The public download links for 0.30 will be posted tomorrow evening (it's a busy day for me tomorrow so it won't be until late).

I'm making progress on 0.35, which will primarily be two character events, one for Alice and one for Emelia.

Alice has been somewhat neglected so far, so this is a good opportunity for me to explore her character and the dynamic between her and the MC.

Emelia is obviously well represented so far, this event will be an opportunity for the MC to advance their relationship. My intention on including so much content based around her was to ensure that the content was satisfying. Rather than having lots of characters whose storylines creep along with not much happening, I want to go through stages of building one primary character so I can advance that content to a satisfying stage, before switching to the next character. So 0.30 is the last outing for the Cartographer's Guild for a little while. I will likely still include smaller character scenes with Emelia in the .x5 updates going forward, but she will generally be taking a back seat after 0.35, to give more space to others.

The next faction will be The Academy, and it's related to something that Alice is going to explain in 0.35. The Academy faction will involve working primarily with Lyra as the long term representative of that Faction. It will also see the MC also spending time with Alice and probably Heidi. There are a number of ways I can get Heidi involved in stuff and The Academy is certainly one of them. Bad things are happening in The Triumvirate and as the feeder of new talent into the Luminarian Government, The Academy and it's best students have become a target for the city's enemies.

I'll be adding some more content with Zara in as well. My intention is that each faction mission, after completion, will unlock a debriefing scene with her. These will be fairly short, but give you an opportunity to learn more about what she expects, what she is doing and what pressures she is facing. It will also unlock her character events, as you complete the debriefs and have opportunities to impress her, she will start to involve you more in what she is doing. This is where you can start to soften that frosty exterior of hers and should you so desire, charm the knickers off of her as well.

0.35 is mostly written, Alice's event is about 8000 words and has been fully scripted into the game. Emelia's is about 4000 words and I'll be completing the scripting in game for that this evening. That doesn't include the sex scene, which I will write once I've got the assets generated, so that will probably add another 1000 or so words to it. Depending on how long all this takes, I may have time to extend her scene to include a little bit more.

All of Alice's base image assets for creating sprites have been done, as have all of the non-sex related ones for Emelia. I'm working on the MC ones currently. Emelia's event will see the return of Vivian LaRoux, the clothes shop proprietor from Chapter 1. She's gone through an overhaul, so if I have time I'll probably redo her assets in chapter 1 as well. When I first created her I had real trouble getting any kind of consistency. I used a smart upscaler tool to 'paper over' the cracks. Unfortunately the result was that whilst she looked generally consistent, she didn't really look how I wanted her to (particularly as the 'smart' upscaler lightened her skin tone, which is not exactly ideal...). I let it go at the time because I wasn't sure I would revisit her character. Now that I am, she is getting a makeover.

There are some demo images available to the free member tier on my patreon should you wish to check those out.