Dear Diary,

The players got here! They used the shortcuts, and told Avi they plan on staying here a couple days as they level up enough to beat the last couple of floors. There are two parties, one of four players and one of three. They came to my diner and discussed combining into one party and leaving someone out, but they couldn’t decide who to screw over. So they’re going through as two parties and when one group gets to Floor 99 they’ll talk it over again.

I think they should join. I mean, only six people can push the button anyways, so someone is going to lose no matter what. They debated leaving the person with the most button pushes behind, but everyone in the party of three has three pushes, while in the party of four everyone has two.

Pushes from after Cycle 40. Before then doesn’t count.

It was kinda interesting seeing how seriously they take this. I mean, we only need two button pushes to stay in the game after Cycle… What cycle was it? 75? 80? 60? I can’t remember. …Because I have two button pushes, so it doesn’t matter to me any more. But yeah, they think they need to get like a “high score” or something.

Although… If they got a lot of button pushes, that means there are less to go around. Meaning there will be less competition in the next cycle group. Which I guess is a good thing.

This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.

Note to my future self: Less competition is good. Push the button as many times as possible.

Unless there isn’t a button in the next dungeon, in which case just win as much as possible.

And unless I don’t have this diary with me, in which case the future me reading it won’t be future enough.

Unless I read it on Cycle 99 and remember the note into the next dungeon.

Note to self: Read through this diary on Cycle 99.

…But that means I need to read it before then so I remember to read it on the last cycle…

No, there are 100 cycles. We started with 1, not 0, so the last cycle will be called Cycle 100. Yeah.

Anyways, next cycle there’s going to be a marketplace on Floor 93.5! Emmy said she’s going to make part of the grass area into a dirt area and put little stalls up for people to trade things! I’m going to make potion cookies and sell them.

Well, not sell. Because money kiiiinda doesn’t really have any value with NPCs. But we can trade with them. So I plan on getting a whole bunch of really cool stuff next cycle!

I can’t keep magical stuff in my inventory, so I’m making cookies and leaving them in a cupboard. I hope they stay. Usually things stay in my cupboards where I put them, but sometimes random things will vanish or get moved.

Even if they all go poof, I can make more. It’s not like it’s hard or anything.

And speaking of cookies, my timer just went off. Fresh cookies are done!

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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