[12]
Eris	Random Effect! As Eris is the goddess of chaos, this effect will change each time you are in her presence. Temporary effect from Eris: One current god effect will be permanent!^[12]