Star Knightess Aura 0.14.0-prerelease-3

Like every week, grab the latest prerelease at:

https://aura-dev.itch.io/star-knightess-aura-prerelease/patreon-access

The year is closing out, let's see how much can get done in the remaining weeks! This week I mostly focused on two things: Finishing up this month's content in the bar and opening the Key Memories Room. Let's talk a bit about these two points.

First of all, as you probably already saw, the standing art now has the artwork to go along with the bar job uniform. You can now also upgrade the uniform twice, into a sexy version and then further into a bunny version. In oder to to do this, you need to work at the bar + provide customer service to the locals.

There are now two customer service events implemented, which form our two new lewd scenes! One for the base costume and one for the upgraded one. The scenes can be probably best summarized as Young Merchant + Maid Job scenes. Aura has to act her role as a slutty friend of Liliana's and say some dirty words, drink alcohol, and in Customer Service 2 a certain drug makes its return to apply a new brainwashing passive to Aura, related to how she experiences the taste and smell of sperm. I leave out further details so you can find out more during playing :)

Leaving the bar job behind, Alicia now has access to the Key Memories room. There you can currently dive into Aura's memory of her first date with George.  When you dive into the memory, a scene plays retelling the events. Going along with the new room, there is a first mental change to play around with, where you can remove the details of the events from Aura's memory, leading to a glitched memory. If you replay the memory you will see the scene slightly change as Aura now only has a fragmented recollection.

Sadly, as with the other rooms, there is no follow-up corruption scene, yet but maybe than can change over the course of the next week.

Speaking of the next week, there are a couple of items to address. 

First of all, I commissioned the Groped Breastes By John H-CG today and Emubi is trying to finish it before the end of the year. No promises though. Also, there will be 2 more weekly releases this year as planned in the project plan. The prerelease next week and the internal release in two weeks. However, since both of them fall onto the 24/31 festival days, the exact release timings may get shifted around a bit. So expect them maybe 1 day earlier and some of the planned content shifted to 0.15.

Furthermore, due to divergence build up between the public development branch and the internal development branch, there will probably be no patch release next week. You will also notice in the changelog that this prerelease has quite a few bug fixes in it, which I couldn't make public, due to the divergence (divergence means I made a change in the internal development line to some map, and now I can no longer change it on the public line without making the internal change public as well).

Lastly, there is a technical improvement contributed by Gaurav, displaying whenever the game makes an autosave and adding autosave calls between the rounds in the vs Arwin/Mammon fight.

Next week I plan the wrap up my work on the Instincts Room, which I began today. And then I will be returning to RL scenes. I expect to get 2 common scenes in and hope that I can get started on the first proper Chapter 2  corruption scenes, but we will need to see here how the holidays affect the schedule.

Find the combined devlog of today's patch and prerelease, as usual, below.

Changelog 0.14.0-prerelease-3 (17.12.2021)

• Added Key Memories Room
• Added mental change "Remove First Date Details"
• Added option to upgrade bar job outfits
• Added bar job standing art costumes
• Added lewd scene "Customer Service 1"
• Added lewd scene "Customer Service 2"
• Added "What A Lovely Taste And Smell I" passive
• Implemented plugin to display more debug info on crash
• Implemented plugin to display Autosave notificaiton (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Added autosave calls between Arwin/Mammon fights
• Increased max mental changes to 48

Balancing

• No changes

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos and editorial improvements
• Fixed incompatibility in auto-skill plugin for RPGM 1.4.0
• Fixed a lot of minor mapping bugs in Eastern Forest of Runes
• Fixed compendium pictures sometimes not displaying
• Fixed doubled message for lewd stat increase when reading lewd book
• Fixed missing fadeout command at beginning of formula peddler scene
• Fixed passability issue in northern mines
• Fixed AGI decrease message for Ogre Bone showing -2 instead of -3
• Fixed in abandoned shrine flag not being reset when teleporting to Arwin's mansion from Abandone Shrine
• Fixed northern mines foreman changig his response after quest hand in instead of after clearing spiders
• Fixed some missing promise checks or mentions of promise checks in dialogues for learning some skills
• Fixed slime getting money spell skill category during festival of greed

EDIT:

• Fixed +NaN Trust message in old saves (Thanks to Gaurav)
• Fixed Aura_Clothing_0_0 having disappeared
• Fixed Bunny Ears not being deployed