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*salutes* I will throw myself into the boss meat grinder at your signal!

Or maybe the Snatcher, since it might be more of a controllable group

How do you mean?

Oh, like to get reports back about who got a buff?

I still have 2 rounds of a buff on me.

Yes, hah

Which, hey, can help to test if there is actually stacking on this one.

you know, I had a thought, I wonder if the pet mechanic can influence future epic weeks... like maybe keeping your pets well taken care of gives you some sort of attack or defense boost. Like a slight chance of them protecting you or attacking the enemy if they're well cared for. (Picturing bonus damage for pet rock being described as the enemy tripping over [insert pet rock name here] and taking a couple points of damage)

Already does.

*wait what*

I have good news for you - this has been a feature for years. Walruses and phoenixes are combat-enabled. Walruses do defense, phoenixes do offense.

How high their wellbeing is changes what dice they use

no wonder I never noticed this mechanic, neither of them are my pets

It's a small chance, but yeah. And while they have minimal effect while in the hotel, when not in the hotel, the better their condition, the more effective they are.

Pet rocks are not combat capable I fear

Kim feels that throwing your pets at enemies is rude to the pets.

Also, what if the enemy picked up your pet rock and kept it?

you have no idea how much I laughed at myself lmao. 'um actually that's already a mechanic you just don't have combat pets, idiot'

i'm rolling rn

You're not an idiot. It's very understandable!

If you don't have the thing, how would you know?