Refuge of Embers – New Version 0.15b [Escape Sauce]

Date: 19.04.2024
Language: English
Version: 0.15b
Censored: No

1- Extract to desired location.
2- Click on "RefugeOfEmbers.exe" to start playing.

INC Patch:
Extract the archive and add patch.rpyc to the /game directory
Info: The story follows the main character Biorn as the world he knows gives way to change that causes him to discover a deeper purpose. Biorn lives a simple life with his friends in a remote frontier town at the edge of the known world, an impassable ring of dense forest filled with deadly beasts. Events take place that cause him to journey to the enormous capital city of Faruwine where he will inevitably encounter many interesting characters and situations. How will Biorn and his friends react to the strange new world they find themselves in?
Version 0.15b:
Script increased to 27,560 words with additions to the main story line
Added the prologue day 0 and day 1 rewrite with more sprite animations
Added new background props to slum background (supply delivery)
Reworked all 31 Eryn sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
Added 6 new Eryn sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
Reworked several existing Eryn sprite mouths
Major rework on Lena sprite (lowered neck, repainting)
Reworked or remade all 16 Lena sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, fixes)
Major rework on all 5 Lena sprite arms
Reworked Lena sprite hair
Added 7 new Lena sprite mouths (4 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
Major rework on Lucine sprite (lowered neck, smaller forehead, repainting)
Reworked all 19 Lucine sprite eyes (new irises & pupils, small fixes)
Added 6 new Lucine sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
Reworked shirts on Lucine sprite
Reworked socks on Lucine sprite to add thigh muffining
Redesigned Aina sprite hair
Reworked Aina sprite makeup and added freckles
Added 9 new Aina sprite poses
Rework on Raisa sprite (repainted the torso)
Added 6 new Raisa sprite mouths (3 open normal, 3 open slightly happy)
Added bottom underwear to Raisa sprite
Added more clothing variation options to Raisa in the gallery sprite viewer
Reworked or remade several MC sprite mouths
Added all new characters from Act-2 into the gallery
Remade and streamlined pregnancy morphs and clothing on all sprites
Added previously unused face animations to Lucine intro scene
Added a darkness mask to beginning dream sequence that fades away
Added sprite blush fade effect to make it less jarring
Added flicker effect to the candle in the intro scene
Added movement to MC sprite picking up and setting down firewood on day 1
Added firewood pick up and set down sound effect to day 1
Added cloth sound effect for MC and Eryn picking up towels
Remade door closing sound effect
Changed gallery unlock cheat code to something even more archaic
Fixed glitchy timebase for background and sprite time of day fades
Major revision to gallery code and gallery sprites
Removed a metric piss ton of now unneeded gallery variables
Added a dev mode to speed up face and pose animations
Small and boring code changes to things like sprite names to stay consistent
Updated game engine and broke everything, then unfuckulated it all again
Changed ending text & stat screen to be controlled by variables instead of manual edits
Fixed using the name Harth in the last Eryn h-scene instead of the player name variable
Further optimizations from old png files to smaller lossless webp files
Other minor bug fixes, story changes, and added sprite animations