Hallows Extravaganza Event 2023

Bring On The Carnival Questline Conclusion, and The Carnival Is Here!

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The worship of the Abyssals and Havens has subsided greatly over the years, and the celebrations of tasty treats and dances have changed and grown outside of their original purpose. Hallows Month still involves enjoying the sharing of treats, but dancing and dressing have been traded for more games of play. Everyone is here to share the stories of old, bask in the changing of the season, and have some good old fun!

General Event Guidelines & Information:

• This event is being hosted on both the Isomara Island Site & on DeviantArt
• Must be a member of the Isomara Island group to participate on DeviantArt
• Must have an account/ be an Early Access supporter to participate on isomaraisland.com
• Art / Literature cannot be used on both the Site and DA for double the rewards. If any entry is submitted twice, rewards will only be rewarded once.
• You may use any Isomara you own, an NPC, or Deus in any activity, game, or prompt
• Art must be full body (at least 75% of the character showing)
• Art must be colored
• Literature needs to be at least 400 words in length

Activity #1 - Trick or Treat

Carmen & Frio have made a lot of mochi and hidden the treats for the isolings to find. This information spread, so now everyone is on the hunt for mochi. 
There are five unique fruit-filled mochi and five normal mochi to find across the site. Finding one will give a clue to another.

• Play Here - Trick or Treat Scavenger Hunt 
  
  

Activity #1 Ends: 31 October 2023, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

Activity #2 - Apple Bobbing

Try your skill at bobbing for apples. 

Daily stamina has increased to 5 during this event. Players can use that stamina to bob for apples to receive mochi. Stamina remains shared between the Tide Pools, Queen's Cache, and Apple Bobbing.

• Play Here - Apple Bobbing Game
  

Apple Bobbing Prompt:
   Submit a prompt with art about bobbing for apples to receive more rewards (no daily limit!)
     Prompt Rewards - x1 Item + x3 Mochi (currency)
     Submit Prompt Here

Activity #1 Ends: 31 October 2023, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

Shop - Treat Trade-In

Stop by and trade the mochi you earned during the Hallows Event for sweet goodies such as hand-crafted fruit daifuku, legendary finds, charms, and mystery candy!

• Shop Link - Treat Trade-In

Some items have a maximum buy limit per person:

• Maximum 1 Queen's Conch per person
• Maximum 1 Wish in a Bottle per person
• Maximum 3 Mystery Candy per person
• Maximum 5 Ultra Mystery Candy per person
• Maximum 5 Sand Dollars per person

Shop Closes: 5th November 2023, 23:59:59 MST (UTC-07:00)

Activity #3 - Bring on the Carnival! (Questline)

Part 1: Winds Brew Wildness

     While windy weather alone won't stop Thyme and the rest of the crew from setting up a carnival, a thunderstorm will. Strange enough, no one has seen any lightning or rainfall, but signs of bolt strikes are present on the grounds, and the wooden stalls and decorations keep being knocked over even though they are wind-proof. 
     Thyme stands around a circle of other Isomara.
     "We need recruits to scout and watch over the grounds and surrounding area at night. I'm not letting another year slip by without a carnival! Get anyone you can to investigate the lightning marks and keep an eye on the weather." Commands Thyme.

     Draw/ Write about investigating the mysterious lightning strike marks and/or watching over the carnival grounds. Keep an eye out for anything bizarre and out of sorts.

• Submit Part 1 Prompt Here
  

Part 2: Swirling Winds & Strange Howls 

     Many Isomara showed up to volunteer in the investigation. Some kept an eye from the sky, while others scoured the grounds for clues. Thyme gathers everyone back into the center of the under-construction carnival. "Thanks to everyone's efforts and assistance, we might have a lead on the strange lightning strikes causing the carnival plans to stall." His words were stern, and the Isomara around him showed excitement at what they had just heard. 

     "While no lightning was seen in the last few nights, one duo of Isomara and their companions reported hearing howling in the area. The howling was mentioned to be louder during nights of strong winds." Murmurs around the circle commenced. Some could be heard.

'Well, of course, howling is heard during the wind. This is what wind does!' shouted one Isomara. 

'I bet it was one of us here just fooling around.' said an older Isomara with a scoff.

