Astral Worlds: Power of the Delev [v0.8.0] [MartinDrake]

It’s finally time to move beyond Rocky Hills. Thamiris, the city of academies, awaits us!

As announced last month, starting with this version you’ll be able to travel to a new region. The mayor will give you a license that will allow you to purchase the equipment needed to set up a proper camp. You’ll be able to buy tents, sleeping bags, horses, and various upgrades to improve your staff’s bonuses. So remember to stop by the market, buy everything you need from the new shop, and, most importantly, remember to assign it to the members of your staff.

Once you have everything you need, you’ll be ready to travel to Thamiris. This first journey will also unlock the map, which you’ll be able to use to travel whenever you want between all the regions you’ve unlocked so far. So, if you miss some of the characters from Rocky Hills, you’ll be able to go back and visit them at any time.

Mistral is a different story: for now, your hometown will be inaccessible because you’re wanted there. But this isn’t a permanent goodbye: you’ll return there later in the game… and, without giving away too many spoilers, I can tell you that when that happens, you’ll find it very different.

Now let’s talk about Thamiris. I honestly don’t remember whether I’ve already talked about it in these news posts or only in the sneak peek posts, but I’ll give you a quick recap of what awaits you in this region over the next few versions.

Thamiris is home to the best academies in all of Ender dedicated to combat, martial arts, and magic. All young fighters who want to reach their full potential come here to perfect their training.

This also makes Thamiris a city populated by many different species, races, and cultures. So expect to meet a much wider variety of people than you’ve encountered so far.

The main purpose of your time in this region will be to recruit new fighters for your team. And there’s no better place than Thamiris for that.

Many interesting new characters await you, including a new companion and new members for your camp. But above all, there are plenty of interesting quests waiting for you. In my personal opinion, Thamiris is the region with the greatest number of interesting quests.

Just to give you a few previews, you’ll have the chance to enter three different tournaments: the Tournament of Valor, the Tournament of Skill, and the Arcane Tournament. Each of them will feature a series of exciting, deadly challenges to complete over the course of several days before a champion is crowned among you and the other contenders.

There will be several missions where you’ll put your potential new teammates to the test to decide who is most worthy of joining you.

And there will be a crucial mission with Minlar inside the Academy of Magic. Following the advice of your eccentric wizard friend, you’ll sneak into the oldest and most mysterious of the academies in search of ancient and arcane secrets that may help you in your mission concerning the Delev, and perhaps even help you learn more about your mysterious origins.

All this and much more awaits you over the course of the next few versions.

In this first version, however, we’ll have a lighter introduction, giving you time to familiarize yourselves with the new region and the new features that have been introduced. This month, you’ll have a series of introductory events related to Thamiris, new characters, and all the side quests of the new region.

Thamiris is surrounded by a wild forest populated by ferocious beasts, so the dangers will be considerably greater than those you encountered in Mistral and Rocky Hills. During the hunting side quests, you’ll encounter some of the forest’s new beasts. During escort missions, you’ll face new dangers related not only to people and animals, but often to environmental hazards as well. You’ll also be able to work as a squire.

Of course, there will be no shortage of sex scenes. During the escort side quests, you’ll have the chance to encounter new sexual opportunities with a female adventurer, as well as with bandits and merchants. So don’t skip them just because they’re side quests, and keep doing them, because some events evolve each time, unlocking new scenes.

Working as a squire will also give you the chance to unlock new sex scenes. You’ll be the squire of two knights, Knight Siegfried and Knight Brienne: two knights with very different personalities, with whom you’ll be able to decide whether to maintain a purely professional relationship or go beyond your usual duties as a squire.

In addition to this, I’ve also unlocked the Lust World for the Rocky Hills and Thamiris regions. Until now, you could only see scenes set in Mistral, but you’ll now have access to all the sex scenes in the game from every region as you unlock them. Every month, I’ll update the Lust World with the new sex scenes released.

I’ve made several fixes to balancing, items, and other things. Just to give you one example, I’ve reduced the cost of bombs from 50 to 15, so that using them won’t often end up costing more than the quest reward itself. As always, if you have any suggestions or feedback, don’t hesitate to share them. Creating this entire world on my own is very difficult, so any advice or help is more than welcome.

