Chapter 4: Safe Conduct is out (Patreon)

Chapter 4: Safe Conduct is live in early access. The hub post has everything you need.

It picks up the morning after Chapter 3. The dwarves come to Lord Avel's hall, and Serith has to face them while they name her.

It's the longest chapter so far, longer on its own than Chapters 1 and 2 together, and every spoken line is voiced. Your Chapter 3 choice matters a lot here: depending on who you went to, whole scenes play out differently, so one run won't show you everything. The smaller choices, how she handles people, count for more now too, and on one route the consequences can be drastic. There's also a new choice in the hall, and it's a big one. The chapter ends differently depending on your answer.

It's also darker. The violence is harder than before, and the explicit scenes go further than anything in Chapter 3. Serith hates most of it and keeps her head anyway.

Technically it's the biggest step since the living sprites. Every new face breathes, blinks and talks from the first scene it's in. There's a lot more animation: the explicit scenes are animated from start to finish, with breathing and sound, and there are moving inserts all through the chapter. New music throughout, and a new title screen.

The status screen got reworked again. Yes, again. The Record and the Descent continue through Chapter 4, and What's new keeps track of what changed since your last look. There's also The glass: Serith's mirror moments across all four chapters, each with a line about what she sees. You can now open the ledger from the end card, too.

Four new names in the Confidant credits. Thank you.

The download is about 2.1 GB now. Saves carry over: load one from before the end of Chapter 3 and it goes straight on into Chapter 4.

I'm proud of this one. Tell me what worked for you and what didn't, here or on Discord.

Enjoy the descent.