There is a slight change of plan with the harlot spotlights. While I pretty much have all the art for the artificial beings faction, I'm going to switch and take a look at some of the independents. The reason for this is I'm making good progress with testing all the ported Tier 1 harlots and I want to get a proper demo out soon(ish). This means I'm going to prioritise showing off the Tier 1 harlots which will have art in that demo.
First up, I'll cover one of the recent ones: Nicolette.
I'll also switch things around and cover her game mechanics and inspiration first.
Nicolette is basically a straight copy of Nicole from my short stories. A while back I thought it would be cool to add existing characters from my stories into HoHH as harlots. I also thought it might help reduce the writing workload if I added some harlots that were pretty much rewrites of existing sex scenes (aha, more on that in a mo).
I wanted Nicole for a couple of reasons.
The first is that I thought her waterbed massage scene from "Locked in with a Succubus" would be a perfect scene to add to the game. It's very sensual and sexy and I thought players would enjoy reading about a 'nice' succubus doing that to them.
The other was from a game mechanics perspective. Under the hood, HoHH is a little boardgame-y. The game loop has the player pick a one harlot from a choice of three and try to figure out how to avoid being killed by them. While most of the harlots belong to a faction, I also wanted some independents that provided a bonus (or negative) effect. While a visit to Nicolette isn't good in terms of the ration of semen lost to payout from The Portly Gentleman, it can have a very useful beneficial effect that can save the player coins elsewhere.
The main problem is that there are lore reasons why Nicole can't be in the House. I could ignore that, but I'd like the House to exist within the canon of my other settings. The fix for this was to create Nicolette, and then also drop some hints that she is the way she is because she met Nicole in the past and the other succubus made such a strong impression on her she's dedicated her life to being just like her. And who knows, maybe Nicolette will also get a short story of her own at some point.
There's also a nice tweak with the art. I forgot to specify Nicolette's hairstyle as more of the classic Cleopatra bob (which is Nicole's hair style), so she got a slightly different 'starlet' hairstyle instead. That gives her a little bit of an identity of her own.
Now for the bit that didn't quite work. About that idea of rewriting old existing scenes to save time... yeah, that didn't work out too well with this one. What I forgot about the original scene is that there is a multi-layered roleplay going on. Nicole, being highly empathic and adept at identifying secret sexual fantasies, is playing up being a predatory vamp to satisfy George's hidden fantasies. That gives that story most of its 'will she or won't she' suspense. That doesn't really fit for the HoHH scenario, so I had to rewrite and change a lot of things, which probably ended up being just as time consuming as if I'd written it from scratch.
It's a nice scene, though, so I was glad to bring it to the House.
Now for some of the lore stuff.
Nicolette is a special type of succubus that has traded their own ability to feel pleasure to be able to experience the pleasure of others. That type of succubus is one of the more powerful lust daemons, although Nicolette herself is one of the weaker examples of that group.
Another succubus made a big impression on Nicolette. Enough that she models her current appearance and ideals off her. She sees humans as more than food and refuses to kill them. In that respect she is a kind of "vegan" succubus and totally safe to visit.
To satisfy her cryptic game, The Madam insists all of her gals must kill or spare some of the visitors to their rooms. Usually, it's getting her gals to spare some humans that's the problem, but there are some on the other side that really don't like killing men and need to be cajoled into doing so.
Nicolette has a special dispensation exempting her from this. This is because The Madam, despite her dotty way of behaving, has enough political savvy to know when and when not to push it. Nicolette isn't the strongest of her type of succubus, but powerful enough to be a headache should The Madam try to push her too hard. The Madam also has Morticia in her House, who she cannot control at all, and so sees Nicolette as a way to balance her out in her "game".
As a side note, Calliophi also believes she has this same special dispensation. The Madam is happy to indulge her with this because she knows the girl's appearance and inability to control her instincts should a man react poorly to it will result in enough "accidents" to satisfy The Madam's requirements for her game. And that's the spotlight for Nicolette. Art is again by Marwmellow. You can find more of it here. I think he did a great job (again). Let me know what you think below.
With the next demo looming, I'm going to have to increase the frequency of posting these.
It's also good, as I have something to post while I'm currently buried in writing the first few "mini-boss" scenario and testing 30-odd ported harlot scenarios.
This is the very dangerous Osculia Suffocati. Her kiss will take your breath away.
Artist is Marwmellow (who is doing a great job with the bringing these harlots to life). You can find more of his work here on DeviantArt.
If you like these harlot pics and would like to help fund the commissioning of more, I currently have $5 and $10 tiers. These get to see new pieces early as well as access to the original scripts and special harlot "spotlight" posts going into the background lore and inspiration for each harlot. More importantly, the extra subscription money goes towards making sure I can add art to the HoHH game project without going broke! :)
#118 Neck Scissors Bubble Succubus Another wrestling succubus. She's not as powerful or as strong as the others and can't really lock-in submission holds. Instead she tries to wrap her thighs around her opponent's neck. If he can't break out immediately, she'll envelop his head with a bubble blown by her vagina and fill it with toxic fumes to both subdue him and induce the overproduction of semen for her to suck out of his cock with her mouth.
I do have a lot of ideas for the femdom wrestling faction of HoHH. Maybe more than is actually needed, even after separating off the Huntress group. A lot of the ideas also overlap. This might be one of the stronger ones though. Mechanically she seems suited for Tier 1 as she's physically weak enough for it to be a low STR check. Of course the player can always choose not to struggle and take it... ;)
#117 Level-Drain Slime Bed A large slime girl with enough mass to form a big blob beneath her. She draws a man into the blob and then rides on top cowgirl style. Her slime body is capable of forming a variety of comfortable orifices and she subjects the man to an all over erotic assault within her as she drains his energy and levels.
I think this was more for a generic H-RPG than HoHH, given that levels aren't really a thing in HoHH.
#116 Bubble Bed Succubus A less sadistic variant of the bubble-tail succubus. She has both a bubbly demeanour and appearance. She blows a bubble big and sturdy enough to function as a bed, then snuggles up with someone on it. She's more about leisurely massages and slow comfortable sex. Most of the time she just gives people a really comfy night and lets them go the following morning.
Huh, are you okay, Hydra?
I gave horror-head the day off today. Normal evil succubus service will be resumed tomorrow.
#115 Kiss Drain Monster Girl A monster girl with a heavy emphasis on kissing. She has sensual plump glossy lips. She also has additional lips at her nipples, navel and pussy. She subdues prey with draining kisses that leave lipstick marks all over their body. Her kisses induce euphoric paralysis, then she drains energy from a man's penis with any of her lips.
#114 Succubus Sex Foam Sprayer A 'combat' succubus armed with a magic cannon that sprays copious amounts of paralysing foam. A low-powered succubus, her task is to capture humans for the various succubus clans to play with. The foam is both sticky and also causes humans to orgasm uncontrollably on skin contact.
She could be used both in the H-space setting and in HoHH. She would fit the Huntress faction, but would likely be more of a servant class tasked with capturing prey. The higher level huntresses then hunt that prey for fun.
#113 Bubble Scylla Scylla monster girl that creates special sticky bubbles at the end of her tentacles. She applies these to the erogenous zones of her opponent to subdue them with pleasure. Once the man is subdued she engulfs his cock with a liquid-filled bubble and uses it to magically drain his energy.
This was originally an idea for a more generic H-RPG monster encounter. She could fit within the wrestling faction for HoHH although I don't know how her game mechanics work yet.
#112 Mummy/Flying Bolt Monster girl that ties a man up with strips of cloth. Likes anal and will tighten her wrappings at the same time she tightens her ass around his cock. Probably a sadistic domme.
There might be two monster girl ideas here. The mummy girl has narrow bandages, while a flying bolt (yokai from Japanese myth) could maybe wrap up the whole man in a sheet of silk.
While posting Chen's Harlot Spotlight for $5 and higher patrons, I got a warning message that the post contained some naughty language and "Trust and Safety" might take a look at it. This might be nothing. Or I might log on in a day/week/month from now and find my account has gone.
Unfortunately, Patreon has a very poor track record here.
