A new foe appears in the Coastlands, and the Champion’s gaining access to a few new toys to play with to help conquer her and all the other foes that stand between you and your goal of facing the Demon Queen.

After a few recent playthroughs of the early game building saves up to playtest The Siege of Khor’minos and the Coastlands, I couldn’t help but want to do a little tinkering, adding a few new items and powers to cover what felt like gaps in the early hours of the campaign. That, and designing a bunch of new items for the upcoming settlement of Tychris, has lead me down a rabbit hole of not being quite happy with the balance of a bunch of other items; we’ve ended up with a fairly substantial itemization rebalance, and tweaking some perks as well, to make more characters and loadouts viable. A lot of these changes should make less-used items more competitive, or rein in ones that’ve been squashing their competition for too long.

Speaking of Tychris, I’ve just passed the 60,000 word mark on my core document (that is, not including all the stuff other writers have in the pipe for the settlement). Most of that’s been spent on weaving the town’s plotline about a cursed princess in need of a Champion to break a most lascivious spell (with sex — there’s a lot of royal cheek clapping), but I’m just starting to dig my teeth into the second of the sexable NPCs I’ll be writing for the area: a former archmage who’s had her magic ripped away by the Order Astrida — Nareva’s spell-eating godsworn — and now lives as a bound thrall of the serpent’s temple. Tychris might be the beating heart of magic scholarship in the Frost Marches, but they take a very dim view of sorcerers that abuse their power. Nareva’s cinder-scaled paladins have just the thing for evil witches, though: no more magic, no more problems!

0.8.32 Patch Notes:

• New Coastlands Encounter: Fortuna, a new harpy with a keen eye for shiny things. (By Aramen)
• Fortuna has a few new powers she can teach!
• The White Mage’s 1st level perk, Healer’s Hands, has been given a second effect: while wearing Heavy armor, each time you cast a Spell power you gain a surge of Threat, scaling based on your Toughness. This, combined with more recent perks and powers, should enable White Mages to more comfortably fulfil the paladin class fantasy.
• New Items, sold by Ogrish, Ivris, and Leorah: Executioner’s Blade, a big two-handed blade; an Iron Band, a physically-oriented ring; a Signet Ring for Charmers; Jassiran Oils, which raise Sexiness for an encounter; and Blessed Water, which increases Ward and Accuracy for an encounter.
• New powers sold by Tetsuya: Gloaming Smite and Vengeful Flame.
• Renia, the demon centaur alchemist from the Siege of Khor’minos now properly drops her wand. If you already finished the dungeon, it should get added to your inventory.
• A large number of items throughout the game have received balance adjustments. Changes include:
  • Dagger damage increased
  • Flaming daggers are now catalysts
  • Francisca damage increased, CritChance decreased
  • Mace damage increased, CritChance decreased
  • Spear accuracy increased
  • Pike accuracy increased
  • Straight Pike damage increased
  • Swift Sword now reduces your health and armor
  • Storm Glaive damage and accuracy increased
  • Jassiran Glaive sexiness and evasion increased
  • Polar Edge and Rimescore damage and evasion increased
  • Heart’s Edge spellpower removed. She’s just a little too good for every build as she is.
  • Quarterstaff, Spiral Staff, Bladed Staff, Cait’s Staff, and War staff damage increased. Please remember a staff’s damage is just from conking someone on the head with it, so don’t expect all your spells to hit harder now! Still, they should be more viable as actual weapons now.
  • Mushroom Staff damage decreased, and changed to be a melee weapon in keeping with other staves
  • Control Rod spell penetration decreased
  • Fire Rod spellpower and accuracy increased
  • Metal Rod spell penetration increased
  • Girthy Rod damage increased
  • Rosebloom Shield has gained increased Temptation and lost its malus to your Mental Resistance
  • Tower Shield grants more armor
• The new Pierce Through perk now gives overpenetration damage if your attack’s Pen exceeds the target’s Armor.
• Overpenetration (from the new level 9 perks) has been adjusted to be less nuclear at high Penetration values, down to 1% per point of overpen. (You’re going to be very happy about this when some future bosses come around, I suspect!)
• The new Attrition Expert perk now also gives +50 Critical Power.
• The new Stone Titan area boss in the Coastlands now has his Sturdy perk working correctly.
• You can no longer yoink the Succubus Blackguard’s bespoke Ultimate power.
• New Bust: Seagull Harpy Gal (by Moira)

