Attention all Players:

Congrats on reaching Cycle 2! You have pressed the reset button [1] times! Get going!

People have requested information on what's going on "behind the scenes", as it were. I won't spoil everything, but I will let you know this:

After 30 cycles pass here, everyone in all the dungeons will be sent to a new world. You will be placed in a city or town with everything set up. Players will have a choice of fun jobs, from merchant to tavern owner to town mayor.

The winners (if they choose) can be kings or queens of their own city-state. With the absolute authority that entails. They'll be able to choose where the city will be, and they'll be able to name the city and a handful of towns around it.

The group that comes in second will have that choice, but with single cities in a smaller country.

That should be enough to fuel your imaginations for a while.

Good luck getting to the button!

Director

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Dear Diary,

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New cycle! The first cycle ended! Woo!

We're elves now, and we're in parties of five. Avi and I are with Kimi, Y and Mika. Lily and Staab are with Aya and the Sams.

The Sams volunteered to not push the button last cycle, so their group has to beat us to Floor 60 this time. Well, they don't have to, but if they don't we'll just be hanging out there with nothing to do. Avi and I volunteered to not push the button this cycle, so yeah. Only eight people can push the button before the cycle resets, I don't know if I mentioned that.

This morning the Director sent a message to all the players. She said if we win enough times we can be rulers of cities. But that would mean we'd all be split up. I don't want to split our group up.

If I had it my way, we'd all be put in a single town. Not a big city, just a little town. And the next closest town would be the kobold's town. That way we could join them for parties.

I think I'd make it a town on a beach, next to a forest. That way we could have all the fish we want, but we could also explore the forest. And of course the wolves would all live in the forest, running around to their heart's content.

I liked running a diner. I think I'd ask for a diner.

I don't know what Avi would want to do. Maybe be a vet or something. We've never really talked about what we want to do after the dungeon. We never knew what was going to happen, or if we were just stuck in here forever.

But now we know there is a future. And we'll get to choose what to do.

I wonder… if I'll be able to have kids.

We can't here. There's a couple theories about why, but the end result is that we can't. Not that anyone would want to, given everyone's job here is either to kill or die repeatedly.

But anyways.

I can't wait for Cycle 30. I hope whoever wins wants the prize.

But first we have to get through Cycle 2!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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