     Thymes ears twitched upon hearing these sudden spoken thoughts and added, "No matter the cause, we will find it. I will keep a closer eye on things the next couple of days, even... if it means losing my beauty sleep." His voice got quieter as he said that, almost as if he regretted making the self-promise as soon as the words left his mouth. He gulps in some air and returns to his previous composure. "Some animals might be making a ruckus during these windy nights. We will set up the stalls again, as well as some traps. Can all of you help us gather the materials to rebuild the broken stalls and also help in laying the traps?"

This part has two solutions. You may pick either one:

1. 1. Supply x5 Wood or Driftwood (Can be a combination), x13 Sticks, x1 Cloth or Fabric, x1 Simple Dye, x2 String or Vines (Can be a combination), and x18 Rocks
   2. Include a drawing or story about setting traps or helping build the carnival game booths/ stalls. It must also include Thyme.

• Submit Part 2 Prompt Here
  • You can either submit art/lit or supply the exact amount of materials.
  • If supplying the materials when submitting the prompt under comments, mention that or add all the items listed above in the Add-Ons section.

The items inside the Hallows Gift Bundle will be changing on October 1st. We strongly recommend grabbing the item from Slay's Concessions and opening the bundle before October 1st as the items received when opening this bundle will change.

• Everyone will be able to grab the new bundle on October 1st
• You may miss out on goodies from the first version of the bundle if you wait to open the bundle once Oct. 1st rolls around
• Opening bundles can be done through your inventory by selecting the item (Be sure to check the box when selecting items)
  
  

Updates, Changes, & Fixes since Update 7.2. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times we announce new features right away in the Discord, but we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
View all past Update Logs

Website Updates

Updates

✏️ Make-Your-Own (MYO) Slots

MYO slots have been added to the site and are fully functional. Players can purchase MYO slots from either the MYO Shop (for in-real-life currency) or Slay's Concessions (for ).

• Notes:
  • MYO slots have been successfully ported from DeviantArt to here (only if the owner has an account on-site). Please submit a claim if you are still missing a MYO slot from the ones listed here.
  • If you had owned a MYO slot with any +# Uncommon/Rare traits your MYO slot was upgraded to an ultra slot.
  • If you had owned a MYO slot with any +# Special traits you were given that number of Chosen Special Trait items.
  • Upgrading MYO slots is not available at this time. This will be added in the next update.
  • Memora MYO slots are not available at this time. This will be added in the next update.
• Changes:
  • MYO slots will not expire. Previously on DeviantArt MYO Slots would expire after 6 months - 1 year. We haven't enforced this for years and renewed all slots, and we want to make players fully aware of this.
  • Ultra Uncommon Standard Isomara MYO slot has increased from $10 (2000) to $12 (2,400)
  • UItra Rare Standard Iso MYO slot has increased from $15 (3,000) to $16 (3,200)
  • Common Deustrum MYO slot has increased from $7 (1,400) to $8 (1,600)
  • Uncommon Deustrum MYO slot has increased from $10 (2,000) to $12 (2,400)
  • Rare Deustrum MYO slot has increased from $15 (3,000) to $16 (3,200)
  • Chosen Special Trait add-on price reduced from $5 (1,000) to $3 (600)
  • Removed: "Patreon Pledgers get 50% off all MYOs whether buying with Points, PayPal, or Seashells!" - This is just for MYO slot purchases, and will remain on normal adopt sales

⚙️ Account Settings

• Online Visibility - We've implemented an online / last-seen player functionality that will allow others to see when you are online.
  
  • For players who want to be a little mysterious, they can set themselves to invisible through the player account settings page. Setting yourself to invisible no longer displays whether you are online or your last online status. 

💝 Referral Rewards

• When registering for an account there is now a referred by field that upcoming players can use to list a current player. Players will receive rewards when they are referred. You can see the list of referral rewards here.

Changes

🏝️Home Page UI
The homepage has received a slight uplift for both logged-in and guest users.

• Added more quick link buttons for useful information such as island inhabitants, in-game currency, MYO info, and more.
• Embedded our Bluesky social feed
• Moved the navigation bar to the top of the screen and froze it. This allows players constant visibility on currency balances on every page.

