...See, these are the kind of previews I don't like. Yeah, sure, it adds a couple new champions, but also has a bunch of QoL and bugfixes rolled into it. Whatever...
Manor Alpha 22 Preview 1
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+ Added Kazuto's associated champion form, the dark elf noble Lyndis
-> Lyndis is a high rogue/medium magic/light social focused champion
-> Rogue champions have several abilities, some of which are used in new investigation goal variations
--> When fighting, medium or more rogue focus champions use the higher of their initiative or combat to fight
--> Highly rogue focused champions have a chance to avoid attacks when not engaging in fights (e.g. when trying to leave a room)
--> Medium or higher rogue focused champions can pick locks, gaining access to rooms they shouldn't
--> Medium or higher rogue focus champions hide fully from the player. This is used as an alternative in several monitoring goals, and highly rogue focused champions can search rooms, pick locks and do a few other actions while stealthed
---> A spell can be cast on a room to reveal stealthed characters (they will remain hidden, but be visible to the player for a few turns), and maids can search rooms to find characters (this breaks the stealth state)
---> If a stealthed character breaks stealth to attack they will have a combat bonus
--> Medium or higher rogue focus champions can steal items from other characters. Those with magic seeking capability will steal sought cursed items from visitors, and generally they will opportunistically steal from maids. Stolen items are easier to confiscate. Maximum rogue focused champions (Lyndis isn't one) will be able to pickpocket while stealthed
-> Medium or higher rogue focus champions will arrive carrying several observation bugs. These grant the champion sight of a room (as if they were present; they don't pick up magic that isn't visually obvious), helping them gather evidence. Those placed on maids can be destroyed directly (requires a roll to find), and those on visitors can be removed if the target is unconscious or if a maid/the master can convince the bugged character to submit to a patdown (this can fail on the patdown)
-> Low+ rogue focus champions with medium or higher magic focus can place observer marks on characters and rooms to similarly observer what happens. These marks can be directly erased without a power cost, or remotely erased with one
-> Medium+ rogue focus champions with a low+ magic focus will magically seek evidence items to check
-> Medium+ rogue focus champions will attempt to explore the entire manor while stealthed
-> Low+ rogue focus champions will monitor all surrounding rooms after setting up in rooms with many doors a few times to keep an eye on things
-> Medium magic or rogue focus champions will now check the library for unusual tomes. The librarian will try to interfere with this, but may fail
+ Magic champions now use their magic value to attack (but will use their combat value when attacked)
+ Fixed a rare case where a character would get stuck doing nothing when trying to collapse from exhaustion
+ Fixed some cases where champions would ask characters who are unconscious/etc. questions
+ Fixed confiscate action showing for sleeping characters, and possibly not showing for deeply sleeping characters
+ Entertain action should now stop if the target is no longer a visitor
+ Maids who are librarians or nurses who have a specific room set as their stay room will now station in it if it is a library/infirmary
+ Fixed maids and others who want to stay in a room but don't have a specific goal (e.g. librarians, nurses, those ordered to stay in a room) politely excusing themselves when someone starts having sex
+ Maids who proposition will now, if they desire to stay in the current room and it only has one exit, choose that room to have sex in
+ Fixed the search for staff to question goal not activating for champions with low/no magic focus
+ Added Talia's champion form, the elf noble