In this week's episode of Star Knightess Aura. Aura becomes Gyaru Hitler. :)

As mentioned in the project plan, this is another one of the many corruption focused weeks of the Chapter 3-B development phase. I focused on developing the scenes that get triggered through the corruption of the Selfishness Orb which I added last month but didn't follow up with any triggered scenes because I wanted to focus on the Purpose mental change to further the lewd story line.

The Social Ranking storyline triggered through this corruption, drives up Aura's disdain for the ugly and weak by 1000% and has her use all fan power she has been generating over the events in Chapter 3 to establish a trend where everyone with fewer followers needs to obey the ones with more. Why would they do that? Bullying and harrassment of course :)

(That is after some more gaslighting from this week)

Sadly I didn't make it much further than this on that storyline since I needed to move further events after another major event for the Lewd Streaming storyline which also got some minor development this week and will be further pursued in dev week 4.

Then, the last Value Orb (Kindness) can now also be corrupted and has 1 scene that gets triggered by it. Doing the Kindess Orb corruption today was mostly a consequence of moving the follow-up Laura Rebirth scenes into the week 4.

And finally, as a minor detail, the Toll Bandit Leader got a minor power up. His first Bomb throw is now always an Aphrodisiac Bomb and if you get defeated, you will be given a second lewd check to accept giving a Blowjob. Just a minor roleplaying improvement.

For the full chaneglog including the public patch release, as usual, I defer to the changelog below. Next week: Beginning of the Charlotte corruption!

Changelog 0.43.0-prerelease-2 (10.05.2024)

• Added mental change Weakness Hate 2
• Added mental change Corrupt Kindness Orb 2
• Added mental change Insert Assertiveness Orb 2
• Added Infiltrating Cheerleaders 6 second half H-CGs
• Added scene Social Ranking 1
• Added scene Social Ranking 2
• Added scene Social Ranking 3
• Added scene Laura Rebirth 3
• Added scene Laura Rebirth 4
• Added scene Lewd Streaming 6
• Added scene Dating Richard 7
• Added secondary lewd check after losing to toll bandits for blowjob scene
• Expanded Social Compendium with additional NPCs
• Added location and additional walking image functionality to compendium
• Increased max mental changes to 156

Balancing

• Gave Toll Bandit Leader 1 time per battle use Aphrodisiac Bomb

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed visual glitches in Hanging Out With Richard 3
• Fixed missing Dating Richard 6 recollection crystal
• Fixed off-by-one in Tutored By George 3 check for Tests Are Out 6
• Fixed missing dialogue for repeat talking to Roland before joining the Adventurer Guild
• Fixed books once and for all for all times forever
• Fixed BGM not changing when entering Lord Trademond's mansion from Roya map
• Fixed Paul and Paulina logic errors
• Fixed crash from nonexistent images trying to preload in Steam version