Corruption of Champions II News

First big patch of the year is starting things off with one of our biggest dungeons yet, some plot movement on the part of Princess Varena, a reworked character creation experience, and a rework that brings the Charmer class out of being a weird spellcaster hybrid and into its own unique little niche. I hope you all enjoy!

KNOTQUEST

• After having either let Drifa get carried off to the knot cave or having saved her in the Old Forest, you’ll be able to find the location of the the Corrupted Lupines’ base. Check your questlog for a new quest that’s been back-ported in if you’ve interacted with Drifa. This quest is balanced for level 4 or 5 Champions. If you’re heading in there, you might want to bring some friends good at teasing or spellcasting, or stock up on Blood Iris! Remember: beastfolk hate Blight damage!
  
• This is a quite deep dungeon — over 300 pages of raw content, with a lot of different paths through the various bosses and NPC encounters therein. To avoid too much in the way of spoilers: there’s no less than 4 chunky bosses with suites of scenes and bad ends, some really rather interesting sub-quest design going on in there, plus fun ways you can end up changing certain characters throughout the dungeon!
  
• Please note, when I say 300 pages of content I just mean IN THE DUNGEON. The followup content for the dungeon (more Drifa, more corrupted lupines, written by a combination of Jstar, Tobs, and others) will be rolling out throughout the early year. At my last count there’s more pages of follow-on content than dungeon content already waiting in the wings, which is really saying something.
  

Other Various New Content

• Cait and Katya have a 3way together with some high-impact kitty-on-kitty-on-PC squish.
  
• The first of Varena’s two personal quests is now implemented — a small romp to find someone who’s been stalking the princess.
  
• Varena’s Trust scores have been adjusted slightly now that the quest is in, so if you haven’t already banged her, she’ll require a little more buttering-up to get into bed.
  
• Various den foxes have new talks reacting to your having shagged Komari. Some of these are really quite funny.
  
• New sleep event after fully upgrading the Wayfort and having purified the Hornet Hive — Queenie comes and gives you a private dance.
  
• New Busts for the Knot Gods: Meridyx, Olivia, Atugia’s mom and dad from the flashback, the Head-Slicing Wraith, Genova updated bust, and NinaQuest 2 busts
  
• New CGs: Cats Double Blowjob, Character Creation Races, Varena Cowgirl sex, Ivaze, Queen Nyzerrah’s Dance
  

Gameplay and Experience Reworks

• Character Creation has seen a major update. While the core 5 Classes and 5 Races remain unchanged, as does the total list of 10 available Backgrounds, many new options have been added for starting cosmetic appearance. In addition, you can now choose any Background regardless of Class.
  
• Most races have new eye, hair, and/or skin color options to start with.
  
• Maximum starting breast size has been increased.
  
• New sliders have been added for most physical properties of the character in CharGen, such as thickness, muscle tone, butt size, and more.
  
• In addition to weapon and spell powers, we now have Charm powers. These function like spells, but for… Charmers! Charms scale off of Sexiness instead of Spellpower, and use Temptation instead of Spell Pen. Most Charmer abilities are now Charms rather than a slapdash mix of spells and untyped tease attacks.
  
• List of Charms: Flametongue, Hymn to Light (NEW, Cantrix Viv exclusive for now), Scaldic Cadence (NEW), Bardic Cadence (NEW), Cadence of Power (NEW), Bolstering Dance, Song of Storms, War Song, Song of Splendor, Sunblade, Charm Spell, Charming Glance (NEW), Thunder Chord (NEW), Holy Reverberation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Dischord, Grand Finale, Notation Revelation (NEW, Cantrix Viv), Flare, Sacred Chord (NEW, Cantrix Viv)
  
• A bunch of healing powers now scale off of your tease boost: Flametongue, Hymn to Light, Bolstering Dance, Song of Courage, Soothing Dance.
  
• Bardic Cadence, Cadence of Power, Scaldic Cadence, Charming Glance, Thunder Chord have all been added to regular ol’ charmer lists.
  
• Song of Splendor is now a tease that applies 3 stacks of resonance
  
• Vestal’s Embrace now can be used even if allies are at full health so as to enable threat generation.
  
• Holy Ward now works as intended.
  
• Toughness now provides more additional Health per point (7.5 as opposed to 5).
  
• Base Threat is now increased by Toughness and reduced by Cunning.
  
• Presence no longer increases Health.
  
• The Leadership bonus from Presence has been reduced by half. To compensate, the scaling on Summons has been increased to Leadership + Presence instead of JUST Leadership.
  
• The Accuracy bonus from Agility has been reduced by half. To compensate, all characters now have a level-based passive Accuracy boost: this should equal out to about the same for max-Agility characters and provide a nice boost to low-Agility characters’ hit rates. Poor Arona can finally swing straight!
  
