Dear Diary,

The race went super well! They let the dire wolves join and have their own race at the same time as the kobold race, so that was epic. Bear won the wolf race, and Siri got second place. I forget who got third, I was too busy congratulating Best Girl Siri and giving her treats to notice who came next.

Oh yeah, the winner of the kobold race was Zoe, who’s in Mika and Avi’s band. A kobold named Owe got second place, and Samuel got third. Avi got fourteenth place. Lily decided to not race at all. I don’t blame her. She probably wouldn’t have done very well.

After the race, the barbecue was epic! Everything was grilled to perfection. Gin made three types of barbecue sauce of varying spiciness, so everyone was happy.

Lewis was able to be there today, too. He used one of the turn-into-catboi potions he got from Kimi. Since we’re all goblins and kobolds this cycle, he was still taller than anyone else on the floor. But a normal level of taller, not “literally a giant dragon” taller. He didn’t get as much attention as he had last time, which I think is good. People should think of Lewis as the kinda average, decent guy he is, not as Bonecrusher the Black: Lord of Kobolds.

I mean, he is Bonecrusher the Black, but he’s also a person. He needs friends, not just minions.

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Anyways, the pickled jalapeños were very popular today. I set out a couple jars, and they were all gone within ten minutes. So I set out a bunch more, and they were all cleared out by the end of the day.

Cooking is kinda weird. Like, if you pour your heart and soul into making something delicious, people will appreciate it. Usually. But then if all you do is put a bag of potato chips on the table, people appreciate that just as much. If not more.

It’s like, if people love jars of jalapeños and bags of potato chips so much, what’s the point of putting in more effort?

I know that if all I did was set out jalapeños and potato chips, people would get tired of them super fast. But it still sucks a tiny bit that the amount of effort and love put into something doesn’t directly correlate to the amount of appreciation people have for it.

Although it does make things easy sometimes.

But then, the dracoraptors seem to be able to tell when I don’t put effort into some food, and refuse to eat it. Except Charlie, who will eat a whole block of cheese all by itself. The others, tho, kinda refuse to eat anything that took me less than ten minutes to make.

Actually, I should test that. I bet if I made ten things of increasing complexity, they’d eat them in order of most complex to least. And I mean complex for me. Sushi is kinda complex, but all I have to do is pull it out of my inventory. They’d probably refuse to eat it, even though they eat things with the fish and rice in them.

…Ok, I need to write out a menu to test this.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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