DD# 251 To the North Where We Once Sealed the Devil

Hi, everyone. This is another very productive week.

A lot has been done. And there is a lot more to come.
To be utmost efficient, this week's diary will be a quick rundown. Because something great awaits!

First, the other two paths to get intel from the captured Aten Cultist have been finished.
Harold's path can be darker than you realized. It's a mini-quest all by itself.
The seduction path is more light-hearted dark humor.

To make things a bit more dramatic, I actually made a short animation of his nose bleeding. Well, anyway, well done. You get the intel anyway in one of those four paths.

Alright, now we know where their secret base is. The Guide to the Mountains can take you there. But, because it's a secret base. The entrance is hidden. To ensure secrecy, someone specifically left a note here instructing his subordinates to keep it quiet.

See the irony? It's almost like writing down your complex PC password on your desk to remind yourself. Not sure why people keep doing that in real life, Fallout, Resident Evil, and many other games.

Other than that, if you look around, you may find some familiar enemies. Shade creatures from Egypt have been leaking into this place for a while. But your decisions back in Egypt can affect their number, types, and spawn locations. Many actions you took back in Chapter 2 still have a long-lasting impact to this day. To keep things more organized, I added a new page on the game's wiki to list a few of them. Just be aware that there are a lot of spoilers out there.

After we break in, what's next/

It seems when you are chasing their clues all the way from Egypt to the Nise Federation, someone has been quite busy doing some heavy construction. The secret base is going to be like a dungeon with various new enemies. For now, you can already see some brainwashed workers walk around and attack you on the spot unless you hide in a box, Metal Gear style.
Zhang Yin certainly worked on recruitment to refill the cult's ranks after you gave them kingdom come in Egypt.
But if you engage those workers and use the "detect faith" skill on them, you can find something new.

It's not like the old Aten faith in Egypt. Zhang Yin added a few personal touches to change their religion significantly.

In this image, you may have noticed a new tenet.
That's correct.

We now have a new faith tenet for everyone who wants to play a mad scientist.

But, still, you can find something new even on this new tenet.
We now have a medicine life skill!
Because, why not? It's going to be the next big thing after AI. Eventually, all will come to make people healthier, live longer, and make better babies with better genes. Personally, I have successfully used the knowledge provided by AIs to lose 5 kg of weight in the past few months. Now I feel power flow through me. I can push out more updates every day!
Alright, that's a bit exaggerated. The more in-game reason is that I want something to make all those medicine items more useful. I want to give you something to progress in this direction. Thus, this is a huge change this week. Feel free to check the details of Thursday's log. In short, many items have been marked as "medicine items," including those potions you make via alchemy. Your medicine skills can make all those "medicine items" more useful. Each level after level 1 increases HP and MP recovery or damage rate by 1%. Yes, damage. Nobody says a doctor is only capable of healing people. A cure can be a poison with slight changes. Thus, as your knowledge of medicine increases, you also know how to use poisons better. Naturally, you can improve your medicine skills by using medicines. (Feel free to keep dumping those little pills into your body. It's not healthy. But it can farm some medicine XP if you wish.)
Meanwhile, to let everyone know which items are medicines, the game now also displays certain item tags such as: Food/Cooking Ingredient/Alchemy Ingredient/Medicine/Gift.

That's not all. Let's move a step further. As a mad doctor you may want to be, you can now vivisect enemies right in battle. The damage is scaled with your medicine skill. It bypasses all defense. You gain medicine or programming experience based on the target type. Vivisecting biological enemies gives you medicine experience, while vivisecting machines gives you programming experience.
But here is a catch. It only works on helpless targets. That means you need to stun, paralyse, put them to sleep, or do something similar first. Plan ahead. Being a mad doctor is for smart people. :)

Zhang Yin is certainly quite smart. But now he is a supervillain. His old appearance certainly no longer suited him in an epic final confrontation. So, here we are.

The chasing will soon be over.
But think about that, if he didn't do that in Chapter 2. The one who would turn into the Aten High Priest would be your main character. So, things are pretty complicated.

However, the coverage point of this timeline remains the North Peak. The powerful location where a hero once sealed Lucifer in the NEOLITHIC universe. Thus, this week, you may also reach the entrance area of the North Peak. Once again, we crusade into hell for the first time. You can find corrupted creatures and demonic creatures still lingering there. Yetis are affected by curse stones, and Beelzebub sends those annoying mosquitoes to pay some regard. It even has new background music with a retro feeling. Anyway, to our veteran players who followed this game for decades, it's time to continue your epic journey here once again! To our relatively new players, you may find the story they left behind. The first parts of the North Peak do not require the main story. It's accessible for everyone who can go all the way north to reach it. (It means you've found a way to Jiru Island and defused the machine siege of Dana to some degree. That's still not an easy feat. Have fun! :D)

Alright, that's for this week. I will continue pushing the progress of those two locations next week. There will likely be more demonic and Atenist enemies, while in the meantime, the struggle will bring generic updates radiant towards the rest of the world, such as this week's medicine change. This endless story is eternal.