Fortunately, knowing Patreon has a very poor track record on this means I've had some contingency plans set in place for a while. If the worst happens, I have a place to migrate supporters to where everything is essentially 'backed up'. I'm committed to getting the House of Hellish Harlots game out regardless of what's thrown at me! :)
On the progress for that:
Properly templating the artificial scylla has helped. I'm still scratching away at her. The core part of her scenario is about 2.5K words and each specialised suction tentacle is around 1K. I currently have about 5-6K typed up and several tentacles on the go in rough draft.
I'm still hoping for an end of month release, but be aware the mini-bosses, being longer and more complex, are a bit more difficult to schedule regular releases for. I don't want to 'lock up' with deadline pressure, so I'm keeping that flexible while writing her and Temptacia (I'm hoping once I get the first couple written and out, I'll relax and get back into a better flow again).
I've been making much better progress with the 1.5 HoHH demo. Testing on that seems to be flowing nicely and I'm into the artificial beings at the moment. Aside from checking to make sure there are no display bugs with the text, I've also made a few tweaks to the passage structure of some of the older scenarios. It's mostly to reorganise the passage breaks so that any text describing ejaculations occurs at the top of the passage (to line it up with the crude ejaculation animation I currently have).
It's also really nice to have the art in place for more than half of the harlots I'm testing. It adds a lot and I hope people like it.
Because I don't think I'm far away from the next HoHH 1.5 demo, I'll be reordering and increasing the number of harlot spotlight posts, so there will be another one (the 4th for this month) next week. I'll keep posting one a week until all the Tier 1s have been revealed.
I still think we might hit a situation where the demo is ready before I've properly spoiled all the character art. I'm a little uncertain how to handle that, especially for a full public (i.e. non paywalled demo). Use placeholders? Use the rough sketches? I'll discuss that with you all in more detail when I'm a little closer to releasing the demo.
Thanks for the patience and support! - manyeyedhydra
I'm still working through the artificial beings faction. Next up is Chén, who I actually received earlier than the Pêls, but I put off showing. And in a break with the usual format, I'm going to talk about the art first.
This one's a little cautionary and shows that sometimes what's in your imagination doesn't always translate well to canvas. Chén is a dainty glass mannequin that dances like a ballerina and has the coarse personality of a dockside whore. Her glass/plastic case is fully transparent and her insides are a mix of living organs and intricate clockwork.
When the first sketch came back I suggested some tweaks. The sketch gave Chén some artificial robot eyes. Chén actually has human eyes and there is supposed to be a whiff of body horror about her in that rather than being an android or sentient bioplastic gel like some of the other artificial beings, there are strong hints that The Doctoress transplanted living human organs into a glass mannequin case.
Marwmellow also suggested a nice headdress. I changed it to a flapper-esque headband. The headdress was a pretty good idea and was given to N3P-NTHes instead (that piece is exceptional, can't wait to show it off!).
The problem with all my meddling is it tipped the design too much into pure horror. Marwmellow took the idea of human eyes transplanted into a mannequin body and came back with something that was pure nightmare fuel. I've attached that to the post as well. You really get the sense of someone being reanimated into a plastic/glass shell and being unable to control a body that is now a prison.
It's a really nice horror piece.
Unfortunately, HoHH is supposed to be an erotic game and Chén has the sarky personality of a potty-mouthed dockside whore. That nightmare stare doesn't really suit her at all. So, I had Marwmellow modify the face to give some eyelids and a bit of a smirk. Which I felt really bad about, as the original is a fantastic drawing for unfortunately the wrong character.
The main takeaway I had from this is do not meddle too much with your artist!
Now, with that out of the way, onto the lore.
Chén is another creation of the House's resident mad scientist, The Doctoress. In this case she was experimenting with transplanting human parts into a glass shell to improve both their longevity and durability. Because The Doctoress is a bit scatty and easily distracted, she mixed up the body parts of a petite little ballerina with a tough dockside floozy, which resulted in Chén having the potty-mouthed persona she has.
Fortunately, the mixup in personalities did not affect Chén's abilities as a ballerina. Despite being a strange mix of organics, glass and brass clockworks, Chén is a superlative dancer and has a good eye for rating the abilities of her dancing partner. The Doctoress uses her to seek out the high-quality semen of exceptionally supple and agile men. She provided Chén with a special semen extraction unit to harvest it, which Chén 'charmingly' calls her "dickbag".
Because The Doctoress had originally thought she was giving the Chén the personality of a petite little ballerina, she wanted to give her some defensive measures in case an unsuitable man forced himself on her. Being The Doctoress, these defensive measures took the form of acid-secreting glands that could fill Chén's dickbag with a powerful organic acid in the event of the 'wrong' penis being forced inside.
Chén used it once.
After which The Madam forbade her from ever using it again. Such things were not becoming a House of Pleasure!
And finally, the game mechanics.
The central themes of the artificial beings faction came together fairly quickly once I added the NPC Doctoress to the House. They care about harvesting semen, lots of it, and – in particular – 'good quality' semen.
I also wanted to copy a mechanic I'd seen in Lobotomy Corporation. In that game some of the abnormalities will kill your worker if they are too high in a certain stat. I wanted that for HoHH to make it clear the game is not a regular RPG and the stats are identifiers rather than a value that needs to be pumped up and up and up. Being too high in a certain value can be just as bad as being too low depending on the harlot.
(There is a very strong hint this is the case in that The Doctoress also sells potions that temporarily lowers stats.)
Chén is part of a cycle of harlots that are looking for players with 'high quality' semen, with this being indicated by the player having the max value of 5 in the relevant stat. She turns away players that have 1s in that stat (rather than Pori or Nef, who Horror End them outright, which is why they are Tier 2 rather than Tier 1 harlots), but if she finds a 5, her 'dickbag' is capable of sucking out all the fluids in the man's body as semen.
And that's the spotlight for Chén, who I must confess I was a little worried about showing off given her art is a little more 'horror' than the others. I hope you like her anyway. Let me know your thoughts below.
The next bunch are some of the harlot scenarios I had for the Wrestling faction. This was originally intended to play around with the femdom wrestling fetish, where the succubi and monster girls would use more physical means to overpower the man. Then I came up with the Huntress Lodge idea while writing Huntress Diana, and that seemed good enough to justify being its own faction. My focus is to put out a complete version of HoHH with just the five factions to start with. As I add more later, splitting the fifth faction into 'wrestlers' and 'huntresses' will likely be one of the first things I do (after writing Succubus Summoning 301 – that needs to be given a turn!).
#111 Pheromone Weakener A femdom wrestling succubus that outwardly seems petite and weak. Her special ability is her body is constantly producing pheromones that weaken a man and reduce his will to fight, until the point she overwhelms him and then has draining sex with him once he can no longer resist.
Aspects of this eventually became part of Toxina's scenario, so it's another one that will be unlikely to get a scenario. If I end up with space and find I have a cute character I need to give a scenario to, maybe...
#110 Pussy Smother Wrestler Succubus with lithe and athletic body, and a swollen puffy vagina. She likes to use head scissors and sit on a man's face to weaken him by denying him breath. Likely works in concert with a tag-team partner that focuses on the crotch while she focuses on the head.
There's probably too much overlap with the smothering faction for this one, especially as I've already added an exiled smotherbus to the wrestling faction (Chelida). I would probably have to focus on the tag-team aspect of them being a duo double-teaming the player to justify giving this a scenario.
#109 Padded Cell Spumpire Another wrestling spumpire. She likes a good romp in a special padded room where she can fling a man around until he's too tired out to stop her from wrapping her luscious lips around his cock and sucking him dry. She likes to fight really dirty by sticking her finger in his ass or grabbing his testicles.
After writing the Huntress Diana and Khruutka scenario I had a few ideas for other spumpire scenarios. This was the basic one. She wouldn't be lethal unless she caught the man in a special hold (likely one that lets her get her finger in his ass and poke his prostate with a poison fingernail).
#108 Head Scissors Spumpire Spumpires are primitive succubi that are specialised in sucking all the fluids out of men with powerful blowjobs. Because they lack charm magic, they normally have to restrain the man physically first. This one likes to wrap her powerful thighs around a man's head and use her 'head scissors' to hold him in place while she slowly sucks him dry.
