Imani C
Names: Imani CImaniCrawler Imani C
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 22 (22)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- Ch 22Imani C, a level 10 caregiver with a longsword, is a Crawler Killer x12 after mercifully killing residents during an attack.
- Ch 32Imani teaches Carl to use the pedicure kit, activating his barefoot buffs.
- Ch 40Imani suggests simply opening the safe room door, since the Rage Elemental gets teleported away whenever it tries to enter.
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 6Imani is alive and urgently wants to meet Carl at the Desperado Club bar after the recap, about Brandon and Chris.
- Ch 8Imani is now a level 24 Obsidian Butterfly Fire Spiritualist, a healer with ethereal wings, still caring for the twenty survivors of her group.
- Ch 12Imani warns Carl not to stop more trains, since stranded mobs that miss their fix change physically and other crawlers may be trapped.
- Ch 18Imani says only the first party member to earn a player-killer skull gets the coupon book, and she advised Donut to discard hers.
- Ch 27Imani, Li Jun and the crawlers from station 101 fortify Station 36 and block the line with the disabled Vermillion train.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 10Imani begs Carl not to kill Chris, saying he is still her friend and Brandon's brother.
- Ch 14Imani proposes recapturing Chris after the castles fall so Mordecai can brew a potion to save him.
- Ch 31Carl tells Imani to begin the planned work without waiting for him, accepting the risk of more gods appearing.
- Ch 32Imani insists bubble rescues only happen when no crawler would be left behind; eight bubbles, about 500 crawlers, qualify.
Book 5: The Butcher’s Masquerade
- Ch 20Imani has been talked into becoming guildmaster, and the guild has already purchased a space.
- Ch 21Imani can now fly, and she counters Eva's charm spell on the druid town's NPCs.
- Ch 55Imani has an aura called Smart Juice that adds a level to a spell at the cost of extra cooldown.
- Ch 68Imani is near a breakdown as the plan goes wrong, and relays reports of crawlers fighting mantises at stairwells.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 30Imani suspects from Daniel Bautista's excuses that Katia's drug use isn't new, and plans to ask Louis and Britney.
- Ch 40Imani was sent to Detroit, where she grew up, and her key location is in the home of someone she knows.
- Ch 42Imani's seventh opponent fled with a card, and opponents must be fought in order, so she must hunt him through Detroit.
- Ch 50Imani's team still lacks its key, with about 30 hours left to find a teleported opponent.
- Ch 54Imani's whole squad died when her own Amhuluk totem's poison cloud killed them; the AI gave her four player killer skulls for it.
- Ch 54Imani chose Cuba over facing Elle, and is now hiding in Sister Ines's church saferoom from Quan Ch.
- Ch 63Imani, a healer, cures the mercenaries of the slug disease and sends low-level Sluggalos out to feed the demons around the church.
- Ch 65Imani installed a Doggie Door in the Meadowlark room, letting her friends travel to the church, and refuses to take Carl's key.
- Ch 72Imani, trapped with Tran under rubble, refuses to leave him and doesn't trust her remaining totems.
- Ch 74Imani carries many player killer skulls over her head and quietly sobs as she holds Carl and Donut.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 30Imani's ethereal wings give an unusually powerful buff, and she casts Total Ear Protection on Donut and Mongo.
- Ch 31Imani flies across the battlefield rescuing and healing fallen soldiers during the charge.
- Ch 56Imani carries Carl's Tripper spell via a small barbed-wire ankle tattoo, and uses it to set off the naga castle's traps.
- Ch 79Imani fled her family in Detroit, became a nurse in a small town, carries heavy guilt, and secretly loves Chris.
Book 8: A Parade of Horribles
- Ch 26Imani heals Dong by wrapping her wings around him and adds energy-replenishing buffs.
- Ch 27Imani was the youngest of three siblings and only girl, and avoids talking about her lost family.
- Ch 41Imani hired a fleshmancer mercenary, planning to keep him hidden in their guild until needed.
- Ch 44Imani and Elle's team, with Elle driving, follows Carl's course and has a wall-climbing kit for the cliff.
- Ch 48Imani examined the bucket the Minister's creatures carried and says its contents are something worse than it looks.
