Imani C

24^B3C8

11^B1C27

10^B1C22

A Obsidian Butterfly, shown on her own interface card^B3C8

No longer Human, per Brandon's message to Carl; her group's own race and class selection is underway, and unlike Brandon, Imani didn't stay human. New race not named^B2C8

A Fire Spiritualist, shown on her own interface card^B3C8

About twenty years old and maybe ninety pounds, with terrified, hollowed-out eyes. Wears scrubs and a magical cloak and carries a longsword.^B1C22

Build:

Gaunt, skull-faced, looking like she weighs about half what she used to; a white skull is painted across her face^B3C8

Wings:

Four translucent, ethereal butterfly wings trailing behind her, a roughly twelve-foot span in a saturated orange, yellow, red, white, and black. Not physical: they pass through columns, NPCs, and crawlers alike, leaving a brief glow behind wherever they touch someone^B3C8

Ballroom A at the Butcher's Masquerade, revising the plan with Carl after Signet arrives^B5C68

Holds station 36 against occasional ghouls and Krakaren monsters, keeping the open stairwell down clear until Carl and the rest of the group return from trainyard E^B3C34

Stays put at station 36 with Li Jun rather than move on to the free descent point at station 72, as the monsters approaching the stop trickle to a stop against the crawlers' defensible position^B3C28

Trainyard D, having ridden the conveyor down safely only to land in a breached, ghoul-filled yard; sheltering with her crew in the Iron Tangle administrative building outside it^B3C19

Camped near the drug-tunnel's ghoul cart carousel with her team, collecting carts and killing migrating ghouls for low experience^B3C18

Following the drug-tunnel's secret downward passage out of the robot room alongside Elle, exact position not given^B3C16

Stop 275 on the Camel Line, stranded with Elle once their connecting train never arrives; plans to backtrack and hike to station 272^B3C15

Station 131's Desperado Club, its members-only dance hall, arriving from the Silk Road where she'd been getting supplies for her crew^B3C8

Shown via recap footage pausing at the scorched entrance to floor 3, raising a middle finger to the air before heading inside^B1C44

Descends through the stairwell hole to floor 3 with Meadow Lark's residents, last down the ramp^B1C41

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, testing the door against the Rage Elemental, then working it for real as Carl and Donut ride out^B1C40

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, watching the recap episode^B1C39

The Big Shot Chicken safe room, floor 2, tending to survivors, tears on her cheeks^B1C38

A side hallway off the main corridor, bordering the kobold quadrant, floor 2, pulling the parade float^B1C37

Floor 2's first safe room, the storm shelter, handing out crawler biscuits to residents^B1C31

The borough boss arena, tending to an injured Yolanda^B1C27

The borough boss arena at the center of the spiral maze, fighting the Ball of Swine^B1C26

At her group's encampment beside a round maze's drawbridge gate, floor 1^B1C22

Party:

Named Meadow Lark in the pre-fight mugshot lineup, alongside Brandon, Chris, and Yolanda^B1C26

Brandon An:

Confirms in person, for the first time rather than through his own final message, that he died alongside Henry protecting the group's escape^B3C8

Addressed as one of two other recipients, alongside an Elle, on Brandon's final message; not confirmed as this Imani by full name, but the only Imani in Carl's own circle. Per the message, she got away from floor 3's collapse before Brandon and Henry died holding the line behind her^B3C3

Coworker; he won't say much about what she had to do to protect residents during one attack^B1C22

Carl:

Tells him the team still can't approach their oil rig target through water monsters and orc archers despite Elle's own ice spell; floats building an armored boat or submarine, and Carl offers to trade for a torpedo through the new private marketplace^B4C10

Questions the plan to raise the cart and provoke the province boss across the noodle, calling it a bad idea once the portal takes a couple of hits, though it works exactly as intended^B3C32

Uses her remaining chain-making scrolls to rig the crane that lifts the interdiction cart into place, brushing him with her wings often enough to keep a constitution buff running the whole time; organizes the chokepoint defenses once the self-destruct sequence hits and orders a ring of flamers and mages set around the portal in case something happens to the cart^B3C31

Checks in worried when the ground shakes from a distant explosion that isn't his, then tells him not to blow anything else up once his own train bomb does knock her people off their feet, confirming nobody was seriously hurt beyond some hearing damage^B3C27

Reports her team's discovery of a province boss at stop 48 and plans to hold station 36 against the wrath ghouls gathering there, asking for boom jugs^B3C22

Sent another update once Hekla's team arrives; still no reply shown on the page^B3C21

