Carmen Imagawa

**Carmen Imagawa** is a resident of Byzantium and Phineas Welles' contact in the city.

## Background

Carmen has always been fascinated by birds to the extent where all of the codenames that she assigns to people are bird themed.

One day, her interest in birds as environmental indicators made her start thinking about environmental indicators within Halcyon itself. Aspects of Halcyon which stood out to her included how there was no one living in Byzantium who wasn't born there and how nothing ever gets fixed in the city, not to mention how suggestion boxes had shredders installed directly in them. When the shredder in the suggestion box broke, it was eventually taken away, rather than being fixed or replaced.

The incident caused Carmen to wonder what else was being hidden from the residents of Halcyon and eventually led her to joining up with Phineas Welles.

## Player interactions

* With Science 40, the Stranger can successfully understand what Carmen means when she says that birds are environmental indicators.

### Related quests

* The City and the Stars: Phineas Welles tells the Stranger to travel to Byzantium and meet with his contact, Carmen.

## Notes

* Carmen has assigned the following bird-themed code names to relevant people:
	+ Carmen Imagawa- Golden Eagle/Cuckoo (optional)
	+ Phineas Welles - Phoenix
	+ The Stranger - Cuckoo/Golden Eagle (optional)
	+ Ellie Fenhill - Rufous Hummingbird
	+ Parvati Holcomb - Chicken
	+ Felix Millstone - Bullfinch (Millstone)
	+ Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III - Cassowary
	+ Minister Aloysius Clarke - Magpie
	+ Vicar Maximillian DeSoto - Rockhopper Penguin
* Carmen will not assign code names to SAM.

## References

1. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"I've always been fascinated by birds. If you ever research Earth species, there are thousands of them, so colorful and distinct."*
2. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"I started thinking about everything we see around Halcyon. And all the things we don't see."*
3. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"For starters, you rarely come across anyone living in Byzantium who wasn't born here. Even though we get ships in all the time."*
4. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"And then there's the way nothing gets fixed. There used to be a suggestion box around here. People would drop ideas in. Nothing ever came of them, of course."*
The Stranger: *"Seems pretty normal, actually."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Sure, that part is. That's why they install shredders in those boxes, after all."*
5. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"The whole episode made me wonder. If they can't fix something as simple as a suggestion box, what else aren't they fixing? After a while, I got connected with our mutual friend and started using my position here to feed him information when I could. That's it really."*
6. ↑ The Stranger: *"What's your code name?"*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Oh, I'm Golden Eagle."*
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Stranger: *"No way. I'm Golden Eagle. You can be Cuckoo."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"That doesn't even make- fine. FINE."*
8. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"The Phoenix is a wanted man, and the Board has eyes everywhere in Byzantium."*
The Stranger: *"The Phoenix?"*
Carmen Imagawa: *"That's my code name for- you know. Our mutual friend."*
9. ↑ The Stranger: *"Do I have a code name?"*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Um, yeah. I named you Cuckoo."*
10. ↑ Ellie Fenhill: *"Does this mean I'm supposed to have one, too? Fine, but make it a really good one."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Let's go with... Rufous Hummingbird."*
Ellie Fenhill: *"Forget it. Code names are for amateurs, anyway."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Too late, I've already marked it off. Can't just go reassigning code names."*
11. ↑ Parvati Holcomb: *"Oh, oh, oh! Can I be "Chicken?" Because chickens will adopt any critter's baby and keep them warm."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"You sure you don't wanna be Raven? Or Sparrowhawk?"*
Parvati Holcomb: *"Aw."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Okay, okay. Chicken it is."*
12. ↑ Felix Millstone: *"Can we pick our own code names? I wanna be Rolling Thunder. Wait, no, I got it. Drop Kick Millstone. Yeah."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"I was really trying to stick with the bird theme. How about... Bullfinch."*
Felix Millstone: *"Wow. That is so much better. Bullfinch Millstone."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Okay, but adding your last name kind of misses the point."*
13. ↑ Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III: *"This cloak and dagger stuff is nonsense, but... if everyone else gets a code name, I want one, too."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"You can be Cassowary."*
Nyoka Ramnarim-Wentworth III: *"That's... shockingly apt. Cassowaries were a solitary bunch, but once they had a friend, they'd stick with them 'til the end."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"Aggressive little creatures, too."*
14. ↑ Carmen Imagawa: *"Anyway, you're looking to make contact with Minister- er, Magpie, right? I should warn you, it won't be easy. He spends most of his time in his estate, which is heavily guarded."*
15. ↑ Maximillian DeSoto: *"I'm almost afraid to ask, but what's my code name?"*
Carmen Imagawa: *"You're... Rockhopper Penguin."*
Maximillian DeSoto: *"I can't tell whether you're joking."*
Carmen Imagawa: *"I never joke about tradecraft."*