Dear Diary,
Should I give you a name? Instead of just saying “dear diary”, maybe I could name you and say “dear Lucy” or something.
Not Lucy, I don’t really like that name. It was just the first one to come to mind.
Anyways, it’s been a week since my last entry. The first group of players got here this afternoon. There were three of them, two elf guys and a fish-race woman.
The fish race isn’t, like, a straight-up fish. Not a magikarp with legs. It’s more like… so, remember the live action Aquaman movie? And there were those creepy trench fish monster things? Yeah, that. Not a sexy mermaid thing, closer to something Lovecraft would have imagined. Except with less gloop, Lovecraft probably would have added gloop. Y’no?
Well, they came through, and Aya told them to give the dire wolves a bunch of meatballs. I hope it works, and the wolves don’t attack them. We haven’t gone down for a couple days, so the wolves might attack them even with the meatballs, if their memories reset or something.
Oh, we finished our marble tournament. Mimo came in dead last. I’m not surprised. I’m never using him again.
When we went down to fight the kobolds, we killed like twenty of them. So a tenth. Lilly says we need to learn and level up aoe spells, which I completely agree with. I still don’t want to cause pain, so she taught me a sleep spell. It only affects as many creatures as its level, so currently eight. But if I practice as much as possible until the end of the cycle, I should get over twenty. The only problem is, it isn’t a spell that can just be cast, like teleport. With teleport, the spell doesn’t care if there’s a point to using it, it just teleports you. But with sleep, it has to be cast on someone. Or at least on something that can fall asleep.
Bugs work. Which, easy, just find a bunch of ants, right? Welllllll… The only place on our floor with ants is… the inn.
The inn is run… by Dorothy.
Yyyyyyyyeah.
Kimi heroically offered to leave a bunch of snacks all around her house, to attract bugs, but that was obviously just an excuse to not clean her house. So I declined.
I’ve been wandering to the cavern wall in my spare time, to find spiders I can cast the spell on. It takes time, but it’s better than going to the inn.
Anyways, Mika is getting better at aiming her ice volley. Kimi has upgraded her fire bolt into fire stream, which basically turns the palm of her hand into a flamethrower. She’s been having fun with that. Aya’s lightning can now cover twelve square feet, and Lilly’s psychic thing can spread out to four rows of people away from the original person targeted.
Lilly’s spell also requires a target. I feel really bad for the spiders she tests it on. They don’t deserve it.
But yeah, that’s what we’ve been up to this past week. More people will come tomorrow, for sure, so I have to be ready to cook.
Goodnight, dungeon!
we're really sorry Mimo let you down, but who won the marble tournament? please don't leave us hanging like that, we need to know this stuff!
good luck with the spell learning & levelling!
All these allusions to Dorothy really makes me wonder just what happened in the past 21 cycles of the dungeon. Who is this mysterious gray (I think that was her assigned color) catgirl
she's Dorothy
@Rainbowhero
But just who is this,, Dorothy? I love having characters very explicitly knowing things the audience doesn't, and having to piece it together myself. It's great, I love it
@WanderingOwl I never like having a character that doesn't have any notable existence in a story, my own novels have all of the characters become important in some way or another, even the narrator...
although this one is so interesting that I like it a lot.
Not Lucy, I don’t really like that name.
Sad Lucy noises
...maybe Lilly can cast her psychic pain spell on Nikki and *that* will show her reefer madness. scare her straight. can't have a druggie running the burger shop that'd be catastrophic what if people can't order FRIES! oh no. what if she starts serving brownies oh no
test it on Mimo first though then we can see if he stops doping. yknow. scientifically. analyze the marble's psychological state, have him fill out a questionnaire. Make sure the treatment didn't make him go catatonic, what if he loses the ability to speak or something! That'd be bad news, good to know before using it on Nikki. Clinical trials to ensure that it's safe for catgirls. We can watch Mimo for signs of Marble Mania, the hit Wii game I may or may not have stolen from blockbuster 15 years ago I cannot confirm nor deny
my late fees are as immense as my guilt over my horrific crimes but it was worth it because there's a marble shaped like a cat and it meows every time you bonk a wall
I have bonked so many cats into walls. so many. the weight of my crimes only grows, day by day
so, remember the live action Aquaman movie? And there were those creepy trench fish monster things? Yeah, that. Not a sexy mermaid thing, closer to something Lovecraft would have imagined. Except with less gloop, Lovecraft probably would have added gloop. Y’no?
The pain... that not only does the protagonist not realise that Lovecraft actually did create a race of fish people, but that Aquaman movie was already heavily Lovecraft inspired with a Lovecraft book actually appearing in the film.
Nikki... is not well-read
Dorothy The come back