Dear Diary,

Ok. I got a message from the Director today. She said to never ever ever put drugs in food again ever. Or else.

Sooo I won’t!

I have learned my lesson, and absolutely won’t drug anyone with cake again. I would make an apology cake, but I’m not sure how well that would go over right now.

I’m very glad I wasn’t turned into a goldfish. Or put in a tiny box, or punished in any other horrible way.

Overall, I’m just glad nothing super bad happened to anyone. Especially to me.

In other news, I don’t think we’re gonna win this cycle. We’re about six floors behind the first party, and there’s another two parties between us and them. Xero wants to push us super hard to go fast and win, but Octavius and Nani don’t want to burn out. They say if we lose a whole ten floors back, that’s fine, but losing from two floors behind is depressing.

I agree with them. And it’s not like coming in second place will get us anything. I mean, I don’t want to give up completely, but I also don’t want to push super hard when we know we won’t win.

Oh yeah, Avi is in the lead party. He says his illusions aren’t nearly as good as they were when he had silver magic, but they still fool animals. And with people he can give them psychic damage at the same time, so they don’t notice that the illusion is obviously not real. He’s been doing good, and gets along well with his party.

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Octavius says Frog automatically becomes leader of any group he’s in. Since Frog spent a cycle with Avi a while back, he knew how Avi works. I think that really helped.

Like, I have healing magic and group teleport. My place in a party is pretty obvious. But “illusionist” isn’t one of the usual battle party titles. Avi might have been labeled kinda useless and put on the sidelines, but Frog knew exactly where to fit Avi’s illusions into their strategy.

I hope next cycle I get to be in a party with Avi. I mean, I hope I get to spend every cycle with him. But this cycle we haven’t seen each other since the first day.

If I were brave, I’d write to the Director and tell her people should always be allowed to make parties with the people they’re in relationships with. I’m not quite that brave, though. Especially not now.

I wonder why they’re called “parties”. It’s a very fun word, I’m not complaining, I just wonder why it’s used instead of “team” or… “crew”. Or “squad”. Well, “group” is reserved for which Admin we came from. We’re in the Admin’s groups. So that word can’t be reused.

I don’t know, just something I’ve been thinking about lately.

Another thing I’ve been thinking about is, what if I chose long hair next cycle? I’m really used to it being shoulder-length. But there’s not a whole lot I can do with it. If I had longer hair, I might be able to braid it and stuff.

I’ll try dreaming about long hair and see what happens.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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