Dear Diary,

There’s a belt that lets you turn into a dracoraptor!!!

Avi was ecstatic. His lifelong dream of turning into a bipedal, feathered dinosaur has finally come true. It was every bit as magical as he’d imagined it would be.

Have I ever mentioned that my boyfriend is the cutest thing ever? Because he’s the cutest thing ever.

Aside from dracoraptors, there are belts that let you turn into a wolf (regular wolf, not dire wolf), cheetah, blacktip reef shark, and harpy eagle.

I really want to try out the shark belt. We can fly this cycle, so only Mika bought the harpy eagle belts, but everyone got all the other belts.

Cheetahs are heat-resistant, while wolves are cold-resistant. I don’t know why, but I guess the Admin had to differentiate them in some way other than “big cat” and “big doggo”.

We’ve spent almost half the dungeon flying around as a pack of half-dragons, so now we’ll be running around as a pack of wolves. We’ll keep the wolf belts on until Floor 60 (except on water floors, where we’ll switch to sharks), then from Floor 60 to 75 we’ll wear the cheetah belts, then from Floor 75 to 93 we’ll wear the raptor belts.

Just to try them all. We have to try them all. That’s like, a law or something at this point.

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Next cycle we’ll try out the eagle belts for a couple floors.

We can’t really talk while wearing the belts. Animal vocal cords aren’t meant for human noises.

Thankfully, this is not a problem for… well, everyone who isn’t Lily. Somehow, I think we’ll all do pretty good at communicating with animal noises.

The Sams used to be a hive mind, and can hold entire conversations through eyebrow wiggles. I’ve seen them.

Aya doesn’t talk all that much, and can communicate just fine through facial expressions. She’ll be good.

Mika is absolutely going to take this as a challenge, and throw her entire heart and soul into perfecting animal sounds and body language.

Kimi and Y… Honestly, I’d be surprised if they haven’t already perfected animal sounds and body language in private.

Avi and I just know how animals act from having forcibly befriended a ton of them. True, we haven’t befriended any cheetahs, but how different are cheetahs from a housecat? And we know housecats.

Staab will roll with it.

But Lily likes being kinda elegant and formal about things. There’s nothing elegant or formal about turning into a wolf and then trying to communicate that someone needs to open the door for you. That’s just kinda silly.

Still, she agreed to wear the belts without hesitation or complaint, which surprised me.

Oh! Mika tried wearing all five belts at once, and she exploded. So we wrote the Admin and he says he’ll have fixed that bug by tomorrow morning. We still won’t try putting on more than one at a time, though.

But hey, now she knows what exploding feels like! She’s been wondering that ever since we first talked to the guy on Floor 69 who said it wasn’t all that bad. She says him being made out of porcelain probably makes it feel different.

Anyways, tomorrow is going to be fun.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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