Dear Diary,

Tig is slowly warming up to us. That’s good. He’s still kinda mad about the whole “us having trapped him and threatened him into giving us his key” thing, but only when he remembers to be. He doesn’t really seem like a super friendly guy anyways, but that’s ok. Not everyone has to be an extrovert.

Larissa is cool. Her personality is kinda like Samurai’s, but if Samurai had never been part of a hive mind. She’s a good fighter, and is the best at magic stuff.

And Ox… Ox is big, kinda dumb, optimistic, aaaand kinda cute. He flirts with Mika and me. Mika is annoyed by it, but Larissa says to ignore him and he’ll stop.

I don’t know if I want to ignore him. On the one hand, it’s fun. On the other hand, if I flirt back and it becomes a thing, he might want me to stay in the party more cycles. Which, I’d rather die than do that. Plus I really need to talk to Via about… things… that are complicated…

I’m not really sure… Yeah, things are complicated.

I hate drama. I hate it when drama happens to my friends, and I hate it more when it happens to me. Not that it’s happened yet, but I suspect drama is going to be in my near future.

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OH! On a completely unrelated subject that I’m totally not bringing up cuz I don’t want to talk about that other thing, there were only two velociraptors on Floor 17!

Lex and Tim were gone, so Via must have taken them. I put my foot down about killing Arby and Kelly; I don’t care how much XP they give, no one gets to kill my raptors on my watch. Especially since they recognized me even though I’m a dwarf and don’t have green hair.

I felt kinda bad about the spinosaurus. I mean, he always runs away when we try to feed him. We’ve sloooooowly started to gain his trust, but he is kinda the Boss on this floor. If Players come down and kill one thing, it’s gonna be him. So I don’t want to make him think that everyone will be his friend if only he’d let them. But killing him still felt bad.

Anyways, I think I’m going to try and learn more attack spells. Ox says having a dedicated healer in the group is good, but I know we could get through floors faster if I could attack.

I’ve been using my sleep spell a lot, but you don’t get XP for putting an enemy to sleep. And the recharge time feels like forever when we’re in the middle of a fight. There’s a poison dart spell that’s green, and an AOE acid spell. I don’t know if I want to try and level up both of them, or focus on one. If I end up focusing on one, it’ll be the poison dart one. I don’t want to end up accidentally putting acid all over Tig.

He’d say it was on purpose.

Which, eventually, it might be.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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