I'm a shitty Santa.

Yep. Despite all my stubborn desire to do a New Year's Eve update and put it under your Christmas tree with "Ho Ho Ho"... I just can't keep up. That feeling sucks. The update is moving off to January. The good news is that I'm pretty sure it will be January. Unless, of course… [here's the standard disclaimer in case real shit happens, WWIII, zombie apocalypse, or Nazi invasion mounted on dinosaurs from another dimension] 

In all other cases, the update will be in January. And the sooner the better. 

Progress.

Mine "I still need to do some more writing" at the end of November turned out... In short, the draft grew several times over. The final draft of update 1.3 is fully completed and partially translated. It has 55k words in it. The code will probably double/triple that number, but that's more about the work ahead for me. In terms of content, the number you care about is this 55k. 

Recommendations.

When you get your hands on the update, make a save at the beginning of Chapter 2. Many of the scenes are variable. Variability implies real choice. And real choice leads to some situations going in mutually exclusive directions.

To put it bluntly, even at the beginning of Chapter 2, you can't see all the content in one playthrough. It's impossible. Yes, including all the lewd stuff. It's either one scene or the other...

One more thing... If you like girl-girl scenes, make sure you get to know Iolanta closely in Chapter 1. The possibility of opening bi content will directly depend on whether or not that scene was opened, as it is the moment the protagonist realizes her bisexuality. I hadn't really thought about this before, but it turns out that prescribing a moment of realizing before every potential girl-girl scene is quite... laborious. Maybe in the future, I'll add one more "entry point" into bisexuality. Maybe, but for now, that's it.

Some screenshots from the beginning of the update.

They can be considered spoilers. If you're not okay with that... just don't examine them too closely. Some things may also be changed in the release version.

The very beginning. It didn't all fit on the screen. Oopsy.

Vagrant can't read. You haven't forgotten, have you? Well, Iolanta hasn't forgotten...

She doesn't change her habits.

Oh yes, she doesn't...

You took the cat with you, didn't you?

What will happen next? Oh, I don't even know...

And yes, a Happy New Year to you!

I hope it will be better than the previous one... And the pre-previous one, too. Damn, stop typing already... Come on... Hands off the keyboard... Smile at them and back off slowly...

UPD. Damn... I uploaded it in full size, then why... Okay, who doesn't want to break their eyes over the screenshots, here's the archive with them in full size: