Key Tips: Story dungeons have a soft deadline — the calendar shows a "×" marker (no free time) on days consumed by mandatory story progression, and dawdling too long risks a game-over forcing a reload. Once inside a dungeon, a full day (afternoon + night) is spent traveling to/through it, so clear it in as few days as possible to protect your free time. Check the Pantry and toilet every day on the Gauntlet Runner. Never spend time with the same Follower 2 days in a row. When the handshake icon turns red, the rank-up is ready.

Once unlocked, a Follower's next rank-up is generally available any free-time day, shown by a shaking-hands icon in-game — the game has no fixed weekly schedule per Follower. 🌙 Night only = confirmed to appear almost exclusively at night (Brigitta, Alonzo). 🚃 Runner only = confirmed to trigger while travelling on the Gauntlet Runner rather than in town (Basilio). Any Follower without a tag can generally be visited day or night once unlocked. The one hard rule that always applies: you can't spend time with the same Follower two days in a row.