September 3, 2026
ArtTrials in Tainted Space
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What better way to spend an afternoon?

Let me start off with my own contributions! This patch comes with scenes for Kiro and Amber to feed the tentacles you brought home after Azra’s last expedition. For Kiro, she will email you a few hours after you ask her to start feeding the tentacles, complaining about the security camera’s view of the chamber and a copy of the recording she’d like you to delete from the ship’s security logs. Turns out she had enough know-how to hack into the security system’s read access but couldn’t gain write permissions to delete it herself. Of course, she doesn’t mind you keeping a copy. Once you get the email, you can view the scene from the “Interact” button in the email or the “Porn” sub-menu of the “Masturbation/Arousal” menu, and decide if you want to delete anything after.

Amber’s option is a bit more direct – once you ask her to feed the tentacles, there’s a 1/4 chance to find her occupying the tentacle chamber when checking the crew menu or Azra’s plant samples lab. You can just sit there and watch while she has her back half wedged in, or get a quick oral favor while the tentacles strum her like a guitar. Of course, if anyone else has actively fed the tentacles you might not be able to spot her – there’s also a cooldown on these kinds of scenes proccing. Originally the cooldown was 5 days for anyone, but I’ve tweaked to be a few hours for the PC, 5 days if it’s Azra doing the feeding, or ~2 days for Amber (longer if cured, shorter if TFed).

Cerulleyan by Adjatha!

(At the time of writing, Amber was leading in the poll. Syri is now, so she’s going to be my next target of opportunity~. Not every NPC in the poll is going to be able to get set up for this, since there’s a lot of other places needing my attention in the game, but I suspect I have at least a couple more NPC tentacle feeders to dip in~ And I haven’t forgotten about updating Azra’s text to correctly mention her SteeleTech suit. It’s on my list!)

There’s also some new content courtesy of Magenta Needle (author) and Leek (coder): Cerulleyan, the host of a new television show exclusively available in Dhaal’s bars. It’s something of a travelling/food show with several episodes documenting unique experiences on some familiar planets. Be sure to give it a look (and catch up on the existing Breast Boobily episodes if you haven’t!)

Flipwise, Jacques00 has been out on vacation for the week and Gedan has been reworking our backend Patreon-API connection to support the updated API they’re switching over to soon.

0.9.164 Changelog:

  • Anno’s pair of pupper pals (Marina & Galina) by ToonNik!

    [Backer Exclusive] Amber & Kiro can now be asked to help feed the tentacles from Azra’s Third Expedition. Details about the mechanics of their feeding can be found at the top of the blog post, and there’s more about Azra’s expedition itself in these very notes…

  • [Backer Exclusive] Cerulleyan’s show is now available on bars all over Dhaal. Give it a watch to find out about some of the galaxy’s unique delicacies, and remember, there are multiple episodes!
  • [Now Public] Azra’s Third Expedition – It took us long enough, huh?
  • [New Busts] Cerulleyan (pictured above left), and Marina/Galina (pictured right), each with the original artist linked beneath it.

Now for a little bit of personal jabber – feel free to ignore this if you don’t care to indulge my drivel. The last two weeks were a pretty good mix of good and bad for me – ying and yang, joy and suffering, whatever. The good? I slipped up to Canada for most of a week to visit my lovely wife, who sadly cannot come to the US to visit me thanks to the current governmental garbage fire that won’t accept female-marked passports from transwomen, forcing me north from time to time. I had a lovely couple of days catching up and enjoying the glorious north before I had to come home. The bad? I had a gout flare up just before the trip, so I was literally limping around in pain the whole time.

Then it was back to the US and back to the grind. I definitely made these two scenes a little more involved than I needed to, got my gout wrangled under control, and chunked everything into code for this patch. Despite working with my foot up in the air most of this week, I got a lot done, and today things have nearly receded back to normal. Now if something could be done about Missouri having highs in the 95+ range every single day for weeks at a time I’d be all set…

For those of you who stuck it out until the bottom, next week should bring a new NPC written by Nonesuch and a perhaps even some kind of vibrational link technology…