Ash and Velvet
by Rookletter
Game Details
- Version
- Chapter 3c
- Developer
- Rookletter
- Engine
- Ren'Py
- Status
- Abandoned
- Language
- English
- Censored
- No
- Updated
- 16 August 2026
About
A dark elf comes to the human court certain she's the one running the con, and the court spends three chapters proving her wrong. Serith arrives cold and disciplined, sent by her house to set men and dwarves against each other, but every favor she extracts costs her something, and the people around her are paying close attention to what she'll let go of next.
The story tracks her fall in stages: the court's polite testing of her pride, a colder posting north where the pressure turns physical, and a dwarven claim that forces her to choose which man to lever, Lord Avel, the prisoner Brennar, or Master Halwen, with the game remembering which one she picked. A fourth chapter is already promised, pushing the consequences past her body and into the politics she thought she controlled.
Play is choice-driven dialogue with fully voiced scenes and animated inserts, where tone and reputation shift based on what she tolerates. The branching from chapter three's route split carries forward rather than resetting, so the price she pays actually sticks.
Changelog
- Living sprites: every character sprite from the prologue through Chapter 3 now breathes and blinks
- Lip movement on roughly 1,200 voiced lines, generated per line from the actual recording (Preferences > Animation, on by default, can be switched off)
- New animated cold open for the prologue, with sound
- The raider fight on the surface is animated now
- Prologue pacing pass
- Saves carry over
- Added the full third chapter: around 20,000 words, roughly two hours. Chapter 2 saves carry over.
- One big choice splits the middle of the chapter into three routes (Avel, Brennar, Halwen). Flags carry forward.
- Fully voiced dialogue for all new scenes, 9 new music tracks, and a sound pass across the chapter.
- Multiple explicit scenes, animated and voiced.
- Rebuilt status screen (the Ledger): tracks her fall, and her excuses, across all chapters. Works with old saves.
- Chapter title cards: The Guest, Paid in Kind, The Claim.
- New title art and menus.
- Typo and continuity fixes across chapters 1 and 2.
- The Discord invite in the game is now a permanent link.
- 3b-r2 — maintenance revision: build cleanup and small under-the-hood fixes. No new content.
- Added the full second chapter of Ash and Velvet.
- Continues Serith's mission beyond the court and into the northern borderlands.
- Adds new voiced dialogue for all newly released scenes.
- Adds new backgrounds, sprites, expressions, music, sound effects, and animated inserts.
- Expands the status screen and choice-based tone feedback.
- Adds new location and time cards for improved scene presentation.
- Adds an end-of-chapter screen.
- Includes the revised Chapter 1 text pass from the previous release.
- Revised and tightened the writing throughout Chapter 1.
- Reworked several passages for better pacing, readability, and less repetition.
- Improved the flow of Serith's narration and dialogue in key scenes.
- Updated the status screen: it now shows which passages have changed after major choices/status shifts.
- No new story chapter content added in this version.
- Added official Android APK.
- Adjusted Android quick menu/status access.
- Status screen is now usable on Android.
- Tested dialogue, choices, save/load, voice playback, videos, and status updates on a physical Android device.
- First public release of Ash and Velvet.
- Introduces Serith, the human court, the main political setup, and the first major choices.
- Begins the VN's slow-burn corruption arc through social pressure, reputation damage, humiliation, coercive dynamics, and erotic leverage.
- Includes fully voiced dialogue for all currently released dialogue scenes.
- Includes a status/choice tone system tracking Serith's posture, reputation, and how others begin to read her.
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