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As Clara relevantly remarked, it hid an important part of her body :ROFLMAO:
Fair enough, fair enough :KEK:
Thou as much as I hate to repeat myself, just look at the first preview picture... aww come here cutey let me snuggle with you!
Sure it might not end well (for me), and she might be a bit stinky after centuries in a sarcophagus, but curvy lovely redheads always deserve some cuddling! :ROFLMAO:
At the very least some headpats
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It's a minor gripe tbh, something that stuck out to me, but I understand what you are going for.
You are right (of course lol) she then explains she's watched movies with her dad, and she's a strong person, but in that one scene there was no hesitation at all, both vampires are "hungry", one almost falls for it (Kyra) and gets stopped by the other one who's almost unwavering (Clara).
The dynamic is indeed similar also in the final scene of the update, the one struggling is Kyra more than Clara (albeit not to the same extent), I'd probably have not even noticed it at all if there was a prior scene where Clara was falling prey (or just risking it) to the hunger, but that's the very first time she experiences it.
Yes this is intentional that Kyra falters in the trial and leading up to it. I was trying to convey that her bond and connection with Clara is what is keeping her in control and I wanted to show that she has Clara's support and can really rely on her. As can Clara on Kyra as well.

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Kyra is by far my fav vampire in AVNs, yes even after her amazing wild hair has been cut! She's just too cute and sexy to be true! :love:
Haha, thank you. yes cute and sexy is what I was going for. But remember, these looks can kill ;)
 
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As Clara relevantly remarked, it hid an important part of her body :ROFLMAO:
Indeed, and in the next chapter you can look forward to seeing a lot of that part, from many angles and in a couple of different outfits. And it looks oh so good, if I do say so myself.

Here is a little low-rez sneak peak of one such angle that I have been working on:

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So I would say the hair change was totally justified ;)
 

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Indeed, and in the next chapter you can look forward to seeing a lot of that part, from many angles and in a couple of different outfits. And it looks oh so good, if I do say so myself.

Here is a little low-rez sneak peak of one such angle that I have been working on:

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So I would say the hair change was totally justified ;)
Everything about them is cute, their persons, their feelings... So when is next update? :ROFLMAO:
I suddenly remembered Serana drinking blood potions not to bite me. Was it in the base Skyrim or was it a mod? I'm not sure, but alchemy could be a solution to their problem :)
 
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Everything about them is cute, their persons, their feelings... So when is next update? :ROFLMAO:
I suddenly remembered Serana drinking blood potions not to bite me. Was it in the base Skyrim or was it a mod? I'm not sure, but alchemy could be a solution to their problem :)
I'm aiming for December but we will see how it turns out.

There will be a hunting scene soon in CH3 where Kyra and Clara will go on a hunt together, at least on a romance path because by the end of CH2 Kyra will start to get hungry, and so will Clara. Some unfortunate persons will have to be food :devilish: On other paths Kyra will go hunt alone.
 

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The developper described them in two posts on the preceding page. One of them says:
"If you bite her, she doesn't die, but is very near death. The MC than transforms her into a vampire. Later on if you chose to do her lewd scene you get on her path, provided you have enough points to trigger that option. This will set you on Clara's romance path. If you decline the lewd scene, this will start Clara's spiral path where she will increasingly become unstable and will eventually lead to a Miles romance path. If you ran away, you can only get on solo path which will in ch2 fork into good and evil paths. As Clara is still a human on those paths, there will be consequences."
 

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New ways to support

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Hi everyone!

Oppaiman is soon going to be implementing OTP (one time payment) option of supporting our projects in December. This means that for a one time fee, you will get all future releases for free. Think of it like free DLC, similar to how Steam works. With that said, Chapter 2 is now available for wish listing there as well and our Chapter 1 is currently featured on the main page which is big for us! You can place your wish lists here. Current release for CH2 is set for Dec 17 there but it's still subject to change and will be adjusted as we get closer to the actual release date. Further more, Oppaiman will from now on only be available once early access has ended on Patreon so on official launch date.