- Ch 52Imani reports that their Maurice in the slums was an orangutan, and killing him won them a captive engineer.
- Ch 59Imani admits she has long looked forward to seeing Carl sing.
- Ch 60Imani knocks Dwight unconscious with a potion, and Louis, Britney and Bautista guard him.
- Ch 72Imani is angry about Carl's Floor 11 strategy, calling it insane and threatening to take a deal.
- Ch 74Imani now has some protection that lets her lean against Chris despite his heat.
- Ch 78Apartment 310 shows Imani's family, with a haggard version of Imani watching her father seize while others stand by.
- Ch 79Imani says her family apartment was a good thing: it showed her uncle would have died even if she hadn't left.
- Ch 81Imani spearheads an effort letting thief engineers strip upgrades from departing crawlers' vehicles before they take deals.
- Ch 81Imani refuses Carl's urging to take a deal, saying that if they lose she wants to go down fighting.
- Ch 87Imani finally cures Carl's slugpox.
- Ch 90The giant dream-version of Imani regrets staying in Detroit for her family; Donut tells her she escaped, found friends and met Chris.
Connections
- member ofMeadow Lark
- related toYog's Special Chainused the scroll
- ally ofElle McGibbonsracing teammates
- ally ofCarl
- related toMistress Tiathamanager
- inStation 36
- ally ofLi Jun
- friend ofChris Andrews 2
- leadsSafehome Yolanda
- friend ofYolanda Martinez 13
- member ofTeam Meadowlark
- enemy ofQuan Ch
- partner ofChris Andrews 2Imani loves Chris
- related toJacobusImani's summoned card
- enemy ofLinusshe was his primary target
- enemy ofMinus
- related toDeontayhuman shell in Imani's family apartment
- related toGucciImani's dog
- ally ofJacobus
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 22Meeting the eldercare group
Carl and Donut find Brandon, Chris, Yolanda, Imani and Agatha guarding 38 elderly crawlers outside the spiral maze.
- Book 1 · Ch 22Plan to storm the spiral
Carl decides to grind for a day, then return with Donut and the four caregivers to fight the borough boss and get the residents downstairs.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Borough boss battle begins
Carl, Donut, the four Meadow Lark staff and Agatha enter the spiral; it becomes a rave arena and the Ball of Swine charges them.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Popping the Ball of Swine
The ball wedges on the Speedbump; the group stabs until it bursts, raining dazed tusklings as the fortress collapses.
- Book 1 · Ch 26Slaughter of the tusklings
The group kills the confused, weaponless tusklings released from the Ball of Swine, needed to drop the stairwell's forcefield.
- Book 1 · Ch 37The resident train
The Meadow Lark group arrives with a wheelchair train, and Carl leads them toward the stairwell.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Escape to Big Shot Chicken
Carl's Protective Shell buys time; he carries Mrs. McGibbons through reversed gravity and dives into the safe room as the elemental pounds at the door.
- Book 1 · Ch 39Recap of the elemental attack
The recap episode opens with Jack's fatal mistake and Yolanda's death, and ends with Carl's boom jug badly hurting the Rage Elemental.
- Book 1 · Ch 40Building the MOAB
In the safe room, Carl, Brandon and Chris spend hours building a bomb-launching trailer for the chopper, after testing that the elemental is teleported away from the open door.
- Book 1 · Ch 41Farewell to Meadow Lark
Carl and Princess Donut torch the pupae and see Meadow Lark's survivors safely down the stairs, then head into the kobold quadrant.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Bautista passes on Imani's message
Bautista tells Carl that Imani needs to talk to him at the Desperado Club and explains how to find the clubs.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Imani warns Carl about Chris
Imani tells Carl that Brandon died, and his brother Chris, changed by his igneous race, broke away and is looking for Carl.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Aftermath of the attack on Donut
Elle kills the second attacker; Donut weeps over her first human kill; Astrid apologises and grants free security.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Planning with Imani and Elle
Over Mordecai's train map, Elle points out the prime-numbered transfer stations and they divide up the investigation.