There are other things I should tell you, but this post is getting really long, so I’ll stop here and let you discover the rest by playing.

– License

– Welcome to Thamiris

– Hunting

– Escort

– Squire

– Challenge the adventurer Mabel

– Bargain with a bandit

– Offer your mouth to the merchants

– Squire to Knight Brienne

– Squire to Knight Siegfried

– The scenes in Rocky Hills and Thamiris have also been unlocked (they will be updated every month with the latest sex scenes released).

We’ve finally reached the last update dedicated to Rocky Hills.

With this month’s content, you’ll complete all the quests and scenes planned for this region. Starting next month, you’ll be able to head off to the new region: Thamiris, the city of academies.

Those who follow my “Sneak Peak” column already know what I’m talking about. Thamiris will be a region completely different from Rocky Hills—a large city nestled in a lush and dangerous forest. There, you’ll find the best martial arts and magic academies in all of Ender, and consequently, the best fighters and mages as well. Many exciting adventures await you, along with—of course—lots of new characters, and there will also be major developments in the main storyline and regarding your origins.

But I’ll talk about that in more detail later; for now, let’s focus on this month’s release.

You have one last major quest to complete all the content and earn enough prestige to obtain the mayor’s license. This month, you’ll be dealing with a difficult hostage situation.

A group of bandits, led by the infamous Ferris, has kidnapped five men while they were working in the mine and is now demanding a large ransom from the village. The distraught wives of the hostages will beg the mayor to find a way to bring those men home safe and sound.

The bandits have set up a large camp in a canyon valley. Protected by the high cliffs of the canyon, and with many bandits guarding the single entrance, Ferris and his gang feel invincible. The village’s few, inexperienced guards are ill-prepared for an event of this magnitude.

Only you, together with your companions, can hope to have a chance at resolving this problem successfully. Difficult moral and tactical choices will profoundly change the outcome of this mission. As always, it’s up to you to decide how you think it’s best to proceed.

Let’s now move on to this month’s sexual content.

The quest I just mentioned will also feature a possible sex scene, in which you’ll attempt to negotiate with Ferris and the bandits using your seductive skills, ultimately triggering a massive gangbang with you at the center. This scene should be considered an extra to the quest, in the sense that whether you do it or not will not affect the quest’s outcome in any way. It will only serve to boost your reputation as a pervert.

There will then be a continuation of the sexual relationships featured in the previous version.

You’ll continue your relationship with Khiria. Now that she’s discovered that, when you want to, you can be a tough one and make her come just the way she likes it, she’ll be more willing to spend time with you without necessarily putting your life at risk every time. Plus, whenever you want, she’ll also start spending the nights in the tent with you to “sleep” together.

Your adventures in the mine will also continue. Gary will openly return to having sex with you without any fear, and he’ll often join in on your exciting group sex sessions with Ronnie, Finn, and Ezra. Get ready to become the miners’ new favorite pastime.

Also, as I mentioned earlier, with this release you’ll unlock—for the first time—the option to sleep with one of the party members with whom you’ve started a sexual relationship. When night falls, you can decide whether to go to bed alone as you always have or, in this specific case, with Khiria. Of course, going to sleep with a party member doesn’t just mean sleeping.

As you start more sexual relationships with your traveling companions, your options for who to sleep with each night will increase. Sleeping with a companion—in addition to watching a sex scene—is beneficial because it also increases your friendship bond by one point every time you do it (though only up to a certain maximum). It’s therefore another way to strengthen your friendship with the companions you’ve started a relationship with. In the future, I plan to add a daily bonus status that changes depending on which character you sleep with.

I’ll wrap up by telling you that there are also two new exclusive sex scenes in Lust World. One is a continuation of the “The King’s Concubine” path, and the other is in the “Selene the Exhibitionist” path.

– Hostages

– Khiria

– Sex in mine

– Path continuation: The king’s concubine

– Path continuation: Selene the exhibitionist

I hope you enjoyed last month’s quests; this month we’re continuing with two new quests, as well as—of course—new sex scenes.

In this version, we’ll have a shorter quest featuring the classic damsel-in-distress scenario. A passing carriage has been attacked by a group of bandits, and you’ll have to rescue a poor girl from their clutches.

