The Haunted Mansion Has Materialized!

Who doesn't love a good haunted mansion? Well, that's what Halloween in Bushwhackia is all about! But to decorate your very own, you need to do what you do best! Go out into the world and whack bushes to find Pumpkins. Once you have found a patch of pumpkins, you can buy decorations from Glenda outside the mansion, or from the "Store" button while you're in Build Mode inside. Once you feel you've got enough, start laying out your design inside. (You can also purchase the same decorations for Bush Bucks from the Cop in the event area.)

You do not have to place all your collected decorations on display in the Mansion in order for them to count towards "Halloween Collector," they will count so long as they are within your haunted house inventory.

The goal is to scare the 8 children standing in front of the house, all of varying levels of bravery. The more you scare them, the more candy you'll earn in return. And you're going to want that candy so you can trade it for the custom items at the event store! You can try scaring them every 20 hours after you scared them the first time.

Glenda the Good Witch isn't just for buying decorations with Pumpkins. You will also be getting several quests from her throughout the event for special interactive decorations. As you complete each of her four quests, you can request help from your friends* by talking to the Construction Worker to increase the decoration's scariness.

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest

The Haunted Mansion Photo Contest will be starting on Wednesday October 25th You'll need 300 mansion spookiness before you can submit a screenshot, and at least 10 items placed in your mansion.

In case you're wanting to keep your decorations secret until it's finished, you can now prevent or allow friends from visiting your mansion by talking to the contest NPC and selecting either "Don't let anyone visit my mansion!" or "Allow friends to visit my mansion!" respectively.

Gotta Collect them all!

What can possibly make your house scarier? How about some Creatures which wander around your mansion! Each creature will become available for a set amount of dates which you can then request from friends* by talking to the the Cop.

Creatures are available on the following schedule:
Black Cats - AVAILABLE at Event launch, UNTIL Sun Oct 22, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Witches - AVAILABLE Sun Oct 22, Noon PDT UNTIL Tues Oct 24, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Zombies - AVAILABLE Tues Oct 24, Noon PDT UNTIL Thurs Oct 26, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Bats - AVAILABLE Thurs Oct 26, Noon PDT UNTIL Sat Oct 28, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Spiders - AVAILABLE Sat Oct 28, Noon PDT UNTIL Mon Oct 30, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Ghost Butler - AVAILABLE Mon Oct 30, Noon PDT UNTIL Wed Nov 1, 11:59:59 AM PDT
Franken-Dogs - AVAILABLE Wed Nov 1, Noon PDT UNTIL the Event End

*The Sparkly Vampire is still available for Bush Bucks if you want it in your haunted house.

Candy! Candy! Candy!

To buy the custom items, you need your Candy! Not only do you get it from scaring those insolent little kiddies, you also net some from completing the various quests given to you by the Halloween NPCs hanging out in the event area!

Plus from Sunday October 31st until the end of the event, you can hunt down denizens of Bushwhackia and Trick-or-Treat with them for Candy goodness! There will be a spooky character standing in front of a pile of Candy in each of the major areas! NPCs have been added up to the Prismatic Passage region!

Not ready to show off your Haunted Mansion to friends? Prevent or allow friends from visiting your mansion by talking to the contest NPC and selecting either "Don't let anyone visit my mansion!" or "Allow friends to visit my mansion!" respectively.

New for 2023

This year's update includes:

- new pet and ranch VIP rewards!
- new costume items in the store!
- new ranch items in the store!
- new pet packs!
- new mount packs!
- new 2023 holiday 100% reward!
- new haunted mansion items!
- new craftable animatronic ranch item!

Holiday Rubber Duckies

If you can complete the event, you'll earn this awesome 100% reward: The Halloween Ducky! Collect them all to fill out the holiday duck pond, which you can purchase in the event store and prior items store!

Animatronics!

And the witch has a new special item to craft for your haunted mansion in their new Pumpkin Duty quest. You can copy a permanent version of it for your ranch in the Fox's Moulder Most Foul quest line.

VIP Rewards!

Active VIP members can claim unique rewards based on their event progress! If you don't have an active membership, you have the entire event to consider becoming one! You can earn and claim these rewards until the end of the event.

And more!

And there's some minor fixes and improvements which you can check out on the Release Notes, which are linked at the bottom of the page!

See all the updates in the Release Notes!

Achievements

-- POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT
There are a total of 24 possible Achievements to earn in this Halloween event!

