I played her a load more times, and while these other times she would pick other attacks sometimes after escaping from her facesitting or amazon stance, still literally every time I countered her sleep with a potion she just cast it again. If she's supposed to always pick that if you're already sleepy, does she check this at the beginning of the round, and so will always do it again even if you've removed the sleep effect when her turn comes around maybe?
There's no manual 'checks' here, it's all part of the game's skill code in this case. So the game doesn't look at your status effects until the moment Loretta has to execute a skill, so as long as you have no drowsy effect on you, you're definitely fair game for her other skills. I guess you're very unlucky and it's just pseudo-random being pseudo, and it's especially noticable with how small her skill pool is.
I definitely enjoyed her charm attack now I've seen it, it's a shame she does it so rarely compared to her sleep attack, and it's conversely too easy to resist, even on a natural one for many of the things to look at. Most temptation attacks give you the option to deliberately fail them if you pass the check, maybe that should be the case here too?
Her temptation scales incredibly with your fetish levels. So at 0 fetish you have to make a DC10-15, but at 75+ fetish it goes up to DC35 which is pretty big. I think it drives home her overall theme, with her exploiting your desires and using them against you. I might raise the lowest ones a bit though, cause they really are too easy for pure, fetish-free boys.
You can auto-fail the attack if you look in her eyes on purpose, although I suppose it could be nice to have bodypart temptation failures as well. They'd be really boring to write though, being so similar in function...
After breaking out by struggling rather than teleporting (which is a pain for a low power build) how many attacks is she supposed to have then? It seems like she only has the one foot worship attack, or am I being really unlucky again?
Just the foot worship for now, I understand it's quite scarce. I plan to make her needle skill available at all times(I forgot it's still locked behind her stunning kiss counter, or at least I think it still is). That should alleviate the spamminess of her barefoot state, somewhat.
But yes, it seems that most of the issues boil down to low number of skills being available in certain situations. They're all pretty highly customized, with blindfolds and even custom PC skills and whatnot, and each path even has a loss scene. But that doesn't really help with the fact that small skill pools don't work well with how un-random the renpy random is.
At the moment, I am thinking about giving her some more generic non-stance skills, like handjobs or something. Should address the unrandomness issue and would also let me make the sleep attack more 'normal', and lower the energy drain some without gimping Loretta herself too much.