This week's full update log:
20251108
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[Asset] Added a new appearance for Zhang Yin for upcoming stories.
[The Anomalous Nation]The "Harold" Path in the torture room is complete. It's a mini-quest by itself. You can jump to other paths before it's fully finished.
[Wiki]Updated the Anomalous Nation page.
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【资产】加入了张银在之后的故事中会使用的新外观。
【异常国度】酷刑室里的【哈罗德】路线完成。这基本上是一个迷你任务。完成前你可以跳到别的路线上。
【维基】更新了【异常国度】页面。

20251109
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[The Anomalous Nation]Reduced the minimum difficulty of the "Deceive" option in the torture room.
[The Anomalous Nation]The "Seduce" Path in the torture room is complete. Very dramatic. :D
[The Anomalous Nation] Added a short animation of nosebleeding.
[Wiki]Updated the Anomalous Nation page.
[Jiru Island]New Location: The Entrance of the North Peak. (WIP)
[The Dolovian Camp]The Guide to the Mountains can now take you to The Entrance of the North Peak and bring you back later.
[Butterfly]You can also use Butterfly Wings to return to the Dolovian Camp.
[BGM]Added a new BGM for the North Peak. (To all players who sealed Lucifer here 10 years ago. Your epic shall continue today.)
[Boombox]You can listen to "The North Peak" in your boomboxes.
[The Entrance of the North Peak]Added plants.
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【异常国度】酷刑室里的【欺骗】选项难度的下限降低。
【异常国度】酷刑室里的【色诱】路线完成。非常欢乐。:D
【异常国度】加入了一个简短的喷鼻血的动画。
【维基】更新了【异常国度】页面。
【吉鲁岛】新地点：北方之顶入口。（施工中）
【多洛维营地】【前往深山的导游】现在可以带你去【北方之顶入口】并且也能之后把你带回来。
【蝴蝶之翼】你也可以用蝴蝶之翼从北方之顶回来。
【BGM】为北方之顶加入了一首新的BGM（致所有10多年前在此封应路西法的玩家，你们的史诗当在今日继续。）
【音乐播放器】你可以在音乐播放器里听【北方之顶】
【北方之顶入口】加入了植物。

20251110
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[Wiki]Added a page of some Choices & Consequences in the game. It's the 105th page of the game's wiki. (It's an incomplete list.)
[Wiki]Linked the Choices & Consequences page to the Mission/Quest page.
[The Entrance of the North Peak]Corrupted Yetis now appear in this location. (There is non-corrupted version here.)
[The Entrance of the North Peak]Vengenful Spirits now appear in this location.
[The Entrance of the North Peak]A very small amount of Beelzebub's Hell Mosquitos now appear in this location.
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【维基】加入了一个关于【选择&结果】的页面。作为游戏维基的第105个页面。（这只是一张不完全的列表。）
【维基】将【选择&结果】页面链接到了【任务】页面。
【北方之顶入口】被腐化的雪人会在这里出现。（这里没有没被腐化的版本。）
【北方之顶入口】复仇怨灵会在这里出现。
【北方之顶入口】少量别西卜的地狱蚊也会出现在这里。

20251111
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[Jiru Island]New Location: Frayedlore Hollow (The Aten Cult's secret base is here)
[The Dolovian Camp]The Guide to the Mountains can now take you to Frayedlore Hollow after you get the coordinates from the captured Aten cultist.
[Butterfly]You can also use Butterfly Wings to return to the Dolovian Camp from Frayedlore Hollow.
[Frayedlore Hollow]Added plants.
[Frayedlore Hollow]Shaded creatures appear in this location. (Depending on your previous decisions in Egypt, especially whether you killed the Aten High Priest or handed him over to the Illuminati, their number, density, and types are varied.)
[Frayedlore Hollow]There are also some wolves here.
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[Map]Internally reorganized the map tree structure. The massive areas of the Nise Federation is now more organized.
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【吉鲁岛】新地点：殒绪谷 （阿腾教团的秘密基地在这里）
【多洛维营地】【前往深山的导游】现在可以带你去殒绪谷。（在你从被捕获的阿腾教徒那里获得坐标之后。）
【蝴蝶之翼】你也可以用蝴蝶之翼从殒绪谷回来。
【殒绪谷】加入了植物
【殒绪谷】暗影生物会在这里出现。（基于你此前在埃及的决定，特别是将阿腾大祭司击杀还是交给了光照派，当地暗影生物的数量种类密度会有变化。）
【殒绪谷】这个区域也有狼出没。
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【地图】内部调整了地图树的结构。尼斯联盟的庞大区域的结构现在更加有条理了。

