NOVEL NEXT Cycle 23 (9)
Dear Diary,
Well, I was right. The kobolds know how to party.
They have a full band, and cleared off the battlefield to make a space for dancing. It was so much fun! They have a couple food things I don’t, like sausages and cobb salad, so there was a good variety of food. They also have a dark beer, which was nice. I don’t have anything alcoholic on my menu, and the only thing Kimi has in her store is whiskey, so it’s been a while since I’ve had alcohol.
All six of us ended up going. Lilly and Aya (as predicted) didn’t really want to go, but Staab wanted to go. If Staab was going, Lilly was going. And then Aya decided she didn’t want to be alone on the floor all night.
Well, alone except for… Dorothy… which kinda makes things worse.
Mika ended up winning a guitar from one of the band members in a game of poker, which she was thrilled about. She’s super into music, so having a guitar will be good for her.
The kobold was pretty mad about it, tho.
Kobolds are about a foot shorter than us, so it was slightly awkward dancing with them, but talking to them was fun. We’d been so focused on fighting them that we hadn’t ever had any actual conversations. I met a lady who had died at the age of eighty seven, had nine grandchildren, and knew a whole bunch of cooking tricks. She invited me to come down tomorrow and cook with her, which will be epic. I asked if she minds being, well, a kobold, and she says she enjoys the life. Everyone is more or less the same age here, but they respect her for having died at the oldest age, and ask her advice on all sorts of things. She’s become a grandmother to everyone on the floor. I instantly adopted her, too.
Kimi got into an argument with someone who used to be a university professor, and they ended up drawing math equations on the wall of a building. The complicated kind, with letters in the equations. A group of a dozen or so joined them, trying to figure it out. I wasn’t there, but apparently they were about to murder each other over what C represented, when the owner of the house saw their math and chased everyone away.
Kimi will be joining me when I go down tomorrow, so she can continue the argument.
The kobolds found out Aya has an amazing announcer voice, and asked her to announce for a race. That was fun to watch. Apparently they have foot races like we have marble races, and they asked her to announce their big race in five days.
Lilly took over the food tables, and made sure everyone got enough to eat. She had fun directing things. Staab got her to dance a couple times, but she seemed happiest just watching everyone having fun. There were a couple kobolds back there with her, and it looked like they had some pretty interesting conversations.
And Staab just danced. For hours. He must have danced with every kobold on the floor, on top of all five of us. He would have challenged Lewis the dragon to a dance-off if he hadn’t been talked out of it.
Oh yeah, we beat Lewis. I probably should have said that at the beginning. Oh well.
The kobolds are 10/10 a super cool group.
Goodnight, dungeon!
