Dear Diary,

I won! Avi finally conceded that pineapple on pizza is perfectly fine! Hah!

Took two days, but that only made victory sweeter. It had the delicious sweetness of pineapple. On pizza. Where pineapple has every right to be.

He had Gin make me a pizza with “you win” written on it in pineapple. It just… I love him so much. It was perfect.

Anyways, the players got here this morning, so Floor 93 is closed to all NPCs. They all came through the door from Floor 75, so I guess the igloo there isn't as secret and hidden as our treasure chest door is.

I presume this means cycles will finish faster now, if players can skip like 30 floors. I mean, they're missing out on all the experience, so they'll be super low-level when they get to our floor. But then they can just redo the last seven floors as many times as they want, without respawning too far back.

I think... I think if I were a real player I'd do that. Cuz then it's not just work, it's more luck. Like, sure, a high-level player can get through high-level floors, but with luck and strategy a low-level player can get through, too. And if they fail enough times, eventually they'll be high-level. So there's no real downside.

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I wonder if the other dungeons are getting shortcuts, too. Or if cycle number doesn't matter, and we aren't really going to get to 100 cycles. Or maybe there's a prize for the first dungeon to get to 100 cycles, and we're behind. No, I don't think it's a race, or we would have gotten shortcuts a long time ago.

Anyways, the players are here, so no NPCs can wander in and get stuff. It's kinda relaxing, having only eight potential clients on the floor. The insanity was fun for a while, but then it just got a bit much. Hopefully the cycle ends before it can get boring.

The first group to show up was the speedrunners. They probably think the shortcuts are the best thing ever. Then a pair who are half-dragons this cycle, who make it here a lot, but I don't think they manage to push the button all that often. And then Ox's group got here.

Oh, Larissa took Mika's change to Miko as a personal insult. She said there aren't enough women in the dungeon, so it's our duty to balance it out. I asked her why she didn't tell Ox and Tig to become girls if she feels so strongly about it. I mean, it's an option, and has no limit on how many times you switch.

Apparently it had never occurred to her, and she's currently trying to convince them to become Viking warrior princesses. I hope she manages it. Mostly because it'd be funny.

So far, Tig seems willing to try, but Ox isn't. Maybe if I go over and tell them they'd be cute as girls... No, I need to tell them they'd look great in bikini armor. That'd work better.

I'll go do that.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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