At long last, it’s time to finally break The Siege of Khor’minos and bring peace to the kingdom beneath the stone.

This is the penultimate dungeon on the Main Story Questline, following up from A Feast For Heroes. In order to begin the dungeon, you must either talk to Calise in Khor’minos and rally the troops she requests or talk to Varena after having finished her bath house dungeon. These are two mutually exclusive paths into and through the dungeon; make your choice based on which of the girls you like (or trust) the most.

Before you do the dungeon, let me say loud and clear: this dungeon is a Point of No Return as the end of the game’s 2nd Act, and beginning it will lock you out of the Winter Wolf and Harboring a Fugitive questlines once you begin. You can’t defeat the cult and then go back in time to cripple the cult; by extension, having done (or not done) those quests, as well as Etheryn’s personal quest The Demon of Ice, will have noticeable impacts on the dungeon. Calise and Varena will both point you towards these cult bases before you begin the quest as a reminder, but I figured I’d make sure it’s here in the announcement just in case. Other quests throughout Act 1 and 2 will remain available.

0.8.23 Patch Notes:

• Queen Etheryn, Queen Nyzerrah, Chieftain Arona, Ahmri, Asgeir (or Asynja), and Lumia all have new talks unlocked after A Feast For Heroes, allowing you to recruit their factions’ fighters to aid you in The Siege of Khor’minos. These are used in…
• New minigame added: Mass Combat. If you choose Calise’s path through the campaign, you’ll be taking to the field as the commander of a rag-tag army assembled from across the Marches and marching into battle against the demons. Should you succeed (or otherwise go through Varena’s path, you’ll gain access to):
• New dungeon added: Khor’torhen Fortress! A crumbling ruin that protects one of the waterways leading into Undermountain, now occupied by the Pleasure Cult and their demonic allies en masse. This is the heart of the cult’s war effort, their home base in the Marches and their most important stronghold by far. Take it down, and the siege will break. As you’d expect from any dungeon, there’s a number of new bosses, new weapons, gear, and powers to obtain, and plenty of salacious adventure to be had. 
• Finishing The Siege of Khor’minos now locks out Winter Wolf and Harboring a Fugitive; make sure you do these quests first if you ever intend to.
• If Winter Wolf is failed, Annika will now appear once Act 3 starts and begin the invitation process to Lumia’s castle with appropriate tweaks.
• Isadora, Varena, and Katya all have updated talks after you finish The Siege of Khor’minos.
• The questlog previously stopped tracking The Siege of Khor’minos after the the first of its 4 parts; it now is properly tracked throughout the Siege, and gives way to the next Main Story Quest after it is finished.
• Kasyrra freaking out about you telling her that you’re Soulbound has been progression locked to only occur after The Siege of Khor’minos.
• Kasyrra (as fought in the Winter City) has been buffed to take advantage of higher-level features now being coded into the game.
• The Faceless Blade (as fought in the Grave of Saints) has had her Swift Sword taken away on difficulties below Dark, meaning she’s unable to softlock you into eternal and unending battle if you don’t have the damage output to match her healing. Playing on Dark, we still expect you to have good enough party composition to deal with it.
• New Busts: All the enemies in the Khor’torhen Fortress dungeon.

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A Note About What’s NOT in This Patch:

Please don’t read any further in this section if you want to avoid any possible spoilers 🙂 Come back after you’ve played the dungeon!

Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t mean to alarm you, but primary coding on the next phase of the Main Story Quest is now complete — we’ve just got to put it together with the rest of the game and subject it to some rigorous testing. In the meantime, though, I present something that’s been deep in my backlog… deep enough that it got mined out by community writer MagentaNeedle and brought to a creamy completion. Cait’s source of sexy red leather is finally about ready to wake up!

TiTS also patched today! Check out them Fenoxo writes hot off the presses!

0.8.22 Patch Notes:

• It has been a hot minute but the Half-Gnoll Spellblade from all the way back in Cait’s original personal quest is finally recovering from her coma! Sleep in the Frost Hound to trigger the quest to wake her up. (By MagentaNeedle)
• Kira, the Spellblade, has a pair of small quests to get her back in shape: one to help her recover from her experiences, and another to get a replacement for the clothes Cait yoinked (no Cait will not just give them back).
• Once she’s up and about, Kira has a selection of talk and sex scenes, including a Cait threesome.
• Having the translated tablet from the Temple of Elosa now properly removes the Cunning requirement to bind Elosa herself during Varena’s bath house quest.

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While Leek and Drake are sorting out the big dungeon, Tobs and I have been pounding out room descriptions for the final zone, and I’m starting to review some of the encounters that our commission writers have turned in for it. Love it when a plan zone comes together.

Hello, Champions, it’s been a while!

Leek’s deep in the mines getting the penultimate Main Story Quest dungeon ready for release, but now that the holidays are behind us it’s time for everyone to get back on that grindset too… that’s what the youths say these days, right?

I’m currently working on some post-Siege content that’ll be highly appropriate for the Year of the Horse, with a lady built like a draft horse (unrelated to the fact that she’s half marefolk) — and she fucks just as hard as one. We’re also gearing up for a couple big upcoming projects that’ll start dropping after the Siege storyline: Tychris, the City of Sorcery, home to the Temple of Nareva and the frostscale salamanders, and the Coastlands, the last of our planned explorable regions. Authors who aren’t me are hard at work filling out content for both in anticipation. Scale-lovers are going to be in for a good time this year.

And I’m sure the mare ‘mirers will have their way too, starting with the cow-shaped mare spirit Elosa herself today!

And also, TiTS dropped a patch today. Fen’s really rocking out over there!

0.8.21 Patch Notes:

• Kesuk & Marigold, the merchant pair in the Winter City, have a new expansion coded in. (Written by Sil)
• You can now upgrade Kesuk’s cock to be a more proper size, and in so doing, give the poor lad a lot more confidence. This comes with several new sex scenes with him and Mary to take advantage of both the attitude and equipment adjustment, plus updates to existing ones. If you’re a fan of femboy tops, this is your day!
• If you do the above, you can also regain access to an even leakier submissive Kesuk by slapping that thang in a cage. 🙂
• Elosa, the mysterious spirit from VarenaQuest, can now be summoned at the Wayfort with a couple of new sex scenes. (Written by Skow)

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