I actually meant to post this last night, but got distracted. Ah well. Anyway, most of what I have to report is good news. I actually finished adding all the code for the Brothel over the weekend (though it hasn't been tested yet) and started working on the core functions of the Mage's Guild. I'm pretty confident that, barring any major SNAFU, I'll be able to add the core repeatable scenes, as well as the first 'spell' (which is the spell to let Kiralia temporarily become a Futa) for the Mage's Guild. There are 4 repeatables, meant to be part of the ability to work the new 'Magic Skill' stat up.
Between those 4 and the 12 already programmed in, that will be a total of 16 scenes for the Build. Which is right in the zone for what I'd expected from most updates. Some updates will have a few more than that....but not when I'm building whole new areas. When making any new HUB area, a certain amount of time is required simply to copy over and modify existing systems (like the Fast Travel system, for example). And, of course, new areas means I have to arrange new location shots and such.
At any rate, the only bad news is that I'm not going to be able to do the first Mage Guild quest. That's frustrating, since it means that despite introducing two new Major Characters, neither of them have any significant content just yet. I already knew that was going to be the case with Roslyn, the brothel owner, as her content is tied to the Thieves Guild content. I had hoped to get in the first major content for Tylan, the Chapter Mistress of the New Landing Mage's Guild (featured at her desk, above). However, opening up her content is the result of finishing the first of three planned Mage Guild Quests...and I simply don't have enough time to get to doing that quest, as those are rather more involved than repeatable scenes are. It's aggravating to me to release a build with no Major Character content, but there was just too much work to do with the Brothel...and the Brothel really needed to be the core of the first New Landing build, as both the Mage's Guild and the Thieves Guild content both have tie-ins to the Brothel. Even just in this Build, three of the scenes at the Brothel are specific to the futanari transformed Kiralia, and that transformation is from the Mage's Guild...