Dear Diary,

The marble races are progressing nicely. If Mimi wins one more race, my team is guaranteed a championship medal. Currently we’re in gold in the championship, and it would be epic to win again, but there’s a lot of competition. Paola, the triplet, is only like two points behind me. If she gets gold in a race where I don’t get any, she’ll pass me up. Staab and Mika are tied for third, so they’re both super excited for the next race.

The triplets didn’t really want to race at first, but now they’re slightly more obsessed with marble races than we are. I think having one of them be in a good position is helping. They don’t really see themselves as being on different teams; as far as they’re concerned, the triplets’ marbles are just one big team. So as long as one of them wins, they’re all happy.

Which, I think that’s good. It’s better they all be happy and exited than just Paola being happy and the other two bored. And Aya is happy for them, too. And since Aya is happy, I’m happy. I just like everyone to be happy.

Anyways, the real players should be down here soon, so we’ll have to pretend to be NPC’s again. I kinda wonder if anyone will recognize us. I don’t think they will, since players tend to ignore NPC’s.

Should it be NPC’s, with the apostrophe, or NPCs, without one? Grammar is weird. I think there shouldn’t be an apostrophe there, but oh well. I’ll leave it in.

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The Admin hasn’t put any new food or ingredients in my inventory, and I don’t know if it’s because I’m a player, and players don’t get food, or if it’s because he just hasn’t given any chefs new ingredients. I’ll have to ask someone next cycle.

Although, shocking as this is, I don’t really feel the need for any other ingredients. I’ve got a lot of things now, and haven’t remembered any recipe I can’t make in a while. Sure, I have to substitute some things, but it’s not like I can’t make it.

Maybe shrimp. Having a bigger seafood variety would be nice. And not having to peel the seafood out of sushi would be great. If I could get, like, an entire albacore imported into my inventory, that’d be great. And a giant octopus. Aaaaand maybe oysters.

What’s the difference between clams and oysters? I know oysters have pearls, but do clams? Maybe that’s the difference.

I wonder if there are clams in the dungeon. But they probably wouldn’t be cookable. Usually whenever we kill something, it vanishes and is replaced with loot. So like the sharks just go poof, I couldn’t get shark meat. Although, they don’t go poof until they’re actually dead. I wonder if I could get a kraken tentacle and cook that up. The kraken is big enough that just taking a little bit off a tentacle wouldn’t hurt too much, right? And when we leave the floor she’d heal up anyways. …But if I left with the slice of kraken tentacle, would it vanish?

Time to experiment!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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