Well, it's here, Chapter 4! In total, this new chapter has about 135 passages (27 000 words)! As always, let me know if you find any bugs and typos!

As I've mentioned in my other devlog, this features exclusively the Inner Gardens and a meeting with Tryton, the mysterious anointed of Astorolus. Delve deep into the lore behind The Abyss in this Chapter...

The game might appear linear in Chapter 1, but I hope the depth of the story being told is revealed with this chapter. There are plenty of decisions, even as early as Chapter 1, that fundamentally shape what paths are available to you, which drastically changes your story. 

With version 0.3.0 (and Chapter 4) the stage has finally been set for all the major story-lines that will be explored in the future chapters of the game, namely:

- The betrayal and your old gang

- Piru and your pledge

- Astorolus and your soul

- The priests at the Temple of The God of Mercy

- Tryton, the anointed of Astorolus

- Finding out what happened to your mother

- Finding out what happened to Astrid

- The heist and events leading up to the betrayal (flashbacks)

Follow me here on itch for updates, as we delve deeper into these stories, uncovering them together...

Detailed Changelog:

• Piru forces a concubine deal on you as payment (if you do not have it) in one of the paths in Chapter 3, if you are fatally wounded.
• Fixed two instances of journal updates missing in Chapter 3
• Added Chapter 4, roughly 135 passages and roughly 27 000 words (The story is now roughly 375 passages long, with about 75 000 words.)
• Added 11 new images for Chapter 4, and 1 new image to Chapter 1 (dream visit by Tryton)
• Added 10 new music tracks
• New NSFW content: An intense rope bondage scene
• Backward compatibility: Due to the way the journal works, it's possible that you will end up with [undefined] entries in the journal. This might or might not happen, and should only happen if you have loaded an old save to a new version of the game, and I messed up some of the journal initialization mechanisms "patches" that are applied to your save as you progress through the game. If you see an undefined entry, please take a screenshot of the journal entry, then save your game "to disk" and send me a support email with the screenshot and attachment. With those two things, I can pinpoint what is wrong and fix it. Thank you in advance! (PS: Hope this doesn't happen though!)
• Renamed "Quests" menu item to "Journal"