Dear Diary,

We have music!!! There are tapes in the catgirls’ shops that have music on them now!

And the coolest thing is, it’s music that the kobolds played! Mika and Avi immediately recognized their band’s song when it started playing. There are only like six songs available so far, but that’s six more than zero!

So yeah, this cycle we’ll focus on pooling our money to buy recorders and spreading them around. That means we have to fight people, but when we explain that we’re only doing it to get money for recorders they understand.

The first catgirl floor, so the first shop, is on Floor 14. We couldn’t decide if we should go back and give everyone on the floor above us recorders, cuz that would set us back by a couple days. We were about to vote on it, when the catgirls here volunteered to take the recorders up! They said that after the players pass through they have nothing better to do, so they’ll help us by taking recorders all the way up to Floor 2!

We gave them a map of the dungeon floors, and told them what food everyone likes so they know these catgirls are friends, too. The girls here have left their floor, but they only went to the floor above and the floor below. After dying twice they decided exploration wasn’t for them.

Which I understand. Dying can be pretty painful, and if you don’t have any motivation to put up with it, why would you?

But now they have motivation! I’m super excited that they’ll be exploring and making friends.

Anyways, Avi decided to keep that name. Mostly for convenience’s sake. The System only allows three name changes, so if he went from Via to something completely different and back to Via later, there’d only be one name change left. But with Avi if any other player brings it up he can just say that the System spelled his name wrong and it’s fine.

Plus we’re all kinda already used to calling him Avi and trying to remember a different name would be hard.

Oh, the triplets say they want to change their names to be the same now. Since name changing is pretty easy. They say they want their names to be Samantha, Samuel, and Samurai.

I don’t know if they’re joking.

Aya said if they did, she’d call them Antha, Uel and Urai. They decided that would be fine. Mika says those are actually pretty cool names, which, ok they kinda are. But being cool doesn’t stop them from being weird.

Actually, “being cool doesn’t stop you from being weird” applies to those three in a lot of ways. I’m getting to know them better, and I like them more than I did two cycles ago, but they’re still super weird. They’re good at fighting, they know how to work in a team, they protect everyone in the party. They come up with some epic combo moves. Very cool. But then one of them finds an interesting rock or something and they huddle around it, whispering.

A part of me really wonders what would happen if we split them into different parties. But I’m not cruel enough to suggest that.

Goodnight, Dungeon!