Returning Achievements

• Mansion Maniac - Get 50 decorations for your Haunted Mansion!
• Little Kid Spooker - Scare 4 kids in you Haunted Mansion
• Scarred for Life - Scare all the kids in your Haunted Mansion!
• Trick or Treat - Go Trick or Treating on or after Hallowe'en!
• Costume Quest - Complete the Costume Quests
• Year Round Scares - Completed the Moulder Most Foul
• Pumpking - Grow a very large Pumpkin.
• There's a Skeleton in Us All - Help The Bone Doctor build and animate a skeleton for Halloween!
• Hallowe'en Collector - Have at least 40 unique decorations in your H. M.! (formerly Halloween Completionist)
• Craven Candies - Find each trick-or-treaters favourite candy
• Spook Inspector - Vote 50 times in the Haunted Mansion Photo Contest.

New Achievements

• Possessed Possessions* - Purchase all the 2023 Halloween Event items.

We have 10 achievements from previous year's events, which may be earnable by spending some Bush Bucks, if a player was not present during the initial years:

• Spooky Home Decorator - get all house items from the 2012 Halloween Event!
• Year-round Cosplayer - Get all player items from the 2012 Halloween Event!
• Candy Spender - Purchase all the Halloween 2013 items!
• Spooky Purchases - Purchases all the 2014 Halloween Event items.
• Halloweenie - Purchase all the 2015 Halloween Event items.
• All Hallows' Items - Purchase all the 2016 Halloween Event items.
• Scary Swag - Purchase all the 2017 Halloween Event items.
• Ghastly Grabs - Purchase all the 2018 Halloween Event items.
• Creepy Collectables - Purchase all the 2019 Halloween Event items.
• Frightful Frippery - Purchase all the 2020 Halloween Event items.
• Terrifying Trinkets - Purchase all the 2021 Halloween Event items.
• Haunted Haberdashery - Purchase all the 2022 Halloween Event items.

*The Halloween Slide Mini Golf piece is NOT included in the Possessed Possessions achievement, and therefore it is not required to purchase it.

Grab Your Spooky Companion for Bush Whacking!

New Mounts!

To kick off the event, we're having a sale! Get 30% more on purchase of 50 Bush Bucks or more! Plus, all new mounts are available this weekend, from October 20th to 23rd!

Werewolf mount comes free with your first purchase of 100 Bush Bucks or more!

The Zombie Werewolf and Infernal Werewolf are in packs containing 100 Bush Bucks, 10 Pristine Feed Vouchers, and a VIP Voucher! These two mounts produce their own unique sparkly particles when you ride them!

New Pets! - COMING SOON!

Post your Halloween scariness and questions on the forum!

The event will run until Friday November 3rd at Noon PDT!

Frequently Asked Questions

• How can I find the Pumpkins?
  Just keep whacking. The Holiday Item runes and pets will help attract them as well.


• How do I decorate my Mansion?
  You need to whack up Pumpkins. You can buy decorations from Glenda in the event area, or from the Store when you're in Build mode inside the Mansion. Once you have decorations, you can place them like you're decorating your ranch using Build mode.


• How do I scare the Kids?
  Just keep buying decorations and getting friends to up the scare level of your interactive decorations. As your event progress increases, you will scare the kids more and more. As well, when you reach a certain level of scariness, the kids will elect to no longer tour your house.


• Does the Timey-Wimey watch or Time Turner affect the Kids?
  No, the kids do not have quest cooldowns, so trinket effects that work for quests will not apply to them.


• What adds to my event progress?
  Making your mansion as scary as possible by buying decorations (but you don't have to place them all.)


• Do I have to do the achievements?
  No. Completing the goals for the achievements is totally optional. You get either a large energy pack or a title for your character from them, no event progress.


• Where can I see all the achievements available and how to get them?
  Either on the holiday dialog, the achievements dialog, or on the blog.

"May the mountains hide you so only light may find you."

When the ground rumbles and dangers threaten the peace, The Luma are always ready to face whatever menace has arisen. Thellora is a member of this esteemed regiment, motivated to lead her fellow centaurs into protecting the community. No evil can outrun her, or her sword!

I. Thellora

Thellora belongs to an all-female regiment known as the Luma. These fifty-three centaurs are diverse, but unified in that each possess a distinctive golden right eye. The centaurs believe these individuals are chosen by their god, Callessa, to be devoted guardians and trained warriors. With their divine connection and martial prowess, they protect their land, embracing their unique gifts with unwavering dedication.