• Tease base damage nerfed from 30 to 27
  
• Terrified now reduces magic resist instead of mental resist
  
• Aroused reduces mental resist instead of magic resist
  
• The Charmer’s Stylish perk is now “isn’t wearing heavy armor” and gives 4*level Sexiness OR “is wearing heavy armor” and thus gives a Threat bonus equal to your Sexiness. Bard tanks!
  
• Catalysts now directly give their bonuses to Spell and Charm-tagged powers, rather than obliquely benefitting things using the magicalHit formula. This doesn’t REALLY change much but is a slight buff to catalysts overall, making them apply to more powers.
  
• Caranbrot now heals the player if they are already shielded.
  
• Wooden Pipes no longer grant spellpower and spell pen, instead giving ward and temptation
  
• Viviane has two news sets! Elemental, themed around debuffs and setting up combos, which is always unlocked; Cantrix, a holy-themed bard, which is currently unlocked by default pending some upcoming content for the witch. The latter set is exclusive to human Viv, while Demon Viv will have an exclusive set of her own soon as well.
  
• Skin/Fur/Scale plurality should now be properly accommodated in the game’s text.
  

It's about time for the First Princess of Khor'minos to finally make her appearance outside the palace!

This chunk of Varena's content represents about 80 pages out of a little over 200 I've written for the royal cow over the last couple months. Bit of an endeavor, but I'm quite pleased with the results! It's all leading into the final bit of Khor'minos's storyline, and the penultimate Main Story Quest overall -- which'll be my first major project come the new year. I hope you all enjoy your first taste of the princess cow!

0.7.31 Patch Notes:

• After the Feast For Heroes event at the end of the current Main Story Quest, you can now receive a letter inviting you to meet Princess Varena in the city!
  
• With a little buttering up in her talks, you can convince Varena to go on a date with you. If that goes well, you'll have your chance to deflower the princess of Khor'minos! Note that Varena's Trust score, the hidden variable governing her relationship, has been artificially inflated a bit until her first (of two, both written and awaiting code) quest gets in so that you can access her intimate content in the meantime.
  
• Once you've given Varena a first time to remember, she has a set of new repeatable sex scenes (plus an extra one-off scene if you wear her panties when you try to fuck -- though be warned, she's NOT amused).
  
• Livrea has a new anal sex scene!
  
• The Liaden/Azzy throuple have a new seasonal event, triggered by entering the Frost Hound while they're both around town and in a relationship.
  
• If you have Cait with you when you visit Hana, you can invite the sex-kitten along for a couple of hot and heavy new threeways!
  
• There’s a new harlot for hire in the Passion Pasture, a salamander-elf crossbreed gal packing some cute meat and lean muscle.
  
• Vitra’s bar in Khor’minos has a new Thief trainer who might be interested in teaching you some more intimate backstabbery.
  
• Elaril of the Wyld Elf Troupe has a new sex scene involving a sex swing!
  
• Clementine the Sheep Girl has a new mating press scene!
  
• Various bug and text fixes courtesy of the community!
  

There’s a cute new quest available from the half-leothran sisters in Vari’s village, replete with quite a lot of twin-focused action (and a whole lot of elf breeding). Plus there's a set of new characters to be discovered throughout the game world!

0.7.29 Patch Notes:

• Twins basil, twins! Help the snowcats Liresh and Syrish with their return to relic hunting — just make friends with them at the leothran village and then come back around to the village, they could really use a hand.
  
• After the quest, a pair of naughty winter elves from the adventure can be found in the Leothran village, and then again (IN AN UPCOMING EXPANSION) in your Wayfort after that, for some repeatable fun — and quite a lot of breeding!
  
• There’s a new imp you can encounter in Hawkethorne! If you’ve given birth to a litter of Kasyrra’s imps, or if you’ve completed the Winter City and have 30 or more Corruption, there’s a chance you’ll get a night visitor from a particularly buxom lady imp when you sleep at the Frosthound Tavern. Invite her in enough times, and not only can you make her a bedmate, but you’ll unlock a whole suite of additional content! Perfect for anyone looking for a shortstack lady to dominate them. If you have a virile penis, she’ll eventually invite some ‘friends,’ too! Just be careful: spending a little too much time with her can have consequences…
  
• In the northern reaches of the Windy Peaks, you can now encounter an elder among the harpy clan who’s eager to prove age is no barrier to ass-kicking or to breeding. Comes fully loaded with seven new sex scenes!
  
• Down in the Outskirts of Khor’minos, you can now interact with Foreman Odoacer, chief of the city’s remaining miners, just near the entrance to Undermountain. This burly bull puts up a tough facade, but it might be he’s looking for partners that can make him bend over and whimper.
  
• There’s a new option to try and run from the Corrupted Lupines encounter in the forest, and not put up much effort in doing so if you choose…
  
• A whole load of bugfixes and typo corrections by community editors. Thanks, friends
• New Busts: I’ava and Sif, by Moira.
  

