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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 ==
<center>[[File:lb_grub.gif|link=]] A love grub shyly approaches you and hands you some extra Meat.</center>
{{meat|amount=86-212?}}
(increased meat drops by ~20%?)
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<center>[[File:lb_cricket.gif|link=]] A love cricket plays a jaunty tune for you. You tap your feet.</center>
(increased item drops by ~5-10%?)

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<center>[[File:lb_beetle.gif|link=]] A love stag beetle brushes up against your ankle affectionately.<br></center>
{{stat|mus=gain 4-6}}

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<center>[[File:lb_firefly.gif|link=]] A love firefly flits flirtatiously around your head.<br></center>
{{stat|mys=gain 4-6}}

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<center>[[File:lb_dragonfly.gif|link=]] A love dragonfly buzzes softly in your ear.<br></center>
{{stat|mox=gain 4-5}}

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=== Location-specific encounters ===
====Meat drops====
[[Cobb's Knob Treasury]]:
<center>[[File:lb_grub.gif|link=]] A lovegrub crawls out from under a nearby pile of refuse and delivers a little stack of Meat.</center>
{{meat|amount= 80-93?}}
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[[Outskirts of Cobb's Knob]]
<center>[[File:lb_tick.gif|link=]] A love aphid coos at you softly from a nearby bush, drawing your attention to a discarded chunk of Meat.</center>
{{meat|amount=25}}
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[[The Haunted Pantry]]:
<center>[[File:lb_grub.gif|link=]] A love weevil burrows out of a box of pasta and gives you a little chunk of Meat.</center>
{{meat|amount=?}}
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[[The Sleazy Back Alley]]
<center>[[File:lb_tick.gif|link=]] A love scabie scurries out of a nearby hobo and hands you some Meat.</center>
{{meat|amount=?}}
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====Item drops====
[[A Barroom Brawl]]:
<center> [[File:lb_fly.gif|link=]] A drunken love fly struggles under the weight of a bottle, which it then presents to you as a gift. <br>
{{acquire|item=bottle of vodka}} or {{acquire|item=bottle of whiskey}} or {{acquire|item=bottle of rum}} or {{acquire|item=bottle of gin}}</center>
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[[The Haunted Kitchen]] and [[Cobb's Knob Kitchens]]:
<center> [[File:lb_roach.gif|link=]] A love cockroach scuttles out from beneath a nearby stove and gives you a present from the floor.<br>
{{acquire|item=cold powder}} or {{acquire|item=hot powder}} or {{acquire|item=sleaze powder}} or {{acquire|item=spooky powder}} or {{acquire|item=stench powder}}</center>
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====Quest Assistance====
[[The Defiled Alcove]]/[[The Defiled Cranny]]/[[The Defiled Niche]]/[[The Defiled Nook]]:
<center> [[File:lb_firefly.gif|link=]] 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.<br></center>
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[[The Smut Orc Logging Camp]]:
<center>[[File:lb_ant.gif|link=]] A love carpenter ant scurries up to you and coos as it drops off some additional building materials.
{{acquire|item=thick caulk}} or {{acquire|item=weirdwood plank}}</center>
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[[Oil Peak]]:
<center> [[File:lb_beetle.gif|link=]] 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!</center>
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[[The Arid, Extra-Dry Desert]]:
<center> [[File:lb_spider.gif|link=]] A love water strider runs toward you from the nearby Oasis, hugging you and getting you all wet.
{{acquireEffect|effect=Ultrahydrated|duration=3}}</center>
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====Currency Drops====
[[Hobopolis Town Square]]/side areas?
<center>[[File:lb_tick.gif|link=]]A love louse staggers up to you and gives you a nickel.</center>
{{acquire|item=hobo nickel}}
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[[Dreadsylvanian Woods]]/[[Dreadsylvanian Village]]/[[Dreadsylvanian Castle]]:
<center>A love deathwatch beetle creeps toward you, rolling a spooky coin.</center>
{{acquire|item=Freddy Kruegerand}}
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[[The Sunken Party Yacht]]/[[Sloppy Seconds Diner]]/[[The Fun-Guy Mansion]]:
<center>[[File:lb_worm.gif|link=]] A wriggling love worm approaches you, burps out a wadded-up Beach Buck, then burrows out of sight.</center>
{{acquire|item=Beach Buck}}
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[[The Deep Dark Jungle]]/[[The Mansion of Dr. Weirdeaux]]/[[The Secret Government Laboratory]]:
<center>[[File:lb_spider.gif|link=]] A love spider descends from overhead, drops off a coin, then vanishes into the shadows again.</center>
{{acquire|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]]
<center>[[File:lb_roach.gif|link=]]  A love cockroach trundles out from under a nearby pile of garbage and gives you a wadded-up bill.</center>
{{acquire|item=FunFunds™}}
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[[The Ice Hotel]]/[[The Ice Hole]]/[[VYKEA]]
<center>[[File:lb_tick.gif|link=]]  A love snow flea hops over from a nearby drift and gives you a wadded-up certificate.</center>
{{acquire|item=Wal-Mart gift certificate}}
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[[The Time-Twitching Tower]]:
<center>[[File:lb_cicada.gif|link=]]A love cicada flickers into existence, drops a coin into your sack, and vanishes for another 7 years.</center>
{{acquire|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 certificate]]s were initially uncapped on November 3rd, 2015, but were subsequently <s>nerfed</s> fixed to be capped at 5.
**[[Chroner]] are capped at 27
**Other currencies are unconfirmed
*Lovebugs will act [[:Category:Underwater Locations|underwater]] as well.