DD# 169 Ah, Fresh Meat! Part III news - [Neolithic]To the End

Hi, everyone! Welcome to another week's developer's diary.

Before we get down to the depravity of content corrupted by everything rotten in the underground city of Katan, let us wish our Jewish friends a happy Passover. So, here is some related content for that.

Matzah is the unleavened bread of affliction coming along with the story of the Exodus. The story is about Jewish people leaving Egypt in a hurry to liberty, escaping from oppression. I first saw such food when I was working in New York about a decade ago. My neighbor was an old Jewish gentleman. One day, he asked me to help him fix his oven and I learned the story of what he was cooking. I believe one of the reasons why such a story is so well known is because it's our nature as humans to seek a better, free life without being opposed because of who we are. Yet, more than 10 years later, it's another Passover, I see mobs at Columbia University rally against Jewish students. They are ranting about slogans they do not even understand. They say they want to save Palestine. Yet, they fail to understand it is Hamas terrorists who are putting Palestine in danger. They say they want to see people in Palestine free. Yet, they fail to realize there are still more than 130 kidnapped hostages who cannot return home. It's sad to see such a pathetic and ignorant display take place in a city I once lived. Thus, I shall reaffirm my support to our Jewish friends on this day.

Now, let's go down to the content of this week.
Warning, this week's updates contain potentially uncomfortable content. It may not be a good idea to read in public. Because most content updates take place in Katan, it's quite a messed up town.
For example:

Alright, not so soon. Let's start with something not so NSFW first.

First, you can now actually fight in the Arena in the Den of Pleasure.
It's a 4v4 mortal kombat, you will face off against random local bandits in the arena. If you come out victorious, the host will encourage you to execute the opponents you just defeated. The crowds are bloodthirsty, they will cheer you up if you do so. If you are a follower of any blood god such as Kong, you may also gain devotion from this. That's one way to gain respect in Katan. But, you can also reject local customs and spare your opponents. Unfortunately, your kindness may only receive more hatred as your opponents may view it as a humiliation to deny them an honorable death. Bonus points: if you can win battles when you maintain your HP to the MaxHP, and follow the instructions to execute your opponent in a blood mess, the host will declare it as a flawless victory. In such a case, you will gain even more rewards and reputation. It's a mortal combat after all. :)
Meanwhile, there is an arena trainer nearby, he will only teach you skills if you can survive at least three battles. After that, you may learn the way how those bandit berserkers fight.

Second and I guess that's something many have been waiting is the further expansion of the Fall-from-Grace Brothel in the Den of Pleasure.
As I mentioned earlier, both "fresh" and "meat" can mean something sexual even in different languages. Previously, we covered the literal means and the religious means of "fresh meat." It's time to go down to find something sexual.
The brothel now has an entirely new map to represent its main areas. Even though most parts of it are still works in progress, you already have access to the manager's office to embark on a very morally questionable journey. There are many different ways to start your first contact with the manager. You can wait outside or go straight into his office and witness something...disturbing.

Many years ago, someone once asked me a question, if I saw two employees making love in an office after work, what would I do? My answer was, as long as they do not cause any trouble to others, I would let them be. Now, how I handle things does not matter. It's your turn to decide how you want to handle a similar situation here. You may have some really wild choices in the game.
Of course, it comes with a new cutscene.

(Probably NSFW.)
Those who own the "Gallery Unlocker" DLC can have this cut scene unlocked automatically without progressing the story here. However, as the nature of such cutscene dictates, I think I shall add some additional warning for all such kinds of DLCs. Thus, during this week's updates, I also added an NSFW warning to all similar cutscenes in the Gallery when someone wants to play them. An additional confirmation is required.
I will not go down to many details of this new cut scene. However, the goal of such a new cut scene is not to provide eye candies or fan services. Sure it contains one naked girl doing something [data redacted] on a naked man. But, you may find it's more like a horror or crime scene that makes you more uncomfortable than horny. Or maybe, such Slaanesh-like pleasure is way too much for common folks.
Of course, you can avoid this cut scene entirely. You also have other choices. You can even go straight to attack the manager. You can even attack him during sexual activity and cause him to start the battle in a "bleeding" state.
Anyway, you will meet the manager, and what you do during this first contact will decide the initial relationship value between you and him.

He has his own twisted faith. If you attack him, you may learn all of his sins by using the "Detect Faith" skill.

Now, as we continue to develop the story content in this brothel, I think it's necessary to make the sexual experience a live skill.

Of course, you gain experience from all kinds of sexual activities in the game.
But, it's more than that. As I enjoy over-engineering, there are actually more data and experience tracked by the game. For example, the game even knows your favorite positions. It's just not displayed on the UI yet.
Meanwhile, you may have noticed those arrow buttons. As we are getting more life skills on the list, the life skill window can now be scrolled up and down to display all of them. Either mouse or keyboard can work.

That's the major part of this week's updates. However, you may also find some other quite significant improvements in the game, such as All procedurally generated quests now reward Exp. (Rather than killing a lot of things to gain Exp, I think I shall also encourage people who enjoy quests.) and Additional furniture for your pocket dimension. They are used in the brothel. But, I shall allow you to deploy them anywhere you like. More small changes can be found in the full update log of this week.

That's the beginning of some of the game's much darker content. I will not avoid adding such content. After all, the darkness will not care if you ignore it or not, it is still there. But, all such content is relatively localized and can absolutely avoided. Just avoid Katan, you will not see such horror and your sanity will be intact. But, I know some of you are still curious. :P

That's for this week.
Bon appétit.

