Dec 12, 2025

For the day, nothing important happened. I just had my usual shift.

In the evening, I wrapped up with all my work for the week and then got to play 1 whole game of Peak with someone and Luan. Someone suggested that we play it, so that was what we played first. We passed through the shore just fine, with Luan sadly dying through a certain part. But today had the tropics which was pretty easy. Someone said that the tropics used to be hard, but I generally don't find it a hard biome and I said that the mesa biome was way more difficult. We actually all got through the jungle biome just fine and we got a mystical item, that being the “faerie” lantern.

We passed by the early area of the mesa and I found that Bing Bong's temple entrance wasn't open today so I just tried to find the oasis. We haven't been in the mesa biome for a while but we were able to push through it. We found the oasis and we were able to get a crispberry since someone was planning on completing the gourmand badge today. We got through the first half of the mesa just fine, but it was the second part that culled us. We tried our best to climb and I used a shelf fungus to get us through a specific area. I used a chain launcher after that and that's where Luan died. Someone didn't have enough stamina to cross so she just tried to find her own way. I just kept climbing up and up until some static appeared on screen. It was the scoutmaster's thing and I was marked for death, in a way, because someone was still alive and I had left them behind. It was fine and eventually someone died but the static filter on my screen still persisted. I eventually was able to make it to the top of the mesa after such a grueling climb but the static filter on the screen still persisted. I had to leave the game and rejoin, and when I did, I sadly lost all of that extra stamina that I was saving up for, which sucks.

But we passed through the caldera just fine with no one dying, thankfully. We got to the kiln and this is where shit began to happen. I had a lot of damage and poor stamina at the start, with a lot of hunger, too, so that was a pain. I had difficulty in passing through the first areas of the caldera to the point where I just died at 1 spot. Thankfully, since we didn't die through the caldera so our enchanted item for this biome was a scout effigy, which someone used immediately to revive me. I'm glad I got brought back and I pressed on with them. We got through a part near the middle of the kiln and this is where Luan's stamina was too low for him to climb. He fell way down and even fell again after trying again. My stamina was also too low for me to climb up a wall so someone just went on ahead without me. I tried to find an alternate route and someone eventually made it to some luggages which had a rescue claw. It was super clutch for me because it meant that someone could bring me up to the higher platform that she was on. After that, we tried to find a way up and I went back to the luggages to get the scout cannon, since I thought it would come in handy. And it did come in handy at a specific part. The wall we were facing had an easier way to the peak so we used the scout cannon. I tried to position it to the rocks as best as I could and we actually were able to make it through! The last part was the easiest part and I was so glad I was able to make it to the peak with someone.

We eventually left the game to play Castle Crashers and we played a few rounds. We chose new characters and somehow our stats were reset, but we still played through and had fun. We got really stuck at one level and so we called it off after that. Someone and I were still just chatting on Discord after that until eventually someone invites me to watch them play Is This Seat Taken.