Newlife 0.6.8

Hi all! 

Here's Newlife 0.6.8, introducing a new character: the office rival. 

I intend to add more rival content later on. This one has her introduction scene and a few events where she plays tricks on the pc. Later on I want to add content around the PC defeating her, and eventually a third path where she wins the rival over and they become friends.

There'll also need to be a release based around office events that aren't specific to a certain NPC. For example, an office party. Plus, I need to run PMW soon. 

All in all, we're probably looking at 4-5 more versions to 0.7.0 and the next major content vote. Perhaps a couple more if I decide to add an office-manager career branch, but I'm not sure at the moment that this would be different enough from the sales one to justify spending the releases on.

Major changes & additions:

A new NPC: the office rival. The rival has three events for now, and I intend to add more in upcoming releases. Office rivals have one of 7 subtypes that's chosen based on why they dislike the PC. For example, an ambitious PC might have a lazy rival who resents her for making the rival look bad, or a sultry PC could have a seductive rival who sees her as a threat to her position as the office hottie. While all rivals have the same scenes, there are variations in text and sometimes in routes through the scenes depending on subtype.

Minor changes:

Added some new reactions from Ivy in the malestart intro to certain names the PC can choose.

Added a “purity ring” that the PC can buy, inspired by this webcomic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-07-02. This immediately restores the PC's virginity, including anal virginity, as an immediate effect that can be repeated by buying more rings later on. This allows for multiple men to be your “first” and could potentially lead to somewhat odd descriptions in some scenes.

The office work background now gives 20 points of starting paperwork skill. Thanks to Jacob N for flagging up this ommission.

The forgetful trait now has a stronger effect at high stress, as suggested by fumanchu. It now has a 10% chance of taking effect (as before) at low stress, increasing up to 25% at maximum stress.

As suggested by Saur, characters with the “likes older men” trait now have a stronger variant of the yes answer when asked about it in a job interview.

Updated the malestart intro so that Ivy no longer refers to the PC's new body as being around 21 years old before the player chooses a physical age: this was a holdover from early versions where the PC's age was fixed at early-twenties. She'll now comment on age changes after the female character-creation screen.

Slightly updated the requirements for kicking your boss in the nuts.

Male NPCs can now be bald or have shaven heads, as requested by DR on patreon. I've tried to track down and update references to male NPC hair, but it's possible some remain so please let me know if you see a scene mention a bald or shaven NPC's hair.

Updated the thigh-job sitting makeout action so it no longer refers to the PC getting pre-cum on her skin when her partner is wearing a condom.

Changes for user-submitted content:

Added CHAUVINISTIC_PARTNER back to the custom NPC guide – it was removed by mistake despite still being in-game. Thanks to Rigel for pointing this out.

Note that the Purity Ring is not implemented as a Stuff object but as a repeatable, immediate, one-off effect. As such, it isn't possible to check in later scenes whether the PC has made use of such items.

The BALD and SHAVEN_HEADED traits are available for male custom characters, and OFFICE_RIVAL is available for female ones. The rival's sub-type is assigned at game start because it's picked based on the PC's traits and it therefore cannot be directly chosen for a custom NPC.

Bugfixes:

Fixes to text issues. Thanks to Saint Destiny, Saur, AnarChYsT and Ammut for reporting some of these.

Fixed a bug reported by Ulo Nimbus where the game would error with the “blank event screen” problem if the PC's boyfriend decides to propose marriage, he's a “treasure hunter” character, and the treasure-hunting-rival has not been encountered.

Fixed an issue where the bringHome scene wasn't opening the NPC's trousers, leading to a sex scene without his cock exposed.