How to rewrite a mod like LL:E to make sense. A.k.a. An unwinnable scenario

So one thing I've always wanted to do since I took on the mantle of Lustier Lair from Halftilt was a complete top-to-bottom rewrite of the mod. Many parts of the mod were silly, and overpornified to the point of absolute ridiculousness, which isn't really hot for me. What I got most out of Lustiest Lair was the idea of the very world around the heroines being absolutely and overwhelmingly perverted, and slowly falling into corruption as a result.

The writing of Lustiest Lair in its current state is, quite frankly, not up to my standard. I simply do not like it, and a compete re-do has been rattling around in the back of my mind for some time.

Here's the problem, though:

I'm damned no matter what I do.

Hip-hip, hoor-uuggh.

I made a poll some time ago asking what direction to take LL:E's writing in, and the worst possible result came back: A damn-nearly 50/50 split.

Fuck.

I had the deepest hopes that there would be at least be a slight lean in one particular direction so I knew the direction to take the mod which would upset the least amount of people, but a 50/50? That means I'm fucked either way.

Essentially to improve the writing of LL:E there are only two feasible directions it can go:

Lean hard into how silly the mod is, and essentially make it a comedy H-mod. That's the mod's unique strength, and to be fair it'd turn LL:E into something truly unique. After all, have you ever heard of a comedy H-mod? I certainly haven't. I'd be the first, a pioneer.

OR

Rein LL:E's silliness back in and turn it into my original vision for the mod: A story about recruiting a band of heroines to defeat an ancient and lascivious evil that has corrupted the world around them, trying to avoid having your girls enslaved or captured or corrupted themselves along the way. A more down-to-earth tale.

The original LL seemed to be unintentionally doing the first, using hilarious porn logic tropes that would be fit for an 80s comedy porn parody of Darkest Dungeon.

Not that I'd mind making a mod that's the H-mod equivalent of 'Lemon Stealing Whore'

I've had a not insignificant number of people complaining about me 'delewdifying' the game. I've had a not insignificant number of people complaining about the game being too silly and overpornified.

I am now more excruciatingly aware than ever of how much I can't win here, so let's count some major factors in deciding:

No matter what I make, and no matter what LL:E becomes, previous versions will always be available. I don't remove them from Nexus when I add new ones. If the writing goes in a direction you don't like there will always be the previous versions to play.

I have to make what I would personally enjoy playing, otherwise I will lose all passion for the project and LL:E would just die anyway so what's the point of forcing other people's expectations onto myself?

Anyone is welcome to change the writing of LL:E for themselves. I'm actually putting a lot of work into refactoring the localisation files, making everything nice and clean and sorted and labelled with lots of helpful comment lines. This means it'll be easier to do.

With these three factors in mind, I think I've come a simple conclusion, which is:

Fuck it, I'll do what I want.

Yee-fuckin'-haw

No good creative work is designed by committee. A strong vision gets a strong result. If you like what I've been doing with content like The Workshop, I'd like to invite you to trust that what I make in future won't be shit.

So here's what's happening:

LL:E will be delewdified to an extent. Heroine dialogue will be made a bit more sensible, but they will still react to the world lustfully if it makes them horny. Some characters are inherently hornier than others simply because of their unique personalities. The Vestal, for instance, might seem frigid but just like the base game she's harbouring simmering perversion beneath the surface that will be reflected in her dialogue.

Instead of every monster having attacks with sex names that make no sense, monsters will have lewd attacks on top of normal attacks. (For example, Brigand Blood is getting a grab and a bukkake attack, but can still whip and hurt your girls. Brigand Fusilier is going back to shooting bullets at your girls, but can also pull her tits out to flash and arouse them).

The perverseness of trinkets is going nowhere. You can still truss your gals up in bondage equipment.

Cum is being turned back into Food. However, Cum will still be available as a provision item you can take along on your journeys, giving a small amount of healing in trade for a hit to stress (Lust). Your heroines will react to this with disgust or perverse glee, depending on their personalities.

The entire dialogue system is being reworked so that there won't be many generic lines any more - each heroines class will have specific things to say about specific actions to give greater characterisation to each gal. This means Lustiest Lair Expanded will have more writing in it than Darkest Dungeon itself.

Every heroine is getting specific dialogue for each affliction when they hit 100 Lust, and all the afflictions will be different types of horniness:

Sadistic

Masochistic

Insatiable

Submissive

Impulsive

Hedonistic

Depraved

Broody

Hypnotised (only when brought to 100 by specific CoM enemies)

Everything will make just a little more sense than it does now.

I hope this has cleared up some things.

Please be kind, I'm trying my best.

With love,Your Ancestress