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Construction slaves

Slave labour is a very convenient way to get anything done. So when the French Quarter wanted to build an 'Eiffellest Tower' right next to the Eiffel Tower and the Eiffeller Tower, of course they made the controversial decision to start a temporary slave cult to recruit an array of workers to get the job done with great speed and on the cheap.

TBOE: minor (scale) upd8

Hello there.

aside from the usual collection of minor improvements (different key sprites, lootboxes not auto-opening when you walk into them, that kind of thing), today's main and most obvious change is that we have music now.

I also will verbally ponder a bit about what I'll want to add in the coming while.

There's gags in this game of course, as you may have noticed. but they don't really do anything because there's no speaking nor eating in TBOE. so, an obvious improvement is perhaps to add some kind of mouth-based interactions: perhaps Binding of Isaac style pills or some ability to negotiate with or threaten enemies. That'd also bring about the possibility of gags that interrupt eating but not speaking or vice versa.

I'd like there to be some more stuff to do at home, which of course can also be interrupted by bondage. Eating, drinking, we'll see what else. I would like there to be a concrete sense of the restrictions that this bondage is placing upon daily life. The idea here hasn't really fully crystallised though, so yeah my ears are going to continue to be open to ideas in these two fields.

Danish belt

Engineers of the future have come up with an amazing contraption: a chastity belt that makes chastity easier! Out with the piddly little 117G technology and in with the fancy new 118G waves to shift and alter a person's gut reactions! Great counter to rapists or anyone who's getting too horny really!

TBOE: minor-ish upd8

Of note in this upd8:

Eliza now has a wardrobe in her bedroom. E opens it, and it starts stocked with an array of fairly normal clothing, but you can leave whatever you want in there between runs.

You can have multiple save files now.

There's a debug menu that lets you gain, don (put on) or doff (take off) any item in the game. Open it with F3 while in-game.

Eliza now has a bathroom. It doesn't do anything, but hopefully there will be no more allegations that she poops in the living room.

Visible in the above gif: chain mines and rope mines. Those who walk into these mines will instantly be given a set of restraints of the relevant kind. Enemies can trigger them too, and will also be restrained, although there's no visual indication of their restraint yet.

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Magic mines: Slime trapper

This is the kind of place in which you must carefully watch your step, lest you tread on a slime trapper and end up ensnared in the grip of a Slime Trapper or something similar. And once you're ensnared so, you're pretty much locked into magic mine exploration until you get the goods required to remove it.

Control suit tampering

Nothing is unbreakable, and so slave restraints have to be built full of anti-tampering measures from auto-shockers to alarms and remote notifiers. Whether a slave can be slowed down long enough for their owners to arrive in time is another question.

TBOE: very normal clothes

ELIZA!?!? WHO IS ELIZA? YOU SEE BEFORE YOU ONLY ELIAS HIMSELF, DO YOU NOT SEE HIS FAMOUS MOUSTACHE UPON MY LIP?

yeah this 'disguise' business was doomed from the start

anyway I guess I'll make it so you start the game with a wardrobe full of fairly normal unrestrictive clothes

Criminal in the Nation of Slaves

Moderate crimes or worse may see you strung up for hours like a piece of beef jerky, and pelted with tomatoes like an unpopular comedian. It shall prove to be an invaluable learning experience during which you will learn to properly obey the laws of the land. For to be within the borders of Ketteburg makes you necessarily a slave and fully subservient to the rules, lest you be strung up and pelted with fruits and vegetables a second time.

Gigacity popo

Here we see the usage of a gun that shoots white magic, instantly manifesting a set of debilitating restraints right on a criminal's body. Excellent way to apprehend villains and thugs, very efficient. Good thing the cults don't usually have access to such technology.

Speaking of which, the police mostly let slave cults do their thing, since they act a lot like a slave cult themselves. In some quarters of the gigacity cult activities are illegal, in others it's fine. But it's never really a priority for the popo unless they overstep.

Every morning when police officers arrive at work they have to be locked into their set of restraints for the entire workday. With the exception of the camera collar, which stays on at all times including off-duty.

White magic is extremely fast and convenient, but has the disadvantage of requiring constant maintenance to keep the restraints in place. If the magic crystals stop being powered for even an instant, the restraints dissolve. Some recommend vantawhite as a replacement, which builds objects with nanobots, and these objects are permanent. But it's far too slow a process to use at range against a fleeing criminal.

Chain Mine

Trying something of a more jovial and humourous style for this one, we'll see how it goes.

Since killing opponents doesn't work that well these days, a whole host of alternative warmethods had to be concocted. The chain mine is one of these, it does exactly what you'd expect, it wraps its victim in a cocoon of chains to hold them in place until the mine layer can come and collect them for further restraint and imprisonment. It didn't turn out to be very effective because the victim's allies just started carrying keys. maybe a better chain mine with better locks would have been the way to go.

TBOE minor upd8

Most notably, it's now eventually possible to free yourself from the control suit that you awaken in at game start, that'll be the win condition in the end. and removing restraints is generally a bit easier.

Magic Mine Exploration

When exploring the magic mines, it has become obvious that one should take a number of protective measures against the threats within. Expensive, difficult and restrictive measures, but necessary ones if the miner is to successfully extract the precious magic from within.

TBOE minor update

Most notably, some items have a new bullet hell minigame to remove them. But also some of the rough edges have been sanded off this minigame system, like pressing movement buttons in the minigame doesn't also move your character around.

