Harlot Spotlight - The Elegant Woman

The harlot spotlight series continues with a closer look at the NPCs. As their scenarios are not written, I can't include the raw scripts. But I can preview their full pinup art and talk about my plans for how they will show up in the game. This week we'll be taking a look at The Elegant Woman.

In the code The Elegant Woman is referred to as npcGossip, which pretty much explains her function. She is there to give the player hints and clues about each harlot. Unfortunately, she's still a daemon, and fairly malicious, so not all of her advice is helpful, and some will get the player killed. She finds that amusing.

(There is a charm that will let you know when The Elegant Woman's advice is suspect.)

For her appearance and look I wanted her to be reminiscent of a gossipy old movie star that's bitter about the fresh talent coming through. Although, with The Elegant Woman, she doesn't really feel threatened by the other harlots. She just likes gossiping about them and it also amuses her to give men bad advice so they end up annoying the girl they visit.

One of the good things about having proper art for her is I did have a problem where I mentally put her as an 'old' old gossip. As with The Madam, she might talk like an old woman, but she's still a succubus and extremely attractive.

I pretty much have her mechanics and scenes for her scenario sorted out in my head. She'll show up as a high-tier regular harlot for the 4th faction (The Madam's faction of 'generic' succubi). This seems a good fit for her. Her internal mechanic is fairly straightforward and synchs well with her NPC duties, but requires her to show up in a later round. She's a good fit for that faction both in appearance and mechanics (the 4th faction tends to look at odd things rather than stat/disposition checks). The 4th faction is a little weird in that 3 of the NPCs will probably end up as part of it, but this fits within the lore as that faction is the 'House Succubi' faction. The Buxom Lolibaba has more scope for variety, so she'll be taking the 9th round mini-boss slot, whereas The Elegant Woman is more suited for a single scenario, so she'll show up in rounds 10-12 (and kill an awful lot of players in her initial release as she'll be nigh-impossible to survive if summoned to show up on round 2).

As for her abilities, The Elegant Woman is a succubus specialising in smoke magic. Her scenario will likely have her drug the player with perfumed smoke and then manifest sexy forms out of it to stimulate them to orgasm.

Unless the player takes her fancy, she'll likely be sitting on a chair and watching on in amusement while her smoke creations fuck the energy out of the player. I might add additional scenes where she joins in directly. I might tie those to a separate side quest. I'm still not fixed on it yet.

As an additional behind-scenes bit of lore, The Elegant Woman was originally planned to show up in a separate novel idea I was working on. That didn't pan out, but I thought the character and powers were interesting enough to give her an NPC role within the House.

Art is again by marwmellow.

I hope you like it and my future ideas for her harlot scenario. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.