Dear Diary:

Ok so, Ox, the first guy here this cycle, just passed through again. Apparently the group he joined betrayed him, and fed him to a dragon on lvl97. He’s suuuuuuuper pissed, since there goes his chance at winning this cycle.

But, that means that the group has passed lvl97. It should only be a day or so before the cycle restarts.

It’s always interesting to watch a new cycle start. An alert gets sent to everyone from the Admin, saying someone won, and that the cycle will now restart. Out of the thousand or so dungeon crawlers, only the players who have gotten to lvl 95 at least once retain their memories. So they get to start the next cycle with a little bit of a boost.

And then they all vanish, and we’re stuck here, alone with our marbles, until the players work their way down again. On the plus side, I’d probably never win, so I’m glad I don’t have to fight to lose.

Dorothy did… that thing… again. But we don’t talk about Dorothy. It just kinda sucks that she’s stuck here with us. I mean, just whyyyyy.

I wonder how the cycle change will affect this book. Because most things are set back to zero, like the friers and anvils and clothes, but I don’t think anyone has tried keeping a diary before. Maybe all the words will just poof, which would honestly kinda suck. Because what’s the point of a diary if you can’t read it five years from now and laugh at the stupidity of your younger self? Y’no?

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Well, I’ll find out in a couple days, I guess.

Until then, I’m going to keep working on finding something similar to mint flavor for my ice cream so that I can finally make mint milkshakes. I was given an “assortment pack” of herbs (a lady came through who just collected all the plants and herbs found in the dungeon, and she gave me some of each), and I’ve been going through them to see if any are mint. So far, a couple are spicy, one is lemony, a couple are pretty relaxing, and one made me think that my tail had grown a face and was trying to talk to me. That was an interesting couple of hours. I made a note of the name in case anyone has more. The other girls have got to try it.

But so far no mint. Not even, like, spearmint. Or peppermint. Granted, I’ve only tried like a dozen out of sixty, so there could absolutely be a mint in there somewhere.

I put some of the spicy ones into my burgers, and people said that it was good, which is nice. It’s always nice to try something new and have people tell you it’s good. It’s like, validation or something. Yeah I’m lvl 100 at cooking, but that’s just what a system says. To have real live people tell me I’m good at it is way better.

I do wish I had more ingredients, tho. I would kill to be able to make a pizza.

…Actually…

Yeah, I might be able to. I’m gonna go see if I can make a pizza!

Goodnight, dungeon!

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