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 3: Obsidian Butterfly · Fire Spiritualist

First appears: Book 1

Series arc

As of book 3. Meadow Lark's most damaged and most competent member; in book 3 an Obsidian Butterfly with wings that buff whoever they touch, the last of the group's kids and the mother of twenty adults. She finds the Pooka dens and the ghoul conveyor, holds station 36 for two days, chains the crane, and tells Carl about the coupons and about Donut: 'She's like a child, Carl.'

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	resolved · B3 ch. 8 — Elle and Imani found at the Desperado Club, transformed; twenty of Meadow Lark left.

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).

Through book 3

An Obsidian Butterfly Fire Spiritualist with wings that buff whoever they touch (B3 ch. 8); the last of Meadow Lark's kids, mothering twenty adults. She finds the Pooka dens, the conveyor and the province boss at 48 (B3 ch. 12, B3 ch. 18, B3 ch. 22), holds station 36 for two days (B3 ch. 31), chains the crane, and tells Carl about the coupons and about Donut: 'She's like a child, Carl. She doesn't process things the way a person does' (B3 ch. 18).

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
3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook	26/35	3, 6–12, 14–22, 24, 27–34 · 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).

Imani in book 3 — The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

An Obsidian Butterfly Fire Spiritualist, skull-painted, twelve feet of ethereal wings that buff whoever they pass (ch. 8). The last of the kids, still a babysitter to twenty; she tells Carl about Chris before Chris finds him (ch. 8), confirms the coupon book and that Donut came to her (ch. 18), and is 'a big gossip' (ch. 20). She finds the Pooka dens (ch. 12), the conveyor and the province boss at 48 (ch. 18, ch. 22), leads the stand at 36, chains the crane (ch. 31), and says the thing that stops a goat and a man: 'Both of you put your dicks away' (ch. 32). 'Bitch, what?'