- Book 3 · Ch 12Imani explains the drug system
Imani and Elle report that mobs disembark every five stops to collect drug vials from Pooka bosses supplied by a Krakaren.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Elle's party stranded
Elle and Imani report that trains stopped coming, likely because Quan Ch is destroying them, and they must walk to another station.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Imani confirms the coupon book
Imani confirms player-killer skulls bring a coupon for every party member and that Donut discussed hers with her.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Updates from Meadow Lark and Bautista
Imani's group survives a ride to Trainyard D, while Bautista's crowd faces a suicidal Kravyad whose death would close their escape portal.
- Book 3 · Ch 22News of the province boss
Elle and Imani report festering ghouls merging into a province boss at stop 48 and plan to hold station 36 against wrath ghouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Planning the stand at station 36
Carl teaches Li Jun to drive the train, sends the rescued crawlers to reinforce Imani at station 36, and resolves to save those at the end of the line.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Yard F crawlers die in explosion
A distant explosion kills a large crawler group attacking a blister ghoul generator; Carl suspects they blew the soul crystal.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Carl's train bomb seals the Vermillion line
Carl sends the Vermillion engine loaded with hobgoblin dynamite backward down the track; the blast kills many mobs, levels him up and knocks everyone at Station 36 off their feet.
- Book 3 · Ch 30Carl figures out the trap
Recalling the size of the empty space inside the circle of stairwells, Carl realises how the Krakaren swarm will strike.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Portal trap in station 36
Carl, helped by Zhang's shrinking wand and Imani's magical chain, hangs a portal cart over the station's center tuned to the abyss.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Siege of station 36
Crawlers hold station 36 against waves of Krakaren and ghouls; Katia's Crowd Blast and Carl's boom jugs break a breach, with Donut teleporting them back.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Ghoul generators explode
Two nearby explosions shake the chamber, likely soul crystals blowing at station 12 and its mirrored twin.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Province boss sent to the abyss
Donut shoots the province boss across the noodle with a magic missile; it attacks and is teleported away by the portal on the raised Def Leppard cart.
- Book 3 · Ch 32Meeting Prepotente and Miriam Dom
The goat crawler Prepotente, whose kill was stolen, confronts Carl through the noodle until his shepherd Miriam Dom smacks him into line.
- Book 3 · Ch 34Descent from Floor 4
The group returns to station 36 and heads down the stairwell; Agatha unexpectedly passes them, and Loita summons Carl and Donut to Odette's green room without explaining Zev's absence.
- Book 4 · Ch 14No way to save Chris
Mordecai explains the Infiltrator parasite can't be removed without killing Chris; Chris begs to be killed, and Carl reluctantly apologises to Imani.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Planning to save Chris
Carl, angry but relieved, sends Mordecai after antiparasitic ingredients and plans to question Juice Box before attacking the last castle.
- Book 4 · Ch 28Emberus rampages
The blind fire god Emberus smashes through popped bubbles searching for his dog Orthrus, burning worlds and besieging Tserendolgor's group.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Bubble rescues begin
Imani coordinates the first rescue phase from the Desperado Club, covering eight qualifying bubbles.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Phase one extractions start
Imani launches the bubble rescues; the first group passes through the gate to Hump Town and hands it on without stealing it.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Bubble rescues completed
Phases one and two use the gate to free about 1,500 crawlers from trapped bubbles, releasing several feral gods and summoning a few real ones.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase three: changelings depart
Imani, Elle, Louis and Firas open a gate portal to the sixth floor, sending the changelings through with the Twister.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Phase four begins
Elle hands the gate back to Carl, and Carl, Donut and Katia share a farewell hug as phase four starts.
- Book 5 · Ch 52Carl considers leaving the floor early
Carl tells the group he plans to take Donut down the stairs early; Katia, Imani and Elle push back, and Donut refuses to go.
- Book 5 · Ch 56Planning the castle
Carl and his allies study Edgar's castle map and learn Donut's contest entries were accepted, while Prepotente heads their way with a present.
- Book 5 · Ch 60Coordinated hunter raids
With hunters scattered by the brambles and blood bar, Carl, Donut, Katia's team and Imani's crawlers launch coordinated raids on hunter-held towns, starting another with traps, Ping and spider bombs.
- Book 5 · Ch 61Raid on the hunter town
The crawler alliance destroys the hunters' anti-air gun and kills nearly all hunters in a fast coordinated raid; Donut scores five kills.
