Dear Diary,
Back home! I do like being home.
So, being different animals does affect taste buds. Meatballs are delicious as wolves, but they aren’t all that exciting as cheetahs. I’ll have to test a couple things as a cheetah to see what the best food for them is. Strangely, I don’t think blackberry tastes all that much better as a dracoraptor. I don’t know why the raptors like it so much.
Oh! The dracoraptors did not like us coming to their floor as raptors. They attacked us more aggressively than ever before, and almost killed the whole party. Only Samurai managed to run back to the entrance in time. She recalled us, and we took the belts off for that floor. The raptors still acted like they wanted to attack us, but they didn’t.
We told everyone else to not go through as a raptor.
Other than that, being a raptor has been super fun!
We haven’t gone down to the kobolds yet, and I can’t wait to see how they react to us being wolves. I bet a bunch of them will want to buy belts. …I hope the dire wolves are ok with it, and don’t react like the raptors did…
Nat and Gin were pretty surprised to see us show up as raptors. At first they thought we were real raptors, and ran away. So yeah, showing up on Floor 97 as raptors is a bad idea. It would be funny, but it would also probably get us killed instantly.
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They say the hobgoblins haven’t tried to come down since they attacked that one time. When we went through the floor, all we saw were the ghosts. They don’t seem like the kind of people who hide, but I don’t know why they’d try to avoid us.
Unless they just think raptors are super scary. Which, to be fair, they are. I can’t blame them for hiding from a pack of raptors.
Y still thinks they’re going to come down and attack again. If they do, we’ll just attack back. I’m not worried about it.
Anyways, today we all got the eagle belts and jumped off the walkway to glide down. Yeah, we have wings as half-dragons, but those are… They’re like a weird third set of limbs. Flying with wings that are just arms is different. It’s more relaxing somehow. I guess it takes less mental energy?
Oh yeah! Swimming as a shark is fun. It took a little bit to get used to, but it almost feels like dancing. It’s basically just swinging your hips and feet back and forth. Figuring out how to maneuver instead of just going in a straight line was hard, too. Fins are weird.
Changing from an air-breathing creature to a water-breathing creature and back is slightly scary, though. There’s a couple seconds both ways where breathing is just impossible. Not because there’s air or water where it shouldn’t be, just because of instincts. I mean, I’ve breathed air my whole life. Suddenly needing to breathe water goes against everything I’ve ever known. And then after I’ve gotten used to breathing water, needing to breathe air again feels wrong.
Thankfully breathing is a thing we do constantly, and mostly without thinking about it, so the “aaaaah” feeling doesn’t stick around long.
…Avi says I’ve written enough for one night.
Goodnight, Dungeon!
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