I convinced myself to commit to including Odette with this update, so now it's time for a little good-news-bad-news.
The good news is that the bad news isn't really all that bad.
The bad news is that it's likely there won't be a fourth Maid included in v0.23.2.
The reason for this is that I had originally wanted the end of Odette's affection quests to take place inside the castle at the end of the story, which I still intend to make into a mega-dungeon. The problem with that being that even if I decided to make only the parts of that mega-dungeon that were relevant to Odette, it would still take at least a week of designing maps, creating the new enemies, making an attempt at balancing combat with those new enemies (even though the Mind Hold makes proper balance almost impossible), and populating all the interactions for all those new maps.
Instead, I'm redesigning the quest a bit to take place near the castle - in Festadauga. That's still a city-sized map with dozens of buildings and a handful of story-relevant locations and events that won't happen just yet, but I need Festadauga for Nina's affection quests as well once I get that far.
What will probably end up happening with Festadauga is the majority of buildings will be lacking doors and I'll fill in the NPCs and maps to explore as I find time in between finishing up these affection quests. That means the map will likely feel pretty boring and/or empty before v1.0, but that's probably better than leaving these quests literally behind a locked door until v1.0 goes into early access even though the quests are going to be done anyway.
That will let me finish Odette's quests (hopefully tomorrow), create Nina's quests more quickly when I start making hers, and gives me something to work on when I don't want a partial update for a Maid to end up in a build earlier than intended.
So, more good news - v0.23.2 will be going into early access on Patreon, Subscribestar, and itch this Friday, August 22nd.
Your support has always meant everything to me, but with everything happening, it's more important now than it ever has been. I'd really appreciate it if you'd give one of those links a click and gave me a follow, even if you stick to what's free.
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