The other quest will be more adventurous, and you’ll also face a difficult final challenge. The vultures in the area have suddenly become more aggressive, and their attacks on miners are on the rise—they’re often stealing the miners’ gold nuggets or jewelry. You’ll have to climb the peak where they’re hiding out, investigate why they’re doing this, and destroy their nest.

After completing these two quests, you’ll have just one last major quest left (available next month) to finish all the content in Rocky Hills. After that, you’ll finally be able to obtain your license to purchase camp equipment and begin your real adventure, traveling to the next region: Thamiris, the city of academies.

But I’ll give you a few more details next month when Rocky Hills comes to a conclusion.

Now let’s move on to this month’s sex scenes.

After wrapping up the story with the mayor and his wife, it’s time to start a new one with Khiria, and to continue your relationship with Gary and the other miners.

This paragraph contains a few minor spoilers regarding the Kobin quest from the previous version, so if you haven’t played it yet and don’t want spoilers, skip to the next paragraph. Now that Khiria has joined your team, she’ll need time to settle into her new clan. Her personality and customs are quite different from those of humans, which will make it difficult to build a relationship with her at first.

The Kobin are a tough, strong, and straightforward people, and even in romantic and sexual relationships, this is what they expect from a partner. So if your goal is to experience that delightful, toned little green body, you’ll have to prove you’re a real tough one. It won’t be easy, and you’ll learn this the hard way, nearly risking your life… but the ultimate rewards will be worth the price.

Now let’s move on to your grueling “work” in the mine. Your relationship with Gary is going great, and working in the mine has never been so much fun… but things will change starting with the very first scene in this version. During an incredible and exciting fuck with your favorite muscular miner, you’ll be caught by three other miners nearby. And that will change everything. Gary is a married man and doesn’t want his secret affair with you to get out of the mines… so it’ll be up to you to convince his fellow miners to keep quiet. How? Take a guess. Lots of exciting new scenes await you.

– Carriage Raided

– Intrusive Vultures

– Khiria

– Sex in mine

Following our previous update on the new “Seduce” skill—which introduced dozens of new sex scenes to the game—we’re now back with the next step in the storyline, featuring new quests and new sexual relationships.

This month there will be two major new quests, both of which I find very interesting.

I’ve already mentioned the first one, and it involves a rescue mission inside a collapsed mine. The mine where you started working will suffer a devastating collapse following an explosion caused by a gas leak.

Many miners will be trapped inside, and it will be up to you to find a way to save them. You’ll have to venture alone into the cave, through narrow tunnels in the dark and without air. Time will be of the essence in this heart-pounding mission, as every minute lost navigating the various obstacles you’ll face will lead to the miners’ deaths from lack of oxygen. Will you manage to save as many people as possible and return alive and well to the light of day?

In addition to this claustrophobic mission, there will be another even longer and more branched mission tied to a series of attacks on the villagers by another sentient species: the Kobin. You’ll first need to conduct a series of investigations to find clues about who is responsible for these attacks and where they come from. And if you find their hideout, eliminate them and put an end to the attacks. Without giving away any spoilers, I recommend being very careful when tackling this quest and finding as many clues as possible, as things aren’t always what they seem. The mission has several possible outcomes and endings depending on the choices you make. Furthermore, this mission is particularly important because it will allow you to unlock a new potential romance: Khiria.

You may remember her—Khiria is the green-skinned woman you glimpsed in a clearing during your explorations of Rocky Hills. She will be a key figure not only for this quest but also for the future of your adventure. Be very careful, however, with the choices you make, because in this game every choice has consequences, and in this case, some could be fatal for her.

I hope you find these two new quests stimulating. Let’s now move on to the sex scenes in this version.

First of all, there will be three new seduction scenes, all three within the kobin quest. You’ll have the chance to extract a clue from a man using your oral skills… and I’m not referring to your persuasive ones. You can choose to survive a dangerous encounter with two male kobins by distracting them with your body. And finally, if you make the right choices, you can unlock an orgy with three female kobins who are eager to be impregnated with your seed.

In addition to these, let’s now look at the sex quests dedicated to Relationships.

There will be progress and completion of the quest dedicated to the mayor’s wife, with new exciting situations where you’ll have the chance to cuckold the mayor even with him present or in front of voyeuristic neighbors. With this version, the content dedicated to the mayor’s wife will be completed, and starting with the next one, the romance with the new character Khiria will begin.

