January 12, 2023
Trials in Tainted Space
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Fen here, and that’s no bull!

Fenoxo here, taking care of this blogpost to let Geddy catch some early zzz’s tonight. Despite the sunny, t-shirt compatible weather breezing by outside, we huddled up for our normal Wednesday meeting and put together a patch with some lovely new content, and that’s not all! Fenny Mays has a lot more in the pipeline, ready to blast into code. Personally, I’ve finally hit my stride on the Zaika gangs I’m coding for Adjatha. They’re a complicated menagerie of menace with a randomly named, randomly generated group assembled from six possible combat NPCs and introduced with one of fifteen different introductions that range from getting caught in an acid rainstorm to being offering a chance to take alien street drugs on the spot. (Protip: don’t do all the drugs.) The intros are good, most of the fight is done, and I hope my brain will be compatible with blasting through the metric tail-load of sex content so that I can deliver it in a future patch soon ™.

I know I’ve consistently overestimated my ability to get this stuff into game, but it’s finally feeling close. And the holidays are over. And the old cranium actually feels like it’s working well this week for a change. It’s actually been great practice for working through how to convert attacks that are written to only hit the PC into code that can gracefully handle striking other targets… like deployable turrets. I still have a TON of NPC encounters to page through and bring up to par if proper, deployable drones with full stat blocks are to be supported. (Coming soon to a level 12 Tech Specialist near you.)

What else? The next plot planet’s (first zone) map has been posted on Patreon… and a tiny piece will be accessible with the first random encounter very, very soon. This week soon, if all goes well. It was almost tonight-soon.

0.9.031 Changelog:

  • [Backers] The option to train Anno to enjoy anal sex was added previously, but was part 1 of a 3 part series. The second part is now added, written by William. It will organically appear after doing the training enough times (3+). Part three TBD. (Leek)
  • [Backers] There should now be an alternate route in the Brightwater path through Dhaal’s final dungeon. Instead of fighting the last boss, you can volunteer to take your rival’s place as a lab rat for a while to pay off the debts. (lowercase_donkey) I added the feature flag wrapping myself (Fen), so if for some reason the button is missing on backer builds, you can totally @me. If you didn’t take the Brightwater Path, you should be able to proc an event to encounter an NPC in a bar to peruse the content as well. Written by Adjatha.
  • [Backers] Shalena, the team captain of a sports team on Uveto now has an option to date her through extrameet after you become the team’s towel(boy/girl/person). You can get more personal with her as a result and find out that the big kitty-cat likes to play the doting mommy who takes good care of young space adventurers! By William. (Leek)
  • [New Bust] Ohrskun (& nude)
  • [New Image] Hellhound Syri – appears when approaching the crew version of Hellhounded Syri. Art by Blizzmaster, used with permission. (Fen)
  • [New Image] Kiro Poster – found in Onsen of Kally’s bar after the Kiro/Kally threesome events. Art by Blizzmaster, used with permission. (Fen)
  • [Tweak] The trip status effect is now assigned the STATUS_BAD coloration, so it should now display its icon as red instead of default. (Fen)
  • [Bugfix] Fixed several issues with downloading the image pack. (Gedan)
  • [Bugfix] Stray { or } outputs in text have been hunted and chewed up. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Fixed a softlock with ChameleonArmor and Slavesuit menus in the appearance menu. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Fix issues with the Myr Pills not properly checking the status of the PC’s arms. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Verusha’s content got some cleanup to remove placeholder value functions and reference the NPC statblock directly. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] “Sleep prick” became “sleek prick” as intended. (lowercase_donkey) (:3)
  • [Bugfix] Slave collars should properly equip as needed, and properly save the item they replace in inventory. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Fix being able to walk away from a Sophora combat encounter. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Fixed a Bess crash related to checking for a holodeck. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfix] Fixed the Colt XLR’s bust connection.
  • [Bugfix…ish?] Lowercase_Donkey decided to merge the Myr Pill items together into one item handler, so please don’t @me if something explodes. (lowercase_donkey)
  • [Bugfixes] A few other smaller or non-user-facing improvements, or more difficult to describe tiny tweaks. (Mostly the donkey of lowercastion.)