Star Knightess Aura 0.30.0-prerelease-2 (Patreon)

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We reach round to for 0.30.0 prereleases! This week I worked on a mix of two things. One, I progressed the main quest line in Roya where you can now enter Main Cathedral. A series of plot related events awaits you there that ultimately lead to the quest related to the main event in the southern quest line.

I was a bit slow on my progress on this side, as a lot of merging of quest lines and characters kind of intersect here. I tried to create a balanced distribution of content for the events and making them optional knowledge that you can later on inquire from the characters, although I still had to slice the events into multiple pieces so it wouldn't be too much. Well, this might sound a bit cryptic if you are reading this like this, but if you watch the events, you will get what I mean with there being a lot going on. :'D

Main Cathedral currently only contains the aforementioned main events. Today I originally wanted to also get started with adding some side content and maybe even some learnable skills, but I didn't get to that. I will most likely move this backlog to the prerelease-1 of the next dev cycle.

What I worked on instead today, were 2 new corruption events in the real world. And as the picture above already spoilers, they deal with Rose's attempt to infiltrate the Cheerleading Club. Aura who is seeking to finally payback "Luciela" for all the humiliating events she has put her through in Roya is exploiting the opportunity as much as possible by humiliating """""Luciela"""""" in return. :'D

And that's already pretty much it for this. In other news, I have also added Emubi's version of the Charlotte character artwork, comissioned the Special Study 1 - 3 events, and as mentioned in the public patch post, you can now semi-dodge Eyes of Greed for a less powerful version in exchange for a collar removal.

Regarding artists, the poll is still ongoing until midnight but with Emubi and Ianmorpol being head-on-head I will most likely just opt for the easier option of going with Emubi subcontracting an assisstant. Should be get problems with Emubi's availability, I will then create another recruitment call for artists. 

Next week, I will continue with the current scheme. I will be working mostly on additional corruption events. Mostly on the Masturbation storyline and if I have some time I will be starting some Veronica related events. Other than that I will also work on some Verdeaux expansion outside of Main Cathedral to add some more enterable locations. In a cafe book shop a certain author calling himself the Luck Professor, authot of a very certain, Luck Book will be giving an autograph session, I wonder what an Aura who has read his book has to say for him...

And that's it for today's report! Also for some reason my hands are now hurting... I typed a bit too much trying to finish the cheerleader infiltration events. :'D Anyways, the changelog is as usual below containing the changes for the prerelease and the public patch.

Changelog 0.30.0-prerelease-2 (14.04.2023)

• Added Charlotte character artwork
• Added scene "Rose Infiltrating Cheerleading Club 1"
• Added scene "Rose Infiltrating Cheerleaders 2"
• Added event meeting with Arch-Cardinal and Gabriel
• Added quest stub "Reverse Summoning Ritual"
• Added map Main Cathedral 
• Added Verdeaux shrine
• Added variation for meeting Roland after starting Reverse Summoning Ritual 
• Refactored handling of invisible sprite glitch for summoned enemies 

Balancing

• Lowered George Relationship barrier for nickname to 65 
• Added Eyes Of Greed (Incomplete) and add option to Remove Collar when rescuing Abductees 
• Increased Corruption gain from abandoning abductees at the Festival to 2 per Abductee

Bugfixes

• Fixed typos
• Fixed migrator not applying to previous saves 
• Fixed Perverted Fulfillment+ text not displaying properly in instincts room 
• Fixed incorrect Aura position in Next Super Model scene 
• Fixed Aura RL costume not restoring after sex/masturbation scenes 
• Fixed summoned slimes not having boss collapse type 
• Fixed Nephlune priestess not facing player after giving 4 drug formulae
• Added missing NG+ score costs for Air Bubble and Overcharge
• Fixed typos in public release content
• Fixed Jelly Jam Blade not being removed at day end
• Fixed Blind[7] only lasting 5 turns