- Book 5 · Ch 62Puzzling gifts for Donut
Carl and Mordecai examine the Apothecary's gifts for Donut, including a seemingly useless hammer and stick marked with sevens, before leaving for the masquerade.
- Book 5 · Ch 63The masquerade plan
Carl posts his secret plan for the masquerade in the cookbook and his allies sign it, each adding their own stance.
- Book 5 · Ch 64Plan changes
Realising they cannot strike first inside the sealed ballroom, Carl tells his allies to party peacefully while operations outside continue.
- Book 5 · Ch 68Mantis swarm disrupts changeling evacuation
Mantis nymphs swarm the floor, forcing the Sledge's changeling escort to switch to entering the castle by airship.
- Book 6 · Ch 3Arrival on the eighth floor in Havana
After skipping a floor, Carl and Princess Donut start the eighth floor in Havana's capitol building; their friends check in from regions around the world.
- Book 6 · Ch 6Traffic chain reactions begin
Crawlers in other areas report car pile-ups caused by monsters and debate building roadblocks away from the stairwells.
- Book 6 · Ch 30Katia in the drug den
Imani reports that Katia overdosed on something from a secret drug den and is unconscious with a debuff; she fears Katia has an addiction.
- Book 6 · Ch 32Katia's addiction revealed
In the Desperado Club, a sick Katia apologises while Mordecai explains her four drug addictions and begins treating them with Imani.
- Book 6 · Ch 32Carl refuses to abandon Katia
Mordecai suggests letting Katia self-destruct to protect Donut; Carl refuses and demands she pull herself together to do their Astrid quest now.
- Book 6 · Ch 54Imani's squad is wiped out
A recap reveals Imani's entire squad died when an enemy totem possessed two of them and her own Amhuluk's poison cloud killed all four.
- Book 6 · Ch 54Imani trapped near Quan Ch
Imani reveals she is in Cuba at Sister Ines's church, having fled into a saferoom from Quan Ch; Carl and Donut head to her.
- Book 6 · Ch 56Demon Eviction begins in Cuba
The Chowder War quest fails and a new quest begins as Cuba experiences a Demon Eviction event, letting demons possess zombies and drag victims to Sheol.
- Book 6 · Ch 58Race to stop Quan
Teleported into swampy woods, Carl warns Imani and Tserendolgor's squad to delay the slug-infected Quan at the exits while he forms a new plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 62Regrouping in Havana
Carl throws Samantha to retrieve Donut, and the three sneak through zombie-filled Havana toward the church where Imani waits.
- Book 6 · Ch 63Sluggalos versus demons
Imani releases the Sluggalos Doctor Bones bred in the training arcade to feed the demons' portals around the church, while Carl begins forming a larger plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 65Friends arrive in Cuba
Imani leads over twenty crawlers, including Elle, Katia, Louis and Li Jun, out of the church via a Doggie Door to help Carl with his plan.
- Book 6 · Ch 67Assault on the demon horde
Donut casts Minion Army while the sluggalos charge early; Elle's supercharged Graupel then obliterates the demons outside the FOSCA building.
- Book 6 · Ch 68The Missing Piece begins
Where the Sidewalk Ends completes and a hybrid world quest starts: crawlers in Cuba must survive a card battle against Ysalte and help Amayon break free within ten minutes.
- Book 6 · Ch 72Digging for Imani and Tran
Elle, Bautista and others dig through rubble to reach the trapped Imani and Tran as demons swarm from all sides.
- Book 6 · Ch 74Paz's card ripped
The group agrees to free Paz Lo rather than keep his card; Donut rips it and gets no player killer skull.
- Book 6 · Ch 74The heavens open over Cuba
The portal strips the world clean, sucking Carl, Donut and Imani into the sky; Carl swears vengeance for everyone lost.
- Book 6 · Ch 74Arrival at Faction Wars
The quests Hell Comes to Crawler Town and The Missing Piece complete, and the crawlers are welcomed to Faction Wars.
- Book 7 · Ch 4Arrival in Larracos
Carl and Donut land in a drained alley of Larracos as the ninth floor, Faction Wars, begins with a 60-hour ceasefire.
- Book 7 · Ch 9Army officers appointed
Donut touches each ally to make them officers; Florin, Imani and Elle head out to prepare the Posse headquarters.
