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- wrote a unique background line for professors.

- wrote a unique background line for bounty hunters.

- wrote the cutscene portion of the print shop investigation event.

- moods can now exclude specific camp activities, not just restrict the character to a set list of them.

- the Happy and HappyAbout moods now foreclose characters choosing negative camp activities while they remain in effect.

- the character letter event now imparts a weak, short-lived mood.

- replaced the word "aura" with the symbol for aura wherever it appears in the UI (with the exception of the info bar tooltip for the aura symbol, of course).

- the engine now supports camp activity narrations that require custom integer or string values to match (or to not match) before they can be chosen.

- characters will now sometimes discuss events currently occurring in the game's plot during idle chatter in camp. Wrote 17 new talk narration lines for this purpose.

- if no one cleans, the likelihood of camp becoming messy now varies with difficulty: it remains 50% on Brutal, but it is now only 40% on Challenging or Challenging+ and 33% on Relaxed.

- fixed: characters could gossip about other teams or their odds of winning the tournament even after the championship match had already concluded.

- fixed: a camp talk narration for characters with an unrequited crush had incorrect romance value requirements, ensuring that it would almost never be selected.

[LearnCounterAttack]

- wrote a unique background line for blacksmiths.

- new skill: Nimble Stance. Grants +20% Dodge, +1 Reflexes, and +1 Counterattacks until the user's next turn.

- new item: Don't Make the First Move. Learns the skill Nimble Stance.

- new item: The Self-Sustaining Mentalist. Learns to counterattack with Feedback.

- new item: The Avenging Arbalist. Learns to counterattack with Crossbow.

- Gust with Gusto! Learns to keep acting after using Kinetic Gust.

- Douse now deals a flat 50 damage to Fire, typically extinguishing it outright.

- fixed: the Damage skill tag would not actually cause a skill to damage the target if the skill did not affect Health.

- new script action: LearnCounterAttack. Causes a character to learn to counterattack with a new skill; if the character's base counter limit is 0, it becomes 1. Two parameters: character name, skill name.

- received, integrated new cutscene background: Barracks_Dese.

- wrote a unique background line for sailors.

- wrote a new investigation scene!

- wrote a unique background line for lawyers.

- skills with the premise of applying multiple hits (e.g. Double Strike) can now apply status effects from ModSkillSFX multiple times per attack. Double Strike, for instance, now applies each such tag twice when the skill is used.

- fixed: bonus damage text in skill tooltips wasn't accounting for the multiple-hit property of attacks.

- fixed: bonus fire damage and burning status effect were not being applied to Thrust for the unique sword Jwalaa.

- fixed: within the campaign creation suite's character creator, equipping a character with weapons, armor, or other items that apply tags would cause the game to save those tags as inherent to the character.

- adjusted item attribute availability for certain underwhelming weapon modifiers at the upper end of the quality range. This should help ensure that every top-quality proc gen weapon is amazing.

- wrote a unique background line for soldiers.

- wrote a unique background line for burlgars and pickpockets.

- reduced the base, unscaled experience gain from using a Shield skill on an ally from 15 to 12 to help reduce the tendency of healers to out-level other characters.

- skills with the premise of applying multiple hits (e.g. Double Strike) can now apply BonusDmg, ModSkillPower, and other similar tags multiple times per attack. Double Strike, for instance, now applies each such tag twice when the skill is used.

- fixed: the game was missing support for the name NPC attribute via the -NPC:X- special character.

- fixed: the game was missing documentation for the first name and last name NPC attributes used with the -NPC:X- special character.

- the skill editor now permits editing the number of hits assigned to a skill.

- new item: Shield Pray Love. Teaches the user Mind Shield.

- new item: Arrowing Around Armor. Teaches the user's Bow skills to ignore 33% of enemy armor.

- new item: Swifter Sword: Triple Strikes and More. Teaches the user to keep acting after using Double Strike.

- new item: How to Make Enemies and Influence People. Teaches the user to achieve a 100% base success rate with Mind Control.

- the engine now supports unique proc gen dialogue lines that can only be assigned once ever in a playthrough.

- fixed: it was possible to perform the summer palace investigation again after successfully escaping.

- increased the frequency of BPD events if the maharaja funeral event occurs.

- created a new item graphic for Master Lockpicks; Master Lockpicks now give Reflexes +2 instead of Dodge +5.

- fixed some things with how the intervention reward event was working.

