Hello everyone! Since it's been over a week since I first posted this project on RMN, I figured it was about time to make a blog post detailing some progress I've made.
Right now, The Chronicles of Engea is still very much in its infancy, and I'm mostly focusing on polishing the core mechanics of what is already in place and rewriting old dialogue to improve on it. After that's out of the way, I'll be adding in more readable books, and then I'll move on to new areas. At the moment, I am thinking of focusing solely on the eastern coast of Engea. That means I'll be adding Wyndvale, Engean City, and Devil's Rock as locations you can visit in the near future, including sidequests available in each city and fully-fleshed out NPCs.
Chapter Two of the game will allow you to go to Engean City for the first time. As the capital city of the game, it's the city I'm going to be putting the most work into. As a frame of reference, I'm aiming for a city 2 to 3 times the size of Deepmount (currently the largest town in the game). One thing the game is sorely lacking at the moment is dungeons. There are going to be a variety of interesting quests in Chapter Two, such as inflitrating the base of a cult, among other things. At some point during Chapter Two, the main quest will branch out into two distinct paths. I'm aiming for, at the very least, two endings to the game, and possibly more than that.

Here's what I have done so far for the next update.

v0.3 Changelog
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*Locks now require lockpicks to open
*Goblin in Norvaik now offers only one free beer
*Weapon shop in Southtown now open by default
*Readjustments to starting character stats
*Imported new battle backgrounds from RM2k3
*Added new dialogue options for Norvaik priest
*Added new dialogue options for Chancellor Salvius (in Norvaik)
*Joel now recovers fully before Lyddia and Gundy leave party
*'Mental' attribute renamed 'Intellect'
*Fixed trigger for conversation on Isle of Terrors
*Added new dialogue option for Chancellor Salvius (in Watford)

Mostly minor adjustments so far, but major ones are still to come!