Chapter 182: Cycle 42 (2)

Dear Diary,

Guess who has velociraptor pets now? It’s us! Via and I got velociraptors to be our friends!!!

It took a couple hours, and the raptors were super scared at first, but by the time I ran out of meatballs they’d let us put collars on them. We’ve been carrying them through the floors, and feeding them on every one, so they’re used to it now. 

I can’t wait to get to Floor 60 and show everyone!

Well, there are four velociraptors on Floor 17. We took two with us, and left the other two there. I think they used to be cats, they act very cat-like sometimes. Via wanted to name the raptors Lex, Tim, Arby and Kelly, and I don’t see any reason why not, so those are their names now. The two we have with us are Lex and Tim. I think we’ll keep those with us, and always leave Arby and Kelly on Floor 17. Or maybe next cycle we’ll take Arby and Kelly with us, and leave Lex and Tim there, just to see who does best as a dungeon travel companion. 

The one thing I’m not sure about is, this is supposed to be a pacifist run. And the velociraptors kinda attack everything that moves. They’re not very high-level, but they have killed a couple things. I say it still counts as a pacifist run if we don’t do any killing. Via isn’t so sure, but agrees there’s not much we can do about it. 

Other than not take the raptors with us, but that’s crazy talk.

Anyways, I’m pretty sure we’re way behind the other girls now. We spent almost half a day on both Floor 17 and Floor 7, and aren’t exactly rushing to get through the others. I’m pretty sure the dungeon is set up so the players can pass at least three floors a day, so we’re going at slightly over average player speed. But there are players who can do way more than that, so we might actually be behind a player or two. 

But that’s ok, cuz we have velociraptors.

We might need to speed things up, though. Well, we’re at Floor 20, so maybe at Floor 25 we should stop trying to feed everything and just focus on getting through? Although Floor 23 is where Via was originally from, and I think she’ll want to just teleport over that floor. We’re a fifth of the way through the dungeon, so maybe stop trying to make friends here?

I’ll have to ask Via about it in the morning. 

I wonder… we’ll need a strategy for when we get to the next dungeon. The Admin wants us to do things wrong, and feeding monsters instead of fighting them is definitely wrong. For a player. But we can’t just waste time feeding everyone until we make friends all the way to the bottom floor. That would take a lot of cycles where other people would win, and I don’t know how many cycles we can afford to waste. 

Something to think about, I guess. I’ll bring it up when we meet up with the girls. 

Goodnight, Dungeon!