Forgot to repost the devlog from Patron last week, this one focusing on the first update on 0.40.0.  It's fairly straightforward, I finished the remaining two training scenes for Paulina and alongside that implemented various things like class change, forgetting old skills and having them replaced with new ones, etc. to go alongside Paulina's corruption.

It focused a bit more on intelligence loss than I had initially planned (over the servitude focus) but I guess with Aura focusing on that it might be good fit. It would be cool for Paulina to also learn from lewd books but since some of them access Aura only variables (e.g. Lewd Knowledge), there needs to be some conceptual thinking on how that would work out.

Aside from Paulina's immediate reactions, the Hermann wedding scene and the Reverse Summoning Ritual have unqiue reactions if Paulina progresses to the third corruption stage, and especially if she reaches the fourth and final one. Just be careful, if you finish the Paulina corruption line, you will permanently lose Paulina as a party member.

Besides the Paulina progress, we have a couple of minor stuff. Our assistant developer Trihan finished the refactoring work we started in September. Most functionality (especially the menus) is now portable into future RPGMaker MZ projects, so we don't have to risk breaking the game to make the code more reusable when we hit 1.0. :'D

Rampage II got a very minor improvement: When you hit 60 ATK it can now be used to break minor obstacles such as the weakest rock obstacle, giving ATK oriented builds a skill with map interaction.

Aaaand that's it for this week. With the Paulina line of the Maid Academy done, it's time to move back to the dungeon route and deal with the last dungeon level including the Asmodeus boss fight. Hopefully then aiming to closing out the Maid Academy in general in the near future.

Changelog 0.40.0-prerelease-1 (02.02.2024)

• Added lewd scene Paulina Training 3 
• Added lewd Scene Paulina Training 4 
• Updated Paulina location after Paulina submission 
• Updated Hermann wedding based on Paulina submission 
• Updated Reverse Summoning Ritual based on Paulina submission 
• Turned Library 1 Schrödinger's Cat punishment joke into bullying foreshadowing 
• Refactored auramzui plugins 
• Added perk to destroy minor obstacles with Rampage II to at >= 60 ATK 
• Added spell Overcharge II

Balancing

• Changed MATK requirment to learn Overcharge I to ATK requirement

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos (Thanks to Kytt)
• Fixed post-victory cutscene in poisoner lair still running if player lost
• Fixed Small Slime count being wrong and defeated boss command missing from Slime + Fire Slime encounter
• Fixed overlapping variable assignment when viewing Lewd Streaming 2 in recollection room
• Fixed Tremor II being unlockable in New Game+
• Fixed tile passability issue in Eligos Domain
• Fixed incorrect Paulina DEF message when switching to maid outfit
• Refactored detection bonus logic to be based notetags of trait objects instead of a mutable variable
• Fixed variant drugs not being usable in John Rising 
• Fixed status scene causing a stack overflow with multiple party members