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Lots of new story events! Up to last week I have been hard focusing on ramping up the corruption content so that we could reach the first sex scene. With the backbone of the early mid game now done, I could dedicate this week towards expanding the existing event lines with new story modules.
Now, Liora is not a narrative game like SKA, so don't expect to see as many events as we had there (mostly from Earth). The main goal is to breakup the repetition, do some character development, expand on some lore and also build up for future quests and the game's endings.
The new story events of the week are centered around Edgar and his family. At the latest on day 41, or earlier if you defeated the Demonized Warhound, two of his brothers will accompany a third new character to meet Edgar. These three essentially represent the faction "more influential than Edgar" and allows to go into quests and story developments where Edgar isn't on the top of the food chain. The third character is a noble that functions as a stand-in for the nobility in general that Edgar is trying to postively impress with his Prestige.
Introducing his brothers is also prep work for an ending variation where Edgar corrupts Liora but has very low prestige, in which case Liora will most likely end up in their hands...
The event itself is fairly long and has a lot of references to various minor lore and plot points. I have continuously thought on how I can try to split it up a bit. I ended up with this concept of leaving in a larger event (which I think is a fine pace of change anyways) and then having a couple of follow-up story variations for the date event that then go a bit deeper into the aforementioned references.
One of Edgar's brothers also visits Thornefield once a week to give further lore if desired and otherwise function as a future interaction point for the late game quests.
Besides lore events, there is also a new event during the date that lets you control whether you want the anal clause for masturbation to spawn.
It's not just all Edgar centric though! Two events also concern Rean, one in a good way, one in a corrupt way. Kill the Demonized Warhound and keep Rean's Relationship high (>= 90) to get a new story event in the Rean Date event. Just minor fluff though.
On the corrupt side, once Treatments Costs have reached 2000, Rean's Relationship is < 90 and Edgar's >= 10 and you go on an Edgar date, he will convince Liora that perhaps just a litttttle bit of Decay progress is acceptable if it means achieving the larger goal of killing Barbatos. As long as Rean's decay is <= 10, you will then be able to decide not to pay on Treatment Day.
On a side note, I noticed a super major bug that has apparantly been in the game forever in the way I have been handling the flags for the Edgar Date events. Namely that the flag that remembers that Liora must accept an invitation is the same as the event itself running. This accidentally worked in the beginning, but as the date mechanics have been exanding you could get into broken game states. I have fixed it last minute, but I worry that there may be fallout from my fixes in splitting the flag into two flags and that I forgot to update it somewhere...
Finally, I integrated the latest batch of voice acting work from Allure. Please give it a listen give me your feedback. I have used mic 2 as the default and created a temporary mod mods/mic-1 where you can turn on the other microphone.
Changelog 0.4.0-prerelease-6 (13.02.2026)
Added voice acting batch for intro map
Added scene Meeting Edgars Brothers
Added scene Edgar Date Story - Masturbation Reaction
Added scene Edgar Date Story - Discussing Treatment Days
Added scene Edgar Date Story - Edgar's Brothers 1
Added scene Edgar Date Story - Edgar's Brothers 2
Added scene Edgar Bond 2
Added scene Rean Date 3
Added passive Cost-Benefit-Analysis I
Showed orgasm influence on sensitvity in compendium
Triggered edgar joke not just on scrambled retreat but any retreat with Rean KOed
Updated plugins from AuraMZ
Added wiki entries for Clovis, William, Gregor
Implemented William visiting Thornefield once a week
Balancing
None
Bugfixes
Fixed broken cleanup after morning negotiation
Fixed date sexual service not unlocking in recollection room