Chapter 3 Development Update: Version 0.3.1 released

Set out on the road and play two paths with either Damerek or Branson as you head towards Castle Helmsworth. Explore some of your own character's past and get answers to some questions while prompting many more. Conflict between elves and humans spills over as you learn of a new antagonist as well as get a brief introduction to a possible future companion. Discussion with Qinara and Damerek will add to their backstory and also show you that there is more to their past that needs to be explored.

NOTE: This version contains the first of hopefully many Random Encounters. During the story you are prompted to Investigate or Continue on your Journey. Continuing will eventually lead to skipping the encounter and continuing on to a campsite scene for you and your group. These campsite scenes are currently still a work in progress so they will be added in a follow up patch. Ending up at one of these scenes will notify you that the content is coming and then take you back to the start of the encounter so you can choose another option. Future updates will include new encounters to add to the list of possible scenarios so that when replaying different paths you will see different content even if you chose the same choices as before.

This release contains the following new content and updates:

Images: 1,549 new story renders added and 1 movie (3,630 Images total)

Audio files: 28 new music tracks and 11 new sound effects

Word Count: 29,000 added (84,000+ total)

New Gallery Images: 5

New Achievements: 3

Revised Main Menu

Grammar updates for previous content

Fixed a line of dialogue after losing the tavern fight that should not have displayed if you lied to Qinara about not helping Damerek.

Fixed an error with a journal variable for Damerek from version 0.2.0

Updated Ren'Py version to 8.1.3

--------------------------------------------------------------- With the release of version 0.3.1 the next steps are to finish the campsite branches and scenes for if you decide to skip an encounter. Following that will be the next major update 0.4.0 which I plan to be the Steam Release.

As far as advancing the story and the upcoming content, the next release 0.4.0 will have you arriving at Castle Helmsworth and hopefully performing a rescue of sorts. Damerek and Branson paths will have different events that will provide more details and flashbacks into both of their pasts. The last little bit of travel for you and your group will help provide a little more detail and backstory for many of the characters, because once you arrive at Castle Helmsworth to help Branson's family, there will be some pivotal choices that will change the direction of your story significantly. The pacing will change somewhat as we have learned enough of many of the characters and the world they live in to start to have a good foundation for the lore. We will see a new cast of characters with Branson's sister Kaela, her handmaid Moria and his mother Elwyn taking an active role in the events that unfold.