Note that the public release will be in 2 weeks. You can also skip the waiting time by buying Star Knightess Aura.

Man, months end way too fast. March is already over and the next release is here. If you are interesting the exact  details of the development, please take a look into the individual  devlog posts about the prereleases. Otherwise, let's take a loog at a summary below.

So, as usual, let me start with a number summary of the major additions. We've got 8 new lewd scenes, 6 new mental changes, 8 new real world scenes, and 1 new H-CG. Plus of course another batch of minor additions. Although, there is an overlap in the lewd scenes and the new real world scenes, namely for 2 of them since we have the first real world lewd scenes. Please don't get too excited over the high count of new lewd scenes, as many of them are fairly brief. Still! Overall, we've got a major major push in lewd content. And with the inclusion of Womb of Lust and the corresponding rebalancing a new way to access the related pink scenes.

Speaking of Womb of Lust, it also got a minor change: If the modifier reaches -100 a masturbation scene will trigger during Roya and Aura will spend her time masturbating over going out and advancing her quest. Besides these scenes, we also have our first real world lewd scenes which are also masturbation scenes.

Remove the Temperance Orb (which requires a whopping 20 Lewdness) and you can start the lewd story line on Earth. Aura will start having lewd thoughts and eventually start the two new masturbation scenes. There is also one lewd thought scene that plays 10 lewdness before you remove the Temperance Orb to make the transition a bit smoother. The other story line that you can start is going shopping with Patricia. To do so, simply flip the Patricia switch and then you'll be able to add the next apperance change (Earrings). These also cover the majority of the mental changes. There is one more mental changes for the shows. You can now get Aura to wear low-heeled shoes! There aren't any major reactions to this yet, though.

Finally, there is no mental change associated to it, but you can also now access a new memory in the Key Memories Room. It's a very innocent childhood memory of Alicia and Aura hanging out and watching TV.

On the Roya side, the new lewd content covers most of it. There is a new H-CG for the Formula Peddler, finishing off his lewd scenes. The Hermit received his 3rd lewd scene and there are 3 new minor lewd scenes in Trademond. Just speak to some of the new Guard NPCs to trigger them. Besides these, of course, as mentioned above, we have the 2 new Masturbation lewd scenes that can be triggered through womb of lust.

Besides the lewd content, we have some minor new content and improvements of old content that have been sitting on my backlog. Enter Mountainreach and observe the eternal repeat, trigger Charlotte's prison scene without having to talk to the adventurers, trigger the young merchant dinner 2 scene even after the festival, and I think there are a couple more. Oh, right! Also you can now activate stone tablets at some locations to unlock them as teleporters.

Finally, together with the rebalancing for making Womb of Lust available on all difficulties, there have been some more tweaks with Story and Hard mode. On Story mode, using a workshop no longer ends the day. On the other hand, since Womb of Lust is no longer Hard Mode exclusive and the game has been rebalanced for it to be "normal", Hard mode got a different major increase: You now gain corruption at a rate of 1 corruption each day! (This onyl applies if you start a new game, old Hard Mode games still use the default corruption speed).

Aaaand that's about it! There is one more meta information: The UI artist has officially jumped ship and I have started searching for a new one. I have created some recruitement ads and received some promising applications. I plan to test commission a selection of applications starting next week. Finally, below you can find the usual changelog, with one minor change: Major updates will now also contain updates to the overall stats in the log. I had been maintaining these numbers on the itch project page but found it sad that I couldn't look back and see them grow. So they are now officially part of the changelog.

