Halloween Event 2021

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## New Cats

Halloween 2021 was a full *Castle Cats* event added in app version 3.2. It began on September 27, received a mid-event update on October 22, and ran through November 13. An update to app version 3.2.1 was released on September 28 to fix bugs related to the materials boost. An update to app version 3.2.2 was released on October 4.

The event introduced six new heroes: Fortuna, Wadjet and Mortimer, who could be purchased with real money, and three more who could be crafted in Alchemy. The 28 previous Halloween cats were also available for recruitment.

New guild leader customization options were available in the Event Shop, as were two new and seven returning hero outfits. Items from past Halloween events were available in the prize pool of the Event Box. The Event Badge and Event Pass offered prizes for players based on how much of the event they completed.

## Event Quest

### Event Story

The event included an 18-quest campaign, with quests released every other day or so. The story featured the following characters (in order of appearance): Romeo, Juliet, Fortuna, Pipsqueak, and Molotov. A transcript of the dialog was recorded as the story unfolded.

## Event Content

### Event Materials

While the event was live, rewards for event-specific, normal and battle quests at quest level 4 and above could include bats, bones and pumpkins, Halloween event materials that could be used to craft hero eggs and plushies and acquire new guild leader items. These materials could also be purchased as microtransactions in the Event Shop.

 Event Pack:  1000 of each Halloween material,  300 gems and Kittysticks | $9.99 USD
 1000 of each Halloween material
 500 of each Halloween material

The quest selection screen included a materials boost button offering the option to watch an ad and get double event materials from quest rewards for 30 minutes. Alternatively, purchasing a new premium hero for real money doubled event materials from quest rewards and purchasing two or more microtransaction cats tripled them. These boosts lasted for the duration of the event and replaced the ad boost option.

### Premium Heroes

The Event Shop offered three new Halloween heroes as microtransaction purchases and all 16 previous premium Halloween cats for 300 gems each.

### Alchemy

#### **Hero Eggs**

Three new Halloween heroes could be crafted in Alchemy, from the Monster (Mythic), Baby Shark and Stone Eggs. All twelve crafting cats from previous Halloween events were also available.

#### **Plushies**

*Note: Plushies can only be unlocked in guilds that have reached level 50.*
To celebrate Halloween, Stitch occasionally came trick-or-treating at the guild hall. Tapping on Stitch each time he appeared gave players a choice to "Treat" or "Trick" him. When "Treat" was chosen, Stitch took a few event materials. When "Trick" was chosen, Stitch caused mayhem in the guild hall in various ways. Four plushies from the Halloween Event 2020 were available again this year; players who unlocked them last year found them in the Alchemy station available for crafting or, if already crafted, with a green check mark. Four new plushies—Ace, Paytone, Pumpy and Jörgen—were also available.

### Guild Leader Items

The following new guild leader customizations were available in the Event Shop.

 Mushroom Ensemble
 Candelabra
 Scruffy Fur
 Snake Face
 Totals

### Hero Outfits

New Halloween costumes for Molotov and Pipsqueak and seven returning hero outfits were available for purchase in the Event Shop.

### Event Box

The Event Box was shown in the final tab of the Event Shop window. It could be purchased for 50,000 coins every 2 days or for 60 gems otherwise at any time. Players got a free box at the start of the event as well. For each box purchase, a player received one of the nine prizes shown in the window, chosen at random. The prize pool, which was automatically refreshed every day at midnight (00:00) local time, could also be reset by watching an ad, and then for successively higher gem prices starting at 5 gems.

The overall prize pool for the Event Box included the following:

* All 16 previous Halloween premium heroes: Sabrina, Pumpy, Jörgen, Rose, Silver, Night Queen, Hilda, Harvey, Lucy, Adriel, Surana, Marie, Xerxes, Lune, Ace, Ratchet.
* All seven previous Halloween hero outfits, one for each of the following cats: Conan, Catniss, Francis, Pipsqueak, Kyle, Mewton and Purrcilla.
* More than 80 different guild leader items from the Halloween events in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
* Various resources in the following fixed amounts:
	+ Gems: 50, 30, 20
	+ Reputation tokens: 12, 9, 6, 3
	+ Event materials: 300, 200, 100, 50
	+ Rare embers: 5, 3
	+ Common embers: 10, 5

### Event Badges

Players could earn up to ten event badges by acquiring new event content and completing event quests. Prizes were awarded for obtaining 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10 badges. Progress is tracked and prizes could be claimed in the Event Badges window accessed by tapping the bat icon in the bottom left of the guild hall screen.

#### **Requirements**

*Note: Real-money purchases were required to earn the Recruiter badge, which is fitting given that the reward for earning all badges, a 14-day VIP ticket, is useful only to players who have made at least $10 in real-money purchases.*

### Event Pass

The Event Pass awarded prizes as players collected event materials; additional rewards were available to players who purchased the Gold Pass for 450 gems. Materials requirements increase as players advance through ten stages and act only as criteria, not costs; that is, no materials are taken from inventory as prizes are claimed. The Event Pass window could be found by tapping the bat icon in the bottom left of the guild hall screen and then opening the third tab on the right.

#### **Requirements and Rewards**

Rewards included exclusive guild leader items and tickets that can be used to open the Event Box (pink with gold star) and to refresh the prize pool of the box (blue with circular arrow) after the "Refresh" ad has been watched. The Gold Pass could be purchased at any time to receive rewards retroactively from stages already cleared.

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