🦤 Species Traits

• Previously Bleppers with spikes/horns were listed to have the Spikes body trait which is a trait meant for only goom and was listed with a rare rarity. This was inaccurate as spikes/horns on bleppers are uncommon. We have made a proper new body trait for bleppers called horns with an uncommon rarity. All bleppers with the spikes body trait now have the correct horns body trait.
• Renamed Blepper Horns crest trait to Plumicorns crest trait to avoid confusion with the new blepper horns trait

🫧 Miscellaneous

• Added a description to Adopts & Sales page along with links to related shops
• Added ability to link a Bluesky social in player account settings
• Added Custom Wardrobe Item
• Added artwork for numerous traits
• Added artwork to Goom Orb
• Added Ramen as a cure for frostbite

🛠️Fixes

• Users will no longer see a report user button on their own profile pages
• Birthday Publicity can now be updated in a player account Settings
• Rainbow site theme bled into the Dark Mode theme
• Fixed a broken link on the team page
• Tweaked FAQ and Beginner's Guide MYO links and information

🐛Known Bugs

You can find the full list of known issues here. These are issues that have been reported by players or noted by staff and have not been resolved yet but are on our radar.
New issues on our radar:

• The nav bar will be unresponsive on smaller window screens including mobile

Our first open registration was Bumpy, but overall a success!

Updates, Changes, & Fixes since Update 7.1. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times we announce new features right away in the Discord, but we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
View all past Update Logs

Website Updates

Updates

🍖 Edible Items Version 1.0

Most edible items can now be eaten from a player's inventory! Items with the small pink tag labeled "Consumable" can be eaten by selecting the item in your inventory and choosing which of your Isomara to feed it to. Once fed the Isomara's hunger meter will rise or fall depending on the item.

• • Edible items with other multiple effects such as curing ailments, raising stats, and granting traits will still need to be fed using the Item Consumption Forums. We need more time to implement those features, but now most items can be fed to Isomara instantly!
  • If you see any issues when using consumable items please submit a bug report with a description of what items and isomara were involved.
  • 

🐈 Companion Care Drops

• Added Memora care drops
  • Memora must be companioned to an Isomara to have care drops. You can learn how to tame and companion Memora here.

Changes

🪽Stat Capacity

• All stats have received a maximum capacity limit. Never before has there been a hard set-in-stone limit to the amount of fight, flight, and hunger stat points an Isomara can have, but as we implement more features to the website there are times when we need to limit data and work within the bounds of some backend limitations. With the addition of Edible Items V1, we need to implement a cap on hunger and the other two stats. There will be ways to increase this cap in the future.
• Fight and Flight are capped at 500 each
• Hunger has been capped at 200
  • For any Isomara over the 200 hunger cap, they will automatically have their hunger cap increased rounded up to the nearest hundred (Ex. Hunger of 223, the cap will be 300)
  • The Stuffed hunger status will remain for Isomara over 100 no matter what their hunger cap
  • Note: Once an Isomara reaches the hunger cap they can still eat items, but their hunger will not go above that count

🫐 Item Details & Effects
All items in the edible category have had their descriptions fleshed out with additional information such as flavor text, location source, and uses. 

• Flowers have been changed from a Tier 1 item to a Tier 0 item
• Consuming flowers now causes -1 hunger for each flower eaten (used to be +1 hunger for x3 flowers)
• Coconut Water now cures Dehydration
• Added sale price to all edible items which means all edible items can now be sold from the player's inventories
• Using honey now only has a 35% chance of curing bee stings
• Added critter bite cure to honey (35% chance)
• Using Aloe vera now only has a 35% chance to cure sunburns
• Added critter bites cure to Aloe Vera (35% chance)
• Increased hunger for eating a Pumpkin from 3 to 5
• Added new item -
  • Bandage - made of aloe vera or honey and fabric grants a 100% chance to cure bee stings, critter bites, and sunburns
• Removed item
  • Height Changer - No longer needed as players can alter their character's height whenever they please

