Version 0.17.1846 - Ticlking!

So… multiple “big” updates ahoy.

Let’s start from the least exciting ones. Every house should have a Vacuum Cleaner. This type of monsters spawns occasionally and as a regular vacuum cleaner, isn’t hostile. It’ll wander around the map collecting all the items that lay scattering around. That may be a very bad idea if you relied on those… Of course, the evil Vacuum Cleaner can be attacked to get the stolen loot back. However, those things are really tough and are too capable of self-defense if provoked.

Another monster is… Chests are so evil monsters. Yes, it’s a flaw of the current architecture, that chests are monsters. They aren’t mimics or something… yet. Breaking chest will drop its loot, easy. Hitting it also won’t damage the weapon, it’s just a formality for now in favor of better “open chest” mechanics in the future. Ah, yes, and positioning of chests also makes much more sense now - in small rooms and nooks.

But of course we are here not for boring stuff.

Being ticklish is such a breach in one’s defense, which cyan slimes will most certainly make use of. This is a new kind of opponents with a set of brand new mechanics. First of all, of course it’s called Tickling Slime for a reason. Attacking the character it’ll pick a slot and if it’s unprotected will tickle it, quickly and efficiently reducing character’s stamina and mental resistance.

If the slot is covered by clothes - slime will be sure to gently take those off. Being quick and tender it won’t have trouble disarming the heroine, so be careful. Another possible side-effect can be the enemy dragging heroine closer, which may end up pretty nastily if no stamina is left for evasion roll, and Slime will make sure she giggles all the vigor out as soon as possible.

But that’s not all. Those things received “curious” AI. That means it will actively investigate the map, idling around and meanwhile will be happy to discover your character. And will not hesitate to enforce some fun if the heroine has accidentally lowered her guard and fell asleep. Before waking the helpless victim, the Tickling Slime will make sure to tenderly and silently strip the heroine naked and disarm her.

If the heroine was not armed, it will zip on some nice shiny bondage mittens with large and loud golden bells. If no clothes were on - she will get a free pair of feet mittens. And if the character slept completely naked and unarmed - both. Careful! This may mean the end of her adventure. Ah, and one more thing, of course no complex interactions are possible if the fingers are safe and secure in mittens. No dressing up, disarming traps or the like until the hands are freed.

Tickling Slime will also make use of equipped bondage items, including those it equipped itself or ones equipped voluntarily such as Chasity set or Corsette. Dealing +50% tickling damage is not the only problem. If hands and feet don’t have anything equipped, the Slime may try to equip bondage mittens in there, significantly reducing the chances of winning the fight or escaping.

Just to note Thief Slime can now also take advantage of sleeping character and silently snatch a few items and run away with them safely.

And the last but most certainly not the least. Wasn’t it too easy to rescue the imprisoned characters so far? Now it might become a valid option to leave them to their fate avoiding losing the current character.

Several guards will be keeping watch around the prisoner (and of course entertaining her). Yellow Guard can be very efficient at tying up the invader. Black Guard is one of the toughtest things walking around, luckily with low attack damage. Red Guard is weaker but has a high damage. And finally Cyan Guard will be sure to make perfect use of the new tickling mechanics.

While the heroine can and should take advantage of their slowness, those are most certainly not the opponents to be trifled with.

Full changelog:

• Tickling action and cyan slime that makes a good use of it, all necessary assets
• Implement Curious AI for cyan slimes
• Disrobing and stealing items doesn’t wake up heroine
• 2 new items: Bondage Mittens and Bondage Feet Mittens
• Bondage Mittens prevent character from performing most of the tasks until those are removed
• Cyan slime can equip bondage mittens on player character in sleep or if holding by another bondage item
• Detained characters are now protected by Guards (Black, Red, Cyan and Yellow)
• Vacuum Cleaner monster with own vacuum cleaner AI that collects items scattered around the map
• 80% of items are generated in chests, mostly in deadends and nooks
• Hitting chest doesn’t degrade the weapon
• Increase distance for monsters spawn even further from entrance (still doesn’t seem enough)
• Rebalancing of bondage items
• Increase chance of equipping new bondage items over reinforcing old ones
• Update tutorial for new monsters and mechanics (3 new pages), proof-reading
• Improve log readability
• Reduce mental damage from stripping
• Apply mental damage only if attacker hits uncovered private parts + better log message
• Fix killing already dead monsters by debug command
• Fix stealth attack not provoking monsters to fight back
• Fix saving of uninitialized complex actions
• Fix thief slime stops running away to investigate noise
• Fix characters list size in Pause menu
• Other small fixes and improvements