I'm putting out the update a little early!  

For the sake of quantifying how big the game is, now: Twine says it's over 86000 words. Nice!

VERSION 1.4.0 - MORE IMPROVEMENTS

    - Cut the Mine Manager and Club Manager. For now. Sorry.
    - Much groundwork on Chapter 5.
    - Started work on more EOD Events and improvements to old EODs.
    - Work on the final two investments.
    - Work on the Noble Rank system.
    - Added 2 images.
    - Small bugfixes.
    - Started improved and universal skill checks.
    - Updated to SugarCube 2.34.1
    - Fixed a bug with Narsine's decay and love mechanics.

This month was solid proof that 2021 is really shaping up to be 2020-II: The Revengeance. I ended up starting a lot of painful but necessary rewriting work on my fantasy setting instead of the game, but I DID get enough work in this month to justify a minor version increase (I think).

The next steps will probably be towards a 1.4.1, since I want my focus to be on getting all the skillchecks I wanted to have into the game and finalized. It's a pretty big sprawl, and several skill checks are bespoke due to their complexity. I want to clean that up. 

As well, I think it's time for another pass at balancing the game - for this, I will need your feedback and comments. The cheats are in for now, but they aren't staying there forever.

Finally, I've been scouting inspiration and opportunities to add more images to the game, and I think if any place needs to have images, it's the main quest. Future background images will focus on the main quest. As you can see: I'm not really good at art, but the game has a rustic style.

As always, if you like the game, please consider telling others or throwing me some words of support - or even a few dollars.