Akello's first chapter and the game's new prologue are now available here as well as onSteam!  I want to give special shout out to the brave souls who beta tested this for me, your hard work really helped me clean up a lot of issues in record time.

Changelog - Here's what got updated besides story content

• Updated the mouse control page text to be clearer
• Typographical errors were corrected and some formatting changes were made for clarity
• Added a couple clarifying lines about the university thefts mentioned in Akello's intro
• Adjusted the zorder of one of the dropdown arrows on the Options page to keep it on top
• Cleaned up some stray pixel artefacting on the main menu screen
• Added 2 new music tracks
• Added section in credits for beta testers
• Forced renPy to see menu buttons in a predetermined order to make use of gamepad/keyboard easier (still working on some issues with this in the Chapters menu)
• Made the scrolling viewports in some submenus easier to navigate with a gamepad/keyboard
• Increased exit cross size by 25% to make it easier to interact with on Steamdeck and mobile
• Added titles to CGs in the gallery to better explain where they're from.
• Added an SFX to slider bars where appropriate
• Cleaned up a clipped spiritfire orb on Mori's monster sprite
• Adjusted the timing and smoothness of some transitional effects and parallax
• Added new SFX
• Streamlined the way the main menu loads to cut down on stutter/lag
• Removed some file bulk
• Streamlined the music room
• Made it so the cursor will disappear after a few seconds of idling
• Fixed a variable error that made the game crash during Akello's dialog tree in bookdudes