We are back for another round of Roya content this week. Originally, I wanted the next adventurer quest to focus on Charlotte but.... That didn't work out.

The problem with the quest was that it had a lot of things it kind of tried to do which also impose quite a lot of constraints on the design and I couldn't figure out a nice design that was small enough in scope and worked with everything. Basically the idea was to use it to introduce the corruption partner for the Charrlote lewd scenes, give some expansion to the Entertainment Den, give some buildup for Judgement of Pride and also develop Charlotte's background story a bit.

I figured I could kind of combine all that stuff nicely, but with Desmond's quest interacting with it and a couple of other things blocking each other, the quest would come too late and dealing with everything kind of made the scope grow too much.

Ultimately I realized that the core issue with the quest was that I wanted to use it to achieve various things, but kind of didn't have a clear vision of what the quest was supposed to do besides achieve these side objectives, so after spending quite some time on the drawing board, I decided to scatch it. Instead, the plan is now as follows:

Charlotte's intermediate quest is scratched, instead she will be actively accompanying Aura in Judgement of Pride. This increases the complexity of this quest a bit but this way we have the Charlotte story part moved into a quest that directly relates with it.

Then, this week I worked on a different side quest, namely to finally curse Jacob's daughter - Rotten Love. It's a fairly straight forward quest for demon hunting. The concept of the boss is an "armor summoning type demon". We had until now humans summon monsters as mech armors, but this time it's a skeleton like demon summoning human flesh as it's armor. :'D In terms of difficulty, the demon is on the same level as one of the Winterfall demons I would say, giving some more prep for Beelzebub and the Summoning Ritual.

Instead of doing the quest, you are also offered a new Vice 10 choice by the White Priestess. Just tell everyone you took care of the the demon and leave Jacob's girl cursed for research purposes to get your quest reward immediately!

We also now have 7 Intermediate Rank quests, which means you can now rank up to Expert Rank. If you helped out Rosemond, you can do so for pretty cheap. Otherwise, it will cost quite a few. And once you do..... You basically don't get anything until I add the first expert Rank quest, haha. :'D

EDIT: It's only 6 Intermediate Ranked Quests actually! Some of you on old saves (like my test save :'D) might be able to rank up because apparantly some old quest - I believe the Eastern Forest Demon quest - used to be ranked as Intermediate Rank! But everyone on a "correct" save won't be able to rank up right now.

Finally, Charlotte's corruption partner is not introduced via quest but via event. Since Infamy currently only unlocks the Rosemond quest and could use another piece of content that gets unlocked by raising this stat, I decided that this would make for a good opportunity to have a new Infamy 10 event. Similarly to Rosemond's offer, once you reach it and visit the Adventurer Guild, you will get a visit by the NPC Victor who will make Aura an offer regarding to Charlotte.

Currently the actual corruption option is NOT IMPLEMENTED, I mostly just added his event because after spending so much time looking at event flow charts for Charlotte I had to at least add some progress for her this week. :'D

Other progress is the integration of the new Lord Trademond H-CGs, rounding out the maid content... Well that is unless maid George on Earth happened I guess. :'D

Then, on the side of our assistant developer Trihan, as you can see in the recent Patreon post, we have begun with the next set of UI features - the Location & Social Expansions for the Compendium. Currently they are still in the mockup stage, but our plans are to bring them into production quite quickly.

Also on the freelancer side I have both positive and negative news regarding the search for someone to fill in the Pixel Artist position. Our latest candidate suddenly ran off sadly. They did have a WIP Alicia sprite they were working on so I will just drop that.

Sadly the colors and shading are a bit and they were in the process of working on that but apparantly couldn't handle working on it besides their day job. Oh well, that's why do these test commissions. The positive side is, that Trihan found us a new candidate. They have some projects ongoing for this week so we will only be able to start the test commission for them but they have a very good portfolio so I am looking forward to the results.

Then on the 2D art side, I have discussed the next set of commissions with our artist Emubi. The brothel will suffer a little bit with the Anal customer not getting a special new CG but rather reusing the default CG with just an anal variation. This I would say reasonable simplification allows us to sneak in the more impactful FemMaid George character artwork.

Aaaaaand that's it for the week! Next week, back to Earth! More lewd content between Aura and Richard, if I'm lucky I can get to the point of them having a repeat sex event that will work like the Night Club event and trigger at set intervals.

Changelog 0.42.0-prerelease-3 (19.04.2024)

• Added Lord Trademond 1 H-CGs
• Added Lord Trademond 2 H-CGs
• Added quest Rotten Love
• Added area Persephone Domain
• Added infamy 10 event Meeting Victor
• Added boss Persephone
• Added Expert Rank upgrade option
• Increased max killed bosses to 113

Balancing

• None

Bugfixes

• Fixed prerelease typos
• Fixed plot hole in George and Richard encounter regarding Aura's knowledge of the state of George's mother
• Fixed main menu cursor crash when moving to off-screen party members
• Reverted makeDeepCopy change
• Fixed turn-end damage not showing popups
• Fixed character walking animations not stopping when moving to autosave slot