Today I added in walkabout and portrait sprites for a Stage 4 Burijeoo wearing armor, intended to be used primarily as guards patrolling Yagziknia's streets (and possibly a few other places later on.)
The transition from Stage 3 into Stage 4 involves an increase in height and, more importantly, the growth of a tail. You can see this guard's tail in these screenshots if you look really close.
Oh, and... I finally started on mapping some indoor areas! Shown here is the Armory, where you can buy a variety of equipment.
All four of the new weapons available here are actually depicted here, hanging on the racks against the back wall. There's the Xoozum Staff for Damuru-J, the Yagziknian Mace for Eddie, the Crystal Knife for Joguo, and the Darkclaw for Bridget. All of these have some unique attributes rather than just being "plain" weapon upgrades that only increase physical attack power.
The Darkclaw is definitely the most unusual of the bunch -- it also increases Accuracy slightly, does more damage than usual on critical hits, and counteracts enemy regeneration (stopping enemies like Zos and Yukkohs from gradually restoring their own HP, bypassing some of the resistance amorphous enemies usually have to cutting attacks, and instantly killing Yuckworms rather than causing them to split and multiply like most cutting attacks would.)
The Burijeoo Robe is the first new armor that Damuru-J gets, since she can't equip the various "heavy-duty" armor items (things like a bulletproof vest, haz-mat suit, and so on.)
Lower Yagziknia also has a restaurant (Marujai's Cafe) where you can buy various food and drink items, a jeweler's shop that also has a secondary shop counter where they'll buy your old junk (the idea being that they use any salvageable scrap to make assorted bling and such), the hot springs where you can go to rest (recovering HP/EP), and finally a Snuzzoo Pit, which is a sort of communal daycare for larval Burijeoo.
Contrary to the name, the operation of a "Snuzzoo Pit" doesn't consist of actually chucking them all together into a pit and giving them food and water every now and then. Well, not anymore, anyway. That was how it was done when the name "Snuzzoo Pit" was first coined centuries (or longer) ago, back on the Burijeoo homeworld.