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House of Hellish Harlots v0.034 (Huntress Levka and L'iaculatia)
🕑 Added 2022-08-17 12:03:06 +0000 UTCAlmost had it out last night. I ran into a bug while testing L'iaculatia. I thought it was something else, but it turned out to be a classic missing comma bug I wasn't able to spot at 1:30 in the morning. Fixed it this morning and finished off the testing, so v0.034 is ready to go.
This is a rare mid-month release. These two harlots were supposed to be in v0.033, but I was knocked off schedule having to deal with Amazon KDP content review problems (which are still ongoing, sadly).
This release adds two new harlots:
Huntress Levka (and her hounds Minyette and Zhopa)
This is Huntress 2. When creating the 'wrestling' faction, I had the idea for a trio of huntress scenarios similar to the 3 Pels of the artificial being faction. Like Diana, Levka wants you to 'fight' her hounds. Unlike Diana, she has two of them.
The two 'hounds', Minyette and Zhopa, are primitive lust daemons (but still clearly sapient despite being used as 'hunting hounds'). I took a little inspiration from GW's Slaanesh demons for their design, but made them a little less spiky and also more explicit in what they can do.
Levka was originally a big muscular oni, but trying to write her with Russian 'hulkspeak' just didn't work at all. I think the huntress lore I created with Diana seems to have been well-received, so it made more sense to make Levka a slightly wilder member of the same hunting manor.
Huntress Levka is intended as a Tier 2 harlot, but towards the bottom end in difficulty (round 6 or 7).
L'iaculatia
This is the dodgeball arachne. Her scenario takes some ideas from the old "Escape the Arachne" CYOA, but is completely rewritten and with a different character.
She references quite a few stats, but it's mostly behind scenes. She will probably be a Tier 1 harlot, but is borderline between Tier 1 & 2. She has a few stat checks, but there are multiple ways to make them easier.
L'iaculatia was another weird one to type up. On my side it looks like a ton of variations, but as the tests are done behind scenes, the player will mostly be reading and pressing continue. I'm still iffy on this as a design philosophy. It made sense for the early design, but the scenarios were intended to be a lot shorter.
I hope you enjoy the new harlots. I'm still using the temporary fix of uploading the raw html as a .zip file. Hopefully patrons won't have problems with this. With v0.034 out I'll start looking into more permanent solutions.
Because v0.034 overshot into Wednesday (damn missing commas), I'll post part 2 of the overall harlot poll tomorrow.
As for the rest of the month, I'll keep things flexible. Probably at least 1 new harlot, but I'm not sure which at the moment (either Butterfly Girl as she was next down on the poll or the Ebony Succubus if I finish her).
I hope you enjoy the new release. Let me know what you think below.
