The Long Hunt

v0.0.3 STORY Day 4 fully written and implemented. Aldric wakes to the changes accelerating overnight — skin smoother, stubble all but gone, chest hair thinning to nothing. He and Mira head to the Cistern District to confront Ysolde about it, wait on her apprentice Nella, and get a partial answer that reframes what the vial actually did. The day rolls on through lunch at the Broken Antler, locking in the escort contract with Voss and the advance pay, and a supply run through the market before the road out of Valdmere. v0.0.2 STORY Day 3 fully written and implemented. Aldric wakes up the morning after Ysolde's vial and something is already wrong - the skin too smooth, the stubble too thin, the nerve endings turned up to a frequency they've never used before. Two branching paths through the morning depending on whether you waited for Mira or went downstairs alone, each one landing differently. The Consortium debt gets a shape. Mira's tunnel map buys them breathing room, Voss gives them the escort contract, and Grent comes knocking right on schedule. SIDE QUEST TESS RETURNS - The barmaid who read Aldric's scars like a book is back, and this time she's reading something else. A continuation of the Barmaid's Eye questline from 0.0.1. Tess notices the changes before Aldric is ready to name them - the skin, the stubble, the way he's holding himself. She doesn't push. She just sees, and seeing is the most unsettling thing she could do. v0.0.1 Initial Release