20251112
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[Tileset]New Tileset: Facility in an Earth Cave
[Frayedlore Hollow]Added a switch to open the gate to the Aten Cultist Base.
[Frayedlore Hollow]Added an ironic clue about the location of this switch.
[Frayedlore Hollow]This location is no longer marked as WIP. But the Aten Cultist Base is still WIP.
[Frayedlore Hollow]New Location: Secret Aten Cultist Base (Very early WIP)
[Secret Aten Cultist Base]Added fishing data and butterfly support.
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[Store Page]Updated the system requirements. As the content grows, the game requires more disk space.
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【图块】新图块：土之洞穴中的设施
【殒绪谷】加入了一个开启进入阿腾秘密基地的门的开关。
【殒绪谷】加入了一个非常讽刺地指向这个开关位置的线索。
【殒绪谷】该区域不再处于施工中的状态。但是，阿腾教团秘密基地仍然在施工中。
【殒绪谷】新地点：阿腾教团秘密基地 （早期施工阶段）
【阿腾教团秘密基地】加入了钓鱼数据和蝴蝶之翼的支持。
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【Steam页面】更新了系统配置要求。因为游戏内容不断扩展，游戏现在需要更大的硬盘空间。

20251113
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[Secret Aten Cultist Base]Snakes and bats now appear near the entrance area.
[Secret Aten Cultist Base]Another part of this area is now accessible.
[Tileset]Facility in an Earth Cave expanded.
[Life Skill]New Life Skill: Medicine
[Item]New Item Tag: Medicine
[Item]All non-dynamically generated medicine items now have the medicine tag.
[Item]Certain newly generated items, such as random Chinese medicines, now have the medicine tag. (This change does not affect any item generated before this version.)
[Alchemy]All potions you make via alchemy now have the medicine tag.
[Item Generator]Certain items now no longer use the first item in the database as their template. (It's simply not a good idea to build a skill book based on a life potion anymore. The life potion is now a medicine item. Many other items shall not inherit this tag.)
[Item]Some item tags will now display in item detail windows. (Such as: Food/Cooking Ingredient/Alchemy Ingredient/Medicine/Gift)
[Item Generator]The Doctor's Coat now also increases your medicine level. The game now also generates them in the latest modular method.
[Faith] The Science faith now also increases +2 medicine skill levels.
[Wiki]Updated the faith page.
[Medicine]Here is how it works. This life skill directly impacts how efficient your medicine works. Each level after level 1 increases HP and MP recovery or damage rate by 1%.
[Medicine] Using medicine can directly give you medicine EXP.
[Wiki]Updated the life skill page.
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[Baking]Improved the game's code baking system. It can now automatically bake everything in recursively.
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【阿腾教团秘密基地】入口附近现在会有蛇和蝙蝠。
【阿腾教团秘密基地】该区域另外一部分开启。
【图块】土之洞穴中的设施图块扩展。
【生活技能】新生活技能：医学
【物品】新物品标签：药品
【物品】所有非动态生成的药品现在有了药品标签。
【物品】新生成的某些物品现在会带有药品标签。比如中药。（这个变动不影响这个版本之前已经生成的物品。）
【炼金】所有你通过炼金生成的药剂现在有药品标签。
【物品生成器】某些物品不再以数据库里编号为1的物品为模板进行生成。（毕竟，一本技能书用生命药水来生成本身就不合适。现在生命药水又有了药品标签。而那些物品并不应该有这个标签。）
【物品】部分物品标签现在会在物品的详情界面中显示。（比如：食物/料理食材/炼金材料/药品/礼物）
【物品生成器】医生的外套现在也会增加你的医学等级。并且游戏现在使用最新的模组化方式来生成这种物品。
【信仰】科学信仰现在也会+2医学等级。
【维基】更新了信仰页面。
【医学】这个生活技能直接影响你使用药物的效果。1级以后的每个等级都会让你的药品的HP和MP的恢复或伤害效果增加1%
【医学】你可以通过使用药物来提高医学经验。
【维基】更新了生活技能页面。
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【烘培】改进了游戏的代码烘培系统。现在可以自动烘培子文件夹中的内容。

20251114
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[Skill]New Skill: Vivisect
[Vivisect]The damage is scaled with your medicine skill. It bypasses all defense. It only works on helpless targets. You gain medicine or programming experience based on the target type.
[Wiki]Updated the skill page.
[Faith]New Faith Tenet: Ruthless Knowledge Seeker
[Wiki]Updated the faith page.
[Faith]New NPC Faith: Reorganized Aten Cult
[Enemy]New Enemy: Brainwashed Worker
[Brainwashed Worker]They follow the Reorganized Aten Cult faith.
[Secret Aten Cultist Base]Brainwashed Workers now appear in the construction area. They are considered generic human enemies. Thus, human enemy rules apply. (You can haverst their souls or use a collar to turn them into pets.)
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【技能】新技能：活体解剖
【活体解剖】伤害基于你的医学等级。无视所有的防御。只能作用于无助的目标。基于目标种类的不同，你可以获得医学或编程经验值。
【维基】更新了技能页面。
【信仰】新信条：冷酷无情的求知者
【维基】更新了信仰页面。
【信仰】新NPC信仰：重组阿腾教团
【敌人】新敌人：被洗脑的工人
【被洗脑的工人】他们有【重组阿腾教团】信仰。
【阿腾教团秘密基地】被洗脑的工人会出现在这里的建设区域。他们被视为普通人类敌人。所以对人类敌人的规则适用。（你可以收割他们的灵魂或用项圈把他们变成宠物。）

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