DD# 155 A Hotel, a Magic Shop, and a New DLC news - [Neolithic]To the End

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

This week, the development in Qinuyi Island continues. The main focus is on some of the infrastructure inside the town.

The Hotel
As a town at the geographical center of the Nise Federation, Qinuyi has many visitors. Thus, the town obviously needs a hotel. Thus, we have one known as "Phantom Tide Lodge" added in this week's updates. You can order your room and some drinks at the front desk. Alternatively, you can just go upstairs, pick some locks, and occupy a room for yourself. Just be careful, not all rooms are empty. You may accidentally break into something horrible.
As a town promoting magic power, the employees of the lodge are very open-minded. They don't mind you doing anything in your room as long as you don't bother other customers. They even sell some special drinks for customers with their unique taste. They also provide condoms in their hotel rooms.

Oh, well. That's just for fun. No real functions in the game right now other than you may be able to sell them to some merchants or recycle them to get some rubbers. In real life, you don't need to visit a hotel located in a magic town to see those. They seem quite common nowadays in many hotels all over the world even in some quite conservative places such as China.

The Magic Shop
As a town with strong magic power, it shall also have its magic shop. Thus, a shop known as Enchantopia Elegance Emporium was also added during this week's updates.
For common adventurers. There are different magic tricks ranging from those that can grant you light/mirror/guardian spells to protect you from close-range physical attacks to those that can manipulate your skill check results or item appearances.
For alchemists. There are different ingredients and a book that teaches alchemy skills in their inventory. You are also free to use their devices to make your potions. Or, you can also use them to cook some food.
For spellcasters, they provide magic staffs and off-hand spell books that can enhance the power of one of the user's elemental attribution. Those weapons are specifically made for spellcasters. They are rarely found in the "normal" side of the world or even in many other parts of the Nise Archipelago. With more tools for spellcasters that will come in future updates, they may become even more handy to create magic-based builds.

That's for Qinuyi Island.
But, we also have other updates for this week.
1, The heavy units of the Nise Federation now have their combat animations

Depending on your choices, they may be your friends or foes in future stories. One of them is currently guarding the entrance towards the Jiru Island which will be the main stage of Chapter 3 of the main story.
For now, you can use this appearance on your main character or any of your customized teammates.

2, A new faith that worships The Great Pestilence.

When Una was making her Nurgle mod, I also had a similar idea in mind. Thus, here comes the faith of the Great Pestilence. The bonus of this faith has some similarities to the Nurgle worship in Una's mod. They both welcome poison. They heal instead of getting damaged when they are poisoned. But, their cultural background and stories are quite different. Many belief systems in the world can have their own interpolation on a plague god. Even in the Bible, there are mentions that the first Horseman of the Apocalypse will come, raiding on his white horse with the power of Pestilence to conquer the world. In some religious texts, this rider is also viewed as the Antichrist or an Archenemy. Thus, he certainly can have his own faith to gather his followers instead of being a sub-faith of another religion.
You can learn about the existence of this faith by talking to Inaba ' The Witch' in Katan.
Or, you may find one of his less friendly followers if you pick a certain lock and break into a certain room of the "Phantom Tide Lodge" as mentioned above.

3, A new DLC

Well, don't get too excited. This is a very light-weighted DLC to test Steam's DLC system.
Its sole functionality is to unlock the entire "Gallery of Memories" of the base game.
Those 3D cutscenes are one of the most distinguishing features of this game compared to other RPG Maker games. Just a content warning here, some of them have sexual, nudity, and violent scenes. They may not be suitable for all players in all locations to watch.
Meanwhile, You absolutely have no need for this DLC as everything can be unlocked through normal gameplay.
But, for those who want a shortcut, I think I can allow them to have it. Because there are many different ways to play this game. Yet, that's not going to be free. After all, I would prefer people actually play the game instead of using the unlocker. We have way too much fast food already nowadays. As a wise person once said, boobs are temporal, the glory of our game is eternal. So, it's all up to you. But the choice is here. The planned release date is Feb 12th or 13th depending on where you live.

That's for this week. The next week's development will likely still be on Qinuyi Island and the Sealed Palace. Have fun!