- Book 7 · Ch 16Former crawlers arrive as reinforcements
In the Meadowlark saferoom, Carl meets cookbook authors Tipid and Rosetta, who reveal that over 50,000 former crawlers have joined the Princess Posse.
- Book 7 · Ch 22Katia and Carl go under
In the base field hospital, Mordecai gives Katia and Carl modified Glory Bound so Katia can confront her past and Carl can try to trap Shi Maria in her worst memory.
- Book 7 · Ch 30The Princess Posse goes over the top
On Donut's order, over two thousand members of the Princess Posse drink invisibility potions and charge across No Man's Land into enemy fire, with Carl, Donut, Mongo and Imani among them.
- Book 7 · Ch 31Charge across No Man's Land
Carl, Donut, Mongo and Imani run through fog, artillery and pulse fire; an enemy diffusion spell strips their protections, and Carl silences a heavy gun with a hob-lobber.
- Book 7 · Ch 31Breaching the trenches with Build Trench
On Boomer's signal, the attackers drop into the bomb craters and use Build Trench scrolls to dig channels that join the enemy trenches; Carl then attacks a stunned Saccathian soldier with Daughter's Kiss.
- Book 7 · Ch 32Enemy front trench captured
After Carl blasts the trench and briefly blacks out, the Princess Posse captures the first trench while fleeing enemies fall into an acid-filled middle trench; Boomer takes command.
- Book 7 · Ch 38Donut unleashes Tina
Kiwi refuses to let Tina fight; Carl relents, but Donut orders Tina out, rallies the troops from the castle roof, and leads a charge on the paratroopers.
- Book 7 · Ch 54Operation: Snake Pit goes sideways
Carl returns to find Prepotente already killed most of the naga army, insulted the team, and drew off the sluggalos, forcing a change of plan.
- Book 7 · Ch 55The plan to kill the line of succession
Carl recounts the four-group plan built on Tipid and Rosetta's intelligence to kill the four naga in Vinata's line of succession.
- Book 7 · Ch 56Elle and Imani enter the naga castle
Without the sluggalos to clear traps, Elle, Imani and strippers enter the naga castle; Imani uses the tattooed Tripper spell to trigger traps.
- Book 7 · Ch 59Throne room taken
Elle and Imani occupy the abandoned Blood Sultanate throne room, starting a six-hour capture timer, while Louis gasses the exterior.
- Book 7 · Ch 73Carl's strike team assembles
In Madness territory, Carl teleports in Katia, Imani, Splash Zone and, unexpectedly, Dong Quixote on Gonk with Bigs, then the team starts picking through the trapped prairie toward the castle.
- Book 7 · Ch 75Psionic assault on Carl
As the 105th arrives, the Madness's mind mages bombard Carl with psionic debuffs; a mysterious voice steadies him, his Mind Balance hits 16, and he paints the mind mages for the last missiles.
- Book 7 · Ch 89Allies thank Donut
Freed allies tell a guilt-ridden Donut she saved them; Zhang comforts her over Li Jun's death.
- Book 7 · Ch 91Raid on the Reaver castle begins
Carl's group travels to the bombed Reaver castle to rescue Louis; spotting invisible Fopsy among the adjutants, Carl suspects a trap and switches to plan B, sending Juice Box in.
- Book 7 · Ch 92Tagg found inside Louis
Juice Box discovers the Reavers replaced Louis's heart and lungs and that Epitome Tagg is present in them, so they keep Louis unconscious.
- Book 7 · Ch 94Kiwi's twins are born
Kiwi gives birth to twin girls fathered by Mongo, a new legendary species called Ursensus, with Imani, Bucket Boy, Edgar and Florin assisting.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Katia leaves the crawl
Katia chooses pregnancy from Eileithyia, is made human again with Louis as father, is fitted with cybernetic limbs and disappears, ineligible to continue.
- Book 7 · Ch 99The crew leaves the 9th floor
Samantha is recalled from Emberus, and the remaining crawlers say goodbyes and enter the stairwell as Emberus destroys the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 5Prepotente's warning
Prepotente warns in chat that killing more than one opponent per heat could force crawler-versus-crawler races; Zhang hints Li Na may already have killed one.
