Star Knightess Aura 0.35.0-prerelease-4

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And another front for Chapter 2-B cleared! This week I started off the remaining work from the corruption side, this time in the mental world. There you can now remove the George Guardian and "officially" enter the final Chamber and with that Chapter 3. There you will also encounter the last Guardian, although there isn't anything to interact with yet.

Following that, we also reached the last lewd streaming scene I wanted to get in for Chapter 2-B, where Aura does a live masturbation. The actual lewd scene ended up a bit shorter than I expected but on the other hand the lead-up got a bit longer than expected with Aura giving out some more toxic advice. :'D When I get back to this lewd scene for H-CG integration, I might expand upon it a bit more, but for now I think it does its job.

You can trigger the scene by applying the new mental change for removing the second Self-Acknowledgement happiness source. Speaking of mental changes, the Cheating on George 3 scene now also unlocks the Richard Disposition Switch. It's the first set of expensive corruption mental changes since a while, so if you needed an opportunity to get rid of some, here it is! Also you trigger the Richard passive with this and gain some more Vice.

Then we have a little bit of a potentially larger reaching change in the addition of new passives. I like the recent Richard passive quite a bit and passives that scale with relationship values reminded me of the Persona series, so I was thinking of expaning the concept to the other main characters. Richard's passive now sounds sadly less awesome (Simply Richard Bond), but in exchange everyone got their own "Bond" passive. Rose's lets you recover some willpower on the next day of reading a book, George is basically anti-Womb of Lust, accumulating a liiiitle bit of extra on day start willpower if you have managed to avoid performing cheating actions with Aura. Alicia of course gives minimum lewdness reductions and finally Richard's passive stays the same except for the name change.

On the last front, the Reverse Summoning Ritual,  there is nothing newly really playable. Yesterday I started working on the detailed concept for the next dungeon area of the event and today I started doing some simple setup, adding the maps, connections, an NPC that can give you a temp buff in exchange for soul dust, etc. But it's all very WIP. Maybe should have placed the WIP robot in there :D

And that covers most of it! Our assistant developer Trihan has also been iterating the new Poisoned Elixirs quest, fixing a bunch of bugs and doing various stylistic improvements! Emubi is pushing to finish the H-CG so I can integrate it next week, and then we also have some other couple improvements and fixes of things that we discovered during this week's devstream.

Alright, now that's really it for the week! Next week I will be focusing on the Reverse Summoning Ritual aiming to complete the second area. I don't think I will quite get there since both the Lysander and Roland boss fights are a bit involved mechanically, but I am quite confident that I can finish at least one of them. For the complete changelog including the changes from today's public release, please as usual see below.

Changelog 0.35.0-prerelease-4 (22.09.2023)

• Added scene Lewd Streaming 3
• Added mental change remove Guardian George
• Added mental changes for Richard Disposition Switch 
• Added mental change remove self acknowledgement 2 happiness
• Added map stubs for Heavenly Path areas of Lysander and Roland 
• Added stub Soul Dust Mage
• Renamed Seed of Evil to Richard Bond
• Added Rose Bond passive skill
• Added George Bond passive skill 
• Added Alicia Bond passive skill
• Updated Rose sprite in mental world after outfit change 
• Removed George from relationships after Cheating on George 3 
• Improved teleporters between Darknor Floor 1 and Floor 2 
• Iterated Poisoned Elixirs quest 
• Increase max mental changes to 133 

Balancing

• Increased value of plating materials to 3x the base value + 10% 

Bugfixes

• Fixed bless sound effect not being deployed 
• Fixed incorrect standing image side for vines at beginning of northern mountains 
• Fixed Bless Item skill using Gold cost instead of MP cost 
• Fixed passability issue in Draknor Fortress 
• Fixed Tofana's Third Theorem option being available at Elixir Alchemist after distracting Roland
• Fixed work report option being locked out when lewdness exceeds check value 
• Fixed missing direction fix flag in intro rose corpse
• Fixed standing image non-speaker dimming being broken since resource location refactor