The Matchmaker

## Event Basics

**The Matchmaker** is a month-long event that happens in the month of February. Players will meet some very special wolves while helping a new friend run a Matchmaking business. This event is highly focused on Exploring and new features in the Event tab. The explore encounters exclusive to this month can be found in all biomes. Players will also be able to engage in a matchmaking minigame for randomly generated wolves, and themselves.

This month's Event Currency is  **Lovebugs**, and the event's NPC is a wolf named Eranthis.

The currency can be used to purchase exclusive items in the Event Shop, the **Boutique of Delights**. The three Tiers of it will be timed to unlock on every Saturday over the course of the month.

This event lasts from February 1st until midnight of February 28th.

## Matchmaking

> "*Make long-lasting matches - this side of the event will allow you to recruit clients, pair them up on experimental dates, and choose final matches for them.  All wolves have preferences, and it's up to you to find good matches and fix them up! You can have up to 10 wolves in the agency at any time, but you'll still get new wolves wanting to apply. You can check for a new applicant every hour, and if you have people waiting and you free up a space, you can invite them in to find their match!*"
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Each **Applicant** wolf has it's own gender identity and orientation that needs to be taken into account when matchmaking. Tips about the two wolves potential chemistry may appear on screen.

A part of each wolf's personal taste is their favorite/disliked biome and favorite/disliked gifts. A player can pick items out of their own hoard and assign them to each wolf, to give to each other during their date. Additionally, the player will decide the location of the date. However, the player cannot pick a location that their clan hasn't fully Scouted yet.

For every disliked opinion, Date Points will be removed. For neutral interactions, Date Points will not be changed.

Sending the two wolves on a Date will take 15 minutes. After that period, the player can officially conclude the Date and see what went right, and what went wrong. The more points a couple will score together, the bigger the reward for Matching them at the end.

## Dating

> "*You can also choose to date - while recruiting clients, some wolves may show up interested in you! Take your pick of the clients, bring them gifts they like (or hate... your choice!), and show them your favourite areas in the game. Be careful, they have their own preferences though!*"
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Unlike the Matchmaker wolves, **Datable** wolves do not have their likes and dislikes revealed to the player from the beginning. Finding out an NPC's character is only achievable through gifts and attempts at dating. Both successful and unsuccessful interactions will reveal their likes and dislikes, which can help the player out with having the best date ever, or sabotaging it.

For every positive aspect about a date, the player can earn more towards an NPC's affection bar, and they'll become more and more comfortable and happy to be around you. If you don't pay attention to an NPC's preferences, though, you may reach a point with them where they refuse to date you.

Like in Matchmaking, you can decide the date location and a gift to give to your partner. The background behind a wolf's portrait is a hint towards one of the locations they like.

Additionally, the player doesn't have the option to decide their own gender identity and orientation. One has to choose out of the randomized available partners.

## Daily Quest

There is a daily quest to complete - Eranthis suggests you go and spread the word about the matchmaking business.  This can be completed with the usual wolves that you can Claim or Attack in Exploration. A third "Spread the Word" option will appear.

Completing this quest gains 5 new **Applicants** and, if any pending dateables are left, 1 new **Dateable**.

## New Items

**Gemstones** and **Flowers** are two types of Lore items that can only be used as gifts during the February event.

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## Boutique of Delights

    The **Boutique of Delights** is the Matchmaker Event's shop, where you can buy decorations, backgrounds, and applicators using the  **Lovebugs** that you collect from various event related encounters, quests, and dates. Upon opening the shop, you will be greeted by Eranthis. There are 3 unlockable tiers in total, all of which will open up different things you can buy using the event currency gained.