Dear Diary,

We got through Floor 89! The teleportation worked. We actually made it through the floor pretty easy. Now that we know how to deal with quicksand and mosquitoes it wasn’t all that hard, really.

Before we got to the exit of Floor 88, Via and Aya asked if we wanted to try to make it through the whole floor in one go. Like, not stop even if only one of us survived. Like how the players do. We agreed, and ran in.

Floor 88 is a jungle. Not a swampy jungle, though. The air was much drier than Floor 89. I never knew there was so much differences between places full of trees. Like, in school they never properly explained the difference between “forest” and “jungle”. Heck, even “swamp” was just another place full of trees, just more wet. But now I know. In forests, you can see the ground. And sometimes the ceiling. But in jungles, both floor and ceiling are covered in plants. Moving is basically impossible without hacking your way through with a machete.

In a forest, if there’s a big tree, you walk around it. In a swamp, if there’s a big tree, you climb around it to keep your feet out of water for a couple minutes. But in a jungle, if there’s a big tree, you climb halfway up to above the bushes and smaller trees (but not high enough to hit the vines and air plants) and pray there isn’t a giant snake waiting for you on the other side of the tree.

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Other than giant snakes, we encountered carnivorous plants and fire ants. The plants have some kind of acid in them, but they aren’t all that fast. So they’re more annoying than anything. The snakes are giant, but they’re not smart. Once they have one of us half swallowed they kinda just stop moving. So they’re easy to kill. The fire ants are by far the most annoying thing in the jungle other than the terrain. They’re like the flying ants, but they’re bright red and don’t have wings. Instead, they just drop down from the trees into our hair. Ants in hair is like the absolutely worst feeling ever.

Via has really short hair. Well, she has a pixie cut, which looks adorable on her, but I never wanted hair that short. I mean, before she got here my hair was the shortest out of all of us (well, Dorothy’s hair was about the same length as mine), and I didn’t want shorter hair. But feeling ants get caught in my hair makes me want to straight-up shave my head. And my tail. My tail is pretty fluffy, which is super cute, but not cute enough to be worth the feeling of tiny bitey things crawling around in it. Kimi keeps her hair in a ponytail, which you’d think would be good for keeping ants out, but she says it just makes it worse when the ants get in, because then she can’t get them back out.

Anyways, Lilly and Via made it to the entrance. They did a good job. Now we just have to figure out how to get all of us to the entrance…

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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