NOVEL SIMPLE Cycle 5 (2)
Dear Diary,
I didn’t mention yesterday that we’re hobgoblins this cycle.
So, so far we’ve been human, elf, half-dragon, neko, and hobgoblin. There are six Admins, and everyone thinks each admin chose a race to be. If that’s true, on Cycle 7 we should be human again. I wouldn’t mind that, but I wish we could just stay neko forever.
Anyways! The WAR!
Admin 1’s group is completely gone. Their hellhound took out half of them, and then Admin 3’s group went over and killed the rest.
Admin 2’s group killed their hellhound without losing anyone, but they aren’t a very… cohesive group. They keep going out solo and sneaking around to kill people.
Admin 3’s group keeps trying to break into the buildings. It doesn’t work. They seem to all be focused on brute strength over magic or anything else.
Admin 4’s group tried to set 5’s building on fire, and that didn’t work. Which is good to know, mostly so we don’t try it. And also because I don’t want our building to burn down.
Admin 5’s group hasn’t killed their hellhound yet. They’re using it as a guard dog like we are, but without befriending it. So they’re kinda just stuck in their building.
Staab said Admin 3’s group plans on killing 5’s hellhound. He wants to attack them when they do that, and Y says we’ll have a couple trebuchets ready by then.
So yeah! The fun continues!
Goodnight, Dungeon!
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Kimi screwed wheels onto a trebuchet axle, wondering if it was technically a catapult axle. She also wondered what the difference was. Not knowing bothered her.
Lily came over and watched.
"Do you know the difference between a trebuchet and a catapult?" Kimi asked.
"Catapult is the broad term, trebuchet is just French," Lily said.
Kimi stopped, looking up at her. "Really?"
Lily shrugged. "That's what Staab said."
"Oh." Kimi picked up another screw.
"So… Nikki and Y were the first two here last cycle?" Lily asked casually.
Kimi felt herself bristle. "Yeah."
"They were here, what, three nights? Alone?"
Kimi sighed.
Lily smiled patronizingly. "That doesn't worry you?"
"No," Kimi said flatly. "Lily, I'm going to say this once: just because you're insecure about your relationship doesn't mean I'm insecure about mine. Never imply my husband is cheating on me again. Ok?"
Lily took a step back. "Ok, ignore the warning signs. I'm just trying to help."
"No you're not," Kimi snapped. "You're jealous. You can't stand that anyone has something you don't. Staab is going to dump you again any day now, and you just need to make sure everyone else is as miserable and alone as you are. But your attempts to make us hate each other only makes me hate you more."
"So you hate me."
Kimi watched her for a few seconds. "I never liked how manipulative you were. And then I fell in love and you have tried everything to ruin it for me. But you will not take this from me. My patience is gone. The next time you try something I will burn you to the ground."
Lily turned away. "Understood."