Dear Diary,

The first official marble race was today!!! We decided to go back to everyone using one marble, and my marble (Mimi) won silver! Y won gold, and Aya won bronze. Yes, I’m sad I didn’t get gold, but like I’ve said before, you don’t have to be the best as long as you’re consistently ok. Starting off at silver is good.

Hopefully Mimi will be able to keep it up. I don’t want to put unfair pressure on him, especially since in prelims I raced them with the idea that they’d be in a group of four. But I really hope he keeps getting medals.

I haven’t really talked about my spider a lot. Professor Plum is a good little spooder, but he isn’t really all that… exciting. I like being able to climb up walls, but having a “pet” isn’t the same as a real animal. Like the dire wolves. And I know this spider will act the same as every other spider pet in the dungeon.

I get what the kobolds were talking about, back when pets were first introduced. Some were pet purists, who thought we shouldn’t have player pets cuz they aren’t really real. But I don’t know how to-

OH MY GOSH I JUST HAD THE BEST IDEA EVER!!! Ok so, on Floor 7 there are a bunch of animals. There are tigers and owls and wolves. I’m gonna kidnap a wolf. I’m totally gonna have a wolf as a pet.

This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

Althooooo… On Floor 17 there are dinosaurs. There are little velociraptors, and Via wanted to keep one. Maybe kidnapping two velociraptors would be better than kidnapping a wolf and a velociraptor. Or two wolves. I’ll ask Via what she wants to do, which one she wants to kidnap.

I’m pretty sure I could get two raptors to follow us. I know I could get two wolves to follow us around, cuz it happened with the dire wolves without my even trying. But dinosaurs are different. I think the dracoraptors used to be some kind of raccoon? Maybe? But the little velociraptors might be different. So I don’t know what to feed them. Via might have some ideas, and meatballs are a universal favorite.

Actually, we might spend the whole day with the dinosaurs, to figure out what they like to eat. There are a lot of them on that floor, and it would be rude to not bring food for all of them, so I’ll have to cook before then. I’ll have to ask the Floor 14 catgirls if I can borrow their diner for a bit. I might need to make pancakes, too, since there are a couple herbivores there. Or just normal cakes?

I’m so used to feeding carnivores that I don’t really know what to do with herbivores now. Maybe they like pasta? I don’t want to just make a salad, that seems like cheating. Unless I made a really, really nice salad. I know, I’ll ask Nat and Mar what vegetarian dish I should make for dinosaurs. I’d ask Gin, but she’d probably tell me to make something that would instantly give the dinosaurs clogged arteries.

Time to research!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

----------------------------------------