Dear Diary,

A whole bunch of players arrived all at once. Like, forty people. I know the group clan party thing… the thing that lets people go through a floor together, the max is six players. So that’s like a minimum of seven groups that arrived within seconds of each other. Which is weird.

I’m not entirely certain how the floors work. I mean, our floor is designed so that all the players can interact. But the floors with enemies are different. They kind of become their own dimension when someone enters? So people can enter at the same time and not meet. The kobolds say it feels weird when more than one group of players at a time is on the floor, like they’re split somehow.

I don’t know. It’s complicated and magic and stuff. I never really understood.

Anyways, the end result is that people fight at different rates, and spread out a bit time-wise. So two groups of players entering the floor at the same time is odd, but forty people is just about impossible.

Anyways, they all wanted food and drinks all at once, and it was complete chaos for a couple hours. More than a couple hours, like half a day. A couple people got mad that I didn’t serve them right away, it was super stressful. I kinda wonder how shop owners on the upper floors do it, the ones closest to the start. They must get all the low-level players come through all at once. Although, they probably have a day to get ready after the cycle resets, so they must have everything prepped like they need it. Plus it’s been a lot of cycles, they must know what they’re doing by now.

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Still, it must be stressful.

Some of the players activated the snowmen traps. But there were so many people around that it didn’t really do anything. I mean, they were trapped, but instantly got out. All the nice, clean snow on our floor has been trampled down into mud, which makes me sad.

Anyways, they left, and I’m pretty sure they’re close to the yetis now. The whole ordeal was weird and stressful and I hope it never happens again.

In other news, this will be my last entry for a while. I’m going to switch to writing fairy tales next cycle, for Lilly’s book club. I hope I do a good job, and everyone likes them. I’m pretty sure I’ll miss writing in a diary for a bit, but a lot of times not much happens. Y’no? I’m not sure which fairy tales I’ll write. Some of them are super long, and others I just don’t know how they really go.

I mean, yeah they’re fake stories, but basically by default I know the Disney versions and not the original versions. So I guess these retellings will be all mine. I’ll start with Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel, since I know how those originally go. After that I might ask around to see what stories I should write.

So, until next time,

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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