Harlot Spotlight - Panta Prota

Finishing off the new short story took a little longer, so the harlot spotlight is pushed back to Saturday again. This week it's time for a look at Panta Prota.

She was one of the earlier ones, I think. One of the influences to the game was Lobotomy Corporation, so I was looking for other ways to trigger Bad Ends than stat checks. The idea for Panta is she's mostly fairly placid and nice, unless she gets turned down. Nice idea in theory. In practise it required putting a check in for which harlots were presented and then turned down (or mulliganned) by the player. This was already kind of in place, as the default behaviour for turning down any harlot is to reduce their affection (which isn't relevant for all harlots, but can tip a later encounter into Bad End territory).

I also needed to update my test program for the HoHH 1.5 version to handle harlots that check for things outside of the room.

Panta is a little complex under the hood as her encounter varies depending on which round she was picked and whether the player could have picked her on previous rounds, but chose not to.

So, a little complicated to both write and program.

She's quite good as a low-tier harlot. She's fairly safe to pick, but can surprise-kill the player in later rounds until they work out what's going on with her.

Now for the lore.

As with most of the harlots for this faction, Panta Prota is a fairly standard succubus. I wanted a fairly softer 'bedroom lingerie' theme for her rather than the more common 'black latex dominatrix' look I give a lot of my succubi.

She's quite a weak succubus, but still powerful enough to overwhelm a man with sensuality if he gets into bed with her. One of the sub-themes for this group is that the weaker succubi are a little insecure about their abilities. For this reason Panta wants to get to new arrivals first and is not interested in seeing anyone a second time. The reason is she doesn't like the man to have prior experience with other succubi to compare to her own abilities.

Alsharajea, the Corruptress is similar in this regard, but has a different way of tackling it, as we'll see next week.

Marwmellow's art does a pretty good job of capturing her 'fey' look and the way she tries to seem unthreatening.

Let me know what you think below!