Star Knightess Aura 0.29.0-prerelease-2 (Patreon)

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Verdeaux is finally stopping to be a ghost town. It's overall still pretty empty, but in this week's prerelease, it got quite some life breathed into it. Last Verdeaux update, focused on the Magic Academy & Knight's Keep. This week, the focus was on the general outer area, a workshop and of course the Pleasure District.

Now, if you have already scrolled down to the changelog, you will see a lot of "Added lewd ...", just as a warning: These aren't full lewd scene. Absurdity prepared a bunch of scenes for the brothel job and I added some more lewd books and lewd trainers, but they are mostly all just brief scenes. 

Buuut! A lot of brief scenes! As I mentioned earlier, you can find the new Brothel Job  in the Pleasure District's brothel! A total of 4 new lewd scenes, of two different lewd levels. Either give a soap service where Aura washes the client with her body or, if you have the necessary lewdness, Aura can whore herself out for quite some good money.

In fact, the money you can earn can be further raised through new lewd skills and lewd books! Read the 101 Prostiution Tips lewd book in the new Erotic Bookstore, again in the Pleasure District, to convert Lewd Knowledge into extra tips for the Full Service! In there you can also find a generic trainer that can repeatedly increase Aura's Lewd Knowledge --- Time for Aura to get studious so she can make the best out of her situation and get the money she needs to defeat her remaining enemies!

Likewise, you can also find a lewd skill trainer in the brothel who can upgrade Seductive Stance and Flashing Crotch Kick. Male humanoids now melt in front of lewd Aura and if you also have The Art Of Seduction, then it's another huge boost to tips from lewd jobs.

You can also find some other books in the erotic bookstore that can help you augment your lewd Aura build, such as The Art Of Lewd Horror, which makes the Horror spell also scale with Lewdness.

Moving on to the non-lewd side, you can now enter Verdeaux's workshop. Here you can find two services: One is the sale of artifacts that give party wide buffs, including a new way to increase your Air without needing Air Bubble. 

In addition, similarly to the Sharpen Sword action, you can have Aura's armor improved by selling Star Metal. This will also unlock new artifacts in the artifact shop, currently there is only 1.

I have also started on the Verdeaux duelist quest and implemented the first duelist. Verdeaux duels will have some special rules, this one only allowing the usage of items. If you manage to win, you can gain a special artifact and the opportunity to learn a stance that increases the number of consumed usables per combat action --- In other words if you throw a bomb you will be throwing 2 Bombs instead. Likewise, consuming a potion will consume 2 in a single action. I imagine this will be a useful addition for all those who focused taking out tough enemies with Bombs.

Besides that, most NPC additions are mostly for flavor, giving directions, lore, etc. Finding the Magic Academy and other important locations of interest should feel a lot more natural now.

Aaaaand that's it for this week. Next week I will be jumping back into the real world for more corruption scenes. More scenes of George's and Aura's relationship crumbling apart! 

As ususal, for the complete changelog including the public patch, check below.

Changelog 0.29.0-prerelease-2 (10.03.2023)

• Added quest stub "Duelists of Verdeaux" 
• Added Brothel 
• Added Erotic Bookstore 
• Added Artifact Workshop 
• Added lewd scene Soap Job 1 
• Added lewd scene Soap Job 2 
• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 1 
• Added lewd scene Full Service Job 2 
• Added lewd book "The Art of Lewd Horror" 
• Added lewd book "101 Prostitution Tips" 
• Added lewd book "How To Use Your Female Charms Defensively"
• Added lewd knowledge trainer to Erotic Bookstore
• Added lewd skill trainer to brothel
• Added skill Flashing Crotch Kick II 
• Added skill Seductive Stance II 
• Added skill Fast Items Stance I
• Added artifact Orb of Light 
• Added artifact Orb of Air 
• Added artifact Magic Enhancer 
• Added Clemence duel 
• Added option to learn Fast Item Stance I from duelist 
• Added item Lumerian Bread 
• Expanded Verdeaux with various minor NPCs
• Reduced copy & paste in flavor events
• Increase max killed bosses to 82

Balancing

• None

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed switch initialization in tavern happening after chinchirorin trigger check
• Fixed various 4-line dialogue boxes
• Fixed inconsistent vulgarity in Bonding with Slime scene
• Fixed Alicia not walking to trash can