Dear Diary,

Mika finally talked about what happened when she pushed the button! We kinda forgot to ask about it before now. She said she didn’t want to bring it up because she got “don’t talk about it” feelings. We all know what those are like. But curiosity overrides them.

So! Mika was taken from the dungeon and went to a tavern place with ex-players. She said that on occasion the Admin cuts down the number of players, so he can focus better on the good ones. When he does, the not-good players go to the tavern.

Apparently the tavern is two stories, with bedrooms for everyone on the second floor. The main floor is a big open space with lots of tables, and a kitchen at the back. Where there should be doors and windows, instead there are fish tanks. The tanks are separated so there’s only one fish per tank. I don’t know how they know, but she said the fish in the tanks used to be people. It’s basically jail. People who do bad things get turned into a fish.

Given that players are told to repeatedly murder their way through the dungeon, I don’t want to know what they did to make the Admin go “yeah, no, that’s bad”. But I’m glad they got taken out of the dungeon, if they really were that evil.

Anyways, there are cards and board games for the people to play with, along with musical instruments and plenty of art supplies. It sounds a little boring, but it could be worse.

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I wonder why the Admin doesn’t just put them to sleep, though. I mean, couldn’t he just… pause them? Or something? I don’t know, maybe there’s a timer going and everyone has to stay the same age relative to everyone else.

…Or something.

Anyways, our speedrun is going very speedily. We’re like ten floors ahead of the guys now. Tomorrow, instead of starting early and zooming down the floors, we’re going to take it easy. We’ll sleep in, have a big breakfast, paint our nails, and relax. Then when the guys get here we’ll be like “ohhhh yeahhhhh we’re racing” and take off.

We’ll go as fast as we can, and by the time night falls we’ll be ahead of them again. Just to rub it in their faces.

I feel like I should feel a little bad about doing that. But I don’t. Mostly I feel competitive.

I wonder if the Floor 2 kobolds are back on the secret floor again. They were on Floor 2 when we passed by, but that’s to be expected. I think they’d be sent down when all the players reach the first checkpoint. So they should be there by now.

If they are, the Floor 97 kobolds would have had a party for them by now. I bet it was an epic party. The kobolds always throw epic parties. I know they’re going to have at least one party this cycle with us there, cuz there’ll be a party after the symphony, but I’m still a little jealous.

Not jealous enough to think they shouldn’t have had a party, though.

I’ll never be that jealous.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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