Harlot Spotlight - L'iaculatia

This week the spotlight is on the last of the low-tier harlots – L'iaculatia.

Arachnes are one of my favourite monster girls, so I have a few ideas written down for them. The first, Arana Solfugis, specialises in whole-body vore. L'iaculatia is a more conventional arachne with a vagina that works similar to a spider's mouthparts, complete with 'sucking pouch'. I also have notes for a 3rd that plays with the spinneret sex trope. She is a 'maid' arachne that fits within the 'House' faction. There is no room for her at the moment, but she might get added in future when the 'generic succubus' faction is broken up into separate factions with stronger identities.

As for L'iaculatia, I wanted to reuse some aspects of the old "Escape the Arachne" scenario I wrote a few years ago while teaching myself Twine. The main theme of the fifth faction is erotic femdom wrestling, but it also has mechanical subthemes around tests of physical prowess. If I ever provide pre-built starting characters, this is the faction path 'the jock' should follow.

I couldn't really think of a cleaner challenge to fit within a harlot's bedroom, so I just made a similar challenge to the old "Escape the Arachne" scenario. L'iaculatia puts the trophy at the far end of her room and challenges the player to grab it before she webs them up. It's a little awkward, but just about fits within the House, as it has a few unusual rooms.

The mechanics of the scenario itself are similar to Lady Flumpth's. There are various stat checks, but they're not too difficult and there are ways to make them easier. The player has to dodge twice, then have the requisite strength to push through when L'iaculatia uses her wide-angle silk spray. It's a good fit for the fifth faction as the mechanics are aligned, L'iaculatia is in sportswear, and the room is a modified old-fashioned school gym room.

Now, the lore.

This is still a little undefined for the spider girls, although I've added a few tidbits here and there.

Unlike Lady Flumpth, L'iaculatia is holding back and would otherwise be too strong for this level. She demonstrates this by effortlessly webbing the player up at the end even if they succeed in her challenge. The fifth faction is mostly about physical challenges, so they are more receptive to The Madam's desires to give the prey a 'sporting' chance.

In general, arachnes are fairly powerful lust daemons. They're also not as reliant on using charm and seduction. They're perfectly fine with tying prey up with their silk so they can do whatever they want to them.

Arana Solfugis, the first arachne added, is a simple gift check. The player needs to bring her the right gift. I thought I'd make that part of the lore for the arachnes within the House. L'iaculatia is 'younger' and not as interested in 'the old ways', but bringing her the right gift will have her comment on it and make some checks easier.

Technically, the art should have L'iaculatia's abdomen hanging down underneath her as she prepares to spray silk. It's a nice dynamic pose, though, and still fits the character quite well, so I hope people don't mind it's a little different to how the scenario is described.

And that is the last of the low-tier harlots. These are all the harlots currently within the HoHH 1.5 demo.

It's not the last of the harlot art I have. I currently have pieces for the rest of Faction 2 as well as a couple of others. Unlike the recent spotlights, where the demo got ahead of me, these will be proper previews as I haven't shown off most of them yet. And, as I have to add the mini-bosses to the game first, it will be a while before they appear in the game. So, back to proper temporary exclusive art previews for higher tiers again!

I am, however, previewing them faster than Marwmellow can draw them, so the harlot spotlight series will go back to every two weeks now that all of the low-tier harlots (which are in the demo) have been covered.

(The next pin-up batch is also all the NPCs, and I don't have full scenarios written for them yet!)

I hope you like L'iaculatia's art. Let me know what you think below.