“Ok, checklist time,” Larissa said, pulling a notebook out of her inventory.
Around her, the party paused. They were within sight of the Floor 97 entrance.
“Does everyone have their fire resist rings at lvl 8 or above?” she asked.
They all checked, and said yes.
“Everyone has armor to resist slashing damage?”
A series of nods.
She scanned the page and put the notebook back. “All weapons are good? No damage?”
After glancing at their weapons, the party all said yes.
“Great,” Larissa said. “Ok, here’s the plan. Step 1: get Nikki to the Safe Zone. Step 2: Nikki, you focus on healing while the rest of us take out as many kobolds as we can. Step 3: After everyone else dies, Nikki will call us back to her. Step 4: I’ll cast invisibility, Samantha will cast silence, and we’ll run as a group for the dragon with Ox in the lead to clear the way. Step 5: As soon as we’re within range, Nikki will teleport us to the exit. We all clear?”
Everyone nodded again.
“Awesome. Let’s go!”
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Dear Diary,
We made it to the entrance of Floor 99. I think we could have kept going, but apparently it’s risky to fight when you’re tired if you’re on a floor with no safe zone. And we are all tired.
Today reminded me of way back when we were first exploring, and figuring out how to get through the dungeon. Actually, no, it kinda felt like I was being a tour guide.
“These are dire wolves, who will not attack if one has meatballs. If you look up, you can see giant spiders lurking in the trees. Their aggro area begins at ten feet above the ground, so no one jump.” “While the majority of sharks on this floor are tiger sharks, there are also a few great whites, a pair of hammerheads, and one can’t forget the kraken at the bottom. Her tentacles are thirty feet long, and yes they do taste like squid.” “On this floor there are many kinds of slimes. Here I have a puff pastry filled with ranch dressing. Please stand behind the line for safety reasons, and observe what happens when the pastry is thrown at a slime.”
Larissa has a notebook with notes on all the floors. She already knew that the dire wolves like meatballs, but she didn’t have it written down that slimes hate ranch dressing. I think if I had a notebook like that, it’d mostly be full of people’s names and what their favorite food is.
Actually, I should have a notebook like that. It would make it a lot easier to remember which group of kobolds asked for mac and cheese, and what floor they were on exactly.
Or not. I’m not a very organized person. At least, not compared to some people. I think Aya would be really good at keeping a notebook full of stuff like that. Or Kimi. The only problem with that is, I’m not always with them. So it wouldn’t help.
Oh! Unless we all had a shared inventory!! Then we could put that book in there, and the phone book thing Lily made! That way we wouldn’t have to worry about making copies for everyone.
I can’t believe I forgot to suggest a shared inventory. Well… Ok, not really. I have been kinda distracted.
I’ll write it in big letters so I don’t forget when the cycle resets.
MAKE SHARED INVENTORY.
That should do it.
Goodnight, Dungeon!
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