Party (Kingdom)

The Party system is a method of obtaining Friends in the Kemono Friends Kingdom mobile game. The player uses an item called a Letter for a Friend to summon a single Friend from a particular summoning pool over the course of several hours, though the process can be instantly completed using a secondary item called an Instant Reply. Some Friends can only be obtained through the Party system; they do not appear in the Friend Encounter gacha.

Overview
The Party area is an isolated grove under the shade of a large tree, featuring a ragged sofa with a side table, an old television set powered by a small generator, a gramophone with one record, and a low table with a dining menu and a cup of green tea, all laid out in the grass. Here, Friends can prepare a welcoming ceremony for and await the arrival of a mystery Friend to whom a party invitation has been delivered.

When using the Party system to summon a Friend, a player must make three selections. The first is the choosing of an Accompanied Friend, who will wait for the invited Friend at the Party site chosen; the Accompanied Friend is chosen from three of the player's own unlocked Friends, presented at random. As the role is purely cosmetic, the Accompanied Friend can still be used elsewhere in the game, such as in the Main Story and in Raids, while fulfilling the role of Accompanied Friend. Secondly, the player selects a Welcome Gift, which determines the type of Friend likeliest to appear; this is not a game-play item the player must have in their Storage, but rather a thematic means of selecting a desired Friend rate increase. Finally, the player chooses a Welcome Ceremony, which determines how long the invited Friend will take to arrive as well as the likelihood of that Friend having a higher rarity. Once these selections are made, the player must consume one Letter for a Friend item to begin the countdown, and can either wait for the Friend to arrive- a process taking anywhere from one to nine hours, depending on the chosen Welcome Ceremony- or complete it instantly by consuming an Instant Reply item.

Welcome Gifts
There is an assortment of available Welcome Gifts, which each increase the summoning chance of a particular set of Friends; each type of Welcome Gift can summon any of the Friends available in the Party summoning pool, but specific Friends have a higher rate of appearing when specific Welcome Gifts are selected. Some Welcome Gifts have identical pools of rate-up Friends, making the differences between those Gifts purely cosmetic.

Welcome Ceremony
There are six types of Welcome Ceremony which can appear in a player's Party menu, each type influencing the odds of summoning a higher rarity Friend. The menu will only ever display four out of the six possible Ceremonies at a time; there are three types of Ceremony which will always be present, and three types which are mutually exclusive, with only one appearing at a given time. These three correlate to the highest-rarity Friends; the rarest two each guarantee a Friend of a particular rarity, the rarest of which grants a chance for a 6-star Friend not otherwise available to be pulled from the Party.

Letter for a Friend and Instant Reply Items
Use of the Party system requires the player to consume one Letter for a Friend per encounter. These items are primarily acquired by completing event missions or Daily and Weekly Quests, or through the trading of Radiant Crystals or Friendship in the Shop's Redeem section. The player also has the option to expedite the summoning process by consuming an Instant Reply item, which can be obtained by exchanging Memory Crystals or Friendship in the Redeem Shop or through completion of event missions.

Wait Logs
When an Accompanied Friend is waiting for their new Friend to arrive, they will keep a Wait Log detailing what she is doing to pass the time as well as her reaction to the Friend's arrival. The log will update frequently, and can keep up to 50 entries at one time; if a new entry appear after this limit is reached, the oldest log entry will be pushed out to make room for the newest.

While all Friends pull log entries from the same pool, some 5 and 6-Star Friends additionally have their own unique Wait Log entries, or entries shared only between themselves and other related, specific Friends, which may occasionally appear amid the usual entries when the applicable Friends act as the Accompanied Friend.