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

After last month's focus on advancing the main plot we have this time around an update focusing on pretty much everything else - lewds, corruption scenes, side dungeons, new corruption debuffs and many more! The character with the most content this month is definitely Roland of whom the lewd event chain has been completed!

As usual, for the detailed breakdown, I refer to the individual weekly prerelease devlog posts. Let's take a look at how the summary looks like for 0.31.0! We have in total 2 new H-CGs, blonde Aura character art, updated Paul/Pauline character art, 6 new lewd scenes, 4 new mental changes, 6 new corruption scenes,  a repeat corruption scene, 1 new quest, 2 new dungeon levels with 3 new boss fights, and much more!

I this one was a bit harder to list than usual since the update is quite diverse and especially on the art department I can see the last 300€ investment increase for Emubi to afford an assisstant pulling its weight.

On the lewd side, as already mentioned, the Roland lewd event chain has been completed. And with it, a couple of new debuffs have been introduced that will make it harder to you to resist pro-Roland choices in the Verdeaux quests. Furthermore, we have quite a few new H-CGs. The Special Study event chain has been completely illustrated. Furthermore, the first two Roland events have also received illustrations. And on-top of that, jumping into the real word, the two fade-to-black Masturbation scenes now have received the missing variations to also be illustrated! In total, the number of illustrated scenes has gone up by 7 (SEVEN)!

To continue on the art department, we also have progress in the project art unification, where Paul and Paulina have received Emubi-style character art. On-top of that, I was also finally able to integrate the blonde hair style for Aura just today since Emubi supplied me with the necessary blonde hair variations for the H-CG scenes!

This is an old scene, and while I already found the line funny from just flashy cheerleader Aura, blonde flashy cheerleader Aura makes it sound even better. :D

Let's stick around a bit more in the real world! Using the other mental changes introduced in this update, you can now gain access to the Night Club which Aura will regularly spend frequent every 5 days, leaving her dead tired to explore Roya in the night! Also drunk Aura! Also in the real world we have just a little bit of main story progress through some events between George and Veronica.

Moving back to Roya, and the content I have been working on this week, I have finished the Mount Firestorm area which has both the most brutal and the most rewarding boss fights. Getting to the depths is already deadly, but beating the final and yet strongest super boss that awaits you there. In the future I plan to revisit this area and introduce some weaknesses that you can exploit using items obtained in some other part of the game.

For now, I have checked that it's possible to beat the area boss as lewd corrupted Aura and as pure Aura if you have already entered the Magic Academy and gained access to their rank II spells. Nightmare mode will kill you though :'D

That being said, even you cannot clear the last level, the one before this also gives some great rewards, including a very unique material that gives a permanent elemental resistance as well as powerup for your fire spells.

Finally, I have implemented the content related to the Luck Professor in the new quest. Either support him in his scam, because if people are dumb enough to get scammed, why shouldn't Aura rather do it before someone else does it? :) Or expose this author of the book "Luck is also a skill" for the fraud that he is in front of everyone. I thought this quest would be quite quick to implement but in the end I ended up writing quite a bit more content than expected and adding more complexity to it than I had planned. :'D 

Originally, you would have been able to simply refute him if you had read Luck is also a skill and it would have been a matter of a simple check; instead you will be playing a silly Phoenix Wright inspired minigame, sorry :'D ! The dialogue interactions also have weirdly many reactions to the game state. For example, since the Luck Professor ended up having a character voice very similar to Hermann, I couldn't help but add a short dialogue variation if Aura is married to Hermann. This is what happens when I finish slightly before plan and have some time to add stuff :'DD

Other than that, it's mostly a bunch of minor additions. Oh, right, maybe a noteworthy item addition is the new drug Hyperreaction Drug stocked by the Drug Dealer. This gives you a new way to further up Aura's speed at the cost of gaining additional corruption. Of course, the slime companion also profits from this. Overall the purpose of the drug is to give you a corruption based way to raise AGI for passing jump points. In particular after getting a certain AGI reducing debuff. Speaking of jump points, you can now also use the Star Knightess to cheat jump points.

