Welcome Candidates! Version 0.3.18 has turned free, and version 0.3.19 is available to second tier Patreon supporters, bringing a couple of new mechanics. Today, we'll be looking into one of them: "Sharing the Night".

Starting the 8th night of the 2nd month, you will be able to invite other residents of the Passion Temple to spend the night with you. They will usually be quite picky, so don't expect to have a companion every night.

There are many factors that influence the NPCs' responses. Drives isn't the most straight-forward one: while love and pleasure make characters more likely to accept, ambition and domination make characters less likely the less merit they have, meaning that a very ambitious character who has more merit than any other Candidate won't see any issues with dedicating some energy into giving you some love, while a very ambitious character who has been repeatedly beaten down by the competition will have other priorities in mind. Locked genitals refers to the character having all their genitals locked in chastity, which will make them dislike the prospect of going to your room only to get teased. Dice throw is a RNG factor, although a very particular one: reloading the game will not change this value for this character and day.

Once you find a partner for the night, they will have one out of four possible intentions: Snuggling, Teasing, Sex or Domination, depending both on RNG, their drives and their relationship with you. You will be offered many different possible responses in return, which may have more or less desirable results.

Most combinations of intentions and responses lead to a generic sex scene which also has its usual effects, which you may want to get even despite the negative effects. Generally speaking, having very different intentions may have mixed or even negative effects. Both characters wanting to dominate the other will incur significant rivalry penalties, but simply accepting the other character's intention to have their way with you will make you more submissive. If you don't like any of these choices but you still want to get Claw or Ate as frequent nightly companions, it'd be a wise choice to work on their love and cooperation drives.

With this picture, it sounds like a no-brainer to share the night as often as possible, given that it would help you gain relationship points at no time cost. However, you may find that sharing the beds of the Temple for the whole night might not be as comfortable, and you will wake up with a very significant debuff for the rest of the day:

Therefore, using this mechanic will give you a reward in exchange for some extra risk during the following day. If you feel confident enough about being able to fend off the more aggressive Candidates, you could be able to get a significant social edge in the long run.

From time to time, you will also find other Candidates who are missing sleep themselves despite no involvement of yours. They will be asking each other out as well! Do not miss the opportunity to punish their weakness for not having invited you instead.