Hello all!
Given some excellent feedback from @AletheiaKnights, I’ve written a new second chapter which gives players more of a chance to explore who they are and how they fit in in Gigantea before things start going pear-shaped!
With that and a few other adjustments here and there, the game is up to around 207,000 words.
Here’s a link to the demo for your convenience!
Note that if you have an existing save file, you’ll probably want to start over. The new chapter two has a few more chances to increase your stats and faction relationships, and you’ll miss out on those if you keep going with a prior character—plus this was a pretty big change that involved renaming basically all the chapter scene files, so I’d guess it will break your saves anyway.