Strive for Power - Aric's Expansion

Fair warning, this preview text is a mess that's grown over years of mod development. The Changelogs are the best place to see the nitty-gritty of features and changes and likely will stay that way. I do intend to clean this up soon.

Important Links

• The Discussion Thread on Strive for Power's board is where the mod was originally released and is a good way to discuss the mod on itch. Discord is the best method for a quicker reply, however.
• If you are interested in keeping up with the very latest work as we update the mod, check out our GitHub. You can download the latest working version there with all bugfixes and new features, but you MUST rename the folder to AricsExpansion (as GitHub adds a '-main' to the folder name).
• If you're interested in talking to us regarding the mod, bugs, new features, etc; swing by our Discord.

OVERVIEW

What is Aric's Expansion Rebred? It is a Strive for Power expansion mod. It contains a multitude of other mods into one complete package that offers a new experience to the game. It touches, changes, and updates most things in Strive while also adding multiple new systems. Some examples of the new systems or changes are:

• NPCs Expanded - Genital/Breast/Lip Sizes, Stripping/Nudity (including new supported Image Types), Expanded Talk Functions (Consent, Fetishes, Dialogue Events, Randomized Master Nouns, etc), Lactation Overhaul + Traits, Personality Flaws/Traits (for Dialogue variance), New Movement Options (Flying, Walking, Crawling, Immobile) with Combat Support, New General Traits (Ditzy, Lisp, etc)
• Sex Expanded - Kinsey Scale Sexuality System (for wider options than Straight/Bi/Gay) with shifting sexualities based on actions, Attraction System, Cum Tracking, New Sexual Requests, New Sex Dialogue, Genital Wear and Tear, 'cest
• Pregnancy Expanded - Overhaul of the Pregnancy System, Pregnancy Speed Changes, Offspring Stat Boosting, and more
• Character Customization - New Specializations and Starting Slave Specializations, Sizing Support
• World Expansion - Persistent NPCs with personal reputations and interaction tracking, Town Events, Town Reputation Changes
• Farm Expansion - A brand new reworked farm panel, ways of milking/breeding, new jobs, a variable Milk Economy, trait lines, snail breeding, and items!
• Races Expanded - New Stat Arrays, Abilities, and uniqueness for Races (even moreso with Ralph's additions turned on in settings). New Races include Gnoll, Ogre, Giant, Lizardfolk, Kobold, Avali, Beastkin Mouse, Beastkin Squirrel, Beastkin Otter, and Beastkin Birds.

•Consent•

One of the most common questions now is: "Why won't anyone join my party?"

You haven't asked them to (in the new consent system). The Consent System is found under the "Talk > Lets talk about Consent" area. This will show you any topics you can ask for consent for that you haven't gotten consent for OR asked and been refused that same day. To join a party, they must agree to Travel/Fight with you (in v.07 Unique Characters can always join, even without consent). Sex consent can be obtained through this method or the standard Dating method. The rest have a chance based on their obedience, loyalty, and possibly their opinion of the fetish (ie: 'cest/Pregnancy). If they refuse you, you can ask again the following day.

•New Image Types: Nude & Pregnant• You know how in the main gate there are images for the characters Clothed, Naked, Etc? Do you have that favorite Slave that you wish you could have a naked or pregnant image show for without manually changing it?

This mod will now look for a picture of any Slave that has a Body Image Set and either try to find, in this order: A pregnant image if Pregnant Duration > 0 Otherwise a naked image if at least 2 of out of the 3 are exposed (Chest, Genitals, Ass). If the Slave isn’t pregnant, isn’t naked, or there isn’t a valid image for either than it will try to reset the original body image if it was changed or leave it alone if it was not.

You, the player, will have to go into the folder where your Portraits/Bodies/Mods are and add pictures to the following folders: bodiesnaked bodiespreg

The game will then look in those folders, HOWEVER, keep in mind that all images (portrait, bodies, bodiesnaked, and bodiespreg) will have to have the exact same name and extension (ie: sexyslave.png) or the game wont find it.

Let me know the inevitable series of problems this will cause, and hopefully, Enjoy!

Portrait Packs for Nude/Preg (Community Created)

https://itch.io/t/988503/small-portrait-pack-arics-compatible

https://itch.io/t/976351/body-collection-pack-for-strive-arcis

•Sex, Stretching, and Wear & Tear•

Size matters during sex! Each partner's lust and sensitivity increases or decreases by 10% for each level of difference between the holes. Larger members = larger arousal gains, but also the potential to Stretch or even Tear the hole.

•Pregnancy• 

Pregnancy Consent You know what sucks? Being a Slave, getting fucked (willingly or not), then BOOM, you’re pregnant too. Well, that used to suck. Because now you have a say!

Consent

Because Consent matters, slaves now have the option to be asked for consent to impregnate them. You still can without consent, but the pregnancy is going to be a lot more stressful for them as they carry an unwanted child. With their consent, having a baby can be a Loyalty building experience instead! But what if you aren’t the one impregnating them? What if you want one of your Breeding Studs to, or even crazier, one of their family members? They can be asked about that and give consent for that as well.

Wanted Pregnancies

Unwanted Pregnancy - +Stress for the duration of the pregnancy Wanted Pregnancy - +Loyalty for the duration of the pregnancy

Consent Types Through interaction system:

• Sex (with you) - They will have sex with you Through the Dialogue System
• Pregnancy (Must have Sex Consent) - They will have a baby with you.
• Breeding Stud - They’ll breed others for you without having to have sex with you first (so no more forced M/M unless you want to)
• Breeder - They’ll willingly get pregnant with any Studs ('cest supersedes the above) 'cest - They will willingly have sex with landfolk (you included)
• 'cest Breeder - They will be willing to get pregnant with their landfolk and make more

Note: If the Slave has an incredible stressful pregnancy OR has reached their desired number of children, they may revoke Pregnancy Consent after birth.

Consent Factors

Pregnancy - Desired Number of Offspring: Slaves now have a Desired Number of Offspring randomly decided for them (Modified by their race, some races just breed more). #Note: Currently not playing nice Biological Clock -  Slaves have a Biological Clock that, depending on their age, spurs them toward wanting to procreate IF their number of children is less than their Desired Number of Children

Mansion Upgrades The Nursery can be upgraded to 2 different levels. The first level will unlock the ability to keep the children (as per vanilla game), as well as the Breeder and Stud Jobs. The second level will allow you to adjust the speed of Pregnancies by talking to your Head Girl.

#Future Plans: A third level that will allow you to unlock specific Traits or open up multiple Baby pregnancies.

•Sex• 

This is a harder one to define as a lot ties in together. Then again, I suppose all of it does to some extent.

Sexuality (and the Kinsey Scale)

 Sexuality is a spectrum. Just not in this game. Well, that’s fixed. No longer are you “Bisexual”, “Homosexual”, or “Other”. Detailed in the in-game Library.

•Combat Changes•

Movement comes in a few different flavors. This is (hopefully) the template to build off some new, cool combat options. For now, if a unit can fly, isn't encumbered (via items, titsize, or pregnancy/inflation), and isn't exhausted, they will. If a unit is exhausted or restrained, they will crawl. Too exhausted, restrained, or overweight, they will only be able to lay there.

Movement Types Flying - Speed/Attack Increased 125% Walking - Normal Crawling - Speed/Attack Decreased 50% None - Speed/Attack are 0

Combat Stress Reworked - Combat stress has been reworked from a flat amount every time to a chance to gain stress each time the unit takes damage depending on their courage and the amount of damage taken. This allows for longer expeditions as well as adding more functionality to the “Protect” action.