Have a bunch of horses to send in the harvest season, and the last of the orctober fun times too!

0.7.27 Patch Notes:

• You can now choose Kalysea as a bedmate! She has some rotating scenes for when you go to bed with her, and she’s more than happy to keep you warm in the cool winter of the Marches. Each scene has a different theme, but hopefully you enjoy all of them.
  
• The first time you sleep with her you’ll get a unique scene, and subsequent scenes will be different. Give the big centauress druid an oral cleanup before you go to bed — then try not to get too distracted…
  
• The first variant involves blessedly chaste (as chaste as it gets for Kalysea, anyway) sleep, followed by Kalysea serving you breakfast in a bowl. You will have to work for some of the ingredients yourself, but that’s what lovers do.
  
• The second variant involves Kalysea getting some much-needed relief before she settles down for the night atop you, ensuring you keep the more sensitive parts of her notable endowments warm overnight. It’s not completely smooth sailing, though…
  
• The third variant involves cleaning her up before a night spent together, closely followed by having your breakfast together. She does treat you nicely, doesn’t she?
  
• Alante now has multiple additional sex scenes, as well as an event upon entering your Wayfort. She gets a bit of additional characterization in the new scenes, and there might be some capitalization on that in the future… in the meantime, enjoy having some fun with your arena-wife.
  
• You can now give Alante Hard Anal. This is every bit as rewarding and fun as it sounds, and I won’t spoil it for you.
  
• You can now rim Alante, and this segues into 3 different scenes.
  
• Fingering her: you can show Alante how much of a dual threat you are with your fingers and tongue. Set your warrior-wife trembling!
  
• Focusing on her ass: eschew distractions, focus singlemindedly on her asshole. Don’t stop until both her and your obsession are satisfied.
  
• Hard anal: surprise! You can get to the new hard anal scene from here, too. It has a different intro, but just as much making Alante happy.
  
• Klemaia now has a tattoo scene! Optionally take some time off with her and the girls to give her what you and her both deserve — a nice holiday in her service. It’s four days long, so don’t be surprised if you have to wash the sheets more than once.
  
• Solveig the half-orc half-pup has a new scene, seasonal for orctober, triggered when entering the tavern or church in Hawkethorne after finishing her quest. She wants to make you some delicious soup (and then you can help yourself to her as dessert).
  

The shortest and stoutest of the Companions has a new personal quest this week, giving you a new insight into her (now quite ancient) past, while Alissa’s finally woken up from her enforced nap on the way back from Dracia Island. Meanwhile, the orcs aren’t quite done celebrating their favorite time of the year…

0.7.26 Patch Notes:

• Tui now has her first major quest! Venture into a dream of her past, battle a long dead nightmare, and then discover the impending consequences of her boundless ancestral power! This triggers 2 weeks after recruiting her or after you resolve Lumia’s quest, whichever comes first when you go to sleep in Hawkethorne. The poor girl’s having some nightmares, and they may be more than mundane…
  
• After resolving Atugia’s quest, three certain troublemakers you can encounter during it have some new scenes around the Wayfort if you choose to keep them around.
  
• Similarly after the quest, Atugia has a new date you can take her on!
  
• Alissa, fallen queen of Njorhaalt, can now be interacted with (and boned!) in the Wayfort Dungeon after she’s been captured during Etheryn’s questline!
  
• In the dungeon, you can choose to have Alissa switch between her true demonic form and transforming into her old elven self. You can also choose whether she has a cock or not (and if she has a cock, whether she’s forced to wear Ryn’s old chastity cage).
  
• Ylvid, the skald of the Kervus tribe, can now be encountered in the Kervus War Camp after completing (or missing) Livrea’s little quest in Hawkethorne. She’s got a couple simple talks, and a host of new sex scenes (plus repeats of those solo and Arona scenes from the quest).
  
• Hretha has a new Bodyworship scene at the Kervus Warcamp. Show her some gentle affection, even if it makes her grumble!
  
• Hretha and Infrith can now brew up a mighty fertility potion if one or both of them isn’t already pregnant. This will, predictably, probably end in one or both of them getting knocked up once you drink it.
  
• Infrith has a new solo titfuck scene!
  
• Once defeated in honorable one-on-one combat in the arena, Alante the centaur can be taken as your mare. She becomes a camp follower, complete with talks, sex, and travel blurbs.
  
• Once they become camp followers, Alante and Kalysea can now temporarily be called to the player’s side by a pair of new summoning powers. Talk with each mare in camp to get her respective power.
  
• River and Garth each have one new power to sell.
  
• Farrah and Ivris each have one new weapon to sell.
  
• There are some revamped Tease texts.
  
• New Bust: Oma the genie, Alissa’s new look, and Kesuk and Marigold have new busts as well!
  
• New CGs: Tarah Body Writing, Ashe reclining in her dream, and Centaur Milf Orgy