Evoria Chapter 9!

Ha!! It's here!! Get excited!!

With the sidequest update, I feel like it's been so long since we've seen the story progress!! Well, progress it will- Chapter 9 is out early on Patreon!! There's a lot here, check the patch notes-

THE STORY CONTINUES!

- With the Master of Evoria's diary in hand, now our heroes just need to translate it! To do that, they'll need to find the Rosetta Crystal, a slimegirl treasure! The journey will now take them to the swamps of Fluoritia!

OVER 40 NEW PIECES OF SCENE ART!

- That's right!! With more story comes more amazing art!!! As usual, SeaBea did some amazing stuff, you'll have to see it all for yourself!!

- An entirely new animation!! This one's really good too, look forward to seeing it in-game!

- Lots of older art tweaks too, including revised face portraits for the guards, Calypso, elf mafia members, and a new battler for the guard!

OTHER FUN STUFF!

- The former New Pax Botanical Gardens (located north of the museum) have been converted into a Fan Art Gallery! (Or, was it a FINE art gallery?) This features 18 different pieces of fan art done by artists like Calavasín, Buckets, Genpis-Chong, VectorFlatArt, ClinkoClinko, Burner2TheGround, DeuzzYeager, Oskar 81, TheBoy, and Foccasion!! A special round of applause to all those amazing artists, thanks for letting me include your awesome pieces in the game!!

- You'll find various sparkly newspaper boxes around the world containing new art pieces of various headlines! There are a total of XX to find! Once you've found them, you can check out the Newspaper Gallery in Southeast New Pax to view them at any time!

- 18 New fish can now be found in New Pax and Glumberwood! They can only be caught by having :REDACTED: fish. Huh, that's odd...

- 4 new museum entries have been added based on various scenes in Chapter 9!

- 2 new quests for the Quest Log! Both are main story-focused!

- 33 new Adventurer's Database entries!! (Counting the new fish!) There's a lot of stuff here!!

SMALLER CHANGES!

- New items have been added to various stores and chests around the world! Saltwater, which cures confusion. Rubber Ball, which cures paralysis. And Self-Help Book, which removes all debuffs you might have during battle!

- Strange new advertisements have been plastered all around the streets of New Pax... What could they be for?

- Mitzi's "Stop" spell can now be upgraded at the Salon in New Pax, along with two of :REDACTED:'s spells.

- The Quizmaster now has a funny hat and bow tie in his Adventurer's Database portrait. He forgot to wear them the day he met the main party.

- Eve has new face portraits and expressions!! Her dialogue has been tweaked slightly to account for this.

- The doors in the museum have changed color to better match the themes of the chapters they represent.

- Tweaked a LOT of Cherry's older dialogue to better fit her character. (And make her slightly less horny)

TWEAKS/BALANCING!

- Cherry's sprites have been slightly altered to better show off her butt.

- As you head to the president's office to begin the chapter, there will be a debug thing that will turn Pixel Renee back into Regular Renee! (For those who experienced that bug!)

- Bea's sprites have been tweaked very slightly to give her a full smile instead of a smirk.

- Older sidequests and museum entries have been altered to ajust for :REDACTED:

- MP costs have been adjusted for Mitzi's "Stop" and "Confuse" spells for better balancing, these spells also miss slightly more often.

- Cherry's Woeful Melody now debuffs enemies' attack for 3 turns instead of 5.

- The sign at the entrance to Mitzi's lab for the "Bea Philanthropy" sidequest has been changed to a note.

- Renee's "Blasting Frenzy" has been nerfed to only hit three times instead of four

- Fixed an issue of Mitzi's text being centered after entering Mushrow Lake in Chapter 6

- Fixed an issue of Naomi's dialogue in the storage room of the speakeasy in Chapter 2 going outside the text box

- Tweaked dialogue to make Olly more accurately describe the New Pax Convention Center in Chapter 7

- Added debug at the start of the chapter for Cherry to learn "Gulp" and "Digest" skills if she hadn't in the past.

Story-wise, this chapter isn't very long, but it is very dense. There's a lot more stuff here than it seems like at first, hopefully you'll see why when you play it! But this is just the calm before the storm, stay tuned for the next chapter- this is what everything's been leading up to- the grand finale!

Here's a link to download it now!

https://mega.nz/file/kL1DEbKQ#heG1LabqiiOh3IpaCeWifIx-dh3IK8uwKW5NVoYM9t8

(Copy and paste the whole link if it doesn't work right!)

I hope you like it!! For those new here, there's gonna be one of those usual "How was it?" posts tomorrow, so get your thoughts ready!

-F.P.