Dear Diary,

Mika decided she’s going to push the button when the first Players arrive, and Emmy can take over her shop again. In case it’s necessary.

I didn’t really get to know Emmy last cycle. I was… otherwise occupied. Of course, I won’t really have time to get to know her this cycle, either, if she only comes up after Players get here. Oh well.

The cooking competition went ok. Mango and bacon was not a winning combo. I mean, I ranked fourth, so it’s not like they were terrible or anything, but yeah. Since presentation was a factor this time, the winning pancakes were made by a kobold named Lor who made a pancake shaped like Lewis’ head, with various jams to color it. As much as I hate losing based on something looking really cool, I have to admit that it looked really cool.

Gin won second place. She did the basic “strawberries and whipped cream” look, but she put a candy glaze on the strawberries to make them have a slight crunch, and made red candy sprinkles to go over the whipped cream. That plus whatever she did to the batter got her silver.

At this point I’m kinda tempted to give Gin a head of broccoli and some string beans and say “here, make these unhealthy”. I bet she could do it.

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Nat scored one below me, and Mar got third place. So even though the cooking crew didn’t win all the prizes in this competition, we still all got in the top five. So we all feel validated that we do most of the cooking around here.

Oh yeah! Kimi and Y found the secret Floor! They went down to the stairwell to Floor 100 and felt around until they found the exit. Then they went through the maze backwards, and came out through the bottom of the treasure chest! There’s a tiny notch in the bottom of the treasure chest now, and if you stick your finger in, you can pull the whole bottom out! It leads to a short stairway, which opens up into the maze.

I haven’t been down there yet, but Kimi says it has a bunch of plants that attack, and a couple quicksand patches. Tomorrow we’re all going to go down and explore the maze.

I wonder if we should fill the treasure chest with leaves again. Or maybe put actual treasure in there. That way no one will ever find the secret Floor.

On the one hand, having a secret and never sharing it is fun. On the other hand, the Admin probably wants everyone to find it. If I spent time and effort to build something, I’d be kinda annoyed if a group of people hid it away and never let anyone know it existed. Of course, we can’t just tell everyone where the entrance is, unless they offered an absurd amount of money or something, but we shouldn’t make it harder to find than it already is.

Actually, Aya is supposed to know everything. Players might ask her where the entrance is. I bet she already has some kind of instruction on what to tell people about the maze.

I’ll go ask her what it is!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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