I am also currently in the process of cooking up something new for our Itch crowd as well, meaning starting with CH2, the game will be available there for direct purchase, which will delist our page from search so our main game page at will from CH2 onward only host a demo versions of the game (which will include all previous chapters and first scene of the latest chapter) for free! I am also looking into making a web version there for direct play without having to download. The new page with direct purchases will be available once we get closer to the release of CH2 and will have the game available there on launch day, so no more delay for Itch crowd anymore! The price will be the same as the Patreon Bronze tier. Demo will also be available on Patreon on a free tier.

Early access and bonus renders will still be exclusive to Patreon only along the official release.

Also I am currently looking into Steam and GOG as options as well but I don't have anything concrete to speak about it yet in case we get rejected as those two platforms are pretty strict now days when it comes to AVN's, especially ones that are still in active development.

Subscribestar Adult has once again fallen through sadly, even after five months of numerous emails to them they still don't want to approve our page there so it is unlikely that will be an option for you guys any time soon.

Last but not least,

New marketplace, Redulse, has just opened up that is specially designed to host NSFW games and support such developers. Our game is one amongst the first to be available there.

What is different about it is that it works only on crypto and payment goes directly to the developer without payment processors holding the funds unlike pretty much every other store out there so your support there is instant and goes directly to our crypto wallet, plus our share of the profits is 95% while other sites take 30% so this could be pretty huge for us in the future.

I decided to give this new store a fair shake even though I'm still new to crypto myself so if you want an alternative means of supporting my project without having to deal with payment processors I would like for you guys to check it out. By supporting there, you get access to the latest builds and all client versions.

The site is very intuitive, easy to use and designed with simplicity and user friendliness in mind.

I suspect that in the future it will be increasingly more and more difficult for us adult devs to monetize their work through usual sites like Steam, Patreon, Itch (who has already fallen prey to this) etc. so I feel like getting in on this early could be a good way to combat this.

Apart from mine, there are a couple other AVN devs hosting their games there as well so If you want you can check them out as well.

Here is the direct link to my page for The Last Embrace:



And also the link to my creator page:



Thank you and I hope you find these new means of supporting the project useful and do let me know how you feel about these new options.

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New GPU is here!

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Hi everyone!

Just a quick announcement that the new GPU has just arrived today which means we are back in full production mode. Yay!

As a thank you for your patience and for sticking with me through this trying times I will be making some custom renders for you guys and they will be free for everyone to grab!

They will be up sometime later today or tomorrow!

Thanx everyone and take care!

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Swimsuit Set #1

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Hi everyone!

As promised, for sticking around during my downtime when my GPU died now that I have a new one I wanted to put it through its paces a bit before I get back into rendering the next chapter, so I made this swimsuit set for you guys!

They are done in 4K and you can download the full RAR file containing 18 4K renders, two for each female character currently in the game, and also one new one that will first appear in Chapter 2! Her name is Stella. Also 1080p version is there as well if 4K is too big for you.

I hope you like these!

Also as a bonus to my paid members, they will all get, yes even bronze and basic ones, 8K versions of these plus NSFW versions of these as well so you can look forward to those in your game package when the next chapter is released!

Now time for me to get back to work, got a lot to catch up on now that we are back in full production, and hopefully I can show some new stuff in the next weekly report (if renders come out good).

Take care everyone!

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Hi everyone!
Just wanted to let you know that yesterday we hit our final goal on our and as a reward to you all a bunch of us devs are doing discounts for our Patreons!

So, until December 5th, every new paid patron can get a 20% on all tiers!

Use code KNA_LEGION if you need to apply it.
Thanx everyone for all of your support and especially to those who purchased the bundle, and if you haven't already but want to, the bundle is still going for 25 more days, for only 20$ you get access to 50 AVN games ranging from all manner of genres from 41 devs, ours included!


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The Last Embrace Chapter 2 Demo 0.2.5 changelog
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Hi everyone!

