Dear Diary,

The tea party was super fun! Via and the Floor 60 catgirls made a dress for Jenny, who absolutely loved it. Staab suggested making a suit for Lewis, but we all think he’d rather die than wear a suit.

And then Jenny asked who Lewis was, and we told her he was Bonecrusher the Black, the dragon on Floor 97. She wants to meet him now. But Lewis will never leave his floor, and Jenny can’t go far from Floor 61, so we’ll never know if they were destined to be soulmates.

Very sad.

Anyways, for the party all the girls wore dresses and the guys wore suits. Staab cleans up nice, but Y looks better in a suit. And Peter, the catboi triplet, he still looks like he doesn’t really know how limbs work. His sisters have it figured out. Oh, Paola (Peter’s twin) said she wouldn’t be caught dead in a dress, so she was in a suit, too. But it was a magenta suit, so that’s something. She’s funny, I like her.

Oh! We decided, no matter what, we’re gonna have a marble race this cycle. And to do that, we’re going to use marbles we got ourselves! There are a couple floors with ants, and when individual ants die they drop marbles. The triplets said ants don’t really feel pain when they die, so we can kill them as much as we want without feeling bad. I already have thirty-one marbles that I got myself. At first Via didn’t want to kill ants herself, but Lilly pointed out that the ants were going to die anyways, so what was the point in being a pacifist? Besides, they’re a hive mind. As long as one ant is still alive, the hive isn’t dead. And the triplets said, like I just mentioned, killing individual ants doesn’t cause them pain. So it’s totally fine.

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I think Via only killed four ants, since our marble teams only consist of four marbles. Which, that seems like bad strategy. The more marbles you have, the greater your chance of finding a super fast team. But Via just muttered something about how they’re just marbles, they aren’t alive or anything, and statistically any marble should do just as good as any other marble. Which I understand. But it still feels like a dumb thing to do.

Mika has started drawing all the monsters and NPC’s in the dungeon, and writing like an encyclopedia type thing. She’s still super thrilled about having pens and pencils in different colors. I think, if given the chance, she’d spend a whole cycle just sitting somewhere and drawing. Well, this cycle we’re going to get to our floor and stop there, not push the button, to let the real players press the button and not think there’s a glitch or something. So Mika will have a week to sit and draw if she wants.

We decided our groups are going to push the button every other cycle. It’ll take four cycles of button pushing for all of us to have the minimum limit of two button pushes each, but we have twenty cycles to do that in. So we aren’t worried.

Or at least we presume we have twenty cycles.

Maybe we should ask about that.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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