Dear Diary,

Yep, I got home this afternoon! I traded Athena the drug rocks and special chocolate for the button. I told her, very specifically, that sending a cake laced with powdered drug rocks to the Director was forbidden.

She winked at me, so I’m sure that means she took my warnings to heart and 100% won’t do anything dangerous with them.

I’m pretty sure the cycle will end tomorrow. There’s already three other people here. I’m kinda sad I won’t have a lot of time to hang out and cook, but mostly I’m excited that tomorrow we’ll be in Cycle 28.

Cycle 30 is so close! The closer we get, the more excited I get.

Oh, Y is here. He said he’s been super bored. He hasn’t had anyone to talk to, which would make anyone bored. I’m just glad he didn’t alleviate his boredom by creating lethal chemicals or setting everything on fire.

Altho setting things on fire is more a Kimi thing, really.

Anyways, we spent most of tonight seeing if concentrated chicken soup gave more of a buff than baked chicken. Turns out it does, but it takes a long time to make. So overall not very helpful. Tasty, but not helpful.

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

I don’t know, I’m not really excited about making new foods now. Like, cooking is still what I want to do all the time, but I don’t feel like trying to make the best or most OP dish possible. I want to cook comfort foods, and things I’ve made a million times over and know will be good.

A part of me feels like I should want to experiment more, but then… we’re leaving soon. And I’m betting the food on the new world won’t be magic. So what’s the point of coming up with something perfect here when I won’t be able to recreate it? I’d rather just make a good lasagna.

I wonder if other people feel like that. If their goals and wants are changing now that we’re about to leave. Well, not about to, but we’re getting close.

I wonder if all the NPCs know the dungeon is ending on Cycle 30. I hope so.

In our old dungeon, everyone “knew” there were going to be 100 cycles. But then there wasn’t. Or weren’t. Is it wasn’t, or weren’t? Anyways, we didn’t reach 100 cycles. But we believed that was the goal.

So here, does everyone believe the goal is 30 cycles?

I’ll have to ask next cycle. Or, I guess I could message some people…

Oh yeah, Admin 2 messaged me and asked if I could make him a lasagna. Not the craziest request I’ve ever gotten, but I’ve never spoken to him before. I’ve only had messages from Admins 6 (ours), 5, and 1. So getting a request for food from someone new was cool.

And obviously I made a lasagna. It was big enough for everyone to have some. Even the Director, if she wanted a piece.

Someone just spawned into the floor; I’m gonna go see who it is.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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