Dear Diary,

We’re back home! The others got here before us, so everyone’s home.

Kimi got a bunch of pickled things in her shop this cycle. I always had pickle slices, but she has full pickles. She also got pickled onions, pickled eggs, pickled pig’s feet, pickled herring, pickled jalapeños, and five types of pickled cucumbers. Gin was ecstatic when she found out.

None of us had ever had pickled herring before. Maybe it’s the cat part of us, but we all love it. Aya was the only one who’d had pickled pig’s feet before, so she showed us how to eat those. They’re not as good as the fish, but not as gross as I thought they might be. The onions and jalapeños are exactly what they sound like, but the pickled eggs were weird. I don’t know why they exist.

Anyways, now that I have pickled jalapeños and non-pickled jalapeños, I’m gonna try making hot sauce! Mika and Y have both told me making hot sauce in my kitchen is a bad idea. So instead I’m going to be making it on the air elemental’s floor. Their floor is big and open, and they can disperse air super fast if they need to.

Y knows a surprising amount about making hot sauce. He said his parents and grandparents owned restaurants, and they made their own hot sauce. I guess that’s why he felt ok offering to take over the diner when I was in the party with Mika and Larissa and the guys.

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I kinda want to ask what kind of restaurant it was, but it feels like one of those “don’t talk about it” things.

…Mika said her dad made hot sauce once a year and they had to leave on vacation for like a week immediately after to let the house air out. She didn’t offer any recipes or cooking tips, but she did offer to taste test whatever I come up with. So that’s good!

Oh! Lex and Tim made it all the way to Floor 93 with us! So we have velociraptor pets here again! Avi is, once again, very happy about that. He let them run around on the walkway and stay there, which they love. I think it’s something to do with the clouds, it makes them feel very sneaky. When they jump out and attack people up there it’s always a surprise.

Especially for the people who didn’t know there were velociraptors up there. Especially especially for the people who remembered that last cycle there was a dracoraptor up there.

It’s hard to look serious and apologetic when an annoyed kobold is ranting about being given a heart attack by my pets. It’s just too funny.

Altho I think if next cycle we bring wolves down instead of raptors, everyone will be so happy they’ll throw us a party. A party in honor of Avi and I having fluffy non-murderous pets would be nice. But then we’d have to have a party for the dire wolves, so they don’t feel out.

But that’s ok. The kobolds know how to throw multiple parties in a week. I’ll leave it up to them.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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