Dear Diary,

Why do I capitalize diary but not dungeon? It’s a weird inconsistency. I never really noticed before now. Maybe I should start capitalizing dungeon, too.

If I remember.

Anyways, playing with the taco stuff has been fun. I can make chips out of the tortillas, and then we eat them with the guacamole. It’s good. A part of me wishes I had avocados, but I’m not complaining. Maybe next cycle I’ll get the stuff to make burritos, that would be epic.

Oh! Turns out, Via used to work at a restaurant that had lots of cocktails. So she knows all sorts of things to make with the alcohol I got. I know I said I’m not a fan of alcohol, but I have to admit she’s made some pretty yummy things. She made this one thing with vodka and chocolate syrup that is my new favorite anything. It doesn’t go well with tacos, though. Actually, nothing I have goes super well with the tacos, except (according to Kimi) beer. I don’t have soda or anything, and most of my drinks are, in one way or another, dairy-based. Tacos, guacamole and pico de gallo have lime in them, and we all know what happens when you mix lime with milk. I have lemongrass tea and lemonade, but I don’t know. I prefer water with tacos.

Anyways, we’ve finished our prelims for the marble races. I have a good team this cycle, they all performed well. Not record-breaking well, but I don’t need to break records. I just need consistency. Mika has been doing math stuff with Kimi to figure out angles of jumps and stuff, so our races this cycle should be pretty epic.

This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.

As far as getting a key goes, we’ve decided that violence is the only way. I drank a sleep potion, and then they tried to get my inventory open to remove something, but it didn’t work. There’s a specific hand motion we do to get our inventories open, and we hoped that we could put a player to sleep then open it. Except only the owner of the inventory can see it. So after they waved my hand around, they didn’t even know if my inventory was open. On top of that, inventories have basically unlimited slots. We can organize them however we want. So we don’t know if the key will be the first item in the inventory, or the last, or somewhere in the middle. Finding it would take forever.

It’ll be a lot faster to just demand a player give us the key.

Lilly said there is a spell that might help, but she won’t go into details yet, other than it’s a pink spell. If she gets it, she’ll have a while to level it up, so that’s good. And if she decides to not get it, Kimi is super ready to stab someone. More ready than she should be.

We’ve been focusing on marbles and haven’t had any practice fights lately. I think after we run our first race we’ll schedule a fight. Via and I have been trying to come up with a super good reason for not fighting, but no luck so far. Hopefully they’ll let us sit out. Even if I am getting better with my bonk stick.

We’ll see.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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