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Cycle 1 (5)

Dear Diary,

Yep, it's official! The Admin sent all the best floors!

Floor 15 is a big room filled with gold. It has a bunch of golden wyverns in it. And in command of the wyverns? Jenny!

That's right, Painbringer the Gold and her wyvern minions are the second boss in this dungeon!

We had tea. Because, come on, it's Jenny. And I had cake just sitting in my inventory, waiting to be eaten.

Mika and Y were actually really smart with this one. We're supposed to be kinda pretending to be normal players, and offering a dragon boss tea isn't a normal player thing.

So when we saw her, Mika was like "hey, I know the secret to this boss fight! She's gonna ask if we've come to steal from her or if we have an offering, and offering fancy tea gets the best results!"

And Y was like "yes, tea and fancy cakes is the best thing to offer! I have done this many times."

Jenny obviously heard all this, so she played along.

We aren't just randomly best friends with a dragon boss, nope, it's a game mechanic. Anyone can have tea and cake with the dragon, if only they offer.

So yeah, we had a lovely time with Jenny, and after an hour we continued on to the campsite.

I'm glad her floor came right after the horrible leech floor. I was worried I'd have nightmares about leeches, but instead I had a pleasant dream about… Well, ok, about Avi and me getting the dracoraptors into tuxedos, and then they were supposed to do this obstacle course thing, but the kraken from Floor 95 was on the course, and the yetis were trying to explain that it was in violation of several rules, and then I woke up. But there weren't any leeches in the dream, that's the important thing.

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Anyways, we’re at the second catgirl floor now! The buildings are all made out of sugar glass, which is pretty neat. It’s slightly see-through, tho, and the catgirls here all say they hate it. They say leaning against a wall for more than a minute makes it melt slightly, meaning they get their fur all sticky.

I can see how that would suck. I mean, I can think of worse things, but having to live with it for years would be super annoying.

Oh yeah, recording the floors for official recording purposes!

Floor 16 is a beach floor, with waves and crabs. To open the exit you have to collect three different shells. Searching for shells was pretty fun. Almost relaxing, if you ignore the random tidal waves and the snippy crabs. Avi and I are totally gonna adopt a crab someday.

Floor 17 is another water floor, but it’s… weird. It’s lit like night, and instead of sharks or anything there’s just octopi and eels. And the water is weirdly warm. Like if someone filled a bathtub then forgot and came back an hour later warm. It’s just a perfectly unpleasant temperature.

Floor 18 is rocky. It has horse-sized ants and crickets on it. I don’t like bugs. Next cycle I think I’m gonna suggest we skip it.

Floor 19 is… Ehh... It’s a candy floor. There are these swarms of gummy bears that try to be eaten. Like, they jump straight at your face and scramble around with little sticky arms. And they are extremely poisonous. Like, I use green magic. I have resistance to poison. And even so when one got between my teeth my health started visibly going down. Only me, Aya and Staab didn’t die on that floor.

I won’t say we should skip it next time, cuz I’m sure there’s some trick to it. Like, if we all had masks on that might make things easier. Yes, it was horrible, but it wasn’t boring-horrible or traumatizing-horrible.

Aaand then Floor 20 is the catgirl floor with sugar houses.

Aaaaaand it’s time for me to sleep.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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