Thellora is a Support, Tanking, and Speed Champion who will charge her way through your next adventure! She boosts the damage of champions behind her and bolsters their health like a true tank, and these boosts increase when she is unable to finish off her foe. The choice you make with which feats you assign is particularly important, as her feats also affect her adjacent allies! Once unlocked, she takes her place in Slot 1 next to Bruenor.

II. Thellora's Stats

Race: Centaur	Alignment:Lawful Neutral
Gender: Female	Pronouns: She/Her
Age: 27	Affiliation: None	Class: Paladin

STR: 16	DEX: 12	CON: 13
INT: 11	WIS: 8	CHA: 17

Role: Support, Tanking, Speed

Eligible for Patrons: Vajra (with Feat), Zariel

Slot: 1 (Bruenor)

III. Thellora's Design

After a successful run on A Familiar Quest Series 3 playing Misty the Will-O'Wisp, we were thrilled to bring Alicia Marie back to craft a brand new Champion! Her busy schedule includes being a professional costume artist and maker, actor, and TTRPG performer on shows like Children of Éarte. Now she's crafted Thellora for our game, as well as her appearance on Idle Champions Presents: Fatebreaker!

Some female centaurs born within the vicinity of Callewood bear a single, striking golden eye. This signals they have been selected by their god to become trained warriors and guardians. As one of those fifty-three chosen, Thellora has spent her life learning all the skills needed to face threats wherever they may appear. With her armor and weapons always ready, and a pocket full of candies for her sweet tooth, she's ready to charge into any battle!

Thellora would rather Rush through the easier encounters so she can get to the real challenge, so she'll help the formation skip over the early part of an adventure. As she leads this charge forward, she'll prepare for more difficult encounters by boosting the damage of those in the column behind her, and increasing that even more if her hooves and blade fails to kill her enemy. The rest of the formation are bolstered from her health and healing boost, and adjacent Champions will enjoy the benefits of her assigned feats.

Depending on who has joined her in battle, Thellora can Specialize in increasing the damage of specific types of heroes. She can focus on boosting those with low strength, helping Speed Champions, or offering that bonus to Female and Non-Binary Champions. And when necessary she can call upon The Light of Mount Tura to illuminate her stampede across the battlefield, inspiring her allies to do more damage as she knocks back and stuns her enemies!

Thellora knows that bravery is being scared to die but continuing to fight, and her paladin might and heroic presence will encourage everyone in the formation onward!

IV. Thellora's Abilities

Basic Attack

• Windsong's Strike - Thellora moves up to the closest enemy and rears up, knocking them back with her hooves and dealing 1 hit. She then strikes the next closest enemy with her blade, dealing 1 hit.

Passive Ability

• Plateaus of Unicorn Run - Thellora gains a Rush stack for every 10 areas she completes in an adventure, and these stacks persist through resets. When Thellora kills her first enemy in an adventure, she spends X Rush stacks to skip to area X+1, and her Rush stacks are reset to zero. The highest area that can be skipped to is your current favor exponent for the campaign/event. Thellora gathers all the rewards (including gold) from bosses skipped in this fashion, but nothing from normal monsters.

Formation Abilities

• Strength of the Luma - Thellora increases the damage of Champions in the column behind her by 100%.

• Radiance of the Sky Cents - Thellora increases the health of all other Champions by 25% of her max health and any healing effect on those Champions is increased by 25%.

• Paladin's Resolve - Each time Thellora attacks and doesn't kill an enemy, she increases the effect of Strength of the Luma by 15% until the area changes, stacking multiplicatively and capped at 100 stacks.

• Feats to Spare - The effects of feats assigned to Thellora also apply to all adjacent Champions. Note that feats that buff her formation abilities have no effect when applied to other Champions.

Specializations

• Defender of the Meek - Thellora increases the damage of Champions with a STR of 12 or less by 31% for each Champion in the formation with a STR of 12 or less, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

• Vanguard of the Quick - Thellora increases the damage of Speed Champions by 27.5% for each Speed Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

• Callessa's Blessed - Thellora increases the damage of Female and Non-Binary Champions by 27.5% for each Female and Non-Binary Champion in the formation, stacking multiplicatively. Buffs apply to the pre-stack value.

Ultimate Ability

• The Light of Mount Tura - A sunbeam illuminates Thellora as she charges across the screen, attacking enemies in a wide line, dealing 1 hit, knocking them back a short distance, and stunning them for 5 seconds. For the next 15 seconds, her right eye glows with a golden light, increasing the damage of all Champions by 400%.

