It has been a wild year and a bit since I released this game for the Cairn jam. So much has changed for me personally, but through all that I have worked to give this adventure the update it deserves. When it was originally released, all it needed was some art and the final dungeon. After playtesting, and much thought, I realised that the adventure needed so much more.

What follows is a list of the major additions and changes.

• Complete layout overhaul

• Reworked introduction
  • Removed Hooks table
  • Reworded history
  • Added three specific Hooks

• Added merchant caravan section
  • Encounters on the Road table
  • Rumours table
  • Added new merchant character
  • Four distinct travelling factions

• Expanded town section
  • Reworked town map
  • Descriptions of daily life
  • Townsfolk generator table
  • Townsfolk's Trust mechanic
  • More town events
  • Fleshed out grandmasters
    
  • Reworked town opportunities

• Forest section enhancements
  • Reworked depthcrawl procedure
  • Adjusted forest denizens
  • New forest denizens art
  • Better distinguished unique locations
  • Added final location mini-dungeon
  • Moved encounters up
  • Reworked anomalies table
  • Moved treasure to depth layers

• Dungeon section changes
  • Expanded two dungeon characters
  • Added a new dungeon character
  • Removed the Omniscient character
  • Added more side effects and dreams
  • Added lucidity mechanic
  • Fleshed out dungeon feel
  • Adjusted dungeon generation procedure
  • Added dungeon encounters table
  • Reworked almost every dungeon room
  • Replaced experimental rooms with dream tears

• Added Nadir dungeon 
  • 13 room boss dungeon
  • Added two Nadir characters
  • Added three Nadir creatures
  • Reworked mycelium being character

• Relic Changes
  • Updated some relics
  • Added sections for grandmaster's crafts
  • Added 17 new relics

• Creature Changes
  • Updated creature stats and abilities
  • Added lesser Boids variant
  • Expanded Fyr's abilities
  • Added feral gaunt variant
  • Reworked husks with three variants
  • Added living memories
  • Expanded Ultar's abilities

• New character art

• Placeholder art throughout
  

• Hyperlinked page numbers

• Lots of minor tweaks

Please go play it and tell me what you think!

Barring typos, tweaks, or corrections, there will be no major changes to the writing. The art is another story. There is a lot of placeholder art that I need to replace and a few pieces of in-progress art that I need to finish. That is why this is the penultimate update. Once all the art is done, then I can release the final update and call the game done. 

Please give some feedback and let me know how I can make the game even better. I don't have an editor so I'm sure a few things got past me, so I really appreciate your help in pointing out any errors in the text. 

Lastly, I want to give a special thanks to everyone that paid for the adventure. Your support means a lot! 

You can find me on Bluesky, if you wish.