Dear Diary,

We’re on Floor 75, getting close to home! This is an even cycle, so we’re going straight through and pushing the button.

Well, not straight through, we’ll stop at our floor a day and hang out with the kobolds a bit. And the air elementals, and the dire wolves, and the dracoraptors. All our friends. I miss spending day after day hanging out.

I think, if given the choice, I might go back to being an NPC. Sure, we weren’t really seen as people, but that meant we could do whatever we wanted when players weren’t around. Now we can do whatever we want, but we have to travel for a week and a half before doing it. Which almost doesn’t seem fair.

I guess we could make friends with some of the people who live in the upper levels. And just hang out with them all one cycle. Or we could stay on Floor 60 with Gigi and Jenny.

Maybe the Admin would just teleport us back down to Floor 93 when we don’t plan on pushing the button. I mean, what would the harm be? It’d basically be like making us NPCs again for a cycle. And then we’d have more time for marble races!

We won’t have time for a marble race this cycle, speaking of. Which makes me very sad. Maybe we can have one marble race? A big, special one, instead of a series. We could make one giant track that leads down from the walkway! Kimi and Y know exactly the angle the marbles have to fall to not explode, so it could work!

Yeah, I’m gonna suggest we have a single marble race this cycle. Because marble races are the most important thing in life.

Well, ok, food is a little more important. But just by a little bit.

I miss having cooking competitions. And the music competitions, even though I never participated in those. I guess I’m just kinda nostalgic tonight.

Oh, after this floor Via and I are going back to making friends with everything, so we’ll be going slow again. I spent most of the evening cooking with the diner owner here. She didn’t like that I don’t season my meatballs with anything, but I can’t! Salt and spices aren’t good for wolves and other animals! She pointed out that the chances of a wolf here dying due to high blood pressure is basically nil, which, she has a point. But I still don’t want to give animals something that I know is bad for them. Just, on principle. And sure, I give people and players food that’s super unhealthy, but that’s different. If a kobold eats a deep-fried piece of chocolate cake, they’re perfectly aware of how bad it is for their health. Wolves don’t have that knowledge, so it’s my responsibility to make food as delicious and healthy as possible. Nya.

Oh heck, I forgot to make the blackberry cheese sauce for the dracoraptor’s meatballs! I have to go do that before it gets too late!

Goodnight, Dungeon!