#107 Tail Inflator A succubus with a thick fleshy tail. Her scenario has her wrestle the player as normal. After defeating them she uses her tail to inflate the wrestling mat into a comfortable bed to have sex on. She also slides her tail in the player's ass to 'inflate' them. The results are either arousing or gruesome depending on how the wrestling went.
For most of the wrestlers they will either want the man to put up a bit of a fight (Anna Boa loves a good tussle), or 'know their place' and act meekly while the succubus tries out her moves on them.
#106 Miss Python She's not a lamia, but she does get a sexual thrill from constricting men in a brutally tight embrace. She likes to squeeze all the breath out of a man with her hug, then exhale poison aphrodisiac gas into their face when they need to take a breath. The poison overstimulates the testes and she then proceeds to squeeze all their 'juice' out into her pussy.
One for the erotic wrestling faction, but with the twist she only uses her poison breath if the player tries to resist too hard. Unlike the others in that faction, she wants the man to play along with the femdom wrestling fetish, so having low strength or just giving up is the correct approach with her. She's another where I ran out of slots to squeeze her in. At a future point I'd like to divide that faction in two to separate the wrestlers and huntresses, which will make room for Miss Python.
#105 Countdown Succubus A succubus that prefers to use restraint and bondage magic rather than charm and seduction. She ties a man down until he's helpless. Then counts down the ejaculations she sucks out of him with her pussy until he's completely drained.
This was originally part of Pix Decipula's scenario. Once she stuck the player down, she'd taunt him as she sucked each ejaculation out of him. I cut it as it was making the scenario way longer than it needed to be. I thought I'd reuse it for a harlot that made a bigger deal of the countdown. I'm not sure how her scenario would work. She would drain the player completely of all cum, but I don't know what the Bad End threshold would be. The player might need to completely full to avoid it. Or at least provide her a set number of ejaculations. Requiring the player to be full might make her scenario too difficult. I quite like the idea of making her another faction-independent 'bad' choice like Morticia, but all she'd do is just drain them to empty. She'd only kill the player if they came into her room completely empty. Maybe one to add later.
The week started relatively slowly. I realised there were a couple of HoHH tasks that just weren't getting done. Not because they were difficult. It was just a prolonged case of when I'd come to the designated spot in the day to do them, something else would just come up instead.
Realising I was procrastinating for no real reason, I grabbed those tasks by the throat and sat down to get them done.
That was testing Friesya (for 1.5) and writing the Artificial Scylla (and well, anything).
Friesya and Nicolette (both with minor repeat scenarios) are now fully tested for 1.5.
Another thing I've changed is to add a function to determine low, medium and high semen brackets that doesn't use raw numbers. I'm toying with the idea of raising the max semen count for the player, probably to 13, to match the number of rounds. This, of course, would break anything using raw numbers. While I haven't upped the count yet (and might decide to stay with 10), I'm tweaking harlot scenarios as I test them for 1.5 to make those checks be a function of whatever the MaxSemenCount is. This is just good coding practise and the minor changes will give me more flexibility in the future.
(I'm not worried about Nurse Honey always claiming the player at all. Please don't claim all the player, Nurse Honey. The game should allow some to escape!)
The other thing I did was type up and properly template the tentacles I've written for Artificial Scylla. She has 13 specialised semen suckers in total, and I was finding attempts to write new ones were being constantly derailed as I constantly kept checking back to see which bits were just repeating from earlier. In typing them up, I've got a template now to show which bits I need to fill in for each new tentacle. That should hopefully speed up the process of writing the artificial scylla.
The art commissions are also going well. Marwmellow has sent me the sketches for the next batch. At this rate the next proper HoHH 1.5 demo will have art for over half the Tier 1 harlots. Misty is a slight exception as she's Tier 2, but she's currently the guard bot for the discord and people requested she be given nice art for her avatar. :)
And now it's time for the 3rd of the Pêls, the vore-themed Pêl-V Gnoi.
Despite looking the youngest, Pêl-V Gnoi is the oldest model of the Pêls currently working in the House.
The Doctoress was interested in making more efficient semen extraction units, one that would also harvest other parts of the body after it had been completely drained of all semen. Those studies led her to investigate the various plant girl daemons of the Dominion of Lust and the way they use 'erotic digestion' to absorb the vitality of men.
Unfortunately, Pêl-V Gnoi was a failed experiment. She had a critical flaw that only became apparent once The Doctoress set her to work within the House.
Pêl-V Gnoi needs human semen in order to trigger the production of her 'digestive' juices. However, unlike most succubi, she lacks the supernatural means to induce an ejaculation in a man regardless of his current physical state and mentality. If a man is too tired or drained, she can't get him to come.
Because of this, Pêl-V is teased a lot by the other succubi in the House. It's a source of much of her insecurity and unhappiness, which she hides behind a bratty exterior.
Ironically, it's also likely prevented her from being destroyed by The Madam. Because of her twisted sense of 'fair play' the Madam would not have tolerated such a ruthless predator in her House, and had Pêl-V destroyed (as she has done before with The Doctoress's more 'displeasing' creations). As it is, Pêl-V's survivability rate is high enough for The Madam to allow her to continue existing.
And now the behind-scenes stuff.
I think Pêl-V Gnoi started as a second girl-on-bouncy-ball harlot, but unlike Pêl-O, who rode the player on top of her bouncy ball, Pêl-V would ride the player while inside her bouncy ball.
Because she's another girl-on-bouncy-ball harlot, it made sense to make her another Pêl and link her to Pêl-O. Because she's drawing the player into her ball, it also made sense to have her play to vore fetishes.
I realised she was going in the same direction, so decided to make her a nod to MGQ's Watermelon Girl. I also like to have things that initially seem to be other things, so I thought it would be fun to make her a 'plastic fruit' artificial plant girl. That enabled me to grow the lore of The Doctoress trying to create artificial beings that duplicated abilities of existing types of lust daemons (in this case plant monster girls). Pêl-V also being a 'fake' plastic fruit is also a nice nod to her weakness – unlike nearly all other lust daemons, she cannot cause the player to come if they're empty.
In terms of game mechanics, that's also a nice fit for the artificial beings faction overall. A lot of them are heavy semen drainers, so I thought it would be good to balance that out with a harlot where to survive the player just needs to be empty (which there is a good chance they will be, if they are following that faction path).
As for her art, the main thing I told Marwmellow was "like MGQ's Watermelon girl, but not as loli" (it causes too many problems for Western eroges). I think he nailed that with her youthful, but not childlike, face.
My initial description was for the big mouth to a jagged line as with the original Watermelon Girl. Instead Marwmellow gave her the comic-book chompers which fit so well – and take her further away from being a direct copy of MGQ's Watermelon Girl – I'll update the description at some point to match.
Overall I think he did a great job with what I feared would be one of the trickier harlots to draw. (Which is probably true for all the Pêls in general, I thought they'd all be quite tricky).
#104 Poisonous Nuru Slime Succubus A succubus that offers the typical erotic nuru massage on an inflatable airbed. She secretes the slime from her skin. It also has the toxic effect of overstimulating the testes until the man ejaculates out all of his fluids in the typical succubus dryfish bad end. Her vagina also secretes an antidote, but only if the harlot is brought to orgasm. Be good in bed or else!
I'm not sure why I didn't write and implement this one for HoHH. The game mechanics are already there. It's an affection and/or stat check. If the harlot likes the player, she orgasms and gives him the antidote. It could also play out like the classic scene from Basic Instinct where she rears up and then collapses down on the man during climax. The harlot loves to trick the man and make it look like she's about to come. Sometimes she does and it ends in a gloriously slimy climax. If she doesn't, it ends up in a glorious slimy Bad End, as – overwhelmed by the toxin – the player pumps all his fluids into her pussy.
It might have been a better version of the nuru scene than Nooru's.
I think it might have fallen victim to the problems I'm having with the sensuality faction. Despite fitting thematically with the sensual body-to-body massage, this harlot is a bit too predatory. Maybe I need to give Priti Nāndyāh a dark sister goddess, one that preaches pleasure is a tool to destroy and consume humans.
I had to skip a couple of days to focus on HoHH. I'm caught up now, so here's 3 new ones all at once!
