Liora's Price of Dignity 0.8.0-prerelease-1 (Patreon)

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First prerelease of the new dev cycle! Luckily my cold was only bad on Tuesday and Wednesday, otherwise I was able to make nice progress. This week focuses on Edgar.

Until now, Edgar gaining Prestige had various scaling passive effects like accelerating some of his project progress or increasing his income, but it didn't have milestone events that both gave him a small push + a small narrative compontent to react and reflect on his increase in prestige. Now he has that (to a certain degree).

I have added three Edgar Prestige Reaction scenes that trigger on Prestige levels: 130 / 170 / 200. The first one only has a small relationship +1/-1 effect depending on how much Edgar has been contributing in battle, but also giving a new small minor battle perfromance reactivity. The other two focus on Edgar using his reputation for getting discounts with the locals so he can train skills for cheaper and also gain a discount for infusions.

This should help Edgar's economy a bit, so he can keep infusing materials at a better rate during the mid to lategame.

At 250 Prestige + Edgar must have successfully made contact with the Rich Merchant at the Redmere Pub, he will get an invitation to the Noble Party event. Note that currently only the invitation scene has been implemented, the real scene will come later this month.

Edgar's "max" Prestige has been increased to 400 in line with this. Note that it has never been a max, but I also was never sure how I wanted to use this upper limit. My initial plan was to have Edgar change his behavior when he's above/below it (him being more focused on Prestige if he's below) but I didn't quite like that. My current direction is that this will be the number Edgar will need to reach so he can reclaim his birthright.

Now, let's go back to the previous topic of discounts. Notice how the skill reads that it applies to all members of the Band of the Rose! Now, if Liora could be considered a part of the band, could she also gain those benefits? She can indeed!

Reach at least 10 Edgar Relationship and go on a date with him to trigger the new Edgar Bond 3 event. Edgar will talk about the possibility of offering Liora time-limited membership benefits.

This will unlock both the option to negotiate for temporary membership through the "Give me" option during Full Negotiations and a proposal in Edgar's rotation to give Liora 7 days of membership. Adding this into Edgar's rotation should give some more interesting options besides direct gold negotiations and allows you to have another thing to ask for even when Edgar is broke, or perhaps prevent him from having too little money to perform infusions / skill trainings.

I had thought a lot about the concept of discounts. I used them quite a lot in SKA and they were a bit problematic - a discount effectively encourages the player to not do something until they have unlocked the discount.

Now, getting a discount requires you to offer up something of value + they are time-limited. So getting a discount in the early game will not be very helpful as you are not saving a lot of money, in exchange for what you have to give up. I hope that this will allow us to use the concept of discounts while avoiding the gameplay issues I had seen in SKA.

I hope that in the future I can further expand on this concept by also having quest tie-ins where being a member of Edgar's gang can be used to Liora's benefit.

Of course there is also the big dream that we can do a clause trade like "Liora shall get a Rose tattoo -> Liora shall gain permanent membership", but that of course depends on our art progress and is more of a nice to have, that we can otherwise also just have in the ending CGs.

Then, Trihan has made a small custom UI for Edgar's Projects. This should scale better when you want to check which projects he has completed than him firing them off through one-by-one message boxes.

The rest of my time was mostly wasted on business stuff. I thought we were largely through with it with the founding of AuraGamedev GmbH but oh boy am I wrong... It feels like for every form I fill out, two new forms pop up.

Currently I am trying to get to the point where I can pay myself a salary as the company ownes, which is more complicated than I thought, since I have to make a full working contract between myself and the company...

On the bright side: I have now legally covered the case as to how much notice I have to give myself should I ever want to fire myself!

I also have learned how to generally make contracts where both parties are the same person, and how to meet with myself to make formally correct company decisions... I have also hopefully registered the company at all the important offices now and am now waiting on various tax numbers. Until then the money is kind of sitting on the bank accounts and I can't do anything with it...

Well, that's it for the week. Next week will focus on a new quest.

Changelog 0.8.0-prerelease-1 (04.09.2026)

Added scene Edgar Prestige Reaction 1

Added scene Edgar Prestige Reaction 2

Added scene Edgar Prestige Reaction 3

Added scene Noble Party Date 1

Added scene Edgar Bond 3

Implemented Edgar Project Ui

Increased max prestige to 400

Implemented negotiation option for Full Negotiations to ask for band of the rose membership benefits for X days

Added proposal "Liora shall gain Band of the Rose membership benefits for 7 days"

Added discount option to skill shop plugin

Balancing

None

Bugfixes

Fixed passive skill fix potentially overriding valid zero multipliers

Fixed title screen expression filtering allowing for immediate repeats

Fixed typos

Fixed being able to savescum on Ironman by quitting to title

Fixed cancelling out of non-opponent skill target negotiations jumping to for-opponent choices