Dear Diary,

Yep, the kobolds were excited to learn shape-changing belts are a thing. A lot of them got eagle belts, which I was surprised about. I mean, Kimi sold like a hundred and fifty wolf belts, so yeah those were the favorite, but she also sold close to seventy eagle belts. I think twenty people got shark belts and went for a swim; I hope they had fun.

I don’t know how many people got cheetah belts, but I think it was less than the number that got eagle belts. And Kimi only sold like three raptor belts.

The kobolds are already planning a sled racing contest (as wolves; cheetahs are fast but the stamina debuff is lethal), and are trying to figure out how to test who’s the best at running. They want it to be a multi-hour race, which sounds equally fun and exhausting.

At first the plan was to race on Floor 99 like always, but asking the yetis permission to run around for hours and hours wasn’t something anyone wanted to do. So instead we decided to race on Floor 93.5. Then we had to decide: should the sleds be wheeled, or should we just freeze the floor? I think they decided to freeze the floor. Lily says if she teaches all of them a snow spell, two hundred kobolds casting at once should be enough to turn the floor to ice.

…We should probably write the Admin and say we’re about to freeze his secret floor. That seems like the kind of thing he would notice and get annoyed by.

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Oh! Avi and I finally went up and tried to give the dracoraptors necklaces! I don’t know how, but they absolutely know the difference between something we made, something we bought, and something we duplicated. Watching them fight over the necklace we made while acting like the necklace we duplicated (so, literally exactly the same) was complete garbage was kinda funny.

When we got home, we put on the raptor belts and tried to figure out what the difference was. The only thing we can guess is that they do smell slightly different. Not a lot different, just a teeny tiny bit. Maybe we should try soaking them in blackberry jam overnight, then see if they can tell the difference? Unless there’s just some kind of magical aura they can see? Then we’d need to… I don’t know, paint them?

So yeah, the dracoraptors remain a mystery.

When we went up there, we kinda expected the hobgoblins to attack us, but they didn’t. We didn’t see them at all, just the ghosts. I think if the hobgoblins were going to attack us, they would have. I mean, Avi and I are far from intimidating. We’re probably the two least scary-looking in the group. But nope, not even a glimpse.

I don’t think we have to worry about them.

Oh! Dracoraptor arms have long feathers. We know they aren’t long enough to fly with, or else the raptors would have absolutely ambushed us from above by now. But! Avi figured out they’re good for gliding. It’s possible to jump off the walkway and glide softly down. We don’t have a lot of control, and flying as an eagle is better, but it’s still fun.

I’m gonna go write that letter to the Admin before I forget.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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