Chapter 56: Cycle 25 (Admin)

The Admin worked night and day. Out of habit he pulled iced coffee after iced coffee from his inventory. He never felt tired, didn’t need caffeine to keep him awake, but the cold tannin-filled liquid brought him a small measure of joy.

He’d been watching the players crawl through his dungeon time and again for months now. Enough months to almost be years. As he looked through the list of complaints, he could tell which ones really needed fixing.

Floor 17 was too big. It’s a floor of dinosaurs, it had to be that big. Fixing not required.

Too many goblins on floor 8. It was the first boss floor. Of course there were lots of goblins on it. But just to say he’d fixed it, he took off one of the goblins.

The sirens on floor 23 were pacifists. Yeah, that was an issue. Those mermaids were far more interested in singing than attacking. Sure, their voices were hypnotic, so players would die of starvation listening to them, but that wasn’t fun. He put the homeless gobbo there, turning her into a siren, and took one of the sirens out. For good measure he added in a couple low-level eels, and set their agro area to overlap the siren’s area.

The ant swarms didn’t drop any loot. Their queens dropped more gold than they were worth, so not really an issue.

Marbles are useless. Next cycle he was releasing a slingshot, and marbles gained magical properties based on their color when used as ammo. When cycle 50 came around the slingshots could be upgraded to marble-firing crossbows.

Actually… He set the flying ants to drop one marble each upon death, and reduced the queen to drop +1 slingshots, one per group member. There.

The ghost catgirls are creepy and boring. Yeah, he’d run out of girls for the position of catgirl, and had tried to split one. Didn’t work. But hey, there was now a jobless siren! He took the split catgirl, un-split her, and put her at the inn on floor 60. Then he took the siren, changed race to catgirl, assigned orange color, and put her at the inn on floor 93.

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