NOVEL NEXT Cycle 28 (2)
Dear Diary,
Life with the kobolds is great! We figure we can spend two weeks with them before going back to our floor, so we kinda live here now.
Well, Aya spends most of her time on Floor 98. She says she and the ants are trying to kill the big giant evil worm thing, now that they’ve managed to get into the spider’s nest.
But anyways, it took everyone three days to build our house. It has two stories, with six bedrooms. Even though Kimi stays with Y, and Staab stays with Lilly, so we only really need five. Y drew up the blueprints, and he said that there had to be six bedrooms or else things wouldn’t be symmetrical.
…And then he and Kimi got into an argument about whether or not pentagons were a good shape. It looked like a fun argument, though, not an upset argument. I get the feeling they argue for fun a lot.
Overall I like Y. He’s a good guy. But I think I like Staab more. Staab is more calm, while Y is… It’s like he acts calm, but it’s an act. I don’t know if this makes sense, but it seems like he’s always thinking faster than he moves. While Staab thinks at the same speed as his movements. Seeing them together more makes the differences stand out.
Anyways, since we have a bigger house than anyone else, Mika and Via’s band practice in our living room. It’s pretty cool, our house is full of musical instruments now. I spend most of my time cooking at Nat’s house, so I don’t have to hear them play all day.
The kobolds all get food in their inventory, so not everyone has a kitchen. People who like cooking can cook, and those that don’t like it don’t have to. Nat gives out cooked food to the people who don’t like cooking, so she basically has a restaurant in her back yard. It’s just picnic tables, nothing fancy, but I like it. It gives more of a “I’m doing this because it’s fun and for no other reason” feel than my diner does. Plus, no one orders food. They don’t get to choose what they eat. We make whatever we want, and if they want to eat it they do. If they don’t want to eat what we make, they don’t have to. Not having to worry about customers' tastes or getting payment really takes the stress out of cooking. It makes it super fun.
Yesterday we took Via to meet the ants. She was pretty curious about them, since Aya spends most of her time down there. We all like the ants since they helped us and stayed with us through Floor 99. It was pretty funny, how in the morning we were all “yeah, the ants! Let’s go say hi to the ants! We love the ants!” And then when we got down there the ants were just… a swarm of flying ants. Swarming around. Via totally didn’t understand what we were all excited about.
For old time’s sake we joined up with them and killed the spiders. We took all the loot they were guarding, so Via has shiny silver gauntlets now. There was a +1 spear there for her, but instead she took a wand that amplifies spells. Not as much as my bonk stick, but my staff only amplifies non-combat spells. Lilly says Via should try practicing with a couple combat spells that don’t hurt, like the spell that pushes enemies away.
Lilly said she was going to write down a list of all the spells, and I think she’s done now. I’ll go see.
Goodnight, Dungeon!