The Full Update Log of This Week:
20240106
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[3D Printing Store]Added a one-way quick exit near the Infinite Machine in case a player is unable to defeat the machine while also not having Butterfly Wings exit the dungeon. (The change does not affect exited dungeons. This exit will only appear in new basement dungeons.)
[Qinuyi]New Location: Enchantopia Elegance Emporium
[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]Added alchemy devices. (Or, you can use them to cook food if you want.)
[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]Added a vendor who sells magic items. (Including Light, Mirror, and Guardian)
[Loot]Added an item drop list on Earth Golems. (Something different is, that some of their drops are based on their current environment. For example, they may drop "Emerald Stones of Liuli" only in some locations such as the Sealed Palace - Floor of Earth.)


20240107
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[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]Added an alchemist. He sells ingredients.
[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]The alchemist also sells <<The Book of a Broken Equation Vol.1>>.
[Item]Beginner's Grimoires are now turned into OIG format.
[Item]Reduced the values of Beginner's Grimoires by $1000.
[Bazaar]The weapon merchant now sells the new versions of Beginner's Grimoires.
[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]Added a magic equipment vendor.
[Butterfly]You can now teleport to Enchantopia Elegance Emporium from Qinuyi after visiting it once.
[Qinuyi]New Location: Phantom Tide Lodge
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added butterfly support.
[Tilemap]Updated the underwater tunnel tileset to add more content. The Sealed Palace will have its Floor of Water use this tileset.


20240109
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[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can now buy drinks in the Phantom Tide Lodge.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can now rent a room in the Phantom Tide Lodge. (Additional story content if Alicia is in the group when you rent a room)
[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can pick the lock if you don't want to spend money to rent the room.
[Item]New Item: Condom (It's mostly just here for fun. Not much usage for now. Other than recycle it into rubbers or sell it to merchants.)
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added some loot in the room you can rent, including a condom. (Pretty much based on real-life experiences.)
[Loot]Bandits in Egypt, Aten Cultists, Business People, Zombies, Hentai Exhibitionists, Mercenaries, Outlaws in the Katan Desert, and Crazed Survivors now all have a small chance to drop condoms.
[Weapon]New Weapon Template: Magic Staffs. (They can enhance at least one elemental effect. They can have prefixes)
[Enchantopia Elegance Emporium]The Magic Equipment Vendor now sells Magic Staffs. (The version in the store does not have prefixes.)
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Added a flag forceAnimeStop on characters to stop their animation instantly.


20240110
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[Weapon]Magic Staffs can now have external parameters to force their elemental type.
[Character Customization]Added a new playable male character variation. (The Nise Federation Heavy Unit. The one you meet in the Qinuyi Underwater Checkpoint.)
[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can now pick the lock of the room next to the one you can rent.
[Tilemap]Expanded the hotel map tileset.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can now pick the lock of the maintenance room.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added a smelter in the maintenance room.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added 3 more dialog options on the bartender.


20240111
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[Faith]New Faith: The Great Pestilence (A bit similar to Nurgle in the Nurgle Mod. That's my original plan on using certain special attributions.)
[Den of Pleasure]Expanded the dialogs on Inaba. You can unlock "The Great Pestilence" faith by talking to her.
[Faith]Added a generic faith that worships The Great Pestilence for NPCs to use.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]The last locked room on the 2nd floor is now accessible. You can pick its lock.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added an encounter in this room. You will break into something different this time. There is a battle here.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]A Book of the Great Pestilence can be found in this room.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]You can talk to the bartender about this encounter afterward.

20240112
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[DLC]The store page of "Gallery Unlocker" is up.
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[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added a restroom. The purpose is to provide access to an infinite amount of water in this town.
[Phantom Tide Lodge]Added a creepy doll as loot in one of the rooms.
[Qinuyi]New Location: Qimuyi Administration Office
[Butterfly]Added Butterfly Wings support to the Qimuyi Administration Office.
[Butterfly]You can now teleport to the Qinuyi Underwater Checkpoint from Qinuyi if you have visited the Qinuyi Underwater Checkpoint before.