Inner circle post for 0.3.25 (Patreon)

Hi all!

I've had a message suggesting I modify the inner circle reward - I won't reply just yet because leaving it unanswered makes it less likely I'll forget about it. At the very least I need to give Inner Circle a *proper* description on the front page.

The suggestion was that I drop the current $20 and $25 rewards to $15 and $20 - not unreasonable, but I'll want to think over things a little - I need to be careful how I word patreon rewards because they are a commitment I'm making. Anyway, I'd say this was something to discuss here, but as there's only a couple of you in the inner circle and the suggestion was from one of you, I don't expect a particularly long discussion!

As for the next release, it's finally the big sex scene for 0.3. As you might recall, my general policy is to add one large sex scene per major update. In this case I came up with an idea that links into the friendship theme, but also requires a lot of the other work for 0.3 to be done already, which is why it's been kept to the end while the 0.2 sex scene was one of the first things that came out in that update.

Specifically, the scene is: you get into bed with a female friend (or acquantance) and a man and watch them have sex. This will be in the cowgirl position, as decided in the last vote.

The player will have some involvement, but this isn't a threesome scene, so it'll mostly be verbal. You'll be able to touch yourself and it will be possible for you to orgasm. Also, asshole NPCs men will be able to tell the PC how their friend is hotter than them, but you will not be able to drag him out from under her and give him a thrashing. The jerk.

I haven't written the paths into the scene yet although I have planned some of them - initially it might be slightly limited simply because some NPCs won't have a way to access it, but the scene itself is being written with the assumption that the two NPCs could be any normal ones, so eventually it'll be open to all three female character types and so on.

The scene does have mention of impregnation-risk and so on, but the female NPC will not actually become pregnant, as that hasn't been implemented yet and won't be in 0.3. Similarly, they don't have a fertility cycle yet (so no "safe days") and they don't get to go on the pill, although that *might* get put in as something that just affects dialogue if I have time.

Currently, the paths into the scene that I'm planning to start with are:

- A followup to the gallery event: if the pc is positive about how her first time went then the innocent friend will ask her to help her find a man with whom to lose her virginity.

- A similar event for party-girl virgins. Fed up with how being a virgin is at odds with the image they want to project of being a sexy party person, they ask the PC to find them a bloke to hook up with. Quite why the party-girl NPC needs the PC's help will remain unexplained.

- When a sophisticated woman asks the PC if she can take a man home from her party, the PC (depending on traits) might be able to ask her to have sex with him there and then, with the PC watching.

As you can see there are some limitations - the only way into the scene for Innocent and Party-Girl NPCs will be for their first time. I'll add new paths into it for non-virgins of those types at some point though - probably before 0.4.0.

The PC's interaction might vary on the way into the scene too. My first test implementation will have almost no player-actions, but I'm hoping that for the actual release I'll be able to include the ability to offer advice or instructions to an innocent friend on her first time, or to the man with her. This wouldn't make so much sense for the sophisticated woman though as she's the sort of person who doesn't need someone to tell her what to do in bed, so that way into the scene might lead to a more hands-off version with the PC mostly just watching.