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Dear Diary,

Aya is a genius. She’s the smartest out of all of us. By like a lot.

We had trouble with the fire ants being annoying. So she went down to Floor 98 and asked her ant friends to come up and talk with the fire ants.

Turns out, the different types of ants can’t communicate. Which is sad. BUT! THE FLYING ANTS FLY! They agreed to kinda hover above us, and whenever a fire ant tries to fall on us, they grab it and take it somewhere else! Or maybe they kill the fire ants, I don’t know. All I know is that I no longer have ants in my hair or tail, and it’s the best. I love the flying ants and will absolutely give them as much food as they want. Any type of food. If they want it, and I can make it, I will cook from dawn to dusk getting it for them.

With the flying ants on our side, getting to the other side of Floor 88 was stupid easy. So yeah, that’s another floor checked off our list.

We didn’t go to Floor 87 yet, because the air elementals saw the flying ants and challenged them to a game of volleyball. So we had to all go down to Floor 98 and get the rest of the ants, and take them all the way back up to Floor 91 for a proper game.

I have to say, the flying ants were surprisingly good at volleyball. Like, it takes four of them together to actually stop the ball, and at least six to hit it back. I thought they’d immediately lose, but nope. They’re stupid coordinated.

Anyways, since we had to travel through the kobold’s floor a couple times, we decided to just go there tomorrow instead of in two days. Besides, we’ve done enough exploring for one cycle.

Which means we had our official snowman making contest today! The winners were Mika (no surprise), Staab (like I’d guessed), and Kimi (surprise). Kimi didn’t use fire or anything to make the snowballs perfectly round, I guess somehow she’s just an expert at making snowmen. You think ya know a gal…

Oh, for buttons and noses and stuff we ended up just using marbles. Because we have a lot of marbles. We’re going to leave the snowmen up, since there isn’t a good reason to take it down. Oh! A couple players tried playing around with the lotus we made back when we were stuck here, and found out that it’s a trap. So the players might think the snowmen are a trap too. That would be pretty funny, if some players saw the snowmen and just backed away slowly.

…Actually… I won’t say anything specific, but Mika and Kimi are in the diner right now, I think I’ll ask them if it would be funny if players were suspicious of the snowmen. I’ll leave it up to them if they want to make traps in the snow.

Goodnight, Dungeon!