Dear Diary,

Quests are fun! Yes, many of them are dumb, but they're something new to do. Like, I knew there were four velociraptors on Floor 17, but I never counted all the stegosauruses! Turns out, there are twelve of them.

One of the quests is "write your name on a mimic", which was exciting. I don't think I could have done it alone. Avi isn't super thrilled about a lot of quests, but that one he had fun with.

Oh, we waaaay overthought the "make a bracelet out of spider silk" quest. We were trying to do fancy braids and knots and stuff, when it turns out all we had to do was take a single strand and tie it around a wrist. We wasted like an hour with that. A fun hour, though.

Kimi and Y are doing all the quests, too. Aya and the Sams said they're gonna wait till next cycle. That'll give time for more good ideas to come up, and for the dumb ideas to be weeded out.

The only problem we have right now is, a bunch of the quests involve fighting and killing. Avi doesn't fight. So something like "get a rare loot drop from a goblin" is all on me unless I decide to not do it. If we ask the goblins politely if they'd mind us killing them, and they say to go ahead, it's ok. But if they say they do mind, then I kinda feel like I need to back away. Even if we are players, and it is technically our job to kill them.

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Oh! We did visit the secret floor when we got to Floor 14. The ceiling looks pretty epic, gotta say. There's usually twinkling star-like lights and a green aurora, but every fifteen minutes or so something will happen. Like fake fireworks, or flashing colors, or random designs. Everyone loves it. I hope Emmy is writing down her ideas for what to do with the floor, and marks this as a good one.

…I just realized this is the first time I've written this cycle. Well, Avi and I are neko, nothing new there, and we're a party by ourselves so we can do the quests. Kimi and Y are a party by themselves, too, and we're kinda keeping pace with them. We're trying to be on the same floor at night. I think we're currently about six floors ahead of the other players, since we're going slow on purpose.

Oh yeah, we kidnapped Lex and Tim again! There's rules about creatures having to be on their floor when players arrive now, because of Floor 93.5, but it only applies if you leave through the secret door. If you leave through the official exit, you aren't yoinked back! I feel like that's forbidden knowledge somehow. Like if the Admin knew about it, he'd change something to make it not happen.

So we're just hoping he never notices. If he does, well, it was fun having velociraptor pets while it lasted.

Goodnight, Dungeon!

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