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The Coastlands continue to expand, now with a gang of enemies that might give CoC1 players a bit of nostalgia~

We’ve still got a couple more encounters to go before I’ll call the area fully populated, but the merry month of May does fast approach…

0.8.31 Patch Notes:

• New Coastlands Encounter: Corrupted Minotaurs! A gang of minotaurs steeped in demonic corruption — but not yet lost to it entirely — are seeking out hedonistic pleasure on the Coast, and aren’t too picky about what holes they fill. (by Knife-Wielding Crab)
• New Addiction Mechanic: Minotaur Cum. It’s exactly what you think it is!
• New Headshot Busts: Orc Raiders, Coastlands Bandits, and Mountain Goats. (by Moira)
• New mechanic: Halfsword. When you wield a weapon in one hand, and your offhand is totally empty, you gain a +20 bonus to Accuracy and Critical Effectiveness with weapon attacks. Yes, this does work with the Warrior’s new Titan’s Grasp perk. No, this does not apply to spells or charms.
• Loads of typo and bug fixes by Spotty and Zag!

New Since Last Public Patch:

• The level cap has been increased to 9! Along with this come two new perk options for each of the game’s five classes (and a new perk for each of your Companions, too).
• To go along with this new level comes a new area: The Coastlands. This is the last planned explorable area of the game, and can be accessed after finishing The Siege of Khor’minos, then going right from the colosseum in town through a new tunnel. Of course, a new area would be nothing without some encounters to occupy it, including:
• New Random Encounter: Succubus Blackguard. After Tira’s temple fell, her now-demonic fallen paladins began to stalk the Coastlands, seeking to slake their hermaphroditic lusts on anyone unfortunate enough to cross their paths. (by Bluebird)
• New Random Encounter: Orc Raiders. A pair of lady-orcs and a hung lizardman thrall have come to pillage the Khor’minoan seaside while the legions are distracted by war. (by Crab)
• New Additional (Non-Sexy) Encounters: Outlaws & Mountain Goats (by Savin) and the Stone Titan (by Aury).
• Maidensbane is a boss encounter in the Coastlands, a big-dicked futanari siorcanna that you can challenge for sex – or items! She has several items she’s acquired throughout her career as a legendary pirate, though not all of them are available right now. She also has a quest item you might want! (by Wsan)

• Maidensbane has the expected selection of sex scenes, as well as a number of new items you can select from her treasure horde as a reward for your victory.
• Amongst the treasures you can select is also an extremely long and strong rope to repair the lifts, enabling you to repair the shortcut between beach and clifftop.
• New Busts: Maidensbane, Succubus Blackguard
• Defeating or immediately fucking Charys, the salamander in the Temple of Elosa, now properly yields up her magic girdle — previously only some paths through the encounter would. (Thanks Zag)
• Corvid is now recognized as a race by the game, and Corvid Crumble gives you a tail as expected.
• The game should no longer crash if you play offline in a browser and it tries to load a CG.

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The infamous pirate Maidensbane has come ashore in the Coastlands! She can be found in her own unique tile down on the beach, ready to accept any challenge. And don’t worry, there’s plenty more foes yet to come on the blighted strand…

0.8.30 Patch Notes:

• Maidensbane is a boss encounter in the Coastlands, a big-dicked futanari siorcanna that you can challenge for sex – or items! She has several items she’s acquired throughout her career as a legendary pirate, though not all of them are available right now. She also has a quest item you might want! (by Wsan)
• Maidensbane has the expected selection of sex scenes, as well as a number of new items you can select from her treasure horde as a reward for your victory.
• Amongst the treasures you can select is also an extremely long and strong rope to repair the lifts, enabling you to repair the shortcut between beach and clifftop.
• New Busts: Maidensbane (by Moira)

Maidensbane has a few more items in store for a future update, but they proved a bit too recalcitrant on the code front to make it in today!

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