Dev Notes

• I have been in poor health this month - but with the magic of delegation, the rest of our team have successfully carried the build. A great deal more material awaits my loving attention, so you can likely look forward to a bumper release next time.
• MVP of this build is Tosk, for taking over many of my integration tasks and making this update possible.

Act V Features

• Faction: Hector is now eligible for visitation in Act V (collab with Mattrex).
• Faction: Rhyll is now eligible for visitation in Act V (collab with Mattrex).
• Scene: Indulging Heloise’s dirty little vice in the palace (collab with DoItToJulia).
• Art: Another path for Heloise’s palace scenes (three images, Lubbio).
• Art: A non-pregnant variant for Marie-Anne’s palace doggystyle scene (four images, Lubbio).
• BG: A background for flight during the eclipse.
• Voice: Mina’s many conversations in the palace (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s negotiation and new scene in the palace (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s conversations in the dungeon (Marina Montague).

Act I-IV Features

• Fate: A followup scene between Heloise and the kobolds (collab with DoItToJulia and external writer).
• Art: A hand-illustrated map of the Realm (three variants, Undoodle).
• Art: Darja volunteers as Maelys’s surrogate (eight images, Lubbio).
• Art: Sabetha & Inej’s initial captive scene, remastered (six images, Lubbio).
• Art: Valzira meets her fate with the wolfmen (five images, Lubbio).
• Art: Remastered character portraits for the mercenaries (three images, Irrelevant Art).
• Art; Remastered emotes for the mercenaries (twelve images, Irrelevant Art).
• Animation: Sabetha & Inej’s initial captive scene animation, now with its new background (Amon Ra).
• Voice: The dragon’s part in Darja’s consort arc (GreyScale).
• Voice: The dragon’s part in Eburon’s consort arc (GreyScale).
• Voice: Enid’s egg laying (Demi Goggles).
• Voice: Enid’s egg hatching (Demi Goggles).
• Voice: Marie-Anne’s conversation with Valzira, re-recorded in studio quality (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Marie-Anne’s promotion to consort status (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Marie-Anne’s cleaning, cooking, and laundry skits as consort (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Marie-Anne’s adoption of Boof (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s innings as Malagar’s test subject (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s many parts in The Other Heist (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s promotion to consort (Marina Montague).
• Voice: Mina’s paizuri dialogue, consort edition (Marina Montague).
• Sound: Our first suite of liquid foley effects (Raptorous and GreyScale).
• Sound: Liquid effects have been added to all of Adeline, Chanwe, and Darja’s scenes (GreyScale).
• Gallery: Darja and Maelys have had their surrogate scene added to the gallery (Tosk).
• Gallery: Valzira’s wolfman fate has been added to the gallery (Tosk).
• UI: A ‘Liquid Effects’ slider has been added to the Preferences menu (HereToHelp).
• Translation: The Polish translation has been restored, and improved in many places (Polish translation team & Soulphase).

Tweaks

• Heloise will only comment on her physical/spiritual health the first time you sleep with her in the palace.
• Heloise’s palace scenes will initiate differently if you access them more than once.
• The Preferences menu is now split between three dedicated tabs (HereToHelp),
• Achievements can now be unlocked in all versions of the game, and will be converted into Steam achievements when you get a paid copy there (Tosk).

Fixes

• Mina will once more show up to the palace in Act V when she should, and won’t show up when she shouldn’t. Sorry!
• Mina’s ‘Extortion II’ scene will more consistently use her pregnant art, where applicable.
• Cooch’s wolfman fate and Maelys’s infernal fate will show as disabled in the Gallery if you do not have their appropriate content flags enabled.
• Darja’s wolfman fate is in the Gallery for realsies this time.
• Naho’s kobold fate scene is now repeatable in-game.
• And all the bugs found during playtesting. Thank you, playtesters!