Dear Diary,

I know I said I didn’t want to leave home, but I also said I’d go with Mika and the others when they got here.

They got here today. They’ll be leaving tomorrow, and I’ll be going with them. I mean, the other Players will be here soon, so I wouldn’t have a whole lot of free time anyways. So I’ll leave my diner in Y’s care like we’d originally planned, and head down to Floor 100.

Samantha is coming, too. She said she wants to see how hard Floor 98 is to beat for her. I think there’s some kind of closure she’ll get by going down there without the twins.

And… I like the idea of her being with us. She has a protective sister/mama bear type personality. I’m not… worried about Ox or anything, but I’ll still feel better with someone around who will absolutely destroy him if he tries something.

Oh yeah! This will be the second time for me pushing the button! I was supposed to push it last cycle, but we kinda forgot to. There were more important things to do than beat the dungeon or whatever.

The Sams, Aya, Kimi, and Y have pushed the button twice already. That leaves Mika, Avi, me, Lily, and Staab having only pushed it once. I don’t know if Samantha will push it again. It’s not like it’ll hurt anything if she does, but there’s no real point.

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Actually… I wonder what would happen to us if only five people push the button. I know the cycle will keep going until six people have pushed it, but I don’t know what happens to the person who pushed it. I wonder if there’s a Waiting Floor or something. Or if they get sent to Floor 1 and are just there by themselves.

Maybe I’ll ask Samantha to specifically not push the button, just to find out.

But, no, that’d leave Avi here without me for a couple days. I don’t want that. So maybe I’ll ask Samantha to push the button so the cycle will reset?

Or! I know! I’ll let Samantha do whatever she wants! Yeah, that sounds like a better plan.

Well, Ox, Tig and Larissa might know what happens. They’ve pushed the button before and had to wait. I can just ask them.

In other news, I’ve finally been starting to experiment with the thing that makes liquids into mist. I don’t know exactly at what point drops of liquid become gas, but I think it doesn’t reach that. So that makes it mist, right? Y and Kimi would know, I’ll leave it up to them.

Anyways, things with milk or cream don’t really work with it. Well, they do, but it makes the dairy sour. Which is bad and gross. So if I use coffee it has to be black (or sweetened), and milkshakes are totally out. But the herbal teas I have all turn out pretty good. The only thing is, it seems to make the flavor… weaken? So a nice light mint tea ends up with barely any smell. But stuff like vanilla syrup works super well.

Now that I know that, I can start writing actual recipes!

Just as soon as I have spare time again.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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