As for the sex quest with the miners, which was initially planned for this month, I’ve decided to postpone it until next month and include a new sex quest dedicated to the mayor instead. I figured that, if you can have sex with his wife and cuckold him, why not allow the same thing in reverse? So I’ve added the option of a new job: becoming the mayor’s sexy secretary. If you need to find a way to boost your income, you can agree to work for the mayor and use your seductive skills to get a pay raise by performing extra services. There are several exciting scenes with him, even in very compromising situations. Given the connection it has with the quest involving his wife, I preferred to include it in this version so that both can be completed together. I hope you’ll forgive me, then, for deciding to postpone the continuation of Gary and the other miners until next month. I should note that you won’t need to have accepted the quest with the wife to become the mayor’s secretary, but if you proceed with both quests, there will be a special bonus scene tied to both of them.

– Collapsed mine

– Kobin’s lair

– Blow a witness to get him to talk

– Give your body to two male kobins

– Orgy with three female kobins

– Bored wife

– Work as the mayor’s secretary

In this version, I’ve added a very important feature that I think many of you will really enjoy. I’ve added the Seduce skill to the game, which can be activated through the sexual preferences menu.

As the name suggests, this skill allows you to complete certain contextual challenges through seduction. It’s not a combat skill; it’s a contextual choice, available only in certain situations, where you can choose to overcome an enemy or obtain information through seduction. This skill unlocks over 20 new sex scenes across all the content currently released in Mistral and Rocky Hills, so it’s advisable to replay the game from the beginning if you want to see them all.

I don’t consider these scenes canonical for the story I want to tell, as they somewhat undermine the strategic aspect and the character’s heroism, but my sexual imagination, as always, took over. There were so many exciting situations during the quests that could be resolved with a good fuck instead of a fight, and I couldn’t resist the temptation to include them in the game. Additionally, this will give you more content to enjoy while I move forward with the plot and quest developments.

Keep in mind that using this skill also changes your character’s personality and will alter how other people perceive you. Every sexual choice you make will be remembered by the game, and some dialogues will change accordingly even in later situations, in addition to increasing your reputation as a “easy” person. If you’re an RPG fan and want to maintain maximum emotional and dramatic immersion in the game as it was intended, my advice is to do two separate playthroughs. One where you play the fearless hero/renegade who bows to no one, and the other where you play a character totally driven by lust and their most perverse sexual impulses. This is just my suggestion, but of course nothing stops you from saving the world using your seductive charms.

Since almost all the adversaries seen so far are male, the scenes will mostly involve men, so if you’ve disabled attraction to male characters, you’ll only see a few of these new scenes. If you’re not interested in seeing your character have sex with men, don’t be disappointed—in future versions, I’ll be more careful to include women as adversaries as well (so you can seduce them too), plus you’ll still have plenty of the canonical sex scenes with the many women you’ll meet as you continue the adventure (some very hot ones coming soon with the green-skinned woman you glimpsed in the clearing at Rocky Hills).

For those with the subscriber version who are already in Rocky Hills and don’t want to restart the game from the beginning, you can view all the new scenes via the Lust World. You’ll find a section within it containing all these new scenes, but doing so won’t save them to your gameplay progress, so your sexual reputation will remain clean.

Given the numerous added sex scenes, there won’t be any plot or quest updates this month (so I suggest you take this opportunity to restart the game and check out the over 20 new sex scenes scattered throughout almost every quest). The adventure in Rocky Hills will continue next month with an exciting rescue and survival mission in the mines and the continuation of the relationships begun with the mayor’s wife and the miners.

Unlocked skill: Seduce

SEX SCENES

Over 20 new sex scenes within the Mistral and Rocky Hills quests are unlocked via the new Seduce skill. I recommend replaying the game from the beginning to see them all.

In this month’s version (0.3), we will begin exploring the new region: Rocky Hills. But first, let me give you an introduction to how my development and releases will work.

The entire journey of the game will be a continuous exploration of all of Ender, so you will constantly move across many regions with different environments, cultures, and species. In each region, there will be a series of quests to complete before you can proceed to the next one (though there will also be situations where you will need to go back and revisit places you have already explored). The entire content of a region will generally be divided into 4 versions (so 4 months), but this number may vary depending on the size of the region. In the first release of each region, there will be side quests, introductory events, and a few small quests that will help you get familiar with the area. In the following releases, there will gradually be bigger, more complex, and more important quests.