TBOE update: Chain guys and minigames

Here's a wee new version of TBOE including Chainenators, chain throwing enemies wot leave piles of chains on the floor. Running around in these piles is a good way to get entangled in like six different chain-based items.

And also a couple of experimental item-removal minigames. Some items will require you to button-mash like your freedom depended on it, which it does, and others will require you to do some rhythm game stuff.

Ping me your thoughts if you have them, and I'll want to add more minigames in the future for sure.

TBOE: Item removal minigame

Currently when you try to remove an item, it is automatically removed after an amount of time. Now some items will have a minigame you have to complete in order to remove it successfully. Otherwise you will fail, and be trapped in your restraint forevermore! At least until you try the minigame again!

Pancake day special

It's pancake day in about a week so I've prepared some appropriately themed kinky art

Day 1,118 in a slave cult: Uniform upgrade

It took her like three years of service, but our girl finally managed to climb up a rank and earn her sweet new duds! They come with new rights and privileges as well as of course extra restrictions and limitations, but such is the way of things in this life. They're also RED! What's not to love!

The Educatening

Some lament the lack of learning in the gigacity, and so take it upon themselves to force all to become learned and knowledgeable citizens. After being grabbed by the cult, these slaves may on any morning find themselves awakening in the confines of one of these 'Schools', tasked with paying attention to information both menial and useful. Of course, learning does not require one to speak and so the slaves are equipped with a ballgag for the duration of their stay, as well as a visor that blocks their vision if they look away from the educator.

DRONE. OBEY. DRONE. OBEY. DRONE. OBEY. DRONE. OBEY.

and so on and so forth ad infinitum

TBOE: Chain thrower

Fear the Chainenator, who will throw balls of chains onto the floor! Also fear the piles of chains, it's easy to get caught up and all tangled and locked up in them.

I'll upload a new patron build with this enemy and a few other things in pff iunno a week or so

Select your loadout!

Let's just say you can wear multiple collars at once if so you choose.

Control gloves

Excellent way of stopping people from conducting illegal shadow puppet performances, and encourage them to take up more fruitful hobbies like advocating for the expansion of slavery and not holding smartphones. A must-have piece of any slave's ensemble!

TBOE update: Wherein Eliza goes home

Poor young Eliza, she awakens one day in her gigantic home having been sealed into a dreaded Control Suit! With the only stated way to remove it being to delve into the bondage dungeons of the local cult, and to risk more bondage for potential freedom.

So that's what's in this update: A loop of enter the dungeon -> get bondaged or get out of existing bondage -> go home -> repeat.

The idea, long term, is to develop a version of TBOE where you go through this cycle a number of times until you're fully free at which point you can claim a win and end the game. That's not possible at the moment, fair warning: the control suit is currently truly irremoveable unless there's some bug. I would like the path from start to freedom to eventually go through the depths of slavery and control though. As a wise lass once said, to ascend you must first descend.

In future I would like to add the ability to add more helpful doodads to one's home like some kind of stat tracker on the television or some advanced bondage unlockers or the like. That would be a solid bit of loot to get from the dungeon methinks. Wardrobe to change outfit too.

TBOE: a bit of narrative

Might as well explain why in tarnation young Eliza is visiting this dreadful dungeon of bondage. Turns out she was pseudo-kidnapped in the comfort of her own bed in the middle of the night!

There'll be a playable update soonish.

Tourist in the Nation of Slaves

If you go to Ketteburg these days you'd better be prepared for a suite of restraints to be lain upon you, to keep you in line with the city-state's laws, customs and culture. As well as to cement your inferiority to the real citizens of the place.

A common problem that tourists run into, is the foreign rules of Ketteburg. As a result they often fall afoul of the customs and are slapped with penalties, which sometimes take the form of extra restraints, but usually take the form of extra mandatory time in the nation and therefore the restraints. A tourist visiting for a week may find their visit extended to a month or more, for instance. This provides powerful motivation for the tourist to help out and be a benefit to the nation so that their extra time might be removed.

There is talk afoot among the citizenry of also adding a gag to the standard tourist ensemble in the near future, but there are disagreements about the nature of this gag. Most propose a simple ballgag with a speaker that can say a list of approved canned phrases, which the tourist would control with their tongue. Others say the idea should be scrapped because it doesn't go far enough.

TBOE: control suit

ah crap they got a control suit on her, it's all over now

TBOE: going home

Next major thing I want to make in The Bondage Of Eliza, is the aftermath of the dungeon. Of course after escaping from some cultish bondage site, you go back to your own home, cozy and warm. But you are not necessarily going to be free of your restraints. For those that place the restraints upon you shall be the only ones with the keys to unlock them. As a result you'll have to return right back to the procedurally generated fortress if you want to remove your articles of restraint, and of course put yourself at risk of getting ever more bound.

The Forgotten Face

Eating random plants is a bad idea at the best of times, although when the Forgotten Face was discovered it was made obvious that the risks were truly immense. Hosts would find themselves looking latex-faced for many years or the rest of their lives, and a means of removing the coating was not discovered for more than 20 years after the first hosts were taken. Even then it's out of most people's financial range to get it removed and so unless you want to end up in the poorhouse I'd advise staying the hell away.

The Magic Mines

Here's another bondagey setting. It's linked to the other slave cult stuff in that a lot of those restraints are made in part with Magic from these Mines. There's a lot of potential I reckon for adventures of heading into the mines in search of magic, avoiding the creatures of restraint, grabbing as much magic as you can and booking it. with the obvious caveat of, if you even get one being restraining you then you have to come back and brave the mines a second time in order to remove it. Lot o story or game potential there methinks.