Here’s another piece falling into place!

Slave Auctions before today were only used from the goblins to cash out on the Princesses they manage to get their hands on. Now it’s a whole new story!

If you have a Slaver Pass in your hands, you’ll be able to join the daily auctions the goblins hold in their palace!

The starting “goods” are the races that do not have a reign of their own, namely kobolds, dogs, driders and even lamias.
Without a powerful Princesses protecting them they’re perfect targets for the goblins’ slave hunters!

Of course as your playthrough unfolds all the defeated races will be added to the list of the available ones.

Consider that an auction normally would last 120 seconds, I’ve cut the timer down to 30 seconds in order to shorten the lenght of the video as much as possible.

The starting price for this slime was pretty low, slime aren’t considered that valuable, and that’s the reason why it didn’t get many offers.

As the desirability of the slave increases, so do the number of partecipants and of offers it will recieve!

Desirability is influenced by:

• race’s rarity (from kobolds… to lamias)
• frequency (a race that was often sold in the previous week loses value)
• slave’s level (1 to 10)
• slave’s profession

Now, about “professions”, the most valuable one of course being Princess of the Reign, I’ve come up with a number of them.
These 10 professions reflect how the Parent Stats (  Love, Lust,  Power, Wealth) of the slaves have been distributed. We have:

• Warrior (  10%  10%  70%  10% )
• Bounty Hunter (  10%  10%  40%  40% )
• Merchant (  10%  10%  10%  70% )
• Courtesan (  10%  40%  10%  40% )
• Harlot (  10%  70%  10%  10% )
• Maiden (  70%  10%  10%  10% )
• Noble (  40%  10%  10%  40% )
• Bocca di Rosa (  40%  40%  10%  10% )
• Wild One (  25%  25%  25%  25% )
• Gifted One (all unallocated)

There will be surely space for more.

Now, to show how intense they can get, I’ve cheated in order to get a shiny one on the following day’s auction…

And the offers went through the roof.

“There’s something you cannot buy with money” makes no sense to a goblin.

Ok, let’s get this out of the way, since there’s much I have to show and so so little time to do it!

Today we’ll cover:

• Moss Princess and how it’s so easy now to make any character playable
• Upgraded UI for reigns’ military management
• A shitload of new animations for NPCs and completely new ones incoming

Moss Princess

This cutie right here!

A new, fully functional, Princess joins the cast! She’s well hidden, so you’ll have to find her first!

She’s kind of a loner, loves dark and cramped spaces, but ends up realizing that she’d better rely on the Knight if she wants to find the perfect place for her to feel at home.

Just don’t leave her in the “horrible” Tavern! Too crowded.

Hikikomossi

(eheh, puns…)

That’s the name of her ability! She doesn’t like to fight at all and if you force her out while there’s enemies around she’ll just…

!!!

Only by holding down the appointed skill button (Left-Ctrl is the default one) she’s able to move around and fight while in her “humanoid” form, but just for a limited time.
Normally, in dangerous places, she’ll be that lumpy thing you see above!

Reduced damages, slower movements, but she’s also permanently in stealth mode while in her Lump Form!
You will be able to easily avoid enemies (and guards at the castles’ gates) if she’s in your party!

More playables!

This isn’t a 1-time-only event, I’ve taken care to prepare the whole system that will let us add playable characters to the game at our leisure!

The ones that will likely follow this scheme in the near future could be some of the most loved Princesses that didn’t make it as “main” Princesses!
Next one will be Crystal, and we’ll likely end up polling more between the many lovely girls we have!

Military upgrades UI

Cleaner visuals and accessibility were taken into account as we changed everything there was to change in order to make Princess & Conquest a new experience for everybody!

The cleaner menus, like this one for the military upgrades, show just that.

The stats you can upgrade by paying up large sums of Swirlies to the rabbits are shown both between the choices and in the UI window by the top right corner.
No risk of getting them mixed up, this way!

New Animations

I’ve (as I have personally worked on them) just added, editing and recoloring old animations that would otherwise be left unused:

• 3 new animations for slime NPCs (deepthroat + vaginal with short/long hair)

• 1 new animation for goblin NPCs (paizuri )
• 2 new animations for kobold NPCs (nipple-fuck + anal)

• 1 new animation for golem NPCs (thighjob)
• 1 new animation for desert NPCs (footjob)

For a total of ~900 new frames. Truly a work of love.

Akai instead is working on completely new animations for:

• Cat Princess (reworking the old ones and adding the 3rd one for her!)
• Human/Harvest NPCs
• Rabbit Princess

You can judge by yourself: it’s a bunch of stuff!

Right now, as far as animations go, we’ve got all the bases covered, except for Human NPCs and Harvest Princess, that still lack their first animation as of today.

As soon as there’s news I’ll let everybody know! Until next time!

Here’s a couple new mechanics, already completely developed, that I’ve added in the last week.

Life Force

Simply put: the balance between the living and the dead.

