Dear Diary,

Floor 69 is… weird. There are catgirls, in maid outfits, but they’re golems. I think these were originally cats, not girls. Anyways, they explode when you touch them. They have a crystal thing in their neck, like all the other golems do, and if you take it out they just collapse into mud.

The catgirl in charge of the other catgirls is a person. He said he used to be a player, but became an NPC cuz he did too bad a job. So the Admin asked where he wanted to go, and he got sent to Floor 69.

Which, if given an option, I think I’d rather be sent to a floor where I knew what it was like. I mean, I think I kinda got the jackpot being sent to Floor 93. If we’d been in the middle, we wouldn’t have had as much time to ourselves. And if we’d been near the top, we wouldn’t have been able to hit the button. So I’m super glad I got put where I was. But if I had to change, or if I had to when I was still an NPC, I think I would have asked to become a Floor 97 kobold. Just cuz I know what they’re like. And if that wasn’t possible I’d ask to NOT be a Floor 99 yeti. Cuz they’re weird.

So yeah, the catgirl golem guy should have asked to be on a floor he’d been to, and not asked to be there based on what the internet thinks a nice number is.

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But anyways, he seems pretty content as he is. And he says herding cats is fun, and that exploding is surprisingly relaxing. He said when he explodes it’s like when you pop your knuckles. Like whatever was out of place or stiff just gets super stretched out, then put back in place. Mika wanted to be exploded to try, but we decided that being made out of porcelain probably changes how being exploded feels.

I’ve never died by being exploded. But I imagine it would feel kinda the same as dying by being ripped apart by pterodactyls. Same basic principle, right? Only faster. Maybe that, combined with being dissolved by a fire-magic slime. Except from the inside out, not the outside in.

Anyways, we’re on Floor 75 now, with the catgirls here. I think last cycle they didn’t really believe we were players, and thought our passing through was a fluke. This time they believe us, but are kinda… worried? Like they don’t know how to treat us. I don’t know. It feels kinda weird. I get that there’s always been a distinction between player and NPC, and we break that line. We aren’t really either. So it makes sense some people wouldn’t know how to treat us.

But it makes me self-conscious when they treat us super different.

Anyways, I can’t wait to be home in a day or two.

Goodnight, dungeon!

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