Dear Diary,

New cycle! I’m a half-orc! I kinda don’t like it!

It… I mean, it’s fine. It’s similar to being a goliath, but with hair and the tattoos are swirls instead of lines. Being big isn’t my favorite thing, and a debuff to magic kinda sucks. But other than that it’s not really all that bad. There are worse races.

It’s just, orcs have these tusks like chonky reverse vampire fangs, and they… Well, I wouldn’t have cared nine cycles ago, but they make kissing difficult. And there’s no real… alternative. Like, when we were half-dragons, kissing didn’t work, but biting sure did. It’s like there was this automatic instinct that kicked in and told us what we were doing wrong. But with orcs there’s no “do this instead” instinct.

It’s a weird thing to complain about, I know, but it just bothers me.

Avi and I are our own team this cycle. When we meet everyone on Floor 14 I’ll have to ask Kimi if they’ve found a workaround. If anyone could figure it out, it’s her.

Anyways, we decided to not kidnap any wolves this cycle. We’re going back to kidnapping velociraptors. Everyone’s gonna be disappointed, I know, but they can go kidnap their own pets if they’re so upset about it. With enough feeding and friendly words, anyone can adopt any pet. And we have a stat for wolf taming that we’re all pretty high in, so kidnapping a wolf off a lower floor should be fairly easy.

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Oh, so, this cycle we all separated into pairs. Aya’s going solo. Staab is with Samantha.

Lilly is going insane. She hates it so much. I don’t know what she plans on doing, or if there even is anything she can do, but she is maaaaaaad.

She’s with Mika this cycle. I kinda feel sorry for Mika.

So yeah, that’s a thing. Usually I hate drama, but this has crossed the line into being slightly funny. Mostly because it has nothing to do with me, and Avi and I can safely gossip about it without her knowing. Avi thinks Lily might resort to charm magic to get Staab back. I don’t think she’d go that far, mostly because it would make everyone upset. Yeah, Lily can be slightly manipulative when she wants something, but she isn’t stupid.

Samurai has charm magic. Mostly she got it cuz it comes with pink hair, but she does use it on occasion. She says simple commands like “stop” and “stay” work on not-people monsters, so she uses it on spiders and mimics a lot. And since she uses it and levels it up, if Lily tried to do something to Samantha, Samurai would be able to command her to do basically anything she wanted.

I don’t know if I could ever use charm magic. There’s just something about it that feels… gross. Oily. Like, when you touch something and you expect it to feel one way, but it’s slightly sticky and leaves something on your hand. If you’re expecting it, it’s fine, and I guess you’d get used to it, but yeah.

I don’t like it.

So I won’t use it!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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