Star Knightess Aura 0.28.0-prerelease-3 (Patreon)

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It is a magical lewd week. This week I worked on implementing the basics for the Magic Academy, which includes its new series of lewd scenes written by our assissant writer Absurdity, and enable you to avoid the massive enrollment fee.

A very enticing offer! I wonder what kind of consequences it could have... Surely, nothing bad will happen, right...?

Well. "Desire To Be Dominated By Evil" is the the new passive you get through the event chain. The lower levels make it harder for Aura to resist "evil" tagged characters (check Recollection room for this new scene tag) and makes it easier to resist lewd scenes from "kind" characters (e.g. John). 

On the highest level, Aura becomes unable to reach climax with these characters. If you have yet not triggered Sexy Times With George 3, then this new scenes gives you a slight variation that respects this passive. Also on the highest level, similar to Hermann's ring, the effect becomes locked onto Roland. Sadly he only has received 1 non-repeatable scene in the newly added Knight's Keep in southern Verdeaux, but well, at least you can reset the debuff one time currently :'D

Finally, if you have successfully joined the Magic Academy, you can learn some new spells on the second floor. I have not implemented a lot here, focusing only on the important new spells - Fire II and Air Bubble I. So Aura can now gain access to these spells outside of a higher level Charlotte and a high level wind slime.

Art wise, I have integrated Aura's new Star Knightess costume, although the portrait might behave a bit janky for some people. On the non-deluxe version simply end your day and it should be correct. On the deluxe version you need to set some costume once and from then it should be correct.

Next week, there will some more expansions of Verdeaux which I will be putting Trihan on, and I will switch back to real world corruption scenes, although we will need to see how much time I really have.

On a personal level I have probably fucked up everything I possibly could about my move. I was stupid and did everything too fast, planned it too tight. Now my landlords in both cities want something from right me and I cannot split myself. I should have only quit my current flat once I had finished moving out and moved into my new one. I would have needed to pay one additional month of rent, but it would have saved me from having to deal with visitors wanting to check out my flat while I am in the new city doing the move-in... Now I am just one week short and it's causing a lot of stress. On the bright side, I am nearly done and just need to somehow get through the next week. 

I need to consider some options of slowing down. The past 7 years felt to me like time was kind of frozen, every day was kinda the same. But in the past 6 months I have hit a lot of personal goals - reached full time funding and transitioned into full time, prepped for and successfully defended my phd thesis and now I am finally moving back to my hometown after 7 years where all my friends and family are (all the friends I met in the town I moved to for my day time job at some point moved away during the past years...), and now it's like time got unfrozen and all the gears are suddenly moving at once.

Well, I actually hate it when devs talk too much about that stuff instead of the game, but I guess this now 2 year constant devlog is kind of the most suitable place to just drop this to get it out of my system.

Just one week of pushing and life will hopefully become simpler! Anyways, for the complete changelog see as usual below.

Changelog 0.28.0-prerelease-3 (17.02.2023)

• Added Star Knightess costume
• Added quest "Special Study Program"
• Added lewd scene Special Study 1
• Added lewd scene Special Study 2
• Added lewd scene Special Study 3
• Added lewd scene Roland 1
• Added basic "Magic Academy"
• Added "Knight's Keep" base map
• Added option to learn Air Bubble I at Magic Academy 
• Added option to learn Fire II at Magic Academy 
• Added Roland at Adventurer Guild before registering
• Added basic Roland at Knight's Keep 
• Added passive "Desire To Be Dominated By Evil I - III"

Balancing

• Only apply SLIP if UNDERWATER when casting Vortex
• Rename Ogre Bone to Giant Bone and replace second Gourmet Meat drop from Sahaking with Giant Bone
• Reduce slip duration from vortex by 1
• Increased gold to perika ratio at festival of greed to 1 to 2 when exchanging gold for perika

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos 
• Fixed incorrect armor in aura portrait 
• Fixed Evolved Jellyfish + Lamia encounter glitches 
• Fixed passability bug in Central Lake Vault 
• Fixed Rose seduced by Richard scene when adult content is off 
• Fixed issues with key items in shops and stock display 
• Fixed enemy names in battle HUD going out of bounds 
• Added conditional branch to rating dialogue in gofer 3 scene 
• Fixed teleporting to incorrect mirror after high school reunion memory
• Fixed various bugs with chinchirorin minigame
• Fixed SLIP giving PHYS RESIST instead of PHYS WEAKNESS
• Fixed haircolor mental change in appearance room causing room crystal to turn yellow in chapter 1
• Fixed incorrect teleport out position in northern forest of runes
• Fixed missing Invest: ATK All removal from John after Festival of Greed
• Fixed crystal color glitches for available mental changes in Knowledge Room
• Fixed race condition when determining crystal control color
• Fixed glitches for managing memory crystal color