Character · from book 1
Imani
A young nurse from the Meadow Lark eldercare facility in Wenatchee, ninety pounds and level 10 with twelve crawler-killer skulls when Carl meets her: she had to put down the residents the monsters would otherwise have burned. Says almost nothing. Shows Carl how to use the pedicure kit.
Race and class, since book 1: Human
First appears: Book 1
Series arc
As of book 2. Meadow Lark's most damaged and most competent member — the chain, the door, the pedicure lesson, twelve skulls from mercy killings. Off-page in book 2; did not stay human.
Open threads
Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.
| Thread | Opened | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Meadow Lark's survivors, gone ahead | B1 ch. 41 | open · B2 ch. 26 — Scattered; one message; one resident on the leaderboard. |
All threads: Open threads.
Through book 1
Introduced as the most damaged and most competent person in the Meadow Lark party — twelve skulls from mercy killings, almost no words — and leaves book 1 last down the ramp, flipping off the ceiling on the recap (B1 ch. 44). The chain, the door idea, the pedicure lesson: she solves things. Where Meadow Lark goes on the third floor is unknown at the end of book 1.
Through book 2
Off-page; did not stay human (B2 ch. 8).
Where they appear
| Book | Chapters they are in (of the book's) | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl | 12/48 | 22–23, 26–27, 31–32, 37–41, 44 · the book's own page |
| 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario | 1/26 | Ch. 8 · the book's own page |
By book
Imani in book 1 — Dungeon Crawler Carl
Ninety pounds, twenty years old, scrubs and a magical cloak, a longsword, and twelve crawler-killer skulls: the residents the monsters would otherwise have burned (ch. 22). She says nothing until the end of that chapter — 'And how are we going to do that?' — and rarely more afterwards, but she is the competence in every plan: stabbing through the Speedbump's ceiling in tears (ch. 26), the 300-foot chain that makes the residents' train possible (ch. 37), the observation that opening the safe-room door is the way past the elemental (ch. 40). She is the one who sits down and shows Carl how to use the pedicure kit (ch. 32). Her last image in the book is the recap's: pausing at the third-floor entrance to raise a middle finger at the ceiling (ch. 44).
Imani in book 2 — Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Named once, in Brandon's message: she and Chris did not stay human (ch. 8).