Dear Diary,

Still banned from the park. That’s ok.

Avi’s inn is less busy than last cycle, but it’s still popular. And my diner is still constantly busy. Not packed full, but there’s always someone around. I’ve put up a sign saying it’s closed from 10pm to 8am.

Kimi only keeps her shop open from like 10am till 3pm, so she’s got more free time. But then she’s not banned from going to the park. Having stuff to do when you’re banned from fun stuff is good.

When people aren’t around, I’ve been making cookies!

So far, I’ve been making batches of ten cookies, all equal size, and experimenting with the potions. Y already tried reducing a potion, to make it stronger, and he found out only the taste changed. The magical qualities stayed the same, probably due to magic. So I didn’t have to experiment with that.

But, being able to reduce them means there’s less liquid I’m putting in the cookies. That’s good. The potions all come in 4-ounce bottles, and an ounce is about two tablespoons. Not a lot of recipes call for eight tablespoons of liquid other than milk. And we can’t replace milk, because milk is one of those chemically important ingredients.

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Well, we can replace a little bit, but not a whole lot. Not eight tablespoons’ worth.

Anyways, due to magic I guess, the cookies all end up with about half the strength of the potion. So, if I put a spiderclimb potion in, then eat two cookies, I can hang upside-down from my ceiling almost as long as Avi can by drinking the potion straight.

There’s a discrepancy of like two seconds, but it’s not very long.

And eating four cookies means I can hang on twice as long.

There are ten cookies, so that means the magical effect is quintupled! I didn’t know that was a word, and had to ask Kimi about it.

So far I’ve tried seven different types of potions, and it always works out like that. Next I’m going to make the batch of cookie dough bigger, and see how far the potion goes. I doubt it’ll be the same strength when I’m making twenty cookies with it, but I don’t know. Magic doesn’t work with scientific laws, after all.

Anyways, this means I’ve been eating a lot of cookies. I’m glad I can’t gain weight here, cuz I’ve had like… fifty. In the past day and a half. Avi’s had a bunch, too. And we aren’t even eating all the cookies, either! Kimi and Y have been helping a little, with both the experiments and the cookie-eating, and I’ve just been giving the rest away.

Well, giving them away after we make sure they aren’t lethal. Turns out, mixing more than one type of potion into a batch of cookies makes people kinda sick.

…I just realized, we never tried eating two different types of cookies at once. I wonder what effect that would have. I doubt it would be the same as the cookies with two potions in them.

I’ve gotta go try!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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