Dear Diary,

Marble races have started!

And I’m in second to last position! Only Staab is behind me.

So that kinda sucks. But, you can’t win them all. Such is life.

Blackberry continues to be the dracoraptor’s favorite fruit. Or berry, I guess. They certainly don’t mind mango or starfruit, and they found the dragonfruit interesting, but they didn’t demand more like they do with blackberry. And they pointedly ignored all the other fruits. So I was right that they won’t eat things that are poisonous to them. Or else they just don’t like the taste of kiwi. Either way, it wasn’t eaten.

I wonder why strawberry-kiwi is such a popular combo. I mean, it tastes good, sure, but who was the first person to look at those two things from very different parts of the world and go “hmm, the perfect match”? Or is it just cuz pink and green look good together?

I suspect it might be at least part that. Personally, I prefer peach and strawberry. But that color combo isn’t as eye-catching.

Anyways, the players should be here soon. The real players, I mean. Obviously we’re here. Aya and Kimi think we should ask the Admin to change us into catgirls. Lily thinks it isn’t all that important, but I kinda feel weird about pretending to be an NPC as a human. I mean, someone might recognize that we’re players. As catgirls it was kinda… yeah, they might have recognized us, but we’ve always been catgirls so obviously people would recognize us here. But changing into humans is a big change. Players have a good chance to recognize us as someone they saw on Floor 1.

Lily says no, since she was an elf before, and it was fine. Besides, they’re bound to recognize us eventually. Which, fair.

I still kinda want to turn back into a catgirl. It would feel weird to cook for a Player as a human.

It’s not that we have to, but I think we’ll be emailing the Admin before the Players get here.

Iiiiin other news, Avi is totally avoiding me. I asked Mika about it, and she says she doesn’t know why. She asked if we had an argument or something, but we didn’t. I don’t think we did, at least. I want to ask him what’s wrong, but that’s kinda hard to do when he won’t talk to me at all.

I miss talking to him.

I might have to just tie him to a chair or something and ask what’s up. No one will notice if I put a sleeping potion in his soda, right?

Actually, I wonder what those things taste like. And if cooking them changes their magical potency. They’re dark blue, so I kinda always presumed they taste like blueberry, but they might taste like vanilla for all I know. Or water.

Wait, what are they for? It’s not like Players walk up to a goblin and go “hey, here’s a free drink! Please drink it now!”

…That’s gonna bother me. I’m gonna go ask Kimi.

Goodnight, Dungeon!