Reports her crew's harrowing fight into Trainyard D and their shelter in the administrative building over chat; takes his suggestion to try the employee train tunnel on foot toward the nearest transfer station^B3C19

Confirms the PVP coupon mechanic for him: her own coupons wouldn't burn, she left them on floor 1 over Brandon's objection, and Elle never got a matching book off her own skull; warns him a wrath ghoul is turning up among the migrating dead^B3C18

Sends a short follow-up alongside Elle's message, warning him the monsters get much more powerful once they transform^B3C16

Blames Quan Ch for the wave of stalled trains, reporting inbox chatter that he's farming train engineers and stranding crawlers across the floor by doing it; agrees to look for a secret way out of the drug-tunnel robot room while walking^B3C15

Reports her team's findings on the drug-fueled tunnel system in detail, then warns him that stopping any more trains without a solid plan risks trapping other crawlers down the line^B3C12

Works through Mordecai's train map with him and Elle, arguing the real gap is what happens at the recurring five-stop mob platforms and at the end of a line; agrees to split the investigation, taking her own team to check a platform while Carl goes after a train engineer^B3C9

Greets him warmly at the club, confirms her message found him, and lays out what actually happened between Brandon and Chris before he can hear it secondhand from anyone else; agrees to exchange chat contact and look over Mordecai's train map with him before the attack on Donut cuts the meeting short^B3C8

Reaches out to him secondhand, through a contact of Daniel Bautista 2's at the Desperado Club, wanting to talk about a Brandon and a Chris; plans to wait at the club's bar each night after the recap. Still alive, which brings Carl real relief^B3C6

Waves goodbye without a smile as she's the last to descend the ramp to floor 3^B1C41

Her idea to open the door on the Rage Elemental becomes the first working piece of his escape plan; she counts down and pulls the door for the real attempt^B1C40

Sits down and matter-of-factly teaches him to use the Pedicure Kit of the Sylph after Donut laughs him off^B1C32

Says nothing when introduced; her only words this chapter come at the very end, asking how his plan against the borough boss is supposed to work^B1C22

Yolanda Martinez 13:

Her eyes cloud over at the mention of Yolanda's name, still grieving^B3C8

Screams her name in grief while hauling other residents to safety, after the Rage Elemental kills her^B1C38

Chris Andrews 2:

Told by Carl that he's safe and free of Maggie's control at last, and will be brought to her on the next floor^B4C34

Learns Frank Q's death was Maggie My's doing, not a personality shift in Chris; begs Carl not to kill him but refuses to relay Chris's own final plea to be put out of his misery, which Elle sends in her place^B4C14

Says he stopped responding to her once he took the Igneous race; Carl separately mentions Odette had once tried to warn him about Chris. Imani still calls him her friend and asks Carl not to kill him if it comes to that^B4C10

Explains he picked the Igneous race, that it changed his personality along with his body, and that he and Brandon fought over how to spend their days once he wanted nothing but hunting; several men left with him in the same fight, and he's the only one of them still alive. Won't answer any of their messages, but Imani says he's actively looking for Carl, and wanted Carl to hear the real story before Chris finds him^B3C8

Walks up and hugs him the moment the show snaps off, laughing and crying at once^B1C39

Donut:

Revealed to have already told Donut privately to get rid of her own coupons when she first got them; describes her to Carl as processing things like a child rather than a person^B3C18

Takes up position behind her and Carl, wings spread, and wraps them both in an ethereal hug that lands three temporary buffs: 10% Strength, 10% damage reduction, and 25% faster healing^B3C9

Shoots her a furious glare over her joke about Jack's anatomy, then gets up and turns away, unable to watch the rest of the recap^B1C39

Elle McGibbons:

Confirms the province boss discovery alongside her and lays out the plan to defend station 36 together^B3C22

Debates hijacking carts to ride the drug-tunnel conveyor together rather than hike back to the main track^B3C18

Scans the room warily for threats to Donut on arrival, plainly more on guard than Elle; visibly irritated when Elle tells Carl about Henry and the Shade Gremlins with black humor, and cuts in to correct the tone rather than the facts^B3C8

Miss Krakaren:

Guesses, unconfirmed, that she's the one manufacturing the tunnel system's sedative, and chooses to keep her team clear of her rather than engage^B3C12

Prepotente:

Threatened outright by him over the portal, offering to crunch on her bones for the sound they'd make; her demeanor flips instantly, though Miriam Dom and Prepotente both leave before it goes any further^B3C32

Pig Harness:

A leather harness taken from a tuskling courtesan^B1C37