If it rises, during your travels you will more likely meet one of the many living races that populate the Kingdom.

If there’s too many wars, or famine spreading (pestilence soon?), the Kingdom’s Life Force will drop and you will find way more NPCs of undead races!

It will naturally float to reflect the Kingdom’s status but, as you’ll see in this post, there will be other tricks to influence it, for better or worst.

Soul Wishes

All the wishes for the Putridarium are ready!

•  Egg Wish: 1 week duration. Reusable.
•  Chicken Wish: 1 time only. Exhausts the Soul. Consider it the parting gift a Princess has in store for the Kingdom.

If a Princess accidentally dies (and you didn’t trap her soul like Bill Murray would have done) you will be able to use the Soul Whistle to get wishes!

Here’s all of them.

Human Princess

•  Tea Festival

For a week, doubles the chance of positive events during Tea Parties.

•  Army: March!

Increase the  Power of all Reigns by 2!

Slime Princess

•  Slimy Alchemy

For a week, using any healing item could grant a random stat increase to the user.

•  Life Outburst

To all your undead Progeny will be granted Life and Kingdom’s Life Force increases by 100!

Golem Princess

•  Golem Rocks

For a week, breaking rocks can reward you unusual items.

•  Impossible Love

Recieve the Galatea set of armor and fist weapon!

Insect Princess

•  Ripening

For a week, eggs will hatch twice as fast.

•  Baby Boom!

Increase all Reigns’ Population by 200!

Skeleton Princess

•  Killing Wish  

For a week, killing enemies  has a chance to increase your Affinity with Undead races.

•  Death: March!

Decrease the Kingdom’s Life Force by 200!

Desert Princess

•  Corruption Resilience

For a week the Corruption of your party members won’t increase during fights.

•  Kingdom Erotica!

Increase the Kingdom Lewdness by 30!

Ghost Princess

•  Impregnable Nights

For a week, no Reign can fall by siege during night-time.

•  Soul Transfer!

Resurrect one dead Princess under your control!

Goblin Princess

•  Goblin Shark

For a week, increase the  Swirlies gains by 25%.

•  Capitalism!

Increase the  Wealth of all Reigns by 3!

Moth Princess

•  Rising Dark

A week-long night.

•  Friendship!  

Increase all Reigns’ Diplomacy by 5!

Cat Princess

•  Cat Nap

For a week, sleeping in inns grants your whole team a 10% bonus to all stats! Reverts if you sleep at the Campsite or you’re outside at 6 a.m.

•  Black Cat Curse!

Curse the Cat Reign! Who’s controlling it may suffer grave losses!

Those pesky moths don’t know what they’re in for!

Mouse Princess (currently unkillable)

•  Scavenging Talent

For a week, increase the chance of enemies dropping items and equipments by 25%.

•  High Walls!

Increase the Defense of all Reigns by 2!

Rabbit Princess

•  Motherly Instinct

For a week, increase the quality of the newborn Progeny.

•  Heir Rush!

Every Princess still sitting on her throne will get pregnant!

Harvest Princess

•  Sunny Disposition

For a week, only Hot days and no  Food shortage for any Reign.

•   Fertile Lands!

Two new Fertile Fields will appear, granting  Food to the Reigns controlling them!

I will now proceed to add an additional page to the Status Screen, to show hidden stats like the Kingdom Lewdness, the Life Force and more. It won’t be available from the beginning of the game, but it will prove itself useful if you want to tune the Kingdom as you wish!

Coincidence or not, it’s all about dead stuff! Let’s cover some of the changes made during these Holidays!

Skeleton Princess rework

Skeleton gal got most of her questline rewrote, together with the addition of a new dowry!

The Bone Rattles

Even more importantly, her first route is now being added!
Will the Knight convince the spooky lady to marry him?

Only the dead will see.

Ghost Princess rework

This one goes way deeper:

• She’s now completely mute.
• Her reign is now surrounded by a barrier during nighttime, making it invincible and inaccessible.
  
  
• You can destroy such thing~

• Her route will also unlock after you successfully break the barrier!

Together with a complete overhaul of her pre-recruitment questline several additions have been made. New hidden areas to visit, new quests and a completely new item that will be shown today for the first time!

Before talking about it, though, it’s better if I introduce: 

The Putridarium

Under the Chapel you will now find a bunch of coffins, most of the empty at the beginning of the game, except for one.

If one of the Princesses dies during a playthrough her corpse will be sent in one of those coffins and guarded by the Church of Conquest. It will also possible to read about the cause of the Princess’ death by checking her coffin!

And now: how to use them!? Because there’s great power in Princess’ Souls, isn’t that obvious?

If the soul of a dead Princess is still somewhere around the Kingdom, it will definitely answer the whistle’s call!
Keep in mind that if you “accidentally” kill a Princess and take her Soul for yourself, that one won’t be able to reach the Putridarium!

