Lovebug abilities and encounters

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Characters who have used a bottle of lovebug pheromones gain permanent access to three combat skills and a variety of post-combat encounters.

Skills

Adds the following skills to your character:

• Summon Love Mosquito (Deals damage, restores HP, and staggers opponent)
• Summon Love Scarabs (Deals damage, restore MP, and staggers opponent. Replaces Love Mosquito in an Actually Ed the Undying challenge path ascension.)
• Summon Love Stinkbug (Deals recurring physical and stench damage, effectiveness decays with subsequent use across one rollover)
• Summon Love Gnats (Stuns opponent, effectiveness decays with subsequent use across one rollover)

These skills are automatically made available in Hardcore, and persist even through Picky paths.

Post-combat encounters

A love grub shyly approaches you and hands you some extra Meat.

You gain 86-212? Meat.

(increased meat drops by ~20%?)

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A love cricket plays a jaunty tune for you. You tap your feet.

(increased item drops by ~5-10%?)

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A love stag beetle brushes up against your ankle affectionately.

You gain 4-6 Beefiness.

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A love firefly flits flirtatiously around your head.

You gain 4-6 Mysteriousness.

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A love dragonfly buzzes softly in your ear.

You gain 4-5 Smarm.

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Location-specific encounters

Meat drops

Cobb's Knob Treasury:

A lovegrub crawls out from under a nearby pile of refuse and delivers a little stack of Meat.

You gain 80-93? Meat.

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Outskirts of Cobb's Knob

A love aphid coos at you softly from a nearby bush, drawing your attention to a discarded chunk of Meat.

You gain 25 Meat.

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The Haunted Pantry:

A love weevil burrows out of a box of pasta and gives you a little chunk of Meat.

You gain ? Meat.

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The Sleazy Back Alley

A love scabie scurries out of a nearby hobo and hands you some Meat.

You gain ? Meat.

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Item drops

A Barroom Brawl:

A drunken love fly struggles under the weight of a bottle, which it then presents to you as a gift.

You acquire an item: bottle of vodka

or

You acquire an item: bottle of whiskey

or

You acquire an item: bottle of rum

or

You acquire an item: bottle of gin

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The Haunted Kitchen and Cobb's Knob Kitchens:

A love cockroach scuttles out from beneath a nearby stove and gives you a present from the floor.

You acquire an item: cold powder

or

You acquire an item: hot powder

or

You acquire an item: sleaze powder

or

You acquire an item: spooky powder

or

You acquire an item: stench powder

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Quest Assistance

The Defiled Alcove/The Defiled Cranny/The Defiled Niche/The Defiled Nook:

A love <firefly/lightning bug/moon bug/glow fly> blinks near you, making the <alcove/cranny/niche/nook> seem slightly brighter and less evil. Your Evilometer beeps once, as if to confirm this.

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The Smut Orc Logging Camp:

A love carpenter ant scurries up to you and coos as it drops off some additional building materials.

You acquire an item: thick caulk

or

You acquire an item: weirdwood plank

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Oil Peak:

A love oil beetle trundles up to you, makes a flower out of some of the oil from the ground, then trundles off. How adorable!

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The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert:

A love water strider runs toward you from the nearby Oasis, hugging you and getting you all wet.

You acquire an effect: Ultrahydrated (duration: 3 Adventures)

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Currency Drops

Hobopolis Town Square/side areas?

A love louse staggers up to you and gives you a nickel.

You acquire an item: hobo nickel

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Dreadsylvanian Woods/Dreadsylvanian Village/Dreadsylvanian Castle:

A love deathwatch beetle creeps toward you, rolling a spooky coin.

You acquire an item: Freddy Kruegerand

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The Sunken Party Yacht/Sloppy Seconds Diner/The Fun-Guy Mansion:

A wriggling love worm approaches you, burps out a wadded-up Beach Buck, then burrows out of sight.

You acquire an item: Beach Buck

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The Deep Dark Jungle/The Mansion of Dr. Weirdeaux/The Secret Government Laboratory:

A love spider descends from overhead, drops off a coin, then vanishes into the shadows again.

You acquire an item: Coinspiracy

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Barf Mountain/Pirates of the Garbage Barges/The Toxic Teacups/Uncle Gator's Country Fun-Time Liquid Waste Sluice

A love cockroach trundles out from under a nearby pile of garbage and gives you a wadded-up bill.

You acquire an item: FunFunds™

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The Ice Hotel/The Ice Hole/VYKEA

A love snow flea hops over from a nearby drift and gives you a wadded-up certificate.

You acquire an item: Wal-Mart gift certificate

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The Time-Twitching Tower:

A love cicada flickers into existence, drops a coin into your sack, and vanishes for another 7 years.

You acquire an item: Chroner

Notes

• You do not need to use the skills to get post-combat encounters.
• Location-specific lovebugs seem to override possible results that aren't location specific.
• The love oil beetle decreases the pressure by an additional 6.34 µB/Hg.
• Special currency encounters have a daily limit:
  • Coinspiracy are capped at 5
  • FunFunds™ are capped at 2
  • Wal-Mart gift certificates were initially uncapped on November 3rd, 2015, but were subsequently nerfed fixed to be capped at 5.
  • Chroner are capped at 27
  • Other currencies are unconfirmed
• Lovebugs will act underwater as well.