The Consequences of your actions

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's public post.

Today we're going to take a look at what you can expect in the mini-update. This, as the name suggests, will be a far smaller offering than usual, due to its planned release this month, so soon after 0.6. There will be no big new quest in it, as its purpose is to move things on based on what happened in Avenging Angel. There will also be some new content. We know all this already, so let's dive into specifics.

My current focus is on modifying the school day. Every break and lunch event, plus a few class events that feature the bad girls or the popular girls will be affected in some way. It makes no sense, for example, for the bad girls to bully one of their own, so expect them to go a bit easier on you if you're now rocking the red ribbons. However, this comes at a cost - all the other girls in school will now view you somewhat differently, and may be less forgiving or willing to help you. The teachers now also have you on their radar.

Of course, this only applies if you joined the bad girls, and a recent supporter poll found a sizeable majority still firmly on the path of bowing at Poppy's feet. If you're among these, you'll still be regarded much the same in the schoolyard, though in some cases, the emboldened bad girls will now feel able to take even more liberties with you! So it's worth re-checking all those events you've seen before one more time.

Even if you're on neither of these paths, there's still plenty of changes to the school day. We'll see new events in which either the victorious bad girls are becoming more brazen and badly behaved, or the victorious popular girls are ruthlessly punishing those that defied them. There'll be new yard events and plenty of modifications to existing events and dialogue.

There's some new mini-scenes too, including a second punishment plinth scene if you're on the bad girl path. Don't worry if you're not, it'll unlock in the gallery anyway.

The other thing we'll be seeing in the mini-update is the fourth prefect scene. This won a council poll for 0.6 but I ran out of time so decided to bump it to this mini-update, to put a bit of meat on the bones.

The three existing prefect scenes have been around since 0.1 and are due an upgrade, but as you may recall, so far you can be felt up by them, and give oral relief first to Hayley in the bathroom, then to either or both in the prefects lounge. What will our girl have to do for them next time she's caught? We'll be finding out soon!

On top of these, there's a lot of work going on under the hood, I believe I've managed to finally fix the yard lag bug. I'm still not entirely sure what was causing it, but the changes I've made seem to have helped. A lot of what I'm doing won't be evident to you as players, but is future-proofing and making it easier for me to add stuff in a modular way in the future, easily slotting in new quests and scenes with what's there already, which should keep the speed of updates up. even as the game continues to increase in size and complexity. 

I'm hoping to get this all wrapped up in the next couple of weeks or so.  Supporters will of course get it first, but th public release won't be far behind. My main motivation is that once this is out of the way, I can move on with The Reign of Jess part 2, which is something I'm really really looking forward to, and I hope you are as well.

Thanks for reading this week's public check-in, and remember to always wear white! (or not.)

Trinian