Once they answer the call, you will be able to ask them one out of two wishes, for each little soul! There’s 2 kinds of wishes:

• Egg wish: its effect lasts 1 week. Doesn’t consume the Soul.
• Chicken wish: immediate effect. Consumes the Soul.

Some examples:

• Harvest Princess / EGG: 1 week of sunny weather / CHICKEN: +100 Population to all the Reigns
• Goblin Princess / EGG: 1 week with upped Fertility for all the Princesses / CHICKEN: +3 Wealth to all the Reigns
• Ghost Princess / EGG: 1 week of Safe Nights (no Reign can fall under a siege during night-time) / CHICKEN: Resurrect 1 Princess and recruit her
• Moth Princess / EGG: 1 week-long night / CHICKEN: +5 Diplomacy between all the Reigns

And so on… funny stuff to make every playthrough even more different if someone accidentaly kicks the bucket!

Of course when I said that there’s a coffin already available at the beginning of the game I was talking about Ghost’s, but that doesn’t mean that the whistle will be found on her~

I hope you’re as excited as I am! Happy New Year, we’ll deal with the lawsuit soon and get back building the most fun eroge ever~

On that note, while we wait for Wyvern‘s dedicated animations, she already has 2 made with her unique pallette!

Faun‘s new adult scene will also get added in the first possible occasion, Akai’s giving the finishing touches to his new animation!

Remember that is always possible to make a voluntary donation or a tip to us, until our funding platforms are back online!

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Tipping us in here is also much appreciated!

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Packing everything up for the upcoming release, that I want to be ready for the moment the lawsuit is over, but that’s no fun for the most part, so I’ve already started working on more on the side.

These additions won’t push the date further ahead, I’ll just put them on hold if I don’t manage to finish them up in time, so enjoy the preview and don’t forget to send us your feedback~

Moss Princess

• Personality: Hikikomori
• Location: ???
• Ability: Agoraphobia

Didn’t see her coming, huh? Well, that’s part of her charm!

I’ve come out with a (much) faster way to make secondary Princesses playable and she’s our test subject! Consider her as a special looking Progeny, because that’s how she’ll be treated by the game engine.

She will have her own dialogue lines being played while she’s at the Campsite or in the Tavern and a very special ability, but that’s it for now! No additional work is required to have her ready to be recruited in your team!

Reworks

I’ve almost finished rewriting the dialogues and events regarding Skeleton Princess, the english was terrible and I needed to prepare the way for her new dowry, the  Bone Rattles!

The rattles already work perfectly, I just need the “Samba!” visual and sound effect to call myself 100% satisfied.
As you can see by the HUD in the top-left corner the “Samba!” ability replaces the Player’s (so no shield block for the Knight, or dodge for Kobold), but that’s the only setback to a deliciously OP dowry~

I’ll start reworking in the same fashion Ghost Princess next week, but her reign has already got an important new upgrade!

During nighttime, as long as you haven’t dealt with its cause yet, her Mansion will be surrounded by a barrier that makes it inaccessible!

More about it:

• You won’t be able to enter her place, not even during sieges
• Enemy reigns won’t be able to conquer her reign by sieging it
• During daytime, or after you destroy the barrier, the Mansions won’t have that bonus anymore
• All the other places in her reign will remain accessible, regardless of the barrier (you can see in the .gif above how the Inn is not surrounded by the barrier)

Besides what presented today, I’d rather not add anything more to v0.16, the first playable version of Princess & Conquest, so I’ll keep some of the new content we are preparing locked until future releases, when I’ll have time to test it out thoroughly.

Christmas will be a busy time, but there will be surely more updates on our status by then.

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Since our Patreon page is down we’ll be working on the game without being crowdfunded until we’re able to put it back online.

However, if you’d like to help sustain our livelihood until then, consider making a donation! It would be greatly appreciated!

Or tipping us in here, without expecting anything in exchange but eternal gratitude!

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Between the myriad of things we’re taking care of right now, we didn’t forget about the FUN stuff!

Here’s 3 new items that will surely vary the gameplay even more! Thanks to Tsu as always for the awesome icons!

•  G4sM-ausk

This top of the line gas mask, model G4sM-ausk, is the only way for the Knight’s team to survive the poisonous areas of the Kingdom Below!

If you have Slime, Golem, Skeleton or Ghost Princess leading your party (or a Progeny of that race) you obtain the same effect, though!

•  Gorgon Shield

Here’s a rare piece equipments with a special effect, pretty useful and fun I’d say, that can be obtained only after the chain of events that lead to the opening of the Sunken Ruins!

In addition to its nice defensive stats (mostly Magic Defense) if struck often enough it will auto-cast Fear on your enemies!

•  Bone Rattles

“Shake shake! The wearer gains the skill: Samba!”

“Samba!” will replace the user’s skill! The enemies will burst into dance for a short time and won’t be able to fight back while doing so.
They will also be used to distract guards and will have their own sound effect!