- fixed: if a particular morning plot event ("plot event 5") triggered and the player went on to spend only a single time unit, upon returning to town, the plot event would trigger again.

[LearnCampActivity]

- new morning event: Intervention Reward.

- the Family Weapon event can now produce unique wrenches and claws in addition to the other weapon types.

- new item: Master Lockpicks. Like normal lockpicks, but grants +5% dodge and has unlimited uses.

- new item: Motivational Speaking For Beginners. Teaches the user the skill Motivate.

- new item: Self Defense and You. Teaches the user the skill Guard Stance.

- new item: Walking But Faster: A Primer on Sprinting. Teaches the user the skill Sprint.

- new item: Cooking: From Mediocre to Master. Teaches the user the camp activity Cook.

- new item: Bambi Must Pay: A Guide to Hunting. Teaches the user the skill Hunt.

- new item: Quiet Mind: Focus Under Stress. Doubles the user's energy replenishment when resting mid-battle.

- new item: Dive and Ditch: A Swooper's Guide. Teaches the user to keep moving after using the skill Dive.

- new items: Powerful Pyro Blasts, Concussive Cryo Blasts, Leveling Light Blasts, and Staggering Shadow Blasts. Each one gives the user +1 knockback on their respective elemental blast skill.

- the game now keeps a history of all classes a character has ever been.

- fixed: if a skill without knockback gained knockback due to a ModSkillKnockback tag, any knockback from that skill would occur half a second after the skill animation began instead of at the moment of impact with the target.

- fixed: the game wasn't taking ModSkillKnockback tags into account when showing predictions of knockback and collision damage for skills.

- fixed: when using an item that grants the users tags, the game was applying two copies of each tag instead of one.

- fixed: the game would generate item descriptions with a missing spot where the last name should go for lissit characters receiving a unique family mace.

- new item icon: Book Orange.

- added Can Attack to the game's list of accepted post-usage behaviors in documentation for the ModAfterAttack unit tag.

- clarified the difference between LearnCampActivity and AddCampActivity in the in-game scripting documentation.

- events that can occur in Kalkerapur in the mornings now belong to their own separate event pool.

- new morning event that gets added to the possibility pool on day 35: BPD recruitment. You encounter men recruiting for an organization you've never heard of before...

- new recurring morning event that follows after the BPD recruitment event.

- characters now have a distinct preference for spending time with whatever single character in camp they are closest to.

- each region of origin can now impose a new weighted list of possible skin and hair colors for the portrait of proc gen characters belonging to a single specified species.

- proc gen characters native to Dese now have their portraits restricted to an appropriate range of skin and hair colors.

- the engine now supports forcing recruits or unique generated characters to be from a specified region of the world.

- fixed: the lighting effect for the heatwave event could fail to reapply when returning to town after a 1-time-point activity.

- optimization: broke out the default character sprite shader into spirit- and non-spirit variants to cut down the number of colors that need to be palette-swapped each frame.

- spirits are now created with an unearthly glow to their battle sprites, courtesy of HDR bloom effects. (This change is not retroactive to existing spirits.)

- inspirational leaders in the arena now spawn with a sizable coin pouch in their inventory; and taking them down doesn't just undo the -3 morale effect for your team, it adds an additional +2 morale across the board.

- promoted spearmen now get a buff to Trade as part of their natural skill progression, allowing them to use a skill after swapping spaces with an ally.

- fixed: Mind Shock's tooltip description incorrectly listed the base chance of stunning the target as 50% rather than the actual base chance (75%).

- improved the equipment sorting algorithm! The game now intelligently sorts equipment, grouping them according to mastery type and then name, with armor sorted into subgroups based on the body part to which they are equipped.

- armor appearing in the shop is now auto-sorted by body part, mastery, and name.

- fixed: the pronouns and player address in certain branches of the Mustebeast Tent event were erroneously pulling the chosen bunkmate, not the character whose tent was sprayed.

- fixed: the localized battle warning pop-up messages had a missing space.

- fixed: due to my failure to call the Close() method on the XMLTextReader object used to download news updates on the title screen, the game would hang when returning to the title screen from a loaded game--and, upon returning a second time, appear to freeze entirely.

- received new cutscene background for the summer palace bathroom, incorporated it into the game.

- fixed: due to my failure to call the Close() method on the XMLTextReader object used to download news updates on the title screen, the game would hang when returning to the title screen from a loaded game--and, upon returning a second time, appear to freeze entirely.