• Filler Smoothie Recipe
  • Added Apple Juice and Orange Juice as alternatives to Coconut Water
  • Increased amount of water/juice items from 1 to 2
  • Added Watermelon, Kiwi, Apples, and Oranges as alternatives to fruit items
  • Increased amount of fruit items needed from 2 to 3
  • Replaced Mystery Candy x1 ingredient with Honey x2
  • Filler Smoothies now also cure Upset Stomachs
• Grapes, Grape Juice, & Grape Jelly
  • Grapes are now worth 1 HP (previous 1 grape = 0.5 HP)
  • Reduced amount of grapes needed to craft grape juice and grape jelly
  • Increased HP of grape juice from 5 to 9 and grape jelly from 7 to 14

🫧 Miscellaneous

• Added White Pearl Currency Icon
• Added Black Pearl Currency Icon
• Added Tomato Item Art

🛠️Fixes

• Dark Blues site theme has gone through an adjustment pass to adjust some aspects of the site to fit the dark mode theme (Change your site theme via account settings)
• Fixed various broken links in the FAQ page
• Exploration and Training permission toggles on character pages are now appropriately updated with selected choices.
  • We advise players to double-check the badges on the top of the character's page to ensure they are set to their preferred choice. You can change these permissions through the "Edit Profile" button in the profile section on the character's master list page.

• Various crafting recipes no longer list unreleased or incorrect items (Ink and Mushroom soup were a couple of the few recipes that were fixed)
• Duplicate ingredients no longer are being listed on some crafting recipes (Valor Juice and Super Height Changed were a couple of the few recipes impacted)
• Fixed a 500 error when viewing the crafting recipe for Pumpkin Drops
• Removed scallop and coconut cracking crafting recipes and added the ability to crack/open them from inventories (now in parity with how clams can be cracked open)
  • 
• Horizontal line dividers and header 4 fonts were incorrectly colored in the Rainbow site theme
  
  

🐛Known Bugs

You can find the full list of known issues here. These are issues that have been reported by players or noted by staff and have not been resolved yet but are on our radar.

• Isomara of the Month will sometimes display a companion species
  • Low priority bug: staff will manually roll an Isomara if the site pulls a non-Isomara species for the IOM for the time being
• Sigils are placed in the character achievement basket when earned. The plan is to separate sigils into their own tab on character master list pages.
• Critter images will sometimes overlap on character profile pages
• Roll rewards of "Nothing" are not clear when presenting this information
• Chance of multiple stamina to be used when playing Tide Pools or Queen's Cache games
• Countdown timers on various games will reset to 59:59 when reaching 00:00 (Workaround is to refresh the page)
• Companion Care Drops fail to populate at the start of the month automatically

This Event Has Ended

The prompts close at 11:59 PM today, July 31st!
Thank you to all who voted in the poll to extend the deadline.

Basking in Rainbows Event

Event Ends: July 31st (11:59 PM)

An onslaught of rain was gifted to the island over the last month, but now the rains are over and the havens have blessed the island with an abundance of rainbows. The beautiful vibrant arches have lured numerous Cloud Hoppers to them in numbers never seen before. As the Cloud Hoppers flock to the rainbows so do Isomara to watch the critters bask in the vibrant color causing an all-new type of cloud hopper to appear.

Prompt #1 - Sun Bathing

     The sun is shining bright putting everyone on the island in a cheerful demeanor. They've all come to gather under the sun and rainbows to bathe in the light.

Draw / Write about three Isomara basking in the sunlight and rainbows together. The Isomara do not need to be owned by you.

Rewards:

• x1 Sand Dollar
• Rainbow Site Theme

Submit Sun Bathing Prompt Here

Prompt #2 - Rainbow Basking

     While enjoying this wonderful event you may even make a new friend.

Draw / Write about your Isomara encountering a cloud hopper or watching the cloud hoppers bask in rainbows.

Rewards:

• Convert an owned Cloud Hopper to the Rainbow Variant
  or
• Adopt a new Rainbow Cloud Hopper
• Bonus Reward: Attach a Diamond as an Add-on when submitting this prompt to convert it into a Prisma Diamond.

Prerequisite: Must complete Basking in Rainbow Event Prompt #1 - Sun Bathing
Submit Rainbow Basking Prompt Here

Your Companions have brought their Care Drops for July. Oh? What's this it seems the Memora are also bringing gifts!
From this month forward companioned Memora will now also be eligible for Companion Care Drops.

