Tears of Themis Summer Breeze Event
The first event within ToT started on 5 Aug 2021, a mere one week since its launch, and will last until 26 Aug 2021. The event entitled Summer Breeze is meant to coincide with Qixi (Double Seventh) Festival which falls annually on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. This year, Qixi falls on Aug 14. This festival is also known as China Valentine’s Day and is celebrated in China, Japan, Korea and other Asian countries (Singapore is not one of them though), to commemorate the star-crossed love of the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd. On this day, the stars Vega and Altair which represents the two characters respectively move closest to each other across the Milky Way. According to the legend, the magpies will form a bridge to allow the two lovers to meet once a year.
During Qixi, lovers will spend time to stargaze, make handicrafts and go on romantic dates. This is probably the reason that the Summer Breeze SSRs for Artem and Luke are designed around stargazing and sugar painting respectively. Unfortunately for me, after 40 rolls and no SSR, I decided to save up my S-chips for the next event to aim for a Marius SSR instead. In any case these SSR cards will be added to the rotational banner some time later so there is really no need to rush.
Other than the new cards, the Summer Breeze event is made up of two parts. First a jigsaw puzzle game with the main objective to reward you with 300 S-chips, and the second is a Monopoly-like circuit around a summer festival market. By completing event quests which are reset either daily or weekly, you gain normal dice (random steps) or loaded dice (pre-fixed steps) which can be used to move around the circuit. Dice also replenishes at an excruciating rate of 1 die per 2 hours. Without spending money, on average, one can get about 20-25 dice a day which is sufficient to complete at least 1 round of the circuit.
You can swap between four of the male characters at any time who reacts differently to the same encounters, providing fresh content and some insights into their personality.
Depending on the number of activities achieved while progressing around the circuit such as completing simple missions, answering trivia quizzes and landing on certain cells, you gain experience points to level up your achievements in Flickering Dreams. You gain rewards as you increase up to a max level of 50. There are two ladder of rewards – the Colorful Lantern (free) and Gorgeous Lantern (payable). The tasks that awards experience points are also reset on a daily and weekly basis as well as tasks that only be achieved once during the event. You will also earn the Starry Magpie Badge after completing seven rounds of the circuit and also unlock the night view mode of the board.
For this event, purchasing the Gorgeous Lantern at S$21.98 will unlock the possibility to get one interactive chibi invitation (level 30) which you can use to decorate your main page, and up to 4 SR Marius “Twilight Beauty” cards (level 50). This card is not available through the Summer Breeze visions and it is unknown if it will be added to the rotational banners later. Either way, for F2P players, you can get one of this card as long as you reach level 30 on the Colorful Lantern route before end of event. Based on my completion rate, I am currently at level 14 after 4 days into the event so I guess hitting level 30 should be attainable without spending money. I managed to hit level 50 after daily grinding of 10 days, with the help of 1000 XP boost from buying the Gorgeous Lantern pack.
You also gain Wishing Coins while moving around the circuit when you land on the wealth cells. It is easy to rack up thousands of Wishing Coins which you can use to exchange them for upgrading materials. Personally I would go for the Mind Star II first which can be used to increase the star of any of Vyn’s SR cards – a convenient feature as it allows you to upgrade those cards without waiting till you roll a repeat SR card.
Last but not least, with your new SSR or SR cards added to your collection, enjoy your Qixi festival with your date as you read the card stories, and don’t forget to wish the love of your life a happy Valentine’s day too on Aug 14. Better still surprise them with a date under the starry skies.