Dear Diary,

Yep, being in a party that doesn’t want to kill anything is the best. It’s where I need to be.

Yesterday morning we got to Floor 14, the first catgirl floor. I spent the day cooking, and everyone helped. I mean, everyone in the party. Melody, the diner owner, didn’t help. She just sat back and watched as we kinda destroyed her kitchen.

We cleaned up when we were done; I think she was worried we wouldn’t.

Anyways, we now have a couple hundred meatballs and fish balls in the family inventory, and we’ve got ranch balls for days. Since Y helped, they’re the super effective instant slime killing ranch balls, not just the normal throw then wait slime killing ranch balls.

It was a fun day.

Then this morning, after breakfast, we ran down three floors and kidnapped the velociraptors.

Oh! The giant spinosaurus thing on the dinosaur floor! He always runs away when we show up, since Avi always tries to hug him, and I guess he doesn’t like being hugged. This time, when we were petting the velociraptors, the spinosaurus came over! He didn’t want to be touched, but when we put a pile of meatballs down then stepped back, he ate them!

Avi, obsessed with dinosaurs, is already planning on turning the spinosaurus into our pet. Kimi and I pointed out that the spinosaurus is too big to fit through the exit. Avi and Y pointed out that magic is a thing, and while grow/shrink potions don’t exist yet, they might eventually. Then the conversation devolved into a full-on argument. It… was fun.

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I never really got Kimi and Y’s whole “argue for fun” thing before. Well, I sort of did, but as something other people enjoyed. But… this was fun. I mean, it was stupid. Even if we could fit the giant dinosaur that’s afraid of us through the exit, I’m pretty sure the Admin would have something to say about it. Two little raptors is one thing, but the boss of the boss floor probably needs to stay. So even thinking about it is pointless.

But as we were measuring the exit and the spinosaurus’ height, debating how much a shrink potion would have to shrink, calculating cycles of food-giving before it lets us put a collar on it, and insisting the velociraptors would help (or hinder) our attempts… The pointlessness kinda became the point. And I had a lot of fun. More fun than I’ve had in a while.

I don’t want to start any other arguments. And I’m not gonna be tempted to join Kimi and Y’s next argument. A part of me will always be afraid a fun argument will turn real, and I hate real arguments.

But this was fun.

Anyways, the argument ended by us deciding a shrink potion would have to shrink the spinosaurus by ⅔, that we’d have to make an adjustable collar in case the potion doesn’t shrink clothes, and with Avi and I cuddling the velociraptors, asking if they’d be the spinosaurus’ friends. Kimi and Y think they wouldn’t be. But Avi and I are the dinosaur experts here, and we think they’d be friends.

Mostly because we want them to be.

With us around, friendship is mandatory.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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