- Book 8 · Ch 17Crawler gathering at the Lollipop
Carl and Donut join the other crawlers at the Lollipop karaoke bar and compare vehicles, results and upgrades from heat one.
- Book 8 · Ch 19Zhang reports Li Na's killings
Zhang messages that Li Na killed five teams and her heat's replacements include two crawler teams, including Tran's; Li Na sits unresponsive while Zhang drives.
- Book 8 · Ch 26The sock suspicion
Imani heals Dong and privately concludes his collapse came from separation from his sapient sock, which may be sustaining him.
- Book 8 · Ch 27Opening loot between races
Carl and Donut open boxes in the safe room; Carl gains the Fursona skill, a Fursuiter temporary class and a hotlist expansion with Contingency.
- Book 8 · Ch 35Friends check in
Other crawler teams report their heat results: most won or placed, while Louis's team survived last again and Zhang fears crawler rivals conspiring.
- Book 8 · Ch 37Eris freezes time
Eris appears with a robot Uzi Jesus, urges Carl to ally with Akuma and to worship her, and grants a nearby crawler a permanent effect.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Jacobus made permanent
After Eris leaves, Imani's Reverse Tooth Fairy card Jacobus becomes permanently summoned through Carl's Scavenger's Daughter effect.
- Book 8 · Ch 38Carl tells the group about Eris
Carl explains Eris's visit and coin in chat; friends react, and Carl proposes talking to the war mages before sharing a half-formed plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 39Elle's revenge on Akuma
Donut mutes Akuma and Elle shatters one of his frozen testicles, then sets terms for his interrogation under Imani's anti-magic shield.
- Book 8 · Ch 40Interrogating Akuma
Under a draining anti-magic shield, Akuma explains reused NPCs, the dungeon framework, and that everything in the dungeon will be destroyed after this season.
- Book 8 · Ch 44Imani's team joins Carl
Imani reports her team is behind Carl's, that Henrietta's team was lost to a trap, and Carl agrees to wait for them at the cliff.
- Book 8 · Ch 47Carl regains his composure
Pulled away by Imani and Donut, Carl grieves the mercenaries, has Donut collect the corpses, and overhears the Tigrans' plans for Penelope.
- Book 8 · Ch 48Passing the Minister of Blood-Letting
Heading into town, the group passes the Minister of Blood-Letting's skeletal creatures carrying a bucket of foul white liquid.
- Book 8 · Ch 49Race tracks rerolled at the pit stop
Zev reveals that each heat rolls a new track for the second half; Carl and Donut get Satan's Water Park while Elle and Imani get the eternal slum.
- Book 8 · Ch 53Li Na's dread in Tran's race
Tran's messages reveal Li Na cast a dread that made racers kill each other, leaving only five surviving teams.
- Book 8 · Ch 57Zhang's despair at the Lollipop
At the Lollipop, Zhang breaks down over Li Na's killings and reveals his plan to kill Torpedo so the system kills them both; Carl says it won't work.
- Book 8 · Ch 58Dwight's drunken outburst
A drunk Dwight shoves Prepotente at the Lollipop's DJ booth; Imani separates them and Dwight sits sobbing on the floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 59Preparing the karaoke duet
Carl and Donut prepare to sing 'Take on Me' to gain guild entry, with potions, a scroll, Mongo watching and a packed bar.
- Book 8 · Ch 60Brawl at the Lollipop
Dwight's attack sparks a bar-wide fight and a fire; Imani knocks Dwight out, Mongo and Dong join in, and Louis and Britney put out the flames.
- Book 8 · Ch 62Failed garage raid on Corky
Before Carl's group can break in, Genesis and Rapture drive Corky out to the race; Porky learns Dong is involved and is furious.
- Book 8 · Ch 62Dong's sock curse
Dong's sapient sock teleports away and leaves him dying of Separation Anxiety, which needs the sock and every lost nickel to cure.
- Book 8 · Ch 70Aftermath of heat five
Carl's team mourns Dong; allies check in, and Osvaldo reveals Dwight won by going over the factory instead of through it.
