Dear Diary,
Basketball is overrated. What’s even the point of throwing a ball to see if it goes into a hoop somewhere? It’s not like that accomplishes anything. There aren’t any real-life skills that are benefited from it.
And I’m not just saying that cuz the Floor 2 kobolds challenged us catgirls to a game and we totally lost.
…Ok, that’s exactly the reason I’m saying it.
The guys did a little better, mostly because of Ty. Ty is tall, and apparently played on his high school team. Samuel and Staab were pretty good, but they both played other sports. So they get the whole “put ball in place” concept, and know how to run around a patch of dirt to get the ball, but they don’t have the techniques.
Y is… Well, he’s surprisingly good at throwing a ball into a hoop. He says it’s just math, and no one can deny he’s good at math. The problem is, there are other people playing. And half the players don’t want him to have the ball. He kinda forgets about that, and most of the time the ball was stolen from him just before he got to throw it.
And Avi. Poor Avi. Avi… is not good at sports. At least, he’s not good at sports where a group of people suddenly start running at you if you get the ball. Even if it’s a friendly game, which this wasn’t.
On our team, Mika and Samurai were the best. They actually knew what they were doing. I kinda figured it out by the end, but not really. Sports never was my thing.
Lily was… ok. But she kept trying to be ladylike or something, which apparently means she couldn’t run. Running around is kinda the point of sports, so yeah. She didn’t help a whole lot.
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Kimi kept getting taken out for cheating. One of the rules was no teleporting, and she couldn’t help herself. Also she couldn’t remember which hoop belonged to which team, so she scored a couple points for the kobolds. Y thought that was hilarious. No one else did.
Anyways, yeah, I won’t be playing basketball again for a long while. I think Avi will never play again.
The air elementals said players showed up on their floor like an hour ago, so tomorrow we’ll have to be in our shops. The fun and games part of the cycle has come to an end.
Hopefully next cycle will be just as fun.
Goodnight, Dungeon!
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Kimi flipped through one of Y’s notebooks, frowning slightly. She couldn’t find what she was looking for.
Y came into the room and smiled at her.
“Hey, when you were figuring out ranch dressing, why didn’t you bring any slime up here?” she asked, closing the book.
He grinned. “Nikki threatened to remove my eyeballs with a rusty spoon if any slime got within a mile and a half of her kitchen. Or something to that effect. Why?”
Kimi nodded. “I’m trying to figure out their consistency. They’re semisolid, but in some ways act more like a liquid.”
“True… I wouldn’t qualify them as a liquid. They hold their shape too well,” he said, sitting down next to her.
She grinned. “I wouldn’t either, but would the misting device?”
Y’s eyes lost focus as he thought. “They… It wouldn’t… Hrm. I think no.”
Kimi leaned closer to him. “How much do you want to bet, Upsilon?”
“They’re acidic,” he said, laughing slightly. “The slime would corrode through whatever you put it in.”
“Even magically strengthened glass?” she asked sweetly.
He flicked open his inventory, closed it, and took her hand. “Ok, let’s go collect slime samples.”
She laughed as he pulled her out the door.