August 7, 2025
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You aren’t a cop… are ya? By Adjatha

FINALLY! Everyone’s drug-dealing Nurse-bot on Dhaal has gotten an expansion with a whole-ass dungeon!

I have to apologize for how long this took. For the size of the room count, Narc’s quest played with a lot of ambitious ideas – and had the dubious honor of being passed between lowercase-donkey and I – with our wildly divergent coding styles and skills. The original plan was for donkey to handle the bulk of coding the dungeon, then to have me roll through to polish up any rough edges and get the combat routines up and running. It started off fine, but once I started playtesting through, I wound discovering an absolutely enormous amount of things to polish up. For example, the “Units” which are found within can be plugged into a computer to unlock specific log files, but in playtesting I immediately discovered an exploit in the alpha code that allowed me to unlock most of the logs by repeatedly plugging the same unit in and out over and over, even though it should only have one log.

Which lead to me attempting to rework it into a more robust format – data stored on the objects themselves, embedded into the very item data. We can do that, of course. We did it with custom weapons already! But this bumped into a lot of things donkey had set up that didn’t like the changes I had made, and to be frank, I’m kind of a shit coder. Some of the objectively correct javascript code donkey wrote out is simply impossible for me to parse in a reasonable timeframe. I had to rip it out and rebuilt it into a less condensed, dummy-THICC version. And then I discovered other issues I did not like – post-combat menus I felt were too railroady, especially regarding the aforementioned “units.” Those needed fixed too. I had to pass the item onto NPCs without using their inventory, since combat NPCs use their inventories to store “dropped” items, and unplugging these had their own menu.

And so on. (And also damn near a total mental breakdown from the fuckery going on with payment processors for adult titles…)

And then I still had to get combat routines working for four different fights, one of which was actually three slightly different variants. After a near twelve hour day yesterday and a solid 8+ today, I think I have in a state I’m willing to release, though I have no doubt that in my hurry and fatigue some bugbears will remain. Please do not hesitate to scream and ping at me in the Discord should you run into any major game-breakers or crashes with the new content.

Since there was such a big gap, I went ahead and had a few pieces of Backer-exclusive content pop over to the public side. We usually aim for four patches to be roughly a month, and for new content to be exclusive to backers. We do have a new NPC coming in hot & fresh from Leek’s code oven soon (tm), so keep your eyes on the blog next week.

0.9.136 Hotfix #1:

  • Corrected a crash on the first fight. If this affects you, a redownload should fix it. (Once it finishes deploying – started deployment 6:09pm Central)

0.9.136 Changelog:

  • [Backers] Narc’s Quest is live! To get the ball rolling, you’ll have to find out about Narc’s fluid reservoirs, get her missing “unit,” and some gabilani-modified firmware to help her run it. Then? Then head to her normal spot, and things should go awry…
    • Written by Fr0sty, coded by lowercase-donkey, then coded into insanity by Fenoxo.
    • Includes: New Fights: Defiled Nursedroid (x3), Dr. [Redacted], Jezzy the Gabilani, and optional Abomination! (All by Adjatha!)
    • New Busts: Dr. [Redacted], Defiled Nursedroids (x3), Jezzy, Abomination
    • New Quest Item: The Units, you’ll know ’em when you see em!
    • New Dungeon Rooms!
    • New Hacking Puzzle (I’m sorry)
  • Malai can now fix Narc’s eye – for characters not smart enough to do it themselves… (Adjatha & Fenoxo)
  • [Public] Futa Gianna & Reaha blowjobs.
  • [Public] (Apology Release) Reaha Crew Toy
  • [Public] (Apology Release) Additional Tailsex
  • [Public] (Apology Release) Badger Dream
  • Other New Busts: Sloan & Dahlia (Adjatha)
  • New Hairstyles: Side cut, side ponytail, beehive, box braids, micro braids, dreadlocks, and pompadour, courtesy of Jacques00.
  • Fixed an old bug in Kaska’s stellar tether scenes for multi-dicked player characters. (Fen)
  • Fixes for hyena ear display in the appearance screen. (Jacques00)
  • Fixes and improvements for Behemoths with colorations. (Jacques00)
  • Improved Penny’s bust display function. (Jacques00)
  • Stop showing a placeholder CG image in the gabilani chemist’s scenes. (Fenoxo)
  • Improved the display of Rivet’s locked door on the map. (Fenoxo)
  • Searching for the spy in the brothel is now less random and will happen after a fixed number of explorations. (Fenoxo)
  • Nerfed the Ganger Jacket’s value on Dhaal. Getting multiple items worth 100,000 credits each from a single “trash mob” encounter was a bit much for Dhaal.
  • Fixed events for biosilicone stacking up. (Jacques00)
  • Fixed a velika crash.
  • And doubtless a few other things I missed mentioning…