#101 Sludge Tail Pumper This is a nasty one. A succubus with a thick fleshy tail she uses to pump erotic digestion fluids into her prey. She likes to slip in a man's ass during sex. She can pump in a small amount of fluids, which just increases arousal and volume of ejaculate. Or pump in a lot, which turns the insides of a man into semen which is then either sucked out by her vagina, or through her tail like a female version of Cell from Dragonball.
#102 Wing Wrap Succubus A succubus with very large wings she wraps around a man while embracing him. The inside of the wings is soft, cushioned and very pleasant to touch. She can overload a man with blissful pleasure just by wrapping her soft wings around him.
#103 Hypnotic Harlot Either a vampire or succubus. She has very large beautiful eyes that grab and capture the gaze. She drowns men in them, and when they are hers, slowly and leisurely drains their lifeforce with sex.
This was another harlot idea that missed out through all the early slots being filled. Her scenario was fairly straightforward. If the player socialised with her beforehand, she'd hypnotise him into being her slave, which would then result in a forced pick and bad end. Otherwise, her scenario was perfectly safe.
#100 Trap Bed Succubus The succubus is a trap specialist. Her room is booby-trapped to tip the player down onto an inescapable soft, sticky bed, then incapacitate him with aphrodisiac gas. She mentions she works in dungeons in fantasy worlds where her sex trap is intended to kill marauding adventurers. In the House it can be part of a safe roleplay scenario providing the player is of the right disposition and/or makes the correct choices.
#99 Sexy Genie Girl Sexy genie in harem gear that tries to seduce a man into performing three sex acts with her. At the conclusion of the third, she gets to take his soul. Her scenario has a nasty little gotcha trick. If the player picks vaginal or anal as the second act, she'll switch positions to get his cock in her other hole, satisfying the 'three wishes' requirement.
The genie idea was suggested by an email correspondent who also helped out with catching typos in HoHH releases. Sadly, I haven't heard from him in a while.
Mechanically, the genie idea is pretty much there as a HoHH harlot. Unfortunately, she's another one where I don't really have a slot for her. Mainly it's the mess of the 3rd faction. She fits the sensuality look of that group, but doesn't really fit the 'pleasure cult' aspect of them. At some point I'll have to go in properly and redo that faction from the top down to make it more cohesive.
I was out all day yesterday and wasn't able to get the entry done in time, so I'll start the week with two to catch up.
#97 Bubble-Tail Succubus Type of succubus that blows bubbles from tail to restrain men or provide a bouncy bed to fuck on. Is as sadistic as the H-space variant. If the man pisses her off, she'll inflate a bubble in his ass and rupture him from the inside. If she likes him, will give him an energetic bouncy cowgirl fuck on top of one of her bubble beds.
#98 Bubble Chair Succubus Another bubble-tail succubus, but one that doesn't like direct sexual intercourse. Instead she'll wrap a man up in a special arousing bubble and squeeze out all his cum (and life and soul, if Bad End conditions are met) into a special bubble onahole.
Unfortunately, I had a bit of IRL stuff I needed to clear up this week. That and a couple of mouth ulcers (really should stop stressing myself :D ) meant I had to sneak work in when I could.
This was a little more writing on Temptacia. I've started typing her up early to try and pick up the threads again.
I've also fully implemented the repeat scenario for Nicolette in HoHH 1.5, so players might be able to visit both her and Friesya multiple times in a single playthrough.
In better news, the art is going really well. I have an adorable piece for Sammy in. I now have art for all of the game-mechanic-important harlots. This is pretty nice as I reckon about half or more of the Tier 1 harlots will have proper art for when I put the updated 1.5 demo up. Still have to finish testing a fair few harlots for that. I'll continue to keep working through them.
A short update this week. I don't think I have any distractions for next week, so hopefully I'll finally be able to get a good solid week of writing done. I want to get those first two 'mini-bosses' written!
Thanks for the interest and support! - manyeyedhydra
Time to turn the spotlight on the second of the Pêls, Pêl-O Sugn.
Pêl-O Sugn is a later iteration of The Doctoress's semen extraction units. While an improvement on earlier designs and lacking the flaw present with the Pêl-V model, she is still regarded as too machine-like and forceful by The Madam.
Rather than have her destroyed, The Madam chose to be diplomatic and allow Pêl-O's use in the House, but with strict stipulations on when she can fully drain a man of all his fluids. While this compromise was agreeable for both The Madam and The Doctoress (and probably a great relief to Pêl-O Sugn, who, despite her artificial origins, is still technically 'alive' and sentient in every sense that matters), it did drive The Doctoress to refine her work further, until she created the more empathic model, Pêl-Z Perffeithio (the "perfect" Pêl).
Despite her imperfections, Pêl-O Sugn can provide both a bouncy cowgirl fuck and an extremely pleasant body-to-body massage.
The less said about her anal drain the better...
And now the behind-scenes stuff.
Pêl-O Sugn was the first of the Pêl trio, before I even had the idea of a Pêl trio. I think most of the girl + living bed/cushion ideas all lead back to the Milfy slime girl character from Violated Hero 2. Pêl-O Sugn is a more elastic, rubbery, and artificial take on that concept. Her ball doubles up as both a comfy, bouncy bed to fuck on, and a large storage bladder for all the fluids she harvests.
While House of Hellish Harlots is primarily erotica, I like to have that ever-present horror edge lurking at the fringes.
Her scenario mechanics also came at pretty much the same time as her sex scene ideas. It's reliant on an additional hidden variable tracked by the game and fits my overall plan of making those triggers fairly obscure. Sometimes the player will walk in, have sexy fun, then leave, other times the harlot will mercilessly drain them to a husk. The core mechanic is trying to figure out what those triggers are to make the harlot 'safe' for future runs.
As for the art, I figured the Tron girls would be a good starting inspiration – sleek and with an artificial sheen of soft plastic or rubber. I think Marwmellow did a good job of capturing it. You can find more of his work here.
#96 MILFy Caterpillar Girl A more adult and MILFier version of the caterpillar girl with hookah. She is bustier and more seductive. Her violet smoke is also much stronger. She draws the man on top of her comfy, bouncy lower body and clasps him tightly to her while having sex. For the Bad End she curls her abdomen around and blows special smoke into the man's ass. This turns him to gas inside and the Caterpillar girl sucks his life essence out into her body.
Yeah, this is basically the Wonderwurm from the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. Originally I created Kanna bi Grafolita as a hippy 'flower girl' take on a caterpillar girl, with an obvious nod to Alice in Wonderland. I remembered KC was currently working through Alice in Wonderland tropes for monster girls and checked in to see if he'd done a version of the caterpillar. I saw the Wonderwurm and thought, damn, that's how I should have done it. That gave me an idea for a milfier and far more seductive version of Kanna. I was also thinking of giving her a connection to Kanna, in that if that scenario went well (Kanna liked the player), it would make MILFy caterpillar girl's scenario easier to survive. I still envisioned her as a late tier harlot, so the player would likely still need a charm to be able to resist her perfumed smoke.
#95 Sticky Bubble Massage Succubus A bubble-tail succubus that produces sticky bubbles from her tail that feel mind-blowing to touch. She places a man's hands and feet in special bubbles to overwhelm him with sensory overload, and then blows a special bubble around his cock to trigger him to ejaculate out his soul.
#94 Soapy Slime Girls Slime girls that naturally secrete a froth of soapy bubbles. They like to take the filthiest of men and work together as a group to give them a good clean. They love the "dirtiest" parts of a man's anatomy and will encourage the man to purge himself of unclean thoughts, by wrapping him up in their soft soapy bodies and making him ejaculate over and over until he's barely more than an emaciated, pleasure-drunk wretch.
#93 Milk Bath Harem Succubus A succubus in harem attire that lures men into joining her in a special "milk" bath. She sensually pampers them before squeezing out all their semen and soul between her big soft milky tits.
#92 Twin Vagina Everting Demonesses Similar to the previous entry, but these two like to work together. Also devoted to sensuality, they have a man sit between them, and then balloon out their vaginas to completely smother him in sexual ecstasy between them.
I'd like to talk about the inspiration for this, but it's a bit spoilery for one of the potential side quest lines. This pair might show up as special 'hidden' harlot scenario as part of that questline.
