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January 22 Update
🕑 Added 2023-01-22 18:02:11 +0000 UTCI'm pleased to say that this week I finished Lilith's quest. This was the lynchpin of a lot of different content I'd worked on last month, so it was always going to be necessary for TLS 0.65.0. I did other stuff, but I'll talk about Lilith this week.
Acquiring Lilith involves a lot of different pieces of work. Perhaps the least of which is her dungeon, which includes a variety of mechanics I hope will make it stand out. The screenshot above is one of the maps involved... you can see that the very look of it is chaotic.
Some months ago I made a post about Lilith, which was one of the few to inspire real argument in the comments. Let's not do that again, so I'll just state the final decision: Lilith will not be doing the "actually 1000 years old" trope.
What this has freed me to do is let myself be a little weird with her sex scenes. Some things will be familiar tropes that were simply too silly or unrealistic even for the TLS setting. But in other cases... I'm not sure if anyone will actually find any of her scenes erotic, but I'll be disappointed if at least one of these isn't something that you have never seen before. She doesn't have a set of three scenes, she has a unique mechanism.
Lilith is also the last combat member. (Surprise! But she won't be going in that part of the harem menu.) Her mechanics are completely different from everyone else, something I've been waiting to do for a long time. Everything is working, and I've tried to set up some interesting emergent properties, but I have no idea how balanced it will be and thus will want player feedback.
At the beginning of the month I'd hoped for a January 27 release, which now seems impossible. Despite heroic efforts from patrons, the portrait feature is not yet done. On my end, I have many pieces about 80% done and I don't want to underestimate the phase of bringing things together and testing.
So not next weekend. But hopefully soon.
Comments
Sierra Lee
I'm afraid it's a bug with the engine, as far as I'm aware.
Petrichorus
I have a bug report, although it may be something specific to RPGMaker rather than a fault in the game's code. During the succubus hunt in Yarra's route during the party split, if you talk to a succubus *just* as the timer hits zero, you are left in an unrecoverable state. Worse, you can save in that unrecoverable state. I can provide a save if necessary.
Sierra Lee
Ah yeah, should have reset some things. Easy to fix thanks to you identifying the event locations for me, thanks!
DukeLeto7
Got another bug report from Arachne. This one is pretty straightforward. When you made the three Pure Tanurak boss fights in the pre-Incubus War free roam escapable, you forgot to undo removing Simon and the various special effects. Fixing these would require adding: Add [Simon] (but if you really want to remove and re-add all party members I can't stop you.) Tint Screen: (0,0,0,0), @1, Wait ats_all(:paragraph_format, true) There may be other items I missed. The event locations are: 7: Simon's Route/Orgasmic Palace/Orgasmic Palace 4F (014,020) Page 2 10: New Yhilin/Ari-Yhilinia Square/Order of Thaumaturgy (015,020) Page 2 13: Eustrin/Aram/Eustrin: Hidden Entrance/Eustrin B4 (025,015) Page 2
Decanter
This description reminds me of Gogo's shtick in FF6, equipping the abilities of other party members.
Runcible Technician
Well, we tried. At least it'll be good when it comes out.
Jeffrey Lebowski
Bold to assume Yarra wouldn't shove her way to the front of the line for swapping with one of the halflings
Taium
I fully support Lilith as "Weird Orgy Organizer." Just imagining the possibilities has me laughing. I vote for a body switching scene! Carina in Yarra's body! Altina getting dommed by Trin in each other's bodies! Esthera and Nalili taking "family bonding" in a new direction! Lynine living it up in Orilise's body while Orilise takes the full brunt of Lynine's sensitivity! Sarai and Wynn swapped with Aka and Hilstara, getting to be large and in charge while Aka and Hilstara get to be munchkins!
Sierra Lee
Lilith has a slightly higher level of variability, but for the most part her skills aren't luck-based (no roulette-type attacks). It's more that Lilith in one party could be completely different from Lilith in another party. Nothing too elaborate, but I hope it will be an interesting wrinkle.
genericname12345
Okay, Lilith being a combat-party member was *not* what I was expecting. Can't wait to see her, and how you push the envelope with her - given her 'Chaos' shtick and the randomness that implies, I feel like she's going to be very tough to balance. Either infuriatingly inconsistent and useless, or hilariously broken. Also can't wait to see her scenes - not a big fan of characters that look like her, but the fact you call out them as being more 'silly' and 'unrealistic' makes me curious what you've done with her.
DukeLeto7
They can eat bad things if they want! He said with an entire generic Tombstone pizza lined up for dinner.
Long Tran
Personally, I never minded the 'really 1000 yrs old' trope, but then.... how young a character looks when she isn't even human means next to nothing to me so long as she clicks. But I digress. New party/harem members ate never a bad thing.
ushiroace
oh my. I really wasn't expecting any more party members, that's really exciting!
Jeffrey Lebowski
Damn, the next update sounds like its gonna be awesome, I'm excited! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with Lilith both in scenes and in combat mechanics. I remember that argument about what you should do with Lilith and I voted for replace the 1000 year old trope with just off the wall nonsensical and chaotic stuff so it sounds like I'll get my wish :D