Changelog 0.17.0 (25.03.2022)

• Integrated H-CG "Formula Peddler Blowjob"
• Added lewd scenes "Spending Day Masturbating 1"
• Added lewd scenes "Spending Day Masturbating 2"
• Added lewd scene "Aura Masturbating 1"
• Added lewd scene "Aura Masturbating 2"
• Integrated lewd scene "Ass Eaten Out By Hermit"
• Integrated lewd scene "Flashing Boobs To Guard"
• Integrated lewd scene "Showing Pussy To Guard"
• Integrated lewd scene "Selling Patnies To Guard"
• Added mental change "Remove Temperance Orb 1"
• Added mental change "Insert Hedonism Orb 1"
• Added mental change "Low-Heeled Shoes"
• Added mental change "Patricia Switch: CARE" 
• Added mental change "Remove Cobwebs: Accessories"
• Added mental change "Add Hoop Earring" 
• Added memory "Aura and Alicia Childhood" 
• Added scene "Aura Having Lewd Thoughts 1" 
• Added scene "Aura Having Lewd Thoughts 2" 
• Added scene "Aura Having Lewd Thoughts 3" 
• Added scene "Shopping With Patricia 1" 
• Added scene "Shopping With Patricia 2" 
• Added scene "Aura Wearing Heels 1"
• Added passive "Hidden Desires I" 
• Added passive "Rising Heat I" 
• Added passive EXP gain of 1 EXP per day for companion characters
• Added trigger Charlotte in jail by visiting Barracks 
• Added teleporting ability to stone tablet and added tablets in Trademond: Church, Eastern Forest of Runes, and Northern Mines: Vault 
• Added trigger condition for Womb of Lust (Incomplete) to trigger lewd scene at day start if modifier reaches -100 
• Added Congregation Branch in Nephlune 
• Added slave trader with investment option in Nephlune Congregation
• Integrated Mountainreach and Mountainreach Church maps 
• Scripted Mountainreach entrance event 
• Created Elaine end of content npc in mountainreach church 
• Eliminated dependency of needing to do Breast Groping By John before Kissing John 
• Enabled Dinner With Young Merchant 2 post-Festival 
• Added Edwin workshop in Riverflow 
• Added minor roaming deco NPCs to Trademond
• Added item "Etherplate" 
• Added item "Pyroplate" 
• Added item "Emeraldplate"
• Added item "Maleficumplate"
• Increased max lewdness to 29 
• Increased max mental changes to 66

Balancing

• Enabled Womb of Lust (Incomplete) on all difficulty modes
• Enabled periodically restocking Blessed Water x 2 before the Festival
• Increased Blessed Water cost increase from 2 to 5 gold per day
• Changed Blessed Water restock from defeating Lower Demon into free Blessed Water x 3
• Added initial stock of Blessed Water x 3 to church
• Reduced Workshop salary increase from selling Star metal from 25 to 15 Gold
• Using the Workshop on Story Mode no longer ends the day
• Increased loot multiplier on Story Mode from 5x to 10x
• Increased corruption cost to enter Entrance Chamber from 2 to 4
• Decreased corruption cost to open up Entrance Chamber mind rooms from 2 to 1 
• Decreased corruption cost increase for disposition switches to 1 for Rose and Alicia 
• Reduced minimum lewdness for Bunny costume in Nephlune Bar to 5 
• Increased corruption gain on Hard Mode to +1 Corruption every day
• Clear Gem can now be obtained at the Abandoned Shrine at game start 
• Invest: Purification now also resets Womb of Lust 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos and editorial improvements 
• Fixed Mary tavern costume not using unbraided hair 
• Fixed debug messages appearing at Edwin's workshop 
• Fixed deadlock when entering Mountreach for a second time
• Fixed missing minimum lewdness check for Temperance Orb removal 
• Fixed Mana Catalyst reference in Hermit 3 scene being mixed up 
• Fixed pink scenes not being marked correctly in lewd guard scenes 
• Fixed slave trader investment deducting 2000 Gold instead of 1000 Gold 
• Fixed womb of lust not restoring willpower after being reset 
• Fixed incorrect lewdness increase message in selling panties to lewd guard scene 
• Fixed Hermit first lewd dialogue not correctly playing when artifact was not returned 
• Fixed Desmond sprite not disappearing if Theft II is not unlocked during Hermit quest 
• Fixed Womb of Lust resetting during non-lewd bar job 
• Fixed deadlock when entering mountainreach from through church teleporter 

Stats

• Estimated play time: 16-20h
• Word Count: 329k
• Lewd Scenes: 34
• Real World Scenes: 113
• CGs: 13 (+1 Bonus CG)