In my last weekly report I talked about releasing a demo for Chapter 2 of The Last Embrace early, so here is the changelog for it. I am releasing this now due to the new changes I am making for my Itch pages where from now on I will only offer a demo there for free and there will be another page made which will go live on chapter 2 official release day with will have a full paid version. This is to hopefully get around the de-indexing issue Itch has put in for adult games as any paid adult game is no longer searchable. Demo page will link to this new full version page. Demo will also be available to all members, free and above, here on Patreon.

Also, the demo is releasing sometime tomorrow on both Patreon and Itch and will be free for everyone!

This demo contains all previous content and the first scene of chapter 2 which concludes the underground mystery storyline with which we ended chapter 1 previously. In this scene we delve even deeper into underground into some dark places beneath the city where some new things will be revealed about the MC as well as the man who's been after her. Also, we will meet an old friend of the MC here as well, and she can be renamed if you wish but her default name is Beatrix. This is just an introduction for her and more story about her will be done in a future chapter. Small hint, it's a pet, if you can call her that.

0.2.5 beta changelog:

- Scene 1 of Chapter 2 has been added across all paths, this concludes the underground mystery storyline that ended on a cliffhanger at the end of chapter 1.

- 207 renders (1056 total)

- 7356 words (63693 total)

- 726 lines of dialogue (6699 total)

- 30 minutes of reading across all paths (4 hours total)

- 3 new SFX (22 total)

Fixes:

- buttons in the lore and events tab of the codex journal have been fixed so that the last button doesn't get cut off.

- in chapter 1 there were instances where characters would have a conversation about hair or clothes in a scene and then

in a later scene they would have a similar conversation again. This has been now corrected.

- typo's were corrected in the prologue when Clara asks if you want to help her out with her ''problem''

- a render has been fixed up in prologue where Clara is masturbating to not be as creepy looking

Hope you like this demo!

The work on the rest of the chapter continues and while I don't have a concrete release date yet, I still hope it can be done by the end of December.

Take care all!

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i hope this mc can be evil because she gained morality of 4 good points out of nowhere in all choices and this woman in red is really annoying, i hope this unknown guy is not and can provide us with some evil choices.
 

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i hope this mc can be evil because she gained morality of 4 good points out of nowhere in all choices and this woman in red is really annoying, i hope this unknown guy is not and can provide us with some evil choices.
On solo path in chapter 2 the game splits into good and evil paths so yes you can be evil. Not on all paths though, only one
 

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Hi everyone!
It's been a while since the last public report. I didn't do one for November because we had a rendering GPU failure at that time so work on Chapter 2 slowed down quite a bit as a result of that. But a new GPU is in and has been firing on all cylinders trying to catch up and make up for lost time.
Still, I am basically about a month behind from where I wanted to be. But I have been catching up. Recently I have released a demo build for CH2 which was free to everyone and included all previous content with latest round of fixes and also contained the first scene for all paths of CH2, which concludes the underground mystery storyline and where you meet a very old friend of the MC for the first time.

If you missed it, you can still get it here for free:



With that, the work on the rest of CH2 has been progressing at a steady pace and by the end of this week two out of total of four paths that are currently available will be fully finished. This leaves only solo path, which with CH2 will split onto a good and evil path hence four paths. These two will be very distinct and will have lasting impact on the story going forward.

On Clara's romance path front, things between them are finally starting to become more official and now they are dating, and you can look forward to a new lewd scene on this path, which is the biggest one yet, with 8 120 frames long animations alongside a decent number of static renders as well.



On Spiral path things are not going so great however, and Clara has had enough. Unable to deal with her new vampiric state, she leaves the MC behind to fend for herself. With that, Miles is the one who will pick up the slack and help the MC with the modern world stuff from now on, and this will indicate the starting of his romance path. You will be able to learn a different side to him, there is more to him than it first appeared.



For solo paths, well they haven't been done at all yet apart from the script. None of the renders have been setup yet and this is the final stretch goal for this chapter and what I will be working on in the next few weeks.

I won't say much about the solo paths for now since I have no renders to show it, but let's just say that the consequences of your previous choices will heavily influence how the story on this path goes from this point on. As mentioned above, solo path splits into good and evil depending on your good vs evil points balance. This part of the update will have a very emotional tone so be ready for some of that.

