Star Knightess Aura 0.22.0-prerelease-3 (Patreon)

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It is time for lewd and corruption week. As I mentioned earlier in the public patch post, I had the week off from work and was able to push quite a bit on the game. In total we have 2 new mental changes, 9 new corruption scenes and 2 new lewd scenes.

First off, I integrated the Hermann sex scenes, both the first and the repeat version. You will only be able to access it in pink and it has quite some high lewdness requirements, so I would watch out on not jumping on this route to quickly or else you will have Aura struggling for quite some time, well execept if that's the goal, haha.

On the real world side we have new mental changes and corruption scenes. the mental changes deal with inserting the Advanced Makupe Knowledge which also leads to unlock the Colored Nails mental change. The last one finally completes all the appearance changes of the set. Phew, it's been since February when we started on them, so I'm glad we finally got these done. Although there are two more assets available (changing the standard facial expression and a ring), I think those will be coming quite a bit later.

Besides the corruption scenes related to the Colored Nails, we have more scenes that get triggered by the last big mental change of the last update --- The Diligence Orb corruption. The Aura Dev event line has been finished, there are new scenes of Aura being late to school and we also got another minor change for Aura's home through the Favorite Color: Pink mental change.

Besodes these, the corruption scenes also put some more focus on the characters besides Aura. Patricia gets some more screentime in the events related to the Colored Nails, Rose and George interact for the first time in a long while and reflect a bit on Aura's changs and finally, Richard makes another move in his event chain with Rose.

Other than that, we have a bunch of bugfixes for the new areas that got added last week. I have also identified two candidates to replace our Assisstant writer. My plan is to have them write a test lewd scene to evaluate them and post it here to get some further input from the community. And then we can try to make a decision.
If you have an interesting idea of a simple scenario one could write with only having played the start of the game (intro+1-2h into the game), you can drop them here. Otherwise, I will just default to something generic.

Next week we will be jumping back into the Roya. I plan to finish the last remaining map for the Underground City and deal with the James boss fight and the conclusion of his quest.

For the total changelog including the public patch, refer, as usual, to the changelog below.

Changelog 0.22.0-prerelease-3 (19.08.2022)

• Added mental change "Implant Advanced Makeup Knowledge Orb" 
• Added mental changed "Colored Nails" 
• Added scene "Aura too late for school 2" 
• Added scene "Aura too late for school 3" 
• Added scene "Aura Changing Home 2" 
• Added scene "Aura Dev 5" 
• Added scene "Aura Dev 6" 
• Added scene "Going to Nail Studio With Cheerleaders 1" 
• Added scene "Going to Nail Studio With Cheerleaders 2" 
• Added scene "Rose Seduced By Richard 2" 
• Added scene "Rose And George Meetup 1" 
• Integrated lewd scene "Hermann Sex 1" 
• Integrated lewd scene "Hermann Sex 2" 
• Added pink sheet bed variations 
• Added crafting option for Acid Bombs after delivering formula to Alchemist 
• Improved warning message upon starting Festival 
• Increased max mental changes to 85 
• Exchanged timeslot graphic for less saturated one

Balancing

• No changes

Bugfixes

• Fixed Bomb Proficiency II skillboook containing incorrect skill description 
• Fixed missing sluggish trait on some Ogres 
• Refactored implementation of Tenacity II for enemies so it also works with auto-spells
• Fixed inaccessible Pyromantium in Northern Mountain Ranges: Caves
• Fixed closing objective for Lilim fight creating an error message 
• Fixed Lilim compendium info not revealed after battle 
• Fixed out of date kill counts of Venom Scorpio and Minotaur 
• Fixed passability issues 
• Fixed Congregation Warehouse map being overwritten by Northern Mountain Ranges map
• Fixed recollection room glitches involved with appearance changes 
• Fixed upgrade Shoes II mental change not displayed sometimes
• Fixed rope point direction glitches in Nephlune Vault
• Fixed Blessed Vitality Potion deducting 20 willlpower instead of 10
• Fixed heart icon for pussy flashing guard having incorrect ID
• Fixed passability issue in Nephlune mansion