Avenging Angel Retrospective

Welcome to this week's public update. I'm at the early preliminary work stage with Chapter 5 and the mini-update, so before we start looking forward, let's have a quick look back over the quest that has just released. Needless to say that today's piece contains spoilers for Avenging Angel, and so if you haven't played it yet, now is probably the time to stop reading.
Avenging Angel was the surprise winner of the December Council poll to decide on the main content of 0.6. I had put together quite a bit of stuff on it already, but hadn't expected to be working on it this quickly. It's an Act 2 quest, meaning that once the game is far enough along, it won't happen until after the Reign of Jess arc is completed, which has been the cause of some confusion for people, with two slave stories running simultaneously.
Angel's (very attractive, though I do say so myself) character model had already been made and had even put in a cameo appearance in Chapter 4. The ending for Poppy was already in my mind, but I came up with Isolation, and thus Angel's ending, relatively late on in the design process. I'm quite pleased with the way the story came out and especially happy with the two variations of the ending scene with Jessica.
One of the goals I had in designing this quest was to bring the game back a little from how extreme things had gotten in Chapter 4 - Jess's victory scene in the classroom and some of the other things that had happened, while hot, were heavy-going in a game that's marketed as "light-hearted" - but without sacrificing the humiliation and submission aspects of the story. So we saw things like the tickle-torture scene, which dealt with the interrogation of a suspected traitor, but in a more comedic and schoolgirl-y way. (The version in which it happens to Missy even has a gag to this effect.)
The mini-update will deal with the fallout from these stunning events, including the effects on the school of which side is now ascendant - if the bad girls are winning, we'll see them becoming more bold than they have been before, while if the popular girls have managed to put Poppy back in her box, we'll see them mercilessly clamping down on those who supported her.
The story turned out towards the top end of my expectations and feedback has been good, but as before, I'd like to run a public poll on how it was received. Because the third part is a late-game quest, it's going to be a while before we see it, but I hope you're enjoying Poppy's story and excited for its eventual conclusion!
Trinian
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