Pacts The Legendary Way · Optional

What a pact is

A pact is a promise you make for your pet, like "work out every day" or "close your Move ring". Keep it and your pet grows as usual, with a happy little flourish on top. Miss it and your pet pays the pact's cost, which you see before you agree.

Every pact is called "Pact of" something, and its rule sits right under the name, so you always know what it asks. Pacts are optional. A pet with none grows just the way it always has. Keeping one is The Legendary Way: the tradition of the Legends, the first pets, open to every pet.

A pact starts the day after you seal it, and your pact day runs until bedtime, so an evening walk still counts. See every pact.

Every pact wears a crest

The crest tells you what a missed day costs your pet: one chevron for each step up the ladder. Some pacts are just for fun, and others ask a little more of you both.

• Calm · No stakes
  What Safe mode sets on a Legend. A missed day costs nothing.
• Light · Less growth
  A missed day grows your pet a little less.
• Steady · No growth
  A missed day adds no growth.
• Bold · Slips back
  A missed day slips your pet back a day.
• Fearless · Drops a stage
  Miss, and your pet can drop back a stage.
• Iron · Can be lost
  Keep slipping, and your pet can be lost.

Pacts you pick yourself sit between Light and Bold. The Pact of Iron, free for any pet, raises every pact to Iron.

The same crest shows wherever the pact does, so the stakes are never a surprise.

Fair play, built in

Mercy is never sold.

Every pact plays fair. These protections come with every pet, and you earn them by playing, never with Sparks or money.

• 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.
• Travelling or feeling poorly? Pause your pet for up to 7 days a month. The pause starts the next day. Not available under the Pact of Iron.

On a day with no heart-rate reading, the Pact of the Heart is kept by a burst of steps or by progress on your Move ring, so wheelchair pushes count too.

Keeping a pact

Every kept day shows. Your pet does a happy little flourish, and each pact grows a streak flame.

Your pet chats about it too, with thought bubbles like "Breakfast first!" and "We kept it!".