The full update log of this week:
20240420
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[Den of Pleasure]You can now fight in the Arena to gain rewards and reputation among the outlaws in Katan.
[Den of Pleasure]Every time you defeat your enemies in the arena, you can choose to kill them or spare them. You gain more relationship value by killing them.
[Den of Pleasure]Added a new battle background image for the Arena Battle.
[Den of Pleasure]Added an Arena Trainer that can teach you skills after you have won three battles in the arena.
[Den of Pleasure]The "Murderous Berserk" skill can now be learned from the Arena Trainer.
[Den of Pleasure]If you kill your enemies in the arena and your entire group is at full HP when you do so, the host will declare a "FLAWLESS VICTORY!" It will give you more rewards and respect.
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Fixed a bug that makes bandit berserkers can drop pistol ammo.
Fixed a bug that corpses function as normal meat instead of strange meat during cooking. (Thanks to 渺兔's streaming.)


20240421
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[Skill]Changed the sound effect of the "Stone Skin" if it's used from the skill menu.
[Special Attribution]New Special Attribution: Gain Devotion When Using Magic Spells.
[Special Attribution]New Special Attribution: Lose Devotion When Using Magic Spells.
[Special Attribution]New Special Attribution: Gain Devotion When Executing Defeated Enemies in the Arena.
[Faith]Kong's followers now gain devotion when they execute defeated enemies in the Arena.
[Den of Pleasure]The main floor of Fall-from-Grace Brothel is now accessible.
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Unified all skill mp cost functions everywhere to use the "pay_sp_for_skill" function.
Wrapped the "pay_sp_for_skill" and "applySkillBattleCD" in a new function named "apply_skill_costs."
Added a function to check faith-related costs when using skills.


20240421B
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[Quest]Increased the rewards of the "Stone Turtle Research" quest.
[Item]One Time Alarm Device can now alarm nearby animals that dynamically turn into hostile. (Thanks to 渺兔's streaming.)


20240422
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[Quests]All procedurally generated quests now reward you with some Exp.
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Added 5 secret rooms. A bit more areas become accessible.
[Furniture]Added a new type of very big bed.
[Shopping]Random furniture vendors and Saad in Egypt now sell this new type of bed.
[Butterfly]You can now use Butterfly Wings to fly out of the Fall-from-Grace Brothel.
[Furniture]Added a new type of sofa.
[Shopping]Random furniture vendors now sell this new type of sofa.
[NPC]All random vendors in the Commodity Market of Liu and Hottle now have their vendor types appear on their character if you turn the NPC name display on.
[Fishing]You can now try to fish in the Fall-from-Grace Brothel but there is no fish right now.
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Additional functions have been added to ensure pets can get their attribution updated whenever they level up in all circumstances.
Added function support to allow procedurally generated quests to have Exp rewards.


20240423
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[Cooking]New Recipe: Matzah (Cook with holy water can get the blessed version.)
[Gallery of Memory]All gallery data can now have customized tags.
[Cutscene]New Cutscene: The Monk Who Fucks (It's in the Gallery of Memory. Story content is still working in progress to unlock it. However, if you own the Gallery Unlocker DLC, you shall be able to watch it already.)
[Cutscene]All cutscenes that may be NSFW are now marked as NSFW. (As the definition of NSFW varies in the world. Thus, the game is using the tightest standard. For example, even Kristin's shower scene is marked as NSFW.)
[Gallery of Memory]There is now an additional confirmation before you play an NSFW cutscene from the Gallery of Memory.
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Added a new program module that shall provide the interface to make mods to add [Data Redacted] content easy. (It's currently empty. Will start to move certain things here.)


20240424
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[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Added story content when you meet the manager for the first time. (There are quite a few different branches.)
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Depending on your choices, you may unlock an NSFW cutscene here. (The one added to the game yesterday.)
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Your choices will decide the initial relationship value with the manager. (Even though his relationship UI is still working in progress.)
[Wiki]Added a page about the Fall-from-Grace Brothel. It includes all the different branches of the story. Neolithia.fandom.com

[Statics]You can now check the total number of your sexual activities in the statics menu.
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Added room numbers outside certain rooms to make it easy to identify them.
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Added a function that can quickly return how many times you have been involved in any kind of sexual experience.
To over-engineer this a bit, it can also have a filter depending on sexual experience positions/types.


20240425
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[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]If you chose to get yourself into something sexual in yesterday's cutscene, post-sexual-experience-events shall now correctly trigger. (Such as gaining devotion from the Slaanesh faith mod.)
[Life Skill]New Life Skill: Sexual Experience.
[Life Skill]The system also tracks the sexual experience of different sexual positions. But this part is hidden. (However, their localizations have been done. So, you may find them in game files.)
[Life Skill]You can now gain experience points of the Sexual Experience via all kinds of sexual activities in the game. (Having sex with a succubus is still not advised.)
[Skill]The Charm skill may now cause the horny effect.
[Relationship]Thegpa now has an entry in the relationship UI after you meet him.
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The Life Skill Menu can now hide certain life skills.


20240426
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[Life Skill]The Life Skill window now has buttons to scroll up and down so that you can control it with a mouse without the need to use your keyboard.
[Effect]New State Effect: Excited.
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Changed the battle background of this area.
[Faith]Added Thegpa's faith in his character data. (You can use "Detect Faith" on him to find out.)
[Enemy]Added enemy data on Thegpa. （Because of his sadomasochistic nature, he will become "excited" when you cause damage to him.）
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]Add 3 new dialog options the first time you meet Thegpa, allowing you to attack him. (1 of them allows you to attack him during a sexual activity.)
[Fall-from-Grace Brothel]If you attack him during the sexual activity, he will start the battle in a "bleeding" state.
[Wiki]Updated all the information regarding those new branches to the wiki page.
[Enemy]The MaxHP attributions of bandit berserkers are now various.
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All damage effects on a character's HP are no longer directly minus the HP value. Instead, they now go through a new function to apply additional effects.