Dear Diary,

The players got here tonight. It’s the group who likes to speedrun, so the rest of the players might not get here till day after tomorrow.

I think they kinda suspect we’re players. None of them said anything, but they squinted at me. Avi says they acted suspicious around him. I don’t know what they’ll do with the information that we’re semi-secretly players, but they have it now.

Maybe they’ll ask the Admin about it. Although I don’t know what he’d say to them, either. He’ll probably brush it off like “don’t worry about it”, honestly. And unless they make a big deal about it, I don’t see him volunteering information.

In other news, the dracoraptors are 100% able to tell how much effort I personally put into cooking something. They just about refused to eat the sushi I offered, but ate the fish balls rolled in rice and decorated with seaweed bows instantly. Interesting, and also pretty funny.

Oh, except Charlie, who immediately grabbed the plate of cheese slices and ran off with it. But that’s just Charlie. We can write her out of the equation whenever straight cheese is available.

Avi was impressed, and wonders if they can tell the difference between original food and duplicated food. Like, if I made one lasagna, then duplicated it, would they refuse to eat the duplicated one? And can they tell the difference in non-food things?

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So next cycle we’re going to make necklaces for them. Then we’ll duplicate the necklaces, and buy a couple necklaces from the store. We’ll see how the raptors react to them all. If they fight over the hand-made ones and ignore the duplicated and store-bought ones, we’ll know they can tell.

I… have no clue what we’ll do after that, but we’ll know. Maybe if someone ever needs to know if they have a duplicate or original of something, we can let the raptors inspect it? But duplicates can’t be duplicated, so why wouldn’t they just try duplicating it?

I don’t know. Maybe someone will find a use for their ability. If it even works in the first place.

Samuel asked Y why he didn’t want to be a kobold again. I guess he’s having fun as one, and would become a kobold again. Y said he’d be afraid of never being able to change race again if he turned back into a kobold. Which… almost sounds like a valid reason.

But, I know Y pretty good at this point. He was lying. And the way Kimi reacted, instantly changing the topic, yeah there’s a different reason. Probably a super personal reason. That I shouldn’t ask about. Because it’s none of my business.

But I asked Avi and he agreed Y acts like he has some kind of kobold-related trauma. Avi thinks it might have to do with suddenly looking like everyone else. Which, given no one can tell what human race(-s?) he is, is a decent guess. I think it might be more related to how he wasn’t given a choice in being kobold.

Like, waking up one day with cat ears and a tail was weird. But waking up as a short bipedal reptile? Without warning? That must have been… kinda scary.

Maybe someday we’ll ask. But not anytime soon. Don’t want to pry or anything.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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