Yoho, the holidays be upon us once more! Guard your hearths and un-gird your loins, Verusha’s sack is full of Christmas cheer!

I’ll be frank and state that the patch isn’t as big as I’d like, but we’ve had some bigger fish back at the prep station, getting ready to be cooked:

• A third expedition for Azra has been penned by Skom, and I finally got through the initial 144 page review this week. It took me a bit to work through as Azra’s previous quests were both written by myself (Fen) – and I wanted to make sure her characterization was up to snuff and the quest itself would have as many fun choices as some of the previous ones. There’s a few requested rewrites pending, but hopefully we can get that to code soon. Many of you will be pleased to hear that being her stud (and making her pregnant) will be options on the table after it’s completed. :3
• Adjatha has also been reviewing a 300+ 260 page submission for a quest from another prolific TiTS author (Magenta Needle), so hopefully we’ll have keys to code on both of them soon.

I also finally kicked some dust off my forward-progress writing and laid out a plan for the fast travel location on Phaedra (getting to Shineglass is such a hassle!!!) and setting up a new ship/parts vendor. I hope to have more with them near the end of December or Early January.

Stay warm out there!

0.9.145 Changelog:

• [Public Present~] [Christmas] Verusha has a merry Christmas event with two new scenes by Doots available at her apartment on Tavros! It should be repeatable each year, assuming if you hang onto a save for another 365 days IRL… (coded by Fenoxo)
• [Backer Exclusive] New Transformation Item: Black Pill, a Bothrioc transformation, available after a bit of back-and-forth questing with Ara Kei leading to Kelly or Xenogen Biotech on Myrellion. Written by XJ Commentcheck (Check the comment on the doc and let us know if the longer version is okay to credit you with please!) and coded by Leek.
• [Now Publicly Available] The Tattoo parlor!
• The Gryvain agent is now a real character and not a random one-off, and as such they no longer have a chance to initialize with a random SSTD. (lowercase donkey)
• Mitch headpats now expire at the end of session instead of end of day. (lowercase donkey)
• Talking with Dr. Blanc now includes a small negative lust adjustment on each scene, since he’s a gross, decaying old dude, which should help ultrahorny PCs avoid putting themselves on the brink of a loss just by spending a little time talking. (Fen)
• New parser: cockThicknessRange. A cockGirthRange parser was being used by some authors, but in TiTS code, “girth” refers to circumference while “thickness” refers to diameter. A decent amount of existing checks were written with GirthRange but used values indicative of diameter measurements, so a proper parser was spun up to replace the incorrect one. (Fenoxo)
• New parser: analCapacityRange. We had vaginalCapacityRange but no equivalent, so it has been added. Some authors were writing scenes that compared raw looseness values, which should be avoided, as looseness is only a small part of the capacity puzzle – a virginal centaur can handle about as much as a gaped biped, assuming all other factors are equal. (Fenoxo)
• Fixed a bug with Fei An’s bad end. (Leek)
• Item UI improvements. (Jacques00)
• A setting for locking in preferred wetness values on the appearance screen was added by Jacques00. Typically the amount of moisture described would vary based on wetness & current lust, resulting in variability based on current arousal.
• Fixes to use the correct bust for Cherry. (lowercase donkey)
• Fixes for “Gooplegangers” to have more correct details for being gooey clones of other characters. (Jacques00)