Star Knightess Aura 0.16.0-prerelease-2

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How is it already the end of the second prerelease week. Aaaaaaahhh...

I mostly worked this week on a new adventurer guild side quest. Meet a hermit living up in the mountains and once again those pesky Avians just can't stop stealing other people's belongings. This time a magical artifact created by said hermit.

The quest is kind of weird and changed shape a couple of times. I might still change the actual mechanics, just be prepared for a lot of weirdness involving Wind Directions. You'll see what I mean when you play the quest. :'D

Anyways, after you deal with the issue, there is new Vice option available to keep the magic object -- which by the way belongs to a new type of item class. I originally planned to introduce Artifacts, aka a passive buff to the entire party in the form of an item, when we got to some more vaults or maybe in the Magic Academy, but this seemed to be a good place. Anyways, if you have Theft II enabled, you have a new Vice option to keep the goodies.

Either way, you will unlock a new trainer to learn some spells that will be highly useful, but also terribly expensive. Ofcourse! Luckily! The old hermit has been lacking female companionship, so he's willing to drop the price in exchange for a lewd favor! Which brings me to the last point of this quest, there will be 3 lewd scenes with the hermit, written by our assistant writer, and today I finished scripting the first one today. In other words, +1 lewd scene. It's also the first one where Aura actually gets to reach climax.

Finally, also in the lew section, Emubi finished the "Feeding Merchant Mouth to Mouth" CG earlier than expected, and I intergated it into the game. I have also discussed and commissioned a couple of appearance changes and Emubi also sent me a very first sketch today. So here, have a short teaser for how Aura will look like after some of the upcoming apperance mental changes. One of them including a pose change. (Please keep in mind that the sketch doesn't yet cover all upcoming changes! For example accessories.)

For the full changelof of the prerelease and the public patch, please see below. (Regarding the Web Bomb entry in the log, the item was added but I have yet to add the Formula to the Formula Peddler so you can actually craft it. The bomb will be able to, among other effects, remove Flying from all enemies.)

Changelog 0.16.0-prerelease-2 (11.02.2021)

• Integrated H-CG "Feeding Merchant Mouth to Mouth"
• Added quest "What Is It With Birds And Stealing" 
• Added item type "Artifact"
• Added item "Mana Catalyst"
• Added item "Web Bomb"
• Added skill "Rock Armor I"
• Added options to learn Stone Mind I, Tremor I, and Rock Armor I from Hermit
• Integrated lewd scene "Fingered By Hermit"
• Increased max vice to 13
• Increased max lewdness to 22
• Increased max killed bosses to 45
• Renamed "Weapon Oil" to "Nasty Oil Coating"
• Made Nephlune entry path less winded

Balancing

• Buffed Ogre Bone to +4 Def and -2 AGI

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed standing images not disappearing after interacting with fetish installation
• Fixed some incorrect secondary stat increases from installed fetished
• Fixed willpower decrease for installed fetishes applying to all lewd scenes
• Fixed Formula Peddler 3 lewd scene being startable on the same day as Formula Peddler 2 lewd scene
• Fixed some stealable apples before getting "Theft I"
• Fixed mutated hydrangeas being referenced too soon in Maid Job 1
• Fixed incorrect show constraints for Emerald Tea crafting
• Fixed passability issues
• Fixed Slime Bonding I lewd scene being repeatedly triggerable
• Fixed Widen Crack interaction not being handled correctly when picking Leave option
• Fixed being able to buy multiple VIP passes