NOVEL NEXT Cycle 22 (5)
Dear Diary,
So, the dire wolves liked my food. Which was good.
But they didn’t like it enough to not attack us when they’d finished eating it.
We took a vote on what to do; keep feeding them in the hopes that they’d become our friends, or give up and figure out how to fight them. And, since Staab is a part of our group as far as traveling down goes, it was a tie. We compromised on this: we’d try food giving for the next week, trying every morning. If it didn’t seem to be working, we’d deck ourselves out in armor and swords, and go through the old-fashioned way.
I don’t really like fighting. Not that I’m a pacifist or anything, I just personally don’t like causing pain or being in pain. I mentioned this, and Lilly said she thought I would make a good healer. I like the idea of that; learning spells and buying potions to help people. I might even be able to put the potions into my cooking, so that instead of just chugging a mystery vial, someone could eat a cookie and gain health.
If I had cookies. I’ll have to try making more desserts. I’m not really that much of a “sweets” person, I always preferred potato chips to oreos, but after so much time with only milkshakes, I kinda really want a snickerdoodle, y’no? Heck, I’d take the most basic of chocolate cakes at this point, because there’s so much I could do with flour, eggs and milk.
Anyways, in other news, Mika and Kimi finished their marble choosing races, meaning after Aya does hers tomorrow we can move on with the prelims. We were kinda worried that spending so much time on exploring and making friends with dire wolves we wouldn’t have time for our marble tournament, but no one really wants to die more than once a day, so yeah. We go down there first thing in the morning, and are back by ten. I suppose that if we make it further and further down it’ll take longer, but I don’t think we’ll ever be back after noon. That still leaves us with plenty of time to make tracks and race.
Usually only Mika and Kimi make the actual tracks we use, leaving the rest of us to do whatever we find to do, but honestly it’s never anything important, so this time everyone is going to help out. That should make building the tracks faster. And Mika said she could save the tracks in pieces, instead of melting them down like she usually does, so next cycle she wouldn’t have to mould and form each track individually. It would only be a question of assembling them.
We told Staab about our marble tournament, and he thought it was the stupidest thing ever. Which, yeah, I see that. So we asked what his life was like, and apparently lvl92 is a lava level! He lives in a little hut alongside a river of molten lava. There are three other hobgoblins and a dozen ghosts that also live there, so they mostly play cards. Except a lot of times they drop cards in the lava, and so have to play with incomplete decks. He says it’s pretty boring, but the other hobgoblins like it, and didn’t want to come explore.
Their loss.
Well, that’s all for now.
Goodnight, dungeon!
