Grotto MercsTerms of Service
Last updated November 12, 2026
These terms are the agreement between you and LateNiteScripts LLC ("we", "us") covering Grotto Mercs. By creating an account or playing, you accept them.
Your account
You need an account to play. You must be at least 13 years old, give accurate information, and keep your credentials to yourself. You are responsible for what happens on your account.
Tell us at support@lns.dev if you believe someone else has access to it.
What you may not do
- Use cheats, bots, automation, modified clients, or exploit bugs for advantage.
- Create accounts in bulk, or evade a suspension.
- Collect ad rewards without genuinely watching the ad — through emulators, automation, click farms or tampered ad traffic.
- Buy, sell or trade accounts.
- Harass other players, or post content that is unlawful, hateful or sexual.
- Attack, probe or disrupt our servers, or attempt to access data that is not yours.
- Reverse-engineer the game except where the law says you may.
We can suspend or close an account that breaks these rules. For serious or repeated breaches we may do so without warning, and unspent Crystal Frags and items are forfeited.
Crystal Frags and in-game items
What you are buying is a license, not property
Crystal Frags, equipment, characters and every other in-game item are a limited, personal, revocable license to use them inside Grotto Mercs. They are not your property, they have no cash value, and we do not guarantee any exchange rate, resale value or future availability.
We may change item behavior, prices, drop rates and the game's balance at any time. That is normal for a live game, and it can reduce the usefulness of something you already hold.
Crystal Frags earned by watching rewarded ads are credited once the ad network confirms the view to our servers. We apply limits on how many ad rewards an account can claim in a day, and we do not credit views we cannot verify. We may reverse rewards earned in breach of these terms.
Crystal Frags cannot be withdrawn, redeemed for money or cryptocurrency, or transferred out of the game. If we ever offer a way to do any of that, it will come with its own terms, and these terms continue to apply until then.
Purchases and refunds
Purchases made through the Apple App Store or Google Play are handled by Apple or Google under their terms, and refunds for those purchases go through them, not us.
Where you pay with cryptocurrency, the transaction settles on a public blockchain. Those transactions are irreversible. We cannot cancel, reverse or refund a confirmed on-chain payment. Check the amount and the destination before you confirm anything.
We accept only the tokens offered at checkout, at the amount shown there. A payment in another token, of a different amount, or not tied to an order may not be matched to anything, and because it is on-chain we may be unable to return it.
If something you paid for was not delivered, contact support@lns.dev with the order reference. We keep a ledger of every balance change specifically so these can be investigated properly.
Cryptocurrency and wallets
Cryptocurrency is optional and is never required to play. The in-game wallet, on-chain minting and crypto payments are features you choose to use. You can complete the game without them, and we will not withhold content to push you toward them.
Not your keys, Not your wallet
The in-game wallet is non-custodial. Its keys and seed phrase are generated and held on your device. We never receive them, never hold or control your funds, and cannot recover either. You are solely responsible for your keys and seed phrases.
If you lose your device and your seed phrase, the contents of that wallet are gone permanently. There is no reset, no backup on our side, and no support request can undo it. The one exception is outside our hands: on Apple devices with iCloud sync switched on, your own iCloud account may be able to restore it, as the Privacy Policy describes. We will never ask you for your seed phrase — not in the game, an ad, an email or a message — and anyone who does is trying to rob you.
You are also responsible for the security of your device, for verifying the destination and amount of any transaction before confirming it, and for any blockchain network fees your transactions incur. Use the crypto features only where doing so is legal for you.
Minted items
When you mint an item, we send a token to the wallet address you give us. Check that address: a token sent to a wrong address cannot be recalled. Some networks require you to accept the transfer in your wallet before it arrives.
Once a token is in your wallet, you control it on the blockchain. What it does inside Grotto Mercs is still part of the game and is covered by the license above: we may rebalance or change it, and holding the token does not give you any rights in the game, its art or its name. We make no promise about any token's market value or whether anyone will trade it.
No affiliation with any blockchain project
Grotto Mercs is an independent game. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or acting as a representative of Cardano, the Cardano Foundation, IOG, Ripple, the XRP Ledger Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the Dogecoin project, or any other blockchain network, protocol, token issuer or the companies and organizations behind them. Where we name a network or a token, it is to describe a feature, not to claim a relationship.
Those networks are operated by third parties we do not control. We are not responsible for their availability, their fees, their rules, the market value of any asset, or any loss arising from them. Nothing in Grotto Mercs is financial advice or an offer to sell a financial instrument, and no in-game asset should be acquired as an investment.
Service availability
We aim to keep the game running but we do not promise uninterrupted service. We may take it down for maintenance, change features, or discontinue the game entirely. If we shut Grotto Mercs down permanently, we will give reasonable notice through the game or by email where we can.
Our content, and yours
The game, its code, art, audio and name belong to us or our licensors. These terms give you no rights in them beyond playing the game.
Anything you create or submit — a character name, a message — remains yours, but you grant us a license to host and display it as part of operating the game. Keep it lawful and keep it civil.
Liability
The game is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost progress, lost items, or losses arising from blockchain transactions, network fees, or your own device's security.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. If you are a consumer, you keep all the statutory rights your country gives you, and nothing in these terms takes those away.
Apple and Google
If you got Grotto Mercs from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:
- These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the game and its content.
- Your license lets you use the game on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as the App Store's Usage Rules allow.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the game.
- If the game fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund any purchase price you paid for the game itself. To the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation for it.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for any claim relating to the game — including product liability, failure to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, consumer protection or privacy law, and any claim that the game infringes someone else's intellectual property.
- You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated as supporting terrorism, and that you are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
Whichever store you used, you must also follow its terms, and those of your mobile carrier.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects your rights, we will notify you in the game before it takes effect. Continuing to play afterwards means you accept the new version.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, and the state and federal courts located in Florida have jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, you may also bring proceedings in your own country, and you keep the protection of its mandatory consumer law.