Not only that, for July only we will be allowing players to companion their Memora and Isomara together without the need to be tamed!

This offer is only valid until July 31st @ 11:59 PM. After Memora will need to go through companion taming to be eligible for companionship.
Submit a claim with your Memora and Isomara of choice to companion them while the offer lasts.

Updates, Changes, & Fixes since Update 7.0. This journal outlines additions and changes to the Isomara Island ARPG since the previous update. You may be familiar with some of the topics below. At times we announce new features right away in the Discord, but we want to ensure the entire community knows the latest news and fixes.
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Website Updates

Updates

New Event - Basking in Rainbows

• A new event has gone live. You can find the event in its entirety here.
• Complete the two event prompts to earn items, a new rainbow site theme, and even a new cloud hopper variant.
• Event ends on June 30th

New Game - Sink or Soar

• Sink or Soar has been released with much praise from the community. For those visiting the Tide Pools, you'll likely spot Aycorn waiting to play a simple number-guessing game of Sink or Soar.

Added Guides & Information Pages

• Island Inhabitants - Find all information and page resources for species and animals living on the island. This page has been added to the Inhabitants tab on the navigation bar. This page is still a work in progress and contains placeholder images.
• Isomara Communication - Goes over how Isomara communicate through verbal, and nonverbal means, and alongside the new Sink or Soar game implements the number written notation of the Isomara species.
• Hunger Mechanic - Learn all about that hunger meter that is present on the Isomara Masterlist pages, how to increase it, and what hunger affects. This page has been added to the Resources tab on the navigation bar.
• Inflictions & Ailments - Isomara can contract illness and be harmed in some activities. This informative page tells you all about the ailments an Isomara can contract along with the effects and cures to them. This page has been added to the resources tab on the navigation bar.
• Courtship - Mating traditions for Isomara are not too different from our own. Courtship describes what preparations two Isomara must take which will lead to producing eggs.
  • The Courtship Traditions Tab in the Prompt Pavilion has also been updated with the new prompts.

Site Themes

• A dark mode theme has been implemented on the site. To enable a site theme go to your settings and select which theme you would like. Choosing no theme will revert the appearance of the site to the default blue/white theme.
• A rainbow pride theme is also available to those who complete the new Basking in Rainbows event.

Changes

Courtship

• Reduced max amount of times a single isomara can court from twice a month to once a month
• Unified the amount of date prompts an isomara needs to complete to court to two dates
  • Previously only one date was needed if courting your own isomara, now is two. And if courting with an isomara not owned by you each person can do one date each (which has remained the same).
  • We have decided to stabilize the number of dates to two to ensure the isomara get to know each other and build their relationship.

Miscellaneous

• Renamed any uses of "bust" to "bust/halfbody" as when we referred to art busts it was for 25-64% of the character being visible, and as we know a bust typically refers to just a portion of the upper body.

Fixes

• Fixed formatting of various pages with contents extending off the page on smaller window sizes.
• Fixed being unable to adopt a character from The Daycare if the character had multiple ways to purchase
• Hyperlink over an entire paragraph in the FAQ page
• Added some missing or incorrect links in the Beginner's Guide
• Prompt rewards correctly state "stat points" instead of "character points"
  
  

Known Bugs

These are issues that have been reported by players or noted by staff and have not been resolved yet but are on our radar.

• Isomara of the Month will sometimes display a companion species
  • Low priority bug: staff will manually roll an Isomara if the site pulls a non-Isomara species for the IOM for the time being
• Sigils are placed in the character achievement basket when earned. The plan is to separate sigils into their own tab on character master list pages.
• Critter images will sometimes overlap on character profile pages
• Exploration and Training permission icons will default to allow when editing a character's profile
• Roll rewards of "Nothing" are not clear when presenting this information
• Chance of multiple stamina to be used when playing Tide Pools or Queen's Cache games
• Countdown timers on various games will reset to 59:59 when reaching 00:00 (Workaround is to refresh the page)
• Companion Care Drops fail to populate at the start of the month automatically

During this event, all training submissions will receive double stat Gain!

The event ends Monday, May 27th, 2024 at 11:59 PM Island time.

