The Floor 2 kobolds felt a familiar pulse of magic, and found themselves in their house on Floor 93.5. It was nearing dusk, so some stayed in their bedrooms as others went outside to cook on the campfire.

The next morning they looked out their windows and saw the big empty area was no longer completely empty. A grassy park with huge oak trees filled about a third of the area, but the other two-thirds was covered in purple asphalt.

In some areas the asphalt was more blue, and in others it was closer to red, but that didn’t seem important.

They spent an hour or so wandering around this new area, wondering what the Admin was going to do with a purple parking lot.

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Dear Diary,

We’re on Floor 48! That means we get transformation belts!

Avi and I only got raptor belts, because we don’t really need anything else. If it were up to me alone, I’d probably get a cheetah belt, too. But Avi has been obsessed with dinosaurs since day 1, so I won’t make him be anything else for a couple cycles. I’m just glad it’s a bipedal dinosaur, and not a stegosaurus or something.

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Lex and Tim (oh, yeah, we kidnapped them again), kinda freaked out when we first put the belts on. They remember the real dracoraptors being aggressive and not-nice to them, and thought we would attack them, too. We didn’t, obviously, and spent a couple minutes taking the belts off and putting them on again, just to show that we were us.

I haven’t written in a couple days, mostly cuz nothing much has happened. It’s the same ol’ dungeon, nothing new. Well, one floor that was just a forest changed to a winter forest, and another floor that was a desert now has a bazillion flowers covering the sand. But that’s it. All the people are the same, and people are the interesting part. The flowers were pretty, though.

Oh! We got lost in a slime maze, and found a loot box! This one had magic clothes in it, so I got a magic cape! It… it’s green. Because I still use green magic. But the edges have silver embroidery on them, so at least there’s that. It gives a slight resistance to slashing and piercing damage, and immunity to acid! It’s got a hood and two pockets. I might never take it off.

Avi got a belt that can make him invisible three times a day for five minutes. It works with the shape-changing belt on, so he can become a Super Stealth Raptor if he wants. If we ever decide to play hide-n-seek, he’ll win for sure.

I wonder if loot boxes give the same loot every cycle. Probably not. As much as I like my new cape, it’s not worth it to keep instead of my bonk stick. And we only get to keep one armor item when the cycle resets. My stick gives too high of a magic buff. I may not be the best, most number-minded player, but I know my stick is too good to give up.

Besides, I like my bonk stick. I’ve had it for a while now, I’m attached. Plus it drives everyone insane when they learn it’s classified as armor instead of as a weapon.

I guess I’ll just enjoy my cape while I have it.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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