Public build 18: And They Tell Me You are Brutal

Public Update:

George here! Sorry this update was a little slow but I we're doing huge quality of life rennovations to the game. You've probably noticed that the game is half the size it used to be because of some file conversions and house cleaning we did. I also have been playing with UI stuff and I added a journal to will's route to help folks keep track of information. I hope you like the doodles that @Soffbagel did for it!

Kardamon and telbat added some extra backgrounds, too, and basket from Tennis Ace helped me out with some code.

Abdroid builds are usually out with 48 hours of public builds. PLEASE START A NEW SAVE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU PLAYED THE PATREON BUILD!

We also updated all of Murdoch's sprites to give him a bit of a quality of life update in his sprite model. His haircut is the same, but should be a bit less flat looking. 

Patreon update:

Here's a big update to Will's route in The Smoke Room! This is the last of what I like to call "Foundational Updates" that really set the tone and the trajectory of a story route. While it wasn't as big as the Nik update, it was wtill a whopping 19k words. Coding was a pain in the ass this time because I wanted to do a lot of gamification in investigation scenes.

Next update cycle, TSR is going to attempt a quality of life update (coding mechanics, visual updates) and the cycle after that the story will continue with Cliff's update, which should have a big surprise in store for readers.

This cycle has:

-New writing by@ GeorgeSquares 

-New Sprites by @Werewhisky, @staufdraws, @bighufferpuffer, @RLEROFEVRYTHING, @tropicalsleet and @9klipse

-New Backgrounds by @LimeCardamom and @Georgesquares

-New title cards by @LimeCardamom

-New CG by @telbatdraws

-Coding by @CyFyKitty, @LimeCardamom, and @georgesquares