Information & Rules:

• Stat points are doubled per isomara
• Training guidelines and information 
• Submit to this prompt
• Double stat Gain only applies to training prompt submissions and does not include stats gained from consumption 
• This is not considered an event and submissions will not count toward the bonus event ss
• Any of the NPC/Community Isomara can be trained

Reminder all Deustrum Isomara give an additional +1 stat gain to all other Isomara in the training!

Past Update Journal: Iso-Island 6.4.9
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• Website updates, changes, and fixes below have already been applied to the site unless specified.

Website Updates

Updates

• The forum boards have been fully implemented. Users can chat, role-play, write stories, and post threads for trading items and characters.
• If you have suggestions for additional forum sections, please submit a suggestion report.

Item Consumption

• A new forum sub-topic has been made specifically for item consumption. Please refrain from submitting claims to feed your Isomara; instead, make a new thread with your username as the title. This thread will be for you to use for all your characters.
• This will be a temporary measure until automated item consumption has been implemented on the site.

Additional Character Profile Settings

• A new icon for exploration permissions has been added to all character profiles. This icon will inform players if the character's owner allows others to use it for exploration.
• You can change these settings to allow/disallow by selecting the Edit Profile button on a character's profile section.

• Separation of content boxes - Based on some opinions and preferences on the Isomara Island Discord, we've updated the character pages so that the content boxes containing companions/critters and equipment/accessories can now be condensed as they were or separated.
• By default, they are now separated. If you prefer the condensed look, you can go to the Edit Profile button on your character's profile section and change it there. You can set this for each character, adding a bit of further customization to the character pages.

Visual Trait Index

• There is now a visual index of traits. Currently, we only have a moderate selection of Isomara traits with images and additional image examples. There is also now a dedicated visual trait page location in the encyclopedia and sidebar.
• Visual Isomara Trait Index - You can select a trait to view information and additional example images.

New Prompts

• A Lesson in Give & Take - Can be found in the Prompt Pavilion under Lifetime Beats > Isoling Grow-Up

New Awards

• The Give Sigil can be earned through A Lesson in Give & Take prompt
• The Take Sigil can be earned through A Lesson in Give & Take prompt

• In-Game Currency - This fully explains how many seashells are earned per drawing / written literature. It is being improved, and more example images are being worked on.
• Development Roadmap - Made the site page for the roadmap that includes the known bugs that are mentioned in updates

Changes

In-Game Currency Rewards

• Word Count SS reward change, slight change to the formula to even out the curve (the exponential growth for longer stories was a bit too insane) for reference a 1,900 word story decreased from 303ss to 288ss, but 250 words increased from 17 to 19!
• Increased General Craft rewards from +15ss to +60.
• Added Enhanced Craft rewards

Art Gallery

• Added Gallery folders for Crafts & 3D art and General Literature
• Increased amount of gallery and submission preview images from 4 to 6 on homepage, user profiles, and character profiles

Miscellaneous

• Renamed Baby wings trait to Cherub
• Miscellaneous minor UI cleanup
• Added clarification note about max image size when submitting an image to the gallery
  

Fixes

• Age now automatically is populated (previously staff had to alter it by hand in the database) and all Isomara properly display their age
• Baby (cherub) Wings traits has been applied to all Isolings
• Added missing 6'4" height option for character profiles
• Inventory, equipment, critter, and accessory boxes on profiles now correctly display 8 of each item content
• Items in the encyclopedia now redirect to their page when selecting their image or name instead of a keyword search redirect.
• Item listings in the encyclopedia no longer duplicate and cover up other items

Known Bugs

These are issues that have been reported by players or noted by staff and have not been resolved yet but are on our radar.

• Isomara of the Month will sometimes display a companion species
  • Low priority bug: staff will manually roll an Isomara if the site pulls a non-Isomara species for the IOM for the time being
• Sigils are placed in the character achievement basket when earned. The plan is to separate sigils into their own tab on character master list pages.
• Critter images will sometimes overlap on character profile pages
• Exploration and Training permission icons will default to allow when editing a character's profile (This a high priority bug we are working on fixing right now)
• Roll rewards of "Nothing" are not clear when presenting this information
• Chance of multiple stamina to be used when playing Tide Pools or Queen's Cache games