[DrogaBox]

1.81.0: companions with lives of their own

A companions batch. The AMD side is untouched.

Each companion its own

• Levels and transformations of their own. The friend and every guest keep the level they earned themselves and transform only once they have grown to a form. A transformation announced for one figure plays on that figure alone; the name that unlocks everything lifts only the companion it names.
• A wardrobe for every companion. The shop sells to one figure (the companion, its friend or any other that comes by) through a new "For" picker, and only that figure wears what was bought for it. Each figure brings a couple of things of its own along. What was bought before stays with the companion it was bought for.

Items

• Purchases show at once. The figure a thing was bought for puts it on and shows off its trick under a shower of coins, on the desktop or resting in the island, and a notice says what was bought and for whom.
• Items that show all the while. What a companion wears changes how it goes about: winged boots and skateboards quicken its step, spring shoes and a jetpack lift its jumps, a mushroom keeps it bigger, sunglasses keep it smug, and headphones, flowers, bubbles and snow leave their marks behind it as it walks.
• The workshop. Eight new things: electric guitar, karate belt, painter's beret, matcha bowl, boxing gloves, telescope, shovel and pogo stick, each with its own trick, figure-specific twists and combos. Named in all 15 languages.
• Combos with a transformation. A transformed companion mixes with what the other wears in twelve combos of its own; the workshop brings eight more, to 360.

Fusion

Rarer (half an hour apart at least, a couple of times a day of its own accord; the menu always may) and worth it: harder hits, more moves the stronger the pair, sparks at its heels and wisps of its aura as it strolls, a power move when pressed instead of splitting, and experience and gold for both when it goes well. A double click still sends it home.

Island

Companions rest in the island as portraits, zoomed in on the head with room for a hat, instead of whole bodies shrunk to the strip. The desktop shows them whole as before.

Also

Two new rare moments on the desktop.

Verification

• Typecheck of the module and the tests: 0 errors.
• Tools/concurrency-gate.sh: 0 diagnostics.
• ./build.sh --test: all tests OK (new suite NotchMascotCompanionsTests).
• Render harness over every figure for the island portraits.