The kraken woke to the sound of the gong. Her tentacles twitched, ready to attack anything that passed above. The sharks swam in lazy circles, watching, waiting.

Nothing came.

She was aware something was in her ocean, but nothing was passing above.

Well. She was patient. She could wait.

“Excuse me!”

The tiny voice came from a few feet away, on the ocean floor. She turned her great head, eye scanning the sand. On a rock stood two tailed bipeds; one with silver hair and one with blue. The silver haired one waved while the other grinned. Two tiny gold whales swam around them.

“Hello!” the silver biped said, confident she had the kraken’s attention. “I was wondering if you’d allow me to chop a part of your tentacle off.”

“It’ll grow back in an hour or so,” the blue one added, tightening her ponytail.

“No,” the kraken said slowly.

“Please?” the silver one asked. “It won’t hurt much, I promise.”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No.”

“Please?”

“No. Why would I allow that?”

“Because I asked nicely?”

The blue one spoke up. “And if you don’t, we’ll have to get it by attacking.”

The kraken turned to face them, raising herself on her tentacles to look as big as possible. “You think you could attack me and live?”

They glanced at each other.

“Yeah.”

“Yep.”

With a screech that shook the ocean, the kraken slammed a giant tentacle on top of the bipeds.

*****

Dear Diary,

I met the kraken! Kimi and I went down there and used the talk with animals spell to talk to her. She’s pretty nice for a giant squid. Oh, and we had to change our pets with whales, so we could breathe underwater. So Professor Plum is gone. I might not bring him back. I like having a spider pet, but I want to focus on making the wolves and velociraptors my pets.

Oh, speaking of raptors, Via has kept on trying to ride the drakoraptors, and two of them let her put the saddle on now! She hasn’t tried riding them yet, she wants to make sure they’re used to the saddle before getting on, but she’s close. Maybe next cycle she’ll be able to ride into battle against the yetis on a dracoraptor. That’d be epic.

I wonder how that’ll work, since she’s a pacifist, and the raptors are… well, they kill everything that moves. So maybe her riding around on a raptor won’t be the best idea. It’s still super cool, tho.

And the yetis still think they’re rocks. Lily said the spell should have worn off by now, unless they’re just exceptionally dumb. Or else they like pretending to be rocks. I don’t know. The yetis are weird.

Oh! I was talking about the kraken! Yeah, she didn’t let me cut a part of her tentacle off. She attacked, so Kimi and I fought back and cut a part off without her permission. Which, it would have been nice to get her permission, but I do see why she wouldn’t want to give it. Anyways, yeah, the tentacle vanished out of my inventory as soon as I left the floor. So if I want to try cooking kraken steaks I’ll have to do it on that floor. Which I’m willing to do, just, maybe next cycle.

The first players juuuuust got here, so I have to go pretend to be an NPC.

Goodnight, Dungeon!