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The Legendary Way Optional
Pact of Iron
Swear it, and every pact your pet holds decides one thing: growth or loss.
Keep your pacts and your pet grows. Keep slipping, and your pet can be lost.
IronCan be lost. The top of the ladder, and free for any pet.
No mercy
An ordinary pact costs growth when you slip. Under Iron, every miss puts your pet itself on the line.
No way out
Once sworn, Iron is bound to that pet until it graduates, or until you start that pet over. Its pacts lock. Nothing can be ended. Nothing can be swapped. Every pact you add is sworn in iron too.
No pause
Other pacts can pause for up to 7 days a month. Iron never pauses. Every day counts.
What changes under Iron
Pacts you chose yourself can be paused, ended or swapped. Under the Pact of Iron they can't: Iron locks every pact and never pauses.
| What changes | Pacts you chose | A pet under Iron |
|---|---|---|
| What a miss costs | Growth, and at worst a day of progress. Never a stage. | Growth drains, and the pet can be lost. |
| Pause | Up to 7 days a month | Never |
| Ending or swapping pacts | Yes, from tomorrow | No. Pacts are locked. |
| Pacts added later | Each wears its own crest | Also at Iron: Can be lost |
| How it ends | Whenever you like | When the pet graduates, or when you start that pet over |
A Legend is different: it is born with its oath, and the oath cannot be changed. Legends
What “lost” means
A pet is not lost on the first miss. It goes down in three steps.
- A miss drains growth.Each missed day takes growth away. One miss on its own does not cost you the pet.
- Below the stage line, the pet drops a stage.When growth falls under the line for its stage, the pet slips back to the stage before.
- Past the egg, it is lost for good.If it slips back past the egg, the pet is lost. It stays in your WatchieBesti Family.
What still protects you
Iron is the hardest setting, but it plays fair. These protections still apply:
- Sleep never counts against you. Your pet only watches the hours you're awake.
- A day your watch spent off is skipped.
- A run of good days earns a shield, and a shield quietly covers a missed day for you.
- Missed one anyway? Keep the pact twice over soon after and the day is mended.
Pause is not on this list. Iron never pauses.
Iron on a Legend
A Sworn Legend can swear the Pact of Iron too. Its signature pact rises to Iron (Sulkmander's is there already), and the same rules apply: locked, no pause, no way out until it graduates or you start it over. Safe mode and the Pact of Iron never go together, and Iron is final: a Legend in Safe mode goes back to Sworn first, and once Iron is sworn, Safe mode is gone for that pet.
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