- Book 8 · Ch 72Guild meeting in the pet stables
Carl outlines the plan for the last two heats and Floor 11, including leaving the party to deal with Hellik, while Donut and Imani object.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Farewell gathering in Hungry Eyes
About five hundred crawlers gather in Hungry Eyes as two hundred, including Bautista, Tran, Zhang and Archie, prepare to leave for the Pineapple Cabaret.
- Book 8 · Ch 74Bautista's farewell tea
Bautista thanks his friends, speaks of having found peace, and serves them his breakfast tea one last time.
- Book 8 · Ch 75Linus unmasked
Elle's tribute to her husband turns into exposing Linus as an impostor assassin; he admits Imani and Louis were his targets and faces expulsion from the dungeon.
- Book 8 · Ch 76Cabaret escape completed
227 crawlers are sent to the Pineapple Cabaret, and the Garden of Deliverance is set up to track whether each has died or escaped.
- Book 8 · Ch 77Ad Infinitum quest
The System AI freezes the race to explain the apartments as its predictive models, reveals Minus's identity and targets, and hints at an overlooked flaw in heat seven.
- Book 8 · Ch 78Imani's family apartment erupts
In apartment 310, Imani's family shells become aware and burst into invulnerable scarab beetles as Carl's team clears gate five.
- Book 8 · Ch 79Escorting Imani and Elle out of 310
Carl's team waits for Imani and Elle to clear their gate amid the beetles, then all drop through a Hole to the second floor.
- Book 8 · Ch 81Preparing for the final heat
Imani coordinates upgrade theft and deals to minimise crawler-on-crawler heats, refuses a deal herself, and Hedy fits Golden rockets for Carl's plan.
- Book 8 · Ch 82Mass exodus to the Outreach Guild
715 crawlers take deals, stripping their vehicles of upgrades for those staying; Osvaldo and others refuse.
- Book 8 · Ch 83Final heat lineups revealed
At the starting blocks of the final race heat, Carl sees that the heats now pit allied crawlers against each other: Chris with Imani and Elle, and Louis and Britney with Florin and Lucia Mar.
- Book 8 · Ch 84Carl's fury at the heat lineups
Carl screams at the ceiling, blaming the showrunners for setting allies against each other. Chris says he should have taken a deal, and Imani refuses to accept that.
- Book 8 · Ch 86Donut destroys the Russian Cadillac
As others retreat to use the Pineapple Cabaret holding plan, the Russian crawlers make a run for the exit; after allies drop its shield, Donut crushes the car with Astral Paw.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Slugpox flare and cure
Having forgotten Mordecai's cure potion, Carl spawns the sluggalo Lil' Mello Haze on the way to the meeting point, and Imani finally cures his slugpox.
- Book 8 · Ch 87Crawlers gather at the Hairpin
About thirty crawlers wait outside the Hairpin; seeing Carl as a dachshund, they all collapse laughing before he proposes robbing a casino.
- Book 8 · Ch 88Chris and Britney enter the Nothing portal
Carl bribes Mitch to open the Nothing portal for a test; after a farewell with Imani, Chris goes in, and Britney jumps in after him uninvited.
- Book 8 · Ch 89Mimic ambush in the casino
Everything in the Desperado Club casino turns out to be mimics; the crawlers, with Mongo and his clockwork copies, kill around fifty of them.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Louis enters the Nothing portal
After the mimic fight, Imani reopens the wheel portal; Louis says goodbye and jumps in, and Carl swears to free those sent away.
- Book 8 · Ch 90Leaving the cursed floor
Back at Hungry Eyes, Donut collects two more mounts, comforts the giant dream-Imani, and the truck heads for the stairwell.
- Book 8 · Ch 96The Primal history
Across the floats, the AI tells of the Primals' Resolution, Decision, the Betrayal of the doomsday collective, the war, the Eulogist and the Apothecary, then punishes the mantids and breaks Team Resolution's legs for a weak float.
- Book 8 · Ch 102The arena battle ends
The gods and monsters are gone and the crawlers are declared winners even though neither boss died. Hedy and several crawlers are dead, nineteen crawlers remain, and the 18th-floor exit opens.
- Book 8 · Ch 102Carl unites everyone in one party
After Prepotente warns that the level 250 gods are too strong one-on-one, Carl sends party requests until every remaining crawler is in a single party.