No House of Hellish Harlot release this month unfortunately. Neither the artificial scylla or Temptacia are ready yet.
I also managed to get myself in a muddle wondering whether to work on Temptacia or finish the story I started. The end of month deadline loomed and predictably I froze up. I took a couple of days off to clear my head, so hopefully will be able to start afresh next week. Just my erratic work patterns kicking in unfortunately. There are good weeks and bad weeks.
I don't like hitting the end of the month without anything to show for it, so here's the art for Succuba.
That aspect of HoHH is really going well. I've been pouring the extra funding into art commissions and now have art for about 30 of the harlots. They're all going to be in this 'pinup' style, although some will be a little more... risque than others.
The one good thing from the month is I removed some roadblocks with the 1.5 HoHH version and have been steadily testing the ported over harlots.
While it sucks to go two months without a proper release, I have four things on the go at the moment (2 mini-bosses, proper HoHH 1,5 demo, new big boob harem story), so we should see a sudden glut of releases as I finish them in quick succession.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the Succuba art. There is much more to come. ;)
Thanks for the interest and support (and patience!) - manyeyedhydra
I might have forgotten this hadn't been released to general patrons just yet and accidentally spoiled her on discord last week. Whoops. :)
Anyway, here is Asphya in all her glory.
Artist is marwmellow.
If you'd like to help out with funding the commissions for HoHH, the $5 and higher tiers are there to raise funds for that. Patrons at that level also get to see the art much earlier and have access to the original scripts as well as my background lore on the character.
Art is going pretty well. Around 30 harlots have 'pinup' art waiting to be added to the 1.5 version of HoHH.
I suppose it had to happen eventually. I managed to duplicate a segment in my notes text file (likely as a result of amalgamating an updated text notes file with an older one). Thankfully I realised my mistake, and I won't be repeating the pattern of frog girl, venus man-trap and quad breasts!
Instead we'll have something weirder.
#91 Engulfing Starfish Vagina Demoness This is a human-sized version of the succufairies. Like them she is able to evert her vagina, but is large enough to completely envelop a man's body in it. She's devoted to sensuality. She'll begin by giving the man a sensual head massage. Then, during it, will balloon out her vagina to wrap around them man and engulf him in total sensual bliss.
#90 Engulfing Frog Girl Playful at first as she tries to catch player's cock with her long tongue. Eventually the game ends with her tackling the player and sitting on top while she gives them a special blowjob. If the player makes it too easy or drags it out too long by constantly dodging her, she gets annoyed and uses special magic to enable her to swallow the player whole (spitting out sticky mucus to slow the player down if she needs to).
This was a reverse stat check idea, but those eventually ended up being a mechanic of the artificial beings, which the frog girl didn't fit. Chen became the AGI check harlot instead.
#89 Shy Arachne Maid HoHH Harlot idea. She's a fairly nice spider girl unless someone shows shock or disgust at her appearance. At which point her predatory instincts kick in, she binds him up in silk, attaches her spinneret to his cock and pumps out his fluids in a constant stream of ejaculations.
This was going to make use of the 'dispel illusion' charm or advance warning from The Elegant Woman. If the player is forewarned, they don't freak out when they see her spider form and trigger a Bad End. I ran out of slots to include her. The 4th faction is current an amalgamation of various succubus groupings. If I ever tease that out into separate factions, the arachne maid will be added to the House faction.
#88 Poison Slime Bath A sexy green slime girl that encourages the player to take a bath with her (or rather 'in' her). Unfortunately, she's incredibly poisonous and any kind of prolonged skin contact is lethal. Her poison does have the side effect of triggering a monstrously powerful ejaculation, so the player does at least go out with a satisfying bang.
She's a very simple harlot scenario. Have the anti-poison charm or die. Unfortunately she doesn't fit in any faction and I ran out of slots in the independents.
#87 Venom Missionary Succubus A succubus that acts weaker and more submissive than she is. Likes to feign defeat and then let the man have his way with her. Once the man gets on top, she wraps her arms, legs and wings around him to hold him in place. Her tits inject aphrodisiac venom while her tail enters the ass to take control of the prostate. Once locked in that position she subjects them to a rather brutal fluid drain by succubus standards.
I can't remember the original plan for this, but I think she might fit within the wrestling faction. Maybe a nasty Tier 1 succubus that tries to sucker the player into fucking her after she throws the fight.
#86 Succubus Trappess A succubus that delights in laying various erotic traps to ensnare humans. The traps are varied – aphrodisiac gas traps, bondage traps, tentacle traps, etc. She takes a perverse pleasure and gets off on watching one of her traps capture a human and reduce them to a quivering orgasming mess.
Probably another one with affiliations to the Huntress Lodge. I'm not sure how I'd implement her in House of Hellish Harlots, but I think she might make for an interesting opponent in a different game. Maybe if I can come up with an idea of the Huntress Lodge chasing you, the player, through various levels.
#85 Succubus Gunslinger 'Cowboy' succubus with magic pistols. The barrel is wide and fleshy, and the main use is as a sex toy sheath. The succubus channels her magic through the gun and fires pleasure bolts to incapacitate the target. While they're crippled by ecstasy, the succubus approaches, sticks the man's dick in her special gun, and then pulls another trigger to quickly suck out all their semen and vigour. This is piped down to a special storage bag at her waist.
This could be a good offshoot of the huntress lodge. Or maybe a rank-and-file succubus soldier for a H-space story. I think there's potential here for variations to bulk out the huntress lodge faction (which I do want to separate from the wrestling faction at some point.)
I was a bit concerned by writing speed had got a little slow and scratchy, so indulged in a bit of ChaosWriting to try and get things moving again.
I think that had a positive effect. A stinking cold and some bugs with HoHH 1.5 knocked me around a bit, but I'm trying to force myself back to my usual daily schedule.
To switch things up a bit, I started work on a short story about a everyday lad answering a job advertisement from a sleazy pornographer, which leads him to a flat with five very attractive, very busty Asian girls. It's me, so they're obviously not human, and the pleasures will turn out to be a little dangerous.
I quite enjoyed writing the setup for this one, even if it's gone a little long. It does seem to break cleanly into two parts. I've written the first. Next week I'll probably keep myself open again. I might write the second part, or see if I've unblocked things to get writing either Temptacia or the Artificial Scylla.
The release schedule might be a little 'off' again. I'm on the mini-bosses. Their scenarios are longer and more complex than the regular harlot scenarios, so I ask for a bit of patience here while I get the first ones written.
In the evenings I've been working on HoHH 1.5. I finished testing a few more of the independent harlots (art of them is on the way, as can be seen with the teaser I've added to this). I hit a potentially scary bug, although it might just be a weird feature of Twine.
"if not $variableName" statements seem to work a little differently in Twine than other programming languages. I seemed to be getting a 'true' result even when $variableName was set to false. I think I've run into weirdness like this before, although I think that was some statements being evaluated to 'true' if $variableName had not actually been defined yet. I think this might be one of those weird quirks of Twine where you have to be a little careful as some bits of code don't do what you think they should.
I'll keep an eye open on it for future testing. In this case it was a Bad End trigger to indicate whether some effects should happen on the Bad End passage, which was then not being reset properly on subsequent visits. I pulled the code out and put it in a more central location, which should have been done before.
The testing continues. Another 30 harlots to go, and then I should be able to put out a proper 1.5 demo of all the Tier 1 harlots (with artwork hopefully!).
Thanks for the support. I think things are going to be a little chaotic while I work on the mini-bosses. I'll try to keep to the regular end-of-month releases, but I suspect these scenarios are big and complex enough that I might drift from the regular schedule. - manyeyedhydra
I've got a little backlog of harlot art at the moment, so I'm upping the harlot spotlights to 3 a month. This means you get to see Pêl-Z Perffeithio's art a little earlier (and it's lovely comfy art).
Pêl-Z Perffeithio is The Doctoress's 'perfected' semen extraction unit. The Doctoress's research requires copious amounts of human semen, so she has created a number of artificial beings in order to harvest it. The Pêl units were intended to be bulk semen procurers. Each unit is attached to a storage bladder that serves as both a storage container and comfortable cushion for the male to lie on while the Pêl sucks out his semen.
