Dear Diary,

We’re on Floor 46 now, I didn’t write last night. Sorry. It’s another catgirl floor, so that’s fun. They were having a butterfly racing contest when we came in, and when we explained how we used to be NPC’s they let us watch.

It was pretty cool! And it was just pretty. Their floor is a big meadow with lots of wildflowers, which they’ve worked hard at making as pretty as possible. Apparently they asked early on for the Admin to stop resetting their floor each cycle, and he agreed. So they have all kinds of trails and gardens through the floor. It’s amazing.

Which kinda makes me wonder if the Admin has stopped resetting our floor, too. Since the lotus is still around, and the walkway in the clouds, which normally would have been poofed away due to being foreign objects. Actually, that would explain why my diary stays written in, too. Y said the “invisible” part of their floor, the part where they live that players can’t get to, doesn’t reset. But if they build anything outside of that, like they built a trebuchet once, it vanishes when the cycle resets.

Which is interesting.

Or at least I think it’s interesting.

Anyways, we’re getting to floors that we can’t just waltz through. None of us have died yet, but the NPC’s ranged attacks are starting to hurt. And bugs can bite us now. So we asked the Spy on this floor what floors are below us and how to get through as safely as possible. It’s time to start strategizing!

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Apparently we’re about to go up against a bunch of bitey bugs and things that explode. And a giant fish monster with legs and poison claws. …among other things, but that’s what we decided to prepare for. So we got a couple jars of bug repellent, made sure everyone has good ranged attacks, and I spent a couple hours buffing up my “heal poison” spell.

We still aren’t going to teleport across any of the floors. We talked about it, and decided we were all still having fun exploring. Lilly and Staab are kinda focusing on stealth now, instead of straight attacking. I keep forgetting her name is spelled Lily. And Aya’s group have decided they’ll stop trying to completely clear floors at Floor 50. Which, I get that. They said next cycle they’ll only clear floors 50 through 75, and then the cycle after that 75 through 100, which includes the kobolds and the dragon at the end.

I guess it’s good to have plans.

Oh, Lily (I spelled it right!) and Staab are going to be in our group next cycle, and Kimi and Y will be their own team. So that’ll be fun. It’ll definitely make things different.

Since we were making plans for the future, Mika said she might try a solo run at some point. I don’t want to do that, but if Via said she wanted to be a team with just me, that could be fun. I just think I’d be too lonely by myself, even if we did meet up every other day.

But that’s still a couple cycles from now.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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