The MC will also be introduced to modern technology in form of a phone and be shown how to operate it, depending on your path it will be either Clara, Miles or Yuna who will do this. Each path will have its own distinct scene and location where this will take place. This will form a basis for a future messages system which you will get a glimpse of at the end of this chapter as the MC receives a first message, from a unknown number! And if you are on Clara's romance path, you will learn a bit more about the city and the setting we are in.

All this, while mystery man keeps watching from the shadows, waiting to make his first move, which will finally happen in CH3 and his true identity fully revealed.

On a technical side, this chapter will be shorter in terms of dialogue and there will be a bit more inner monologue and narration heavy, especially on solo path as the MC will be alone for a significant portion of it. Each path will be about half hour long for a total of about 2 hours across all paths, but it will have more renders than CH1 did, currently about 500 renders have been done and solo routes haven't been rendered at all yet so it will be more than CH1's 607 renders. Animations alone will also add additional 900 frames in total so that's already a significant increase. Naturally, more new music and SFX has also been added.

The new GPU had a bit of a hick up at the start and was rendering very slowly as a result but I'm happy to report that the issue has been found and and fixed and now it renders much faster so progress should be faster as well from this point on.
Now, let's talk a bit about release dates. While I will try to get it done by the end of December, it may fall out of that, depending on how rendering for solo paths will go. Early access should still be near the end of December but official release is likely going to fall to January 2026.

Well, that's about it for now. I hope you will like what is coming next!

Take care everyone!

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Winter Adult Games Bundle 2025 on Itch.io!

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Just now

by The Mithril Hourglass is live on Itch!

This holiday season you can get your hands on ours and 120 other adult VN's from 79 amazing devs who pour all their free time into making games we all love and enjoy!
The bundle is available for free and grants you access to free titles and demo versions of games and if you are willing to support the adult dev community by donating 20$ or more you get access to paid versions of some games as well!
Happy holydays everyone from the bottom of all our hearts!
 
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Happy New Year! Plans for 2026

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Hi everyone!
I want to personally wish a Happy New Year to all of you and your loved ones!
It's been about six or so months since the initial release of The Last Embrace and your guys' support has been great! Far more than what I expected to get honestly. Let's hope that the IMO a great starting momentum continues into 2026 and beyond!
In this new year the plan is to continue regular chapter releases every 2-3 months like so far and in the new year I am especially hopping to secure a Steam release as well!
Chapter 2 is likely going to be released around our usual timeframe of 17th of January and this time only it will not be a staggered release but instead all tiers will get it all at once!
Also, we got our first Diamond member, and they commissioned a character of their own to be made in game as per that rank benefits. This character will be placed into chapter 1 as the first custom character and will have their own little scene where a couple lines with the MC will be exchanged and some additional renders added to facilitate this. You will be able to find him in the Atrium Market scene when our MC and Clara go shop for clothes. I hope you guys will enjoy this little bonus extra interaction that will expand said scene. This may come in as soon as this next update most likely!
In terms of the game, a few next chapters are planed to release in 2026 and depending on what size of the client we end up, a sort of a season could be made, or Act as I would like to refer to it. This is not yet confirmed and it depends on client size.
The Last Embrace will starting from chapter 3 have regular time jumps as well, so every new chapter will have a small time jump of one week. This is to stager out a story a bit so things feel more like a natural progression over time.
The first bit of the story will wrap up this year, a modern times acclimation arc and with chapter 3 onwards as the main bad guy gets finally fully revealed and takes center stage, stakes will start to be higher and higher with each subsequent chapter. That said, I would like to spread out the heavy events a bit so my goal is to release one mystery and vampire focus update and then one more grounded one with lighter tones where friendships and relationships get explored and pushed forward, and this model will alternate until the very end of the game.
I'm looking forward to showing you guys what is coming in future updates this year and I can only hope that you will be picking up what I'm putting down.

Take care everyone!

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