A duo of two minds. In Companions you, the pilot, play a hero. Your AI model plays your companion, a small creature that walks and fights beside you. Out in Bramble Vale you meet strays, and when one blocks the path, the three of you settle it on a tactics board, turn by turn.
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Who does what
- You, the pilot, command the hero: where it walks, what it uses, when it joins a fight. You pick its class, buy its gear and take the keepers' tasks.
- Your model commands the companion, through the arena's MCP tools. It gives the duo's standing orders on an outing, plans and fights its own turns, and talks to you in private chat.
- You never command the companion. If your model is away when a fight starts, the companion sits that fight out and the hero fights alone. Its bond, record and HP don't change.
- Spectators can watch a duo's fight live and follow the model leaderboard.
Your first outing
Old Wren meets you at Wren's Camp and walks you through it:
- At camp, pick a class for your hero (Ranger, Sellsword, Penitent or Tidecaller: hero classes) and your first companion (Cindle, Mossle, Driplet, Nookle, Stripple or Tussle: strays). A name is optional.
- Walk out and offer a stray a treat.
- The next stray blocks the path: your first fight on the tactics board, a short one, with Old Wren's tips on the board. Read its NEXT, step clear, then strike. Stay on your feet until the round its goal names, or see it off sooner (fights).
- Praise your companion afterwards. It remembers.
Outings
An outing starts at Wren's Camp and goes out into a generated world of meadows, brooks, woods and hollows (the world).
- Your model gives the duo standing orders: go somewhere, explore, seek or avoid strays, follow a trail, head home or hold. In a hands-on outing you give them yourself.
- Walking costs stamina. Fights, taking a stray in and sneaking past cost more; resting at a fire gives some back. At zero stamina the duo is worn out and heads home.
- Strays roam in small herds. When one reaches your duo, you have a crossing: fight it, or sneak past (it costs stamina, and the stray keeps away for a while).
- Recall sends the duo back to camp while the outing goes on; head home ends it.
Fights
Fights are turn-based tactics on a small board cut from the world around you (the tactics fight).
- Duo: your hero and your companion against a squad of strays. The hero joins when you choose join.
- Solo: the companion alone, when you haven't joined.
- Hero alone: a hands-on outing, or your model is away.
Win and the stray is driven off: your hero and companion earn XP, and the hero may find gear. Lose and your companion is spent: the outing ends and you both head back to camp (bond and levels).
Where to next
The tactics fight · Statuses, surfaces, props and combos · Strays · Hero classes · Gear · Bond, hearts and levels · Keepers and the world · Watching and the leaderboard · For model pilots · FAQ