Unfortunately, The Doctoress's early attempts had flaws. They tended to be too ruthless and annoyed The Madam, who expects her 'gals' to give the man a 'sporting' chance.
The Doctoress kept refining her design until she came up with Pêl-Z Perffeithio, the 'perfected' design.
Pêl-Z Perffeithio is much more gentle and empathetic. She prioritises a man's comfort as she drains him, which makes the whole process extremely pleasurable for the man. The only remaining flaw is her varying draining courses are programmed to take a fixed amount of fluids. If a man doesn't have enough, Pêl-Z Perffeithio will still try to drain the fixed amount, which results in the death of the man. However, this happens infrequently and The Madam has enough confidence in her to put her amongst her introductory harlots she uses to greet new arrivals.
And now the behind-scenes stuff.
The Pêl trio came about by accident. The first was Pêl-O, which was an idea for an artificial being that was designed to harvest semen. She came with a bouncy ball to have sex on, which also doubled up as a storage container for the harvested semen. That fit perfectly for a faction of weird artificial beings (androids, robots, etc) that were made purely to suck cum.
The second was Pêl-V, which was a vore take on the concept and a nod to MGQ's Watermelon Girl.
As the different factions started to come together, I realised I had an open slot in the Tier 1 category and realised that would be a perfect fit for a much gentler Pêl. She also completes the classic hentai trio of loli (ish), regular, and milf that shows up in order to give a good range of sexy body types.
It's also a nice subversion on how palette-swap monsters work in RPGs. Usually the player meets the weaker version early, then progressively more advanced and stronger versions later on. This inverts that. Pêl-Z Perffeithio is the most advanced and recent model, and is likely the first the player will encounter, with the previous, more dangerous Pêls showing up later.
While I took some elements from Volumpula and the Pink Cushionblob daemons that show up in H-space, it doesn't necessarily preclude me putting one in at a future date. The Doctoress likely was inspired by that type of daemon while making Pêl-Z Perffeithio, and how the original reacts to the artificial copy could add some interesting possibilities for harlot interactions and maybe even team-up scenarios.
Art is by Marwmellow. More of their work can be found here.
#84 Mermaid Water Witch A sexy mermaid with advanced water magic. She manipulates a ball or water around a man's dick. She knows magic to draw a man's life energy out into the ball through repeated ejaculations. Then she drinks it (either with mouth or pussy).
After thinking that was it for the leeches, I found some more in my other notes. Maybe I really should give them their own faction. :)
#83 Alt Leech Queen She can manifest cock-sucking leeches from her vagina. They are technically part of her. She uses them to harvest semen and then takes them back into her body afterwards. She likes to drop men in a pit of them and let them slowly suck out all his fluids as cum.
I'm pretty sure this was originally a horror short story idea. I'm kicking myself, as while I wrote down the monster girl so I wouldn't forget her, I didn't write down some of the other plot points from the story idea. I think it was going to be something similar to "Slubjob", where someone investigates a mysterious woman and falls foul of her. I think a pit of leeches was involved. I think there was also an element of mind screw, so that the man was imagining he was receiving lots of sexy blowjobs while the cock leeches sucked out his fluids. I can't remember if there was more and I've forgotten (I think there might have been a fake hope spot where people came close to finding him before moving away), or the planning had only got to the stage of having a few creepy sexy images in my head.
The first is of a sexy woman opening her legs and big black leeches plopping out of her vagina. The second was a man being left in a pit of them. I think both cover quite well the quadrants of horror, gross-out, creepy, and erotic!
I clearly need to write it and submit it into Literotica's Valentine's Day competition. That would be fun.
#82 Leech-Lamia She looks like a normal sexy woman, but has a long black leech-body tail behind her. She has a stretchy black cloak that's part of her body, which she uses to wrap around a man and draw him close. Once he enters her vagina he finds out she can suck his cock with the full force of the leech body behind her (and empty him of fluids in a quick and powerful climax).
And that's it for the vamp and leech factions for now. Back to generic ideas.
#81 Jellyfish Girl Level-Drainer Another idea for a game featuring more level-draining. She has the standard ballooning bell dress of a jellyfish girl. She attempts to pull a man under and the dress bounces up and down while she drains his levels (and other fluids!). She'll keep performing the level-drain 'attack' until the man breaks out. Or gives up and decides to just lie back and enjoy it.
As with the giant lamia, this was inspired by the Hakoniwa Explorer Plus game. That's not a hentai game, but is certainly... suggestive... in parts. It threw up some ideas for hentai RPG monster girls that focused on a level-drain mechanic. I didn't think I'd be able to use them for House of Hellish Harlots as that doesn't feature levels. And then I figured out another mechanic the jellyfish girl could use and she was added as the harlot Cyane.
#80 Giant Lamia An enormous lamia that sucks a man into her vagina. She holds him in a 'level drain' position where throbs go through her whole body and cause the man to ejaculate uncontrollably inside her.
I was thinking this is more a monster girl for a different game that features level drain as major mechanic.
#79 Leech Queen A possible queen of the leech clan. She resembles a large scylla, but instead of tentacles her lower half is a mass of gigantic black leeches. She uses these in a variety of ways to drain a man's resistance, and then pleasurably empty him of fluids and soul when he finally surrenders to sensual bliss.
This would likely be the queen of the clan if introduced into HoHH, so her scenario – and what she does to the player – needs to be suitably impressive.
#78 Leech Alraune Either a hybrid of leech and plant girl, or a leech girl that has taken on the resemblance of a classic alraune. Instead of vines she has black segmented sucker tentacles. She has 'fruits' that emit alluring gases from sucker mouths. She might attach a specialised fruit to a man's cock and use that to suck out his soul.
After a stint of heavy programming I'm getting back to my regular schedule.
I've started writing Temptacia. She is a succubus with overwhelming sexual allure, and I'm happy with how that aspect of her character is coming across. As a mini-boss, she'll give the player the choice of five scenes (to ensure variety across runs). At the moment those are pencilled in as paizuri, blowjob, vaginal intercourse, anal, and feet.
Writing her first draft has been a little slower and scratchier than I'd like. It's something I might keep an eye on next week. If I think I have some burnout symptoms developing, I might switch and hammer out a short story to clear things up. I'll see what flows (or doesn't) next week.
With the harlot tester up, I'm working through the ported scenarios. As part of it I looked into giving Friesya and Nicolette rudimentary repeat visit scenarios. I was able to do this fairly quickly with just a few dialogue changes. While I'm testing the other harlots, I'll see if there are others I can do this for.
So hop on if you want to chat about naughty succubi and monster girls. I'm a bit of a boomer when it comes to this sort of tech, but I try to pop on in the evenings.
I also sometimes preview art and sketches I shouldn't. Like the one above. :)
Thanks for the interest and support. - manyeyedhydra
I've set up a regular schedule for previewing art for House of Hellish Harlots now. $5 or higher patrons get to see it early, along with access to the original scripts and background lore. This is as a thank you as I wouldn't be able to afford commissioning the art without the help of those extra tiers.
After 3 months of timed exclusivity, all patrons get to see the art.
A month after that I post it publicly to help promote the game project.
This is the sexy-but-deadly Suffocatrix Tete Khantu. She just loves smothering me to death between her big soft tits. She's a tricky encounter to survive within the House.
You have Noeru to thank for this. He grew tired of my boomer technological illiteracy and set one up.
To be honest, given I'm snowed under with writing HoHH mini-bosses (I'm currently writing Temptacia) and getting a proper HoHH 1.5 demo ready, the only way this was going to happen was if someone else stepped in and took responsibility. So a big hand to Noeru, pls.
And onto the second of the House's pair of artificial slime symbionts: N-Carnizadalama.
N-Carnizadalama is another of result of The Doctoress's experiments with sentient bioplastic slime. No-one knows which of Negralima-V or N-Carnizadalama came first. Both claim to be the 'superior' one and The Doctoress doesn't remember.
Inspired by some vampiric varieties of slime girls, N-Carnizadalama was designed to infiltrate the human body through the bloodstream and then hijack the host's physiology to stimulate mass production of semen. To avoid the host's function being impaired by trauma, N-Carnizadalama secretes a number of chemicals that induce bliss and a heightened state of arousal.
