June Update

As a small update to my last posting, I just wanted to share some good news with you today. The small update for DCL I was talking about last time, won't be so small after all. Its version number will be 9.0 and bring some rather significant changes to DCL. 

Over the last few months I have been looking at "pain points" players experience when using DCL. As in features that just aren't fun. Two of the bigger offenders has already been neutralized - the dreaded "surrender immediately after dropping your weapon" condition in Combat Surrender. And how males sometimes wanted sex when starting a dialogue with them, which was inconvenient even when working as intended, and sometimes even broke quests. 

But there are more. 

Another major habit of DCL some people really didn't like was how a cursed trap triggering in the wrong moment stops exploring a dungeon right there. Bound combat made wearing wrist restraints a bit less a showstopper, but in dungeons it usually still means having to leave, get out of the bindings and come back. Which can be frustrating. So there is now a new toggle in MCM called "Merciful Dungeons" that will take away the supply of wrist restraints from cursed traps in dungeons. Other devices can and will still get equipped, so it's not that traps lost their bite!
Another pain point was working in prison. While the prison feature in DCL was widely received very well by players, the circumstance that every day in prison feels like Groundhog Day, was not. Which is why now the tasks get randomized. Every day past the first, a random subset of tasks will be given to the player in random order. No day should feel the same anymore, and longer sentences should be less tedious, for fewer tasks will have to be completed on average. Oh, and additional, new tasks have been added to the pool, just to make this even more interesting! You might wonder why Day 1 is still unchanged? That's to give the player a chance to complete necessary steps to prepare her escape. With a fully randomized system, there is a certain possibility that escape won't be possible until much later in a sentence and I wanted to keep it a viable way of playing the prison.

Other than eliminating unfun features, there is more, though!

DCL 9 will bring back furniture bondage! The new DD furniture component Devious Devices - Contraptions is now a hard requirement of DCL. Furniture devices have been restored to every DCL quest that previously had them while ZAP was still a requirement of DCL and DD. The prison got shipped new furniture devices, too. What's a prison without pillories anyway?

And the maybe biggest change of them all I saved for last: As you all know, DCL has been adding bondage quest content for a while now. I want DCL to be more than "that mod that randomly ties you up when opening a container". I want it to be the mod that makes Skyrim kinky. All aspects of it. And that also means that you should be able to play kink content for many hours without even touching Skyrim's vanilla content. Several pieces of this are already in the mod. But 9.0 will bring them together for the first time, while adding more. Following the start-up quests "Delivery Refused" and "Chloe" (which already were linked), three more quests have already been strung together to form a new quest arc I call "Bound in Skyrim". Some of them are completely new, and some have been modified to fit into an quest arc. These five quests should already mean a significant number of hours you can play Skyrim the kinky way. 

And in the future there will be more!

Stay safe and kinky!