Caught up a bit with this one's production.
It's full of interesting stuff.
First of all, he has made progress on the slaver enemy and the whole "imprisonment" concept.
Basically, the slaver's game over scenario will involve torturing Neige with the intent of turning her into a sex slave he can trade. So she gets to this fun exercise where she's placed on a sawhorse, with a nice chain around the neck so she can't lean forward, and some special piercings on the nipples that magically generate a chain (used for slaves and livestock -- author said "less than human" was important) so she can't lean backward, and she must keep a perfect balance. Then he starts whipping her, otherwise it's
too easy.
An idea I like: the author said that, since this is torture, Neige will not be aroused by it unless she has something that forces it, like the pleasure crest. So escape mechanics will change, and will involve a resistance to pain mechanic -- usual "get mana with orgasms" tactics seemingly coming back in if Neige enjoys it.
Author also said he originally had a scenario where Neige would be languishing in jail in between torture sessions -- but then he thought, why don't we have a scenario where's she's free use for any monster in the dungeon's level 2? The current iteration appears to make this the default game over situation for all level 2 -- inprisoned Neige being visited by a random monster, and getting variations on her condition depending on her last visitor.
For variety, the next hazard developed is completely different -- being, instead, a vore / meatwall sort of thing, a trap that will squeeze Neige and tentacle her.
Extra interesting (especially
for me) is the fact that, once this monster has weakened Neige enough, it will energy drain her. This energy drain will be consistent with the game over reset's energy drain, meaning that it will drain Neige's xp and delevel her.
But there's another thing I found even more intriguing -- this hazard being a trap, it will behave consistently with the rest of the dungeon's traps, thus it
will not kill Neige. Instead, once it has taken everything it wants from her, it will drop her on the floor below -- and, her resources so heavily depleted, that'll probably put her in another bad situation very soon.
There is less talk about mechanics, but mechanics are getting implemented too.
Level 2 of the dungeon will have darkness -- meaning monsters will be harder to spot and might appear suddenly. The author said he plans to work this in the monsters' mechanics -- such as making the monsters in this levels glass cannons with powerful attacks that will punish Neige if they catch her off-guard.
There are objects that will help Neige, though -- not only carriable objects that can mitigate the darkness, but also lanterns around the level that will help visibility -- including unlit ones that Neige will be able to turn on -- I mean, only fair, poor girl turns on everything else in the dungeon.
