NOVEL NEXT Cycle 23 (5)
Dear Diary,
Mo is a very good marble. He’s won gold twice, and silver once. I’m very happy with him.
Having all the race tracks made, and just needing assembly, is super convenient. Aya suggested that if we ever get a clock that counts milliseconds we should award points for fastest lap. Our races are always fifteen laps, so there’s plenty of time for a marble to run around super fast.
I’ve been experimenting with the chicken and other meats to see what mixture in a meatball the dire wolves like best. I know it isn’t good to give animals food with salt in it, so I’ve been holding back on the ham and pepperoni. On the other hand, they aren’t real wolves, and when the cycle ends they’ll be set back to perfect health, so I’m not too too worried about it.
As far as I can tell, they like beef mixed with ham more than anything. One of the wolves, the one who first tried to follow us, likes straight chicken. She doesn’t like pepperoni at all. Well, most of them don’t like pepperoni. I think it’s the spices; they’re wolves, so they aren’t used to anything having lots of flavor.
I tried giving meatballs to the sharks once, and they ignored them completely. Meatballs seem to have zero effect on the slimes. The kobolds enjoyed them, and were very polite when I offered them some. Well, before they stabbed me, that is. We are kinda at war, after all.
We’re slowly getting better at killing kobolds. They change their tactics around, so we have to change ours. It’s kinda fun, really. The actual dying isn’t fun, but seeing how they react to what we do is always interesting. It’s a strategic game almost, and we haven’t had any reason to strategize in a long time. Marble races are super fun, but it doesn’t exactly require a high IQ to watch a glass ball zoom around a track.
When I mentioned that to the group, Mika agreed and suggested we make a board game of some sort, where strategy is used. Then Staab said we should just learn how to play poker. Kimi pointed out she has dice, so we could play Yhatzee if we wanted. The only problem with all these suggestions is, we don’t really remember the rules to any of those games. Which, rules are important.
Other than meatballs, I’ve been making eggless omelettes lately. Or maybe it’s called crustless pizza. Basically it’s pizza toppings wrapped in cheese like a taco. They’re pretty good, if I do say so myself. All the girls have their own apartment/flat where they live, but none of them have a kitchen. Because we don’t really need to eat. So I end up cooking for everyone. Mika helps sometimes, and Lilly helps occasionally, but only when they want to. Like I’ve said, I like cooking. Making food for five (six, with Staab) people is fun for me. It makes me happy to see them enjoy the food I make. We don’t eat three times a day, since we don’t need to, just twice. The eggless omelettes are good for breakfast, and chicken burgers are good for dinner. I think it’ll be a while before we get tired of chicken burgers.
Speaking of, I need to prep the vegetables for tomorrow.
Goodnight, dungeon!
