Dear Diary,

The race was amazing! …It was two days ago, but whatever.

The kobolds put on wolf belts, then got into their sled harnesses and ran. They ran around, and around, and around, and it took like three hours for them to do all the laps they wanted to do. They were super tired by the end, but I know everyone had a blast. They’re already talking about when to do the next one. I think they want to do it while we’re away, which would make me sad, but not enough to tell them to wait.

The band came in fourth out of ten teams. So no medal, but they did good. If it were a marble race, I’d be happy with getting fourth.

Gin’s energy drinks and candies were huge hits. No one died immediately after eating, which is always a plus. She said no one has ever died immediately after eating any of her food, and that it usually takes a year or two for diabetes and heart disease to kick in. Which, yeah, that’s about what I expected.

The winning team was a group who always joins the running races. I think all kobolds have joined at least one… I guess it’s a footrace? But not everyone raced all the time. There was one core group that raced in every single race, and this team was them.

They’re super happy they won. I think it’s the same as me and Nat winning a cooking competition. They like running, and they do it a lot, but this is proof they know how to run. …Which doesn’t sound all that impressive until you remember that this race was the first one where everyone had four legs.

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Anyways, the night after the race (while we were partying) we got a call from the air elementals who said players were on their floor. We panicked, got everything cleaned up, got back to our floors, aaaand then just sat there for a full day. We spent all day yesterday in the half-bored, half-stressed “any minute now” state, and the players never came! They showed up this morning!

Which I think was very rude. I mean, I know they didn’t know we were waiting, but they still should have hurried to get here before dark. They chose to eat random campfire food and stay in cabins instead of coming here and eating my food and staying at the inn. Rude.

I bet if they’d gotten any food here they would have ordered strawberry milkshakes.

Oh, it wasn’t the speedrunners or Ox’s group, it was a pair of fairies who both had black magic, so we think they might have focused all their attention on leveling up teleport. Or invisibility. Or both.

Which isn’t a bad idea. I mean, if you aren’t focused on killing everything that moves, you can still level up magic pretty easy. Sure, you’d have to fight a couple things early on, and slimes would have to be fought no matter what, but with just invisibility and teleport you can avoid like 80% of the enemies in the dungeon.

When the cycle resets I’ve been putting my free +1 into jumping, maybe I should switch to putting it in invisibility. Jumping is fun but it isn’t super helpful with lvl 100 teleport.

Yeah, when the cycle resets I’ll level up invisibility.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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