V. Thellora's Epic Equipment

Slot 1: Global DPS	Slot 2: Global Health	Slot 3: Strength of the Luma
Slot 4: Paladin's Resolve	Slot 5: Defender of the Meek, Vanguard of the Quick, and Callessa's Blessed	Slot 6: Ultimate Cooldown

VI. Conclusion

With this Champion of the Luma in your formation, you'll be ready to charge into battle! Share your thoughts on Thellora in several places:

• The Idle Champions Subreddit or Steam forums.
• The Official Idle Champions Discord.
• Our YouTube Channels: Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and CNEGames.
• Our social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok!

Well met adventurers!

Last week we announced changes to Patron Currency rewards due to egregious scaling issues at the upper echelons. The response from players was immediate, and we want you to know that you have been heard loud and clear.

It is clear that this system could not be left as it was. However, it is also clear based on your feedback that we missed the mark. With that feedback in mind we have made additional adjustments to the Patron Currency reward scaling, which you will find below.

First, some context: while the previously announced rewards scaled linearly at 12 times the area requirement, the updated reward structure now increases that multiplier on variants with higher area requirements.

• For the Patron Variants requiring area 1325 to be cleared, the new currency reward has been increased from 15,900 to 50,350, meaning players will be able to collect 10 Patron Chests instead of 3.


• Completing every Patron Variant currently available in the game will allow players to collect 2,959 Patron Chests across the four existing Patrons -- an increase from 1,803 Patron Chests using the previous 12x linear scaling.

We acknowledge that this is still a significant change from the previous exponential rewards behavior. However, the bulk of this change occurs across only a handful of adventures:

• For Patron Variants requiring you to beat up to area 500 (58% of the total patron variants), this update more than doubles the amount of Patron Currency earned.


• For Patron Variants requiring you to beat up to area 1000 (39% of the total patron variants), this represents a 40% decrease in Patron Currency earned.

Here is a breakdown of the currency rewards (and equivalent Chest count) with the previously announced 12x linear scaling, and the new scaling that is going live today. As you can see, newer players are able to collect chests sooner, and the rewards for the higher-level variants are scaled up in a way that reflects the time investment to get there. It is also important to note that the majority of available adventures will have their rewards increased.

Area Requirement	12x Linear Scaling (Previously Announced)	New Scaling (Based on Feedback)
300	3,600	3900
400	4,800	6000 (1 Chest)
500	6,000 (1 Chest)	9,000 (1 Chest)
600	7,200 (1 Chest)	12,000 (2 Chests)
700	8,400 (1 Chest)	15,400 (3 Chests)
800	9,600 (1 Chest)	20,000 (4 Chests)
900	10,800 (2 Chests)	24,300 (4 Chests)
1000	12,000 (2 Chests)	30,000 (6 Chests)
1100	13,200 (2 Chests)	35,200 (7 Chests)
1200	14,400 (2 Chests)	42,000 (8 Chests)
1300	15,600 (3 Chests)	48,100 (9 Chests)

Overall, we believe these changes are important for the long-term health of Idle Champions. As always, and especially now, we appreciate your dedication to the game and your feedback.

The Arena of Blood is under attack! The Champions must fight their way back to the docks if they're going to rescue Xedalli from her would-be-emperor brother, but they'll need help. And that help comes from a very surprising place! After that, it's time to train a new group of spelljammer pilots and take the fight to Xaryxispace!

Note: you will need to complete the previous two Light of Xaryxis adventures, The Jungles of Doomspace and The Arena of Blood, in order to access these new adventures.

Foul Play

Survive Xeleth's attack on the Arena and push back his forces with a surprising ally.

• Variant: Fowl Play - Survive Xeleth's attack on the Arena while literally pushing back his forces.
  • An Abyssal Chicken spawns with each wave. They don't drop gold, nor do they count towards quest progress.
  • Non-boss, non-static monsters take no damage until they have been pushed back, rooted, slowed, or stunned.
  • Complete area 950

Spelljammers in Training

The coalition is in need of Spelljammers, luckily, we have some friends!

• Variant: Time Out - The coalition is in need of Spelljammers, luckily, we have some weak friends!
  • You may only use Champions with an STR of 13 or lower.
  • After area 5, a temporal anomaly affects a random Champion in each area. They can't attack, be moved, or be removed until the players switch areas.
  • Complete area 1000

We would love to hear about your experiences in wildspace on the Idle Champions Subreddit, on the Steam forums, or on the Official Idle Champions Discord!