I spent today perfecting my armor. I’m making it work slightly better in every way, more efficient, more responsive, more comfortable, etc. I should get to a point that I’m satisfied in around four days, then I can move on to something more exciting.

Mest has started to get preliminary reports about Ents in dungeons, particularly the lower floors of dungeons, which apparently are the harder floors. There isn’t much information in these reports, as they are all pretty new, but there are still some interesting bits. For example, a dragon was replaced with an Ent as a mid-boss on one of the lower floors of a particularly old dungeon and is even more challenging than the dragon was. There’s more than one report about new floors entirely dedicated to plants, something completely unheard of before, with Ents as the main defenders. I had to have most of what that meant explained to me by some of our resident divers as I know next to nothing about what a fully realized dungeon is actually like.

Mest was really excited about these reports for a couple reasons that he explained to me. The first was that all of them were specifically for him, not passed around and eventually winding up with him. This means that he is being considered to be one of the foremost experts on dungeons now, something that has been a dream of his for a long time. The second is the fact that these changes are causing a buzz in his order, this is getting people excited, and that means that people that study dungeons, particularly those that are considered to be the top of their field, and likely to receive a rather large funding boost. Something that rarely happens for dungeon experts as they can supplement their income with dives better than most others. Again, I had to have most of this explained to me, something Mest was all too willing to do.

When he returned to reviewing the reports he left me with the somewhat cryptic line ‘I’ll buy you some flowers as thanks for this gift’. I hope it means what I think it does.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.