Trials in Tainted Space [v0.9.072 Backer] [Fenoxo]

SPOILER
New scene: use Throbb on the cheetah pirate you rarely encounter in space – comes with two tiny sub-scenes depending what you want to do with her. I wrote this one myself, but I’m sure I’m gonna be hot-fixing the errors in the text tomorrow. Obviously it requires you to have Throbb in your inventory and defeat her in a space battle. (Written by Fenoxo, coded by Fenoxo, proofread by nobody yet – please forgive my sins.)
New Kineticist Perks: Instinctive Psyfocus, Bodily Psi Aim, and Dexterous Psi Aim. Captain Steeles with their willpower and intelligence abraded by bimbo/bro transformations will unlock these via dream-sequences during sleeps. They will allow other stats to determine the strength and accuracy of your psionics. As I write this, I’m realizing that it may be too broadly proccing – I will deploy a hot-fix tomorrow to tweak the conditions to ensure that unusually smart and focused bimbos don’t have their stats switcharooed. (Fenoxo)
An old Penny scene that was disconnected has been re-linked, and the accompanying CheshireCatSmile37 art was added to the scene to go with it. (Fenoxo)
New NPC Bust: the Silicone Eater (Jacques00 drawn & coded)
New Rare Item on Uveto: The Sleet Staff. This level 8 rare quarterstaff is buried deep in the wilds of Uveto and can inflict both trip and freeze on its own, but beware: something about it does not feel right. Maybe it’s the -5 accuracy. (Fenoxo)
This was a good opportunity to clean up an abandoned segment of the Uvetan wilds that was meant for a now-abandoned community project. I adjusted a handful of descriptions to account for it. (Fenoxo)
New Rare Staff on Myrellion: The Xukwood Staff. This lovely crit stick lives near a certain brawler’s place of residence, if you can get past him and his dog… (Fenoxo)
New Common Staff in Nerassa’s Shop: the Hookstaff. This evasive little number can sometimes trip your foes. (Fenoxo)
Fixed a typo in the tooltip for the Tripped status. (Jacques00)
You should no longer be able to open your personal inventory in ship battles with the “C” hotkey when the button is grayed out. (Jacques00)
Fixed a UI crash related to pressing the back button in the rest menu while in your ship’s cabin. (Gedan)
Freedom Beef now has a cooldown in silly mode. (Jacques00)
Fixed a post-combat issue with Radglow. (Jacques00)
Added Opaque toggling for the scanline backdrop effect and the mannequin color fill. (Jacques00)
This should hopefully help in reducing instances of alpha render processing.
Combined “bg” and “bg-filter” class definitions that use the scanline effect into one universal function for convenience.
Gedan has been ripping through the auto-reported crash bugs something fierce.