Okay, post is getting too long again. I will stop here. Let's see for how long we can go before a hotpatch is needed. While writing this text and taking screencaps I already found and fixed like two critical issues. :'D Of course during testing it looked all fine... Okay, anyways! Have fun corrupting Aura at Roland's or dying against the Dragon and Phoenix bosses in Mount Firestorm! The complete changelog can be found as usual below.

Changelog 0.31.0 (26.05.2023)

• Added Special Study I H-CGs 
• Added Special Study II H-CGs 
• Added Special Study III H-CGs 
• Added Roland 1/2 H-CGs 
• Added Masturbating 4 and 7 H-CGs 
• Added Paul and Paulina character artworks 
• Added IRL blonde Aura artworks
• Added lewd scene "Roland 3" 
• Added lewd scene "Roland 4" 
• Added lewd scene "Roland 5" 
• Added lewd scene "Roland 6" 
• Added lewd scene "Roland 7" 
• Added lewd scene "Roland 8" 
• Added mental change "Improve memory of Alicia and Aura reunion" 
• Added mental change Insert Alicia into Evening Relationship 
• Added mental change Socializing 3 
• Added mental change Blonde Hair 
• Added scene "Veronica and George 1" 
• Added scene "Veronica and George 2" 
• Added scene "Night Club 1" 
• Added scene "Night Club 2"
• Added scene "Night Club 3"
• Added scene "Going To Hair Salon 5"
• Added repeat Night Club event based on progression of main Night Club event line
• Added quest "Luck Is Also A Skill"
• Added dungeon Mount Firestorm Caves 3 
• Added dungeon Mount Firestorm Caves 4
• Added boss Phoenix
• Added super boss Dragon Firestorm
• Added boss Thunder-Duelist Rene
• Added debuff Tired 
• Added item Hyperreaction Drug
• Added item Formula: Hyperreaction Drug+
• Supported elemental drain type resistance 
• Simplified Happiness room mental changes 
• Refactord handling of on-day start lewd action
• Applied promise training refactoring for magic academy to other skills 
• Made disclaimer skip work with touch input 
• Show objective update for every freed abductee in Price of Freedom 
• Registered new Roland events in Masturbation Is Not Enough start 
• Added Remove Collar option to cheat Jump Points 
• Added passive Turned On By Committing Evil 
• Added fangirl reactions when progressing Roland 
• Added afterimage effect when using Step of the rat on-map 
• Added CG markers for Special Study Roland scenes 
• Added CG markers for Roland 1/2 
• Increased max Vice to 20 
• Increased max mental changes to 122 
• Increased max defeated bosses to 89 

Balancing

• Gave Pyroflower, Greater Salamander, Waterspirit and Hi-Aethon drain resistance 
• Added +1 Alicia Relationship to Doubting Rose 2 
• Added +1 Alicia Relation to Evening Chat 2 and set minimum for Going Home to -55 
• Disabled heat damage in Auto-Skill Turn 0 
• Changed extra willpower malus from Evil Can Be Good to apply to Low Vice actions instead of High Vice Actions 
• Auto-applied Masturbation Is Not Enough after experiencing sex for the first time 
• Reduced Corruption costs of Temperance orb by 1 per orgasm (Min .1) 
• Reduced Corruption reduction for Selflessness orb past by 1 per 1 Vice past 10 Vice
• Reduced Corruption reduction for Diligence orb past by 1 per 1 Vice past 5 Vice 

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos 
• Fixed inaccessible event page in injustice drain 
• Fixed incorrect speaker during infiltrating cheerleaders makeover 
• Fixed Seductive Stance issue 
• Fixed that saving during a scene and then loading said save restores the script to the point after making the save
• Fixed happiness room issues
• Fixed self switch mismatch in self-acknowledgement generator
• Fixed missing switches for Roland scenes
• Fixed black screen while accessing backlog on Android
• Fixed missing closing brackets in recollection character restoration
• Fixed missing BGS fadeout in Roland 8
• Fixed incorrect data used in certain obstacle choices
• Fixed HUD battlers not updating after unsummoning Slime
• Fixed incorrect flavour on sack in northern mines area 4
• Fixed noTeleport flag not resetting if Arwin's maid still has luck book

Stats

• Estimated play time: 27-34h
• Word Count: 503k
• Lewd Scenes: 80
• Real World Scenes: 213
• CGs: 34 (+1 Bonus CG)