N-Carnizadalama also uses suitable hosts for support after they have been completely emptied of gametes. This is only temporary as prolonged contact with her causes tissues to ossify and become brittle, eventually crumbling away until they can no longer support her and a new host is required.
The Doctoress was unable to do anything about the animosity N-Carnizadalama feels towards Negralima-V, or vice versa. The Madam keeps them apart and regards the occasional death when they take their rage out on some poor sap unlucky to see one before the other as the inevitable consequences of running a House filled with dangerous lust daemons.
And now the behind-scenes mechanics and inspirations.
A lot of this was covered with Negralima-V previously.
Because N-Carnizadalama likes to get inside the body, it made sense for her to care about the Constitution stat, which I believe was the last one I needed to check out of that cycle of harlots. It also fits within the lore as well. In order to be able to move around, N-Carnizadalama takes human bodies after she's finished draining them, and hardens them into a mannequin-esque exoskeleton. Humans with a higher constitution last longer, so those would be the ones she seeks out.
Like the Venom and Carnage thing, making both of them 'Spanish' came later. In keeping with her human skeleton appearance, I gave Negralima-V a sugar skull mask. From my experiences travelling, I remembered that the Spanish speaking portions of Central and South America have some quite... intense rivalries with each other and with Spain itself. This is also reflected in linguistic differences between the versions of Spanish. Sadly, I can't speak or write Spanish to get it across, but my idea was for both to use different regional variants.
N-Carnizadalama is haughty Old World Spain. I thought it would 'disguise' her quite well to give her the appearance of a flamenco dancer as her red dress and hat are her real body rather than the mannequin she's wearing.
Art is again by marwmellow. You can find more of their work here.
#77 Leech Rider A feral tribal sorceress riding a giant leech. The leech is a primitive lust daemon. It engulfs a man's cock and sucks out his energy to transfer it to the sorceress riding it.
This is a straight port of the bizarro sex scene from my "Slugjob" short story. The rider won't be Brite. Instead she's from a group of witches/sorceresses that summon the leech daemons to drain men of energy. I'm not sure if she's part of the leech clan or independent for HoHH. There could be some interesting lore to explore here.
#76 Leech Blob Girl Soft slime girl with a shiny black latex surface. She looks like a sexy buxom woman rising up out of a blob of black pitch. Despite her appearance, she is part of the leech clan. Her blob forms suckermouths to trap hands and feet. Then she snares the penis with her main suckermouth and leisurely sucks out all the man's fluids while slowly engulfing him into her black blob.
#75 Blood-Drinking Leechwoman To mirror the leechwoman disguised as a vamp, I thought it would make sense (especially for HoHH) to have a vamp disguised as a leechwoman. She has a similar look to the other leechwomen, and suckermouths in place of nipples and other parts of her body. The main difference is, unlike the leechwoman which only drink semen, she uses her nipple suckermouths to drink blood and is actually part of the vamp faction.
#74 Veiled Leechwoman A monster girl with a veil covering the lower half of her face. She indicates she can't speak. This is because her mouth is a highly specialised leech sucker and she uses it to empty a man of fluids while giving him an epic blowjob.
For HoHH I was thinking of making her a fake vampire to catch players out trying to align with that faction. (She's probably harmless unless the player has a high affinity with the hated vamps, in which case she drains them utterly.)
#73 Leech-Tail Twins Two girls with leech-sucker tails. They take the player off to a small booth for an intimate chat, then fill it with aphrodisiac fumes to get him in 'the mood'. One uses her tail to give a pleasant sucking rim job. The other engulfs the player's cock and gives it a good suck.
For the HoHH scenario, they don't like boring people. If the player bores them (likely a check of the player's personality traits), one will puff fumes into the ass to break down the body into cum, while the other sucks it out.
#72 Leech Pussy Girl A mostly normal-looking leech monster girl. Her monstrous aspect is a hidden black leech sucker hidden within her vagina. This can pop out to snare unwary penises. It is part of her body and not some internal parasite.
#71 Segmented Leech Tail Girl A leech monster girl with a thick black segmented tail sucker. Her scenario is about how far the player wants to push it. Each segment of her sucker tail gives a stronger and more pleasurable suck. She encourages the player to push their cock in deeper and deeper, until they reach a point of no return and are drained of all fluids.
This wasn't the most exciting of weeks, but it was a pretty important one as I managed to clear a major roadblock that was holding back development for the 1.5 version.
I managed to incur some nasty technical debt with the UI. I put together the demo version with the backgrounds by hacking some CSS and JavaScript last year. Then I commissioned someone for some art for the icons (which sadly doesn't fit the overall look, so I'm back to the placeholders), which meant more hacking, and then I hacked too far and broke my display. Whoops.
It's been in this state for a few months. I have ported all the Tier 1 harlots over (about 35 of them), but haven't been able to test them as the screen display wasn't functional.
Last week I decided I needed to give that my full attention and get it properly fixed. I now have a proper test area for any changes to the UI display, and another test area for the individual harlots. This should prevent this problem occurring again in the future. Proper Organisation, Ho!
It wasn't particularly glamorous, but it needed to be done, and now it's done. Next week I'll be back to writing again. It will either be continuing work on the Artificial Scylla, or starting Temptacia's scenario, whichever feels 'hot'.
Now I can, I'll also start working through the ported-over scenarios and making sure they're all working correctly.
The artwork is still coming in. Marwmellow has sent me sketches of the unaffiliated 'helper' harlots, which is the next batch. I've actually got quite a stockpile of harlot art now (both the smother faction and artificial beings are mostly done), so I might increase the harlot spotlights to 3-per month. Look out for those over the next few weeks.
Definitely more of a programming than a writing week, but it's finally fixed something that needed fixing! - manyeyedhydra
About two months later than planned, I finally finished the #SexDungeon23 exercise last week. It was an interesting little brainstorming exercise. My inspiration for it came from the #Dungeon23 hashtag. That was primarily for the tabletop people, with the goal of designing a 365 room megadungeon to put players through. I thought it could also be applied to creating a videogame RPG and thus the idea of Ur-Carnosa, City of 10,000 Whores came to me.
As an exercise to promote creative self-discipline, I thought it was pretty useful.
First up, I did indeed create the full 365 rooms, even if I overran by a couple of months. That's always the first challenge with these sort of exercises – not giving up.
I was also pleased I prioritised it correctly as a side brainstorming project.
About a month or so in, I was so excited about the project I was considering mocking up some of the rooms in Godot as a prelude to actual development. I resisted that temptation. No distractions from House of Hellish Harlots!
The other was knowing when it needed to be put on the backburner while more important things were sorted out. Yes, it overran by a couple of months, but the times I put it on hold were because I needed to get more important work sorted out, and I was pleased with myself for recognising that and prioritising correctly.
On the creative side, it was mixed. Sometimes the pressures of a daily schedule would suddenly spark some nice inspiration. Other times I just got blocked or fell back on over-used gaming tropes. Doing the exercise also gave me some understanding of why some games turn out why they do. Some levels fall into place. Others... end up being usual tired stereotypes because you're stuck and need to get something out.
As for Ur-Carnosa itself, I think I've got a great idea for a setting there. But I also think I lost sight of the 'City of 10,000 Whores' aspect and some areas were a bit too 'stock videogame level'. As a setting I think it needs to lean more into 'the whole city is a giant brothel' part and have the lethality tuned down a little. Some people are swallowed up by the gaudy streets, but if the lust daemons were eating everyone that came, pretty soon no-one would visit at all!
It probably would have been better to make more areas function more like regular whorehouses, with the dangers only coming when visitors poke their noses into backstage areas they shouldn't. (Which the player has to do as part of his mission).
I think the overall plot gives the player a good reason to be there. It's a twist on the standard Rescue the Princess plot, but in this case for political rather than romantic reasons. I like that the Prince is never stated to be anything other than an asshole, but the consequence of not rescuing him is a massive war. It should make the alternative ends more tempting...
I was less certain on the Succubus Companion's motivations. I think the game probably needs an NPC like that to explain things to the player. I couldn't decide whether she was doing it for political reasons to advance her own personal standing within Ur-Carnosa, or already occupied a high office concerned with defence and was using the player to test Ur-Carnosa's defences vs marauding heroes.
