Dear Diary:
Dragons are immune to Kawaii. Found that out today.
We got through the maze pretty fast, and thanks to Mika’s drawing we didn’t get lost. The next flight of stairs spiral down, leading to a big opening rather than a door. Lvl 97 is a big, grassy field, with a kobold village along the left side of the cavern. Apparently it usually has a shield over it, making it look like just more wall.
The kobolds really weren’t expecting us. The first of the players should be here in maybe a week at earliest, so they were just doing normal kobold things. Playing, talking, building, cooking. Not one of them had armor on or was holding a weapon. They didn’t know what to do when we showed up, so the dragon himself came to talk to us.
The dragon’s current name is Bonecrusher the Black, but he used to be a mechanic from Ohio named Lewis, and told us to call him that. He’s a cool guy.
We told him that we were just passing through, didn’t want to hurt anyone. Lewis said that he understood what we were doing, but there was such a thing as professional pride. The kobolds agreed, and not just because he’s a dragon and is in charge. None of them were really ok with letting us waltz through their floor like we owned it.
In the end, we made a deal. If we could, as a group, beat the level once, they’d let us through after that without fighting. To me that sounds pretty fair. They’re defending their floor, like they’re supposed to, but as soon as we win, they’ll know we can win, and don’t want to keep on being slaughtered after that.
The only thing is, beating that level is going to be stupid hard. Like, there are two hundred kobolds to get through, and then we get to Lewis.
Aya straight up thinks we can’t do it. We all more or less agree, since as soon as we decided to fight Lewis one-shot tpk’d us. It’ll take some time to be strong enough to beat them.
We’re going down tomorrow to see exactly how underpowered we are, and judge how much we need to level up our fighting and magic. We’ll also let them know that we won’t be coming back for a while.
Meanwhile, my marble Mimo won a race! Finally! It doesn’t affect the standings all that much, but it feels nice to win. Once this tournament is over, I’ll have to set him aside to make sure I never accidentally use him again. A part of me knows that this is just a marble, and is exactly the same as the other couple thousand marbles I own. But in my imagination, this marble is Mimo, who must have taken steroids or something to win the prelims, and is now showing himself to be a slow, lazy marble with barely any drive to win.
I’m still trying to figure out how to get a breakfast menu. We can’t exactly call the Admin and be like “yo, give me waffles”, but if enough people want something it usually pops into existence. Like these notebooks. And pizza.
I might have Mika draw me up a poster asking players to think long and hard about the Waffle House menu.
Things to think about.
Goodnight, dungeon!
yay for Mimo, tho sorry it sounds like a rare win. i must have missed it but once you pick a marble for the races do you have to stick with him? what if he pulled a muscle or something, could you sub in a back-up marble? and if they're all lime green, would anyone else know?
we're glad Lewis & the kobolds were down for talking at first, but sorry they insisted on fighting. good luck getting all OP with the other catgirls!
Maybe have a training montage with 'eye of the tiger playing in the back ground. Showing the cat girls getting stronger Then showing mimo getting faster at the marble races
I'm kinda curious about an adventure perspective of things, like what do they think of the cat girls? Are they reincarnators as well? If so, are they from the same earth? So many questions!
One of which being if cat girls can get high off cat nip
They think the catgirls are just run-of-the-mill NPC's.
Yes, and yes.
Maybe. So far, catnip doesn't exist in the dungeon...
Ohno! they hafta ask admin to get them some catnip cos its the bomb!
@MadSadie wait if it wasn't catnip then what did Nikki eat that made her tail grow a face and talk to her when she was testing all the herbs trying to make mint ice cream?
did Nikki do DRUGS
and yet she still has the nerve to berate Mimo for doping in the marble preliminaries. maybe someone can get the admin to send her a copy of reefer madness as punishment
Hello lewis!
So the dungeon creatures are all reincarnators. Does that go for players as well?