Dear Diary,

Nat and I tried to make pancakes yesterday, using pulverized saltines as flour. They turned out horrible. Way too salty, and since we didn’t have any raising agent they were stupid dense. I suggested making crepes, but they’d still be extremely salty.

It sucks not having a grocery store.

But, I left a whole bunch of saltines with Nat today, and she might figure out something cool. She’ll activate her grandmother superpowers and cook something epic, I’m sure. If not, at least she’ll have gained knowledge and experience.

Today we went down to lvl 98 without using any potions, and the ants still herded us. We got attacked by two spiders, and the ants held us in place for like five minutes as the big evil worm thing swam by. After that we agreed that the ants are trying to help us.

The yetis weren’t at the entrance of lvl 99 this time. I think we scared them away. The floors/levels are usually set up like a rectangle, with the entrance at one end and the exit at the other. So when we leave the entrance all we have to do is go straight. I know a lot of players explore the floors, killing literally everything to level up faster, but we don’t care about that. We can just come back if we fail.

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We didn’t see the yetis at all. We walked for a while, then came to a big canyon in the ice. It looked super cool, and had fog at the bottom. I was about to teleport us across when Aya said she thought we should climb down. That started a biiiig argument. On the one hand, we expected the door to be on the other side of the canyon. On the other hand, knowing what to do is Aya’s job.

In the end we decided to climb down, and as soon as we entered the fog we were attacked and killed by a bunch of ice bats.

Next time we’re going to teleport across. I think we should try to find the yetis, and ask what changed on their floor last cycle. I mean, they should know. And if they have magic then they should be people like us, and not just monsters like the slimes or spiders.

In other news, Aya’s marble hasn’t come in first again, so we’re pretty sure her winning by so much was a fluke. I’m currently in the championship bronze spot, which is the scariest place to be. In silver or gold you can afford to lose a race or two, and if you’re below bronze then you just focus on winning and it’s fine. But being in the bronze spot, every single race could determine your fate. I had a talk with Momomo about how his racing tactics were totally stressing me out, and he looked like he was going to do things differently in the future.

At least, that’s the impression I got from the inanimate lump of glass which I have named and assigned a personality to.

Stop judging me, inanimate book which I have assigned a personality to.

Anyways, I’m going to make a pizza to give to the yetis in case we find them.

Goodnight, dungeon!

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