Hey gang, Happy New Year! We’re excited to kick off 2018 with the release of Interlude 4.5: The Vault of Saph, a five-page short that is completely free! Saph sheds further light on the cosmic underpinnings of A Place in the West’s story, expanding the strange phantasmagoric dreamscape first glimpsed at the beginning of Chapter 3. As we’ve said in the past, the interludes are fundamental pieces of the story, and we think of them as “mini-chapters”, but something readers can enjoy for free during the wait between the larger entries. Speaking of which, where is Chapter 5? With its script complete, The Eyes of the People will enter production very soon. It concludes certain arcs set-up in Chapter 3, and revolves around a masquerade in which Governor Moore plans to assassinate the Major-General. It’s an exciting installment and we can’t wait to share it with you in the coming months. We're also proud to finally release the Russian translation for Chapter 4: A Spy in the House of Long, courtesy of Vsevolod Stepanov and Pavel Lapinsky. The Vault of Saph is soon to follow! This release also includes some bug fixes, including a particularly odd one where reading Chapter 1: Following Portents in German would randomly change to Czech! Finally, we are also very pleased to announce the inclusion of brand-new PDF files for each and every chapter, so that you no longer have to read the comic via the Steam app! It is something that readers have been asking for for a long time, particularly with wanting to read it on phones and tablets, and we’re happy to have added it! From now on, when you purchase a new chapter, the comic will immediately be made available as a PDF file in your Steam Directory, including all of the languages the comic currently supports. We hope you all enjoy this update, and as ever, let us know what you think! Ross and Mike