Dear Diary,

Floor 28, the one Kimi and Y exploded, was completely not crossable for at least a couple hours yesterday. The Director fixed it at like midnight.

She said she was looking into what happened. I hope Kimi and Y tell us if they get in trouble.

But enough about that, it's time I talked about food!

So! Food here is magical! The ingredients aren't magical by themselves, it's completed dishes that gain magic properties. But, what's in the dishes influences what properties it has.

Which makes cooking kinda stressful, because I don't know if leaving out oregano will affect the outcome.

Yet.

This is absolutely something I could spend days and weeks testing and cataloging. But, being a legit player, I only have at most a couple hours a day.

So far we know that meatballs give a minor boost to strength, pizza gives a boost to stamina, and cake gives temp HP. It works on everyone, cuz we gave meatballs to the wolves and they gained strength.

Sushi gives a boost to swim speed. Hamburgers and fries (yes, fries need to be eaten with it) give a +1 to literally everything. Fries by themselves give no buff, but if eaten with ketchup they add +1 to a couple random things. The Sams say that different sauces will make the buffs change, and have taken it upon themselves to eat nothing but fries for lunch and dinner until they've tried every sauce. A hamburger by itself gives +1 to strength and anything related to it.

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Chicken burgers, tho, almost work like a flight potion. Chicken seems to always do something related to flight.

As you can see, dear notebook, there's no rhyme or reason to any of it. I think whoever came up with the system doesn't ever cook, and just randomly added buffs to whatever dishes their catgirls sold.

I need to make something that absolutely isn't on any menu anywhere, and see what it does. So far I've been making things on the menu because it's easy and my cooking level means I can do it fast without ever messing up. Plus we needed to know what buffs it all gave.

I should make… I really wish Nat's cookbook was still in my inventory. There were plenty of good things in there…

I know. I'll make lasagna. I can make one with beef then one with chicken. That'll be good to start out with. Plus since I don't have my pasta makers I can't do anything too fancy. Lasagna noodles only need a rolling pin.

Oh.

Oh I know what to make.

Kimi and Avi are gonna hate me, but I'm gonna make an energy drink again. Y and I have both been forbidden from making them, but this is for important science! If anything off-menu gives a buff, it'll be that.

Or maybe it'll give a debuff. If anything were to give me a poison debuff, it'll be that.

Fish, cheese, espresso and mint syrup. I don't even have to ask Y what the ingredients were.

Hopefully the catgirl on Floor 40 doesn't mind me making unholy abominations in her kitchen. I'll clean up after, obviously, but the smell might linger…

If she does mind, I can stick to lasagna.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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