Sex scenes are the easiest to create, so you will always find new ones in every release. Quests, on the other hand, are more complex to manage, with all their possible variations tied to player choices, so they require more development time. Sometimes you might find only one in a release, other times two or three.

With that said, let’s move on to this month’s content. Rocky Hills is a region with a very different setting from Mistral: forests give way to stretches of rocks and hills. Sparse vegetation, few animals. But as you will see, the few that are present are very dangerous. In this predominantly desert region, there is only a small civilized outpost, where you will stay and where you will need to find the equipment necessary for your journey.

Try to settle in, make friends with the locals, and explore the area for interesting (and exciting) discoveries. As I said before, since this is the first release of a new region, there will mainly be side quests, events, and sexual relationships to pursue with new characters.

And speaking of that, here is a small preview of the two main new sexual relationships you will be able to have:

In this release, you will also have the opportunity to recruit your first camp staff member. Be careful not to confuse companions with camp staff. Companions are the ones who will accompany you on quests (Team screen). Camp staff, on the other hand, are those who will remain at your camp and provide you with a range of bonuses (Camp screen), as well as unlocking new conversations, sexual relationships, and personal quests.

Unlocked: Camp

CAMP

New staff member: Astor

QUEST
Main Quest

– License

– Wannabe chef

– Mine work

– Vermin Cleansing

– Explore

– Escort

– Mine work

– Hunting

– Pickpocketing

– Bored wife

– Sex in the mine

– Various scenes with secondary characters

– Path continuation: The king’s concubine

– Path continuation: Selene the exhibitionist

In this second version, you will face an epic battle against the invading demons gathered at the Delev portal on Mistral’s border. Here, your choices will greatly influence both the outcome of the battle and the survival of your companions, so don’t underestimate it and make sure you’re well prepared, as it will be long and complex.

The end of the battle will immediately lead into a new, essential quest. I can’t reveal its name or nature, as that would be a major spoiler—you’ll discover it as you play.

In addition, once the indicated Main Quests have been completed, subscribers will gain access to a special portal leading to a new world called Lust World. This world contains not only a large portion of the sexual scenes featured in the main storyline, but also many new, exclusive scenes available only within this world. You can find further details in the game guide.

Unlocked: Lust World

QUEST
Main Quest

– Battle for Mistral

– Quest following the battle (name hidden to avoid spoilers)

– Various scenes with secondary characters

– New exclusive scenes, new Paths

– Grammar errors corrected.

– Untranslated parts fixed.

– Various bug fixes.

DESCRIPTION
Astral Worlds: Power of the Delev is a fantasy text-adventure RPG that places you at the center of a universe balanced between light and darkness. Create your hero, shape and improve your skills and stats according to your playstyle, and face a world filled with moral choices and real consequences. As dark creatures from another realm invade your reality, you must embark on an epic journey to repel them and uncover the secrets of the Astral Worlds.

The story is based on a fantasy saga that I created more than 15 years ago, and finally, after about 2 years of development, I managed to turn it into an RPG game. In this first version, you will find many hours of content, with numerous quests to complete, experience to gain, skills to unlock, and meaningful moral and strategic decisions to make. The entire region of Mistral is fully explorable and accessible, except for the important final quest, which will be available starting from the next version.

In addition to your hero’s journey, this epic adventure also gives you the opportunity to form your first intimate relationships. Many of the characters you meet can become simple friends or, if you choose, something more, allowing you to build both romantic and sexual bonds.

I hope you enjoy this work of mine. Have fun!

– Prologue

– Training

– Friends

– Lore

– Origins

– Scouting

– Work with Freddy

– Robbing with Selene

– Looking for a job

– Vermin cleansing

– Slums tour

– Balto

– Missing friend

– Stolen statue

– Murder investigation

– Mistral Sanctum

– Training

– Jobs

– Job inn

– Escort

– Hunting

– Pickpocketing

– Burglary

– Payback

– Scenes with Selene

– Scenes with Freddy

– Scenes with Brenda

– Scenes in the inn

– Various scenes with secondary characters