While I never went too deep into their arcs, having 5-6 recurring NPCs with paths that intersect with the player's at various points in the game seems a really good idea. That's something to plot out more thoroughly at a later date.
I think the choice to limit each area to two monster girl types and one boss is correct (with the exception being the last area). If I start it as a project, it needs to be doable.
I will need to straighten out and – ironically – simplify some areas. I was pretty tight with the layouts for the earlier sections. A few 'insert randomised corridor section' rooms crept in later, which is probably padding out things unnecessarily. Ideally each region wants to be Monster Girl A, Monster Girl B, a puzzle or two, and then Boss.
I didn't think about stats or mechanics. I still need to come up with that. The main focus would be how the fightfucks work. I think games like Monster Girl Dreams and Shrift do this best, so I'd probably be aiming for a 'combat' system that involves lots of sexy grapples and status effects where the monster girl(s) is pulling the player deeper and deeper into 'pleasure hell'.
Overall, the exercise has given me a nice start on a potential future project. It won't be for a while. Currently I have to finish House of Hellish Harlots and then write the long-awaited Succubus Summoning 301. So, yeah, I'm going to be busy for a while!
I think it was pretty good as a brainstorming exercise and I recommend it for people looking to create their own games. I want to try and use these exercises in other ways. Ideally, with writing. The main problem is trying to break the day's task down into something that's small enough to not take over, but also is a useful amount. In the past when I've tried these it's been way too ambitious. I think the H-space Bestiary stories originally came about from a challenge to write a 500-word story a day, which was insanity. Currently, I'm doing #MonsterGirl24, which is a new monster girl every day, as described in a short paragraph, which is much more manageable. That will give me plenty of ideas to populate for short stories, HoHH expansions and even encounters for future RPG game ideas. What I'd really like to do is apply the same process to writing a novel. The trick is working out what the correct daily unit should be. Something to consider for a 2025 activity.
As for Ur-Carnosa. I'll leave that bubbling away at the back of my mind. I don't think we've seen the last of it...
Continuing with the harlot spotlights, it's another of the House's artificial beings: Negralima-V.
Negralima-V is the result of The Doctoress's experiments with sentient bioplastic gel. The Doctoress wanted to create artificial 'slime girls' as more advanced semen-harvesting units. Negralima-V is one of those products.
Unlike the slime girls she's modelled after, Negralima-V is unable to support herself without an internal skeleton to hold herself in place. The Doctoress regards this as a minor weakness – any old human skeleton will do, and those are easy to obtain...
Negralima-V developed a keen eye for the type of skeleton she preferred and The Doctoress quickly realised her creation could be used to assess and obtain high quality semen of a certain type. While The Madam did not fully approve, it was no different from one of her other succubi taking the occasional snack to assuage their hunger, so The Madam let it pass.
Unfortunately, scientific progress does not come without setbacks. The Doctoress's experiments also resulted in the creation of N-Carnizadalama. Rather than getting on as sisters, the two artificial slime symbionts despised each other as only sisters can.
Ever the sublime politician, The Madam was able to keep them apart within the House. Unfortunately, she was not able to prevent them taking out their animosity on any man unfortunate to see one before the other.
And now the behind-scenes mechanics and inspirations.
There is a fairly obvious nod for both Negralima-V and N-Carnizadalama. Sentient pieces of goo that require a human body for support and both utterly hate each other. Yeah, it's Venom and Carnage. That actually came later.
One of the overall inspirations for HoHH is the game Lobotomy Corp. I wanted to duplicate that feeling of sending someone into a room and not knowing whether they'd live or die. That required coming up with ideas for why a harlot would drain or outright kill a visitor. One of the first ideas scribbled down was to have a pair of harlots that utterly loathed each other, to the point they'd immediately kill the player if he'd seen the other one first.
The other inspiration I took from Lobotomy Corp was to use the player stats as a check item where having a high value in an attribute was not necessarily a good thing. This became a mechanic for the artificial beings faction. The Doctoress is seeking high quality semen, and high quality would be represented by someone being naturally very strong, agile, etc. If someone has a 5 in a relevant stat, then The Doctoress's creation would go into overdrain mode and completely empty them. This is a theme for some of her harlots, and they all care about a different attribute.
For Negralima-V it's Strength. She likes a sturdy frame to wrap her body around.
Art is again by marwmellow. You can find more of their work here.
And after emptying the vaults of vamp girl ideas, it's time to look at their rival faction – the leech girls.
#70 Leech Cloak Girl She has a long black cloak that is part of her body and has many sucker mouths on the inside. She likes to wrap it around men while embracing them and slowly and pleasurably leeching away their strength and vitality.
#69 Hiro-Enma Girl An elegant oriental goth girl. Her mouth opens to reveal a nest of semen-sucking tentacles. She can drain with both kiss or blowjob.
Ah, Nioh. She was a ridiculously hard early boss.
In my early notes I think the leech clan were supposed to have a historical Japan theme. That might be a good idea to retain. It could make for a nice contrast if the vamp clan favour more typical Western gothic horror costumes.
#68 Leech Dress Girl A pretty girl with a mass of leech-like black suckers under her dress. She pulls unwary men under and subjects them to pleasure hell with her various suckers, while draining him with a special 'vaginal' sucker.
#67 Classic Leech Girl The classic leech monster girl as seen in Monmusu Quest. Her lower half is a giant leech and her oversized vagina doubles up as a maw. She sucks men in and leisurely drains them while using internal suckers to keep them in a helpless state of sensual ecstasy.
Continuing with vamps...
#66 Blowjob Vampiress She has the traditional fangs of a vampire, but prefers to get her blood from an erect penis during a sloppy blowjob. The semen adds extra flavour!
I'm not sure with this one whether to make her a skanky street vamp, or the aristocrat that's pure filth in the bedroom. Maybe both with slight differences.
#65 Skin-Drain Vampiress Is always seen fully clothed in public. In the bedroom she strips off completely. She absorbs blood on skin contact with every part of her body. Her favourite way is to wrap a man in her arms and legs during sex and subjecting him to a long blood drain he can't escape from.
#64 Blood Cloak Vampiress The classic monster girl vampiress. Her voluminous black cloak is part of her body. She wraps it around a lover and the inner lining slowly drains blood through skin contact.
I didn't think I'd be able to do it anyway, but being sick for half of last week pretty much ruled out a last minute rush to get a new HoHH release out.
I don't like failing to get a regular monthly release out. I'd put this down to the mini-boss scenarios being longer and more complex, but I suspect it's more down to me trying to do too much and spreading myself a little too thin.
One of those side distractions is pretty much done. It ran over by a couple of months, but I finally posted the 365th room to finish the #SexDungeon23 series last week. I'll be posting my overall thoughts on that next week sometime.
I think running #SexDungeon23 and #MonsterGirl24 series alongside each other was doable, the harlot spotlights also. What really tripped me up was trying to get the harlot profiles off the ground. I could not get the basic design template right. Marwmellow did one for me, but that ran into problems as he uses photoshop and I use GIMP for artwork. I needed to turn it into template so I could switch out the text and pics for new harlots. I could never properly replicate Marwmellow's design - colours got lost on importing, fonts were non-transferrable. It was an annoyance and turned out to be a timesuck that dragged me off what I should have been working on.
I think the profiles is a good idea, but I think I might have to go for something simple. The MGE profiles are pretty much picture + plain black text and that works fine. I'll shelve it for now while I prioritise making sure March has a HoHH release.
Once I realised I wasn't going make the end of February release, I turned my attention to something else that I've been needing to fix for a while. I have 35 harlots ported over into the fancy 1.5 version of HoHH. The main problem is my testing program is broken after I made changes to the UI. Once I fought off the sickness bug I spent the rest of the week trying to straighten out the CSS and JS code to get it up and running again. That is now on the way to being fixed. A few more days next week and I should be back to testing the ported harlots in the evenings.
A rough February overall. On the plus side, I am posting a lot of regular content with the harlot spotlights and other things, but I want to avoid skipping end-of-month releases if I can help it.
(And I do want to make time again to get back to updating some of those H-space bestiary shorts.)
Busy. Busy. Busy. :D
Thanks for the support and interest! - manyeyedhydra
