Dear Diary,

We made it to Floor 50! We actually got here at like noon, and decided to stay. So I got to cook!

Mostly I wanted to play with the hot chocolate from the river. It turned into pudding suspiciously easily. I don’t know if it’s my chef level or the magical properties of the chocolate, but it did exactly what I wanted it to do.

I’m tempted to try making a cake and truffles out of it, just to see if it does the same thing. It’s poisonous, but not a dangerous poison. Actually, I wonder if dying and respawning would get rid of it. I’d bet… Hmm. Probably not. The poison would be gone, but the effects would linger.

Sadly, I can’t test it because I keep resisting the poison. And Avi can’t try it cuz Kimi took the bowl and ran off with it. And I can’t ask Kimi to try dying because… Well, she’s having too much fun with it. I think. I haven’t seen her in a couple hours. They didn’t show up for dinner.

Anyways, floors!

Floor 47 is from our dungeon. It used to be Floor 95, the water floor with a kraken and sharks. Nothing new. Nothing exciting.

Floor 48 is exciting. There are six dragons who live there, and pretty much nothing else. They’ve got caves in the walls that they live in, but the floor is just short grass. Not even tall grass for hiding in. You walk in, the dragons come out, and everyone fights.

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It’s exciting because this time we asked if there was a way around the fighting. Y told them about giving Jenny tea, and they were like “yes, give us all your gold”. Avi asked what they would do with the gold, and that made them pause. So Kimi and I introduced them to the joys of marble racing.

Next cycle we’ll be able to have a marble race with them! Woo! If one of us wins, we get to go through. But if one of them wins, they get to try to eat us. A fair arrangement, I think.

Floor 49 is a water floor. It seems like there are a lot of water floors here. Or maybe any floor with water on it I’m calling a “water floor”... Anyways, there’s a ghost pirate ship that floats around, and an island with sirens in the middle.

The ghosts are nice enough. They really get into character. As far as they’re willing to say, they 100% were pirates who terrorized the Caribbean in 1650. Or whenever. I guess I can respect not wanting to break character in front of strangers, but I hope they act normal when they’re alone.

The sirens are just five girls who like singing. Avi kinda doesn’t like talking to them, but just because he has bad memories from his time as a siren. Mika wants to trade songs with them. If she keeps asking people to trade songs, this place will fill with music by the time we reach Cycle 10.

I like music, so I think that would be cool.

Oh, Aya and the Sams and Lily and Staab got here late last night. So they spent the whole day here. A group of players got here mid-afternoon, and another just after dinner. So we’re the fastest group, but not by a lot. That’s good to know.

I like being able to hang out and talk, but it did slightly stress me out. I didn’t want to talk so much that we fall behind. Falling behind would be bad.

We have to win, after all! That’s why we were sent here!

So I’m gonna get a good night’s rest, and we’ll get through a ton of floors tomorrow!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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