Lets face it, the current build of "Spy of Pinehurst" is terrible... It is short and does not explain the full story.
My excuse? Procasination, and to a point, it is true. I would have  been able to have a far better game had I only push...

But what really happened in those 2 weeks? Well, about 8 days went into building the story. The story of Pinehust.
The plan is to complete the development when the voting period ends. Until then...

Here is the plot of the game.

PS! This is a linear version, the plan is to have multiple long and short endings, but ultimately, the plot explains the intended story.

Plot

Part 1: The Spy's Arrival

- Alden Hartsworn, the spy, is briefed on his mission by the king’s advisor, Baroness Elara: to investigate the village of Pinehurst and uncover illegal weapons manufacturing.

Part 2: Infiltrating Pinehurst

- Alden arrives in Pinehurst and is greeted by the towns guard and told to behave as he will not hesitate to throw him in jail.

-Alden assumes the role of a laborer on a tomato farm, gathering information about the villagers covertly.

Part 3: Meeting Saraphina Thornfield

- Alden encounters Saraphina Thornfield, a friendly young woman who stands out. He remains cautious, aware of the secrecy of his mission.

Part 4: Building Trust

- The villagers remain suspicious of Alden, sensing his outsider status.

- Alden is tasked with delivering tomatoes to a local business, allowing him to explore further.

Part 5: Sylas Greenleaf's Request

- Sylas Greenleaf, the business owner, is impressed by Alden's efficiency and asks him to return with wood.

**Part 6: The Mysterious Note**

- Alden sets out to the forest to find the woodcutters hut

- On his way Alden finds a cryptic note in the forest with the words “behind the 3^rd tree”

- At the woodcutter’s den, Alden is requested to purchase the required wood.

**Part 7: A Frantic Request**

- A frantic woman named Melissa approaches Alden, desperate for help in finding her missing friend Elysia Shadowdagger. Alden dismisses her as he has never heard the name.

-Alden learns Elysia was once a drifter just like Alden

**Part 8: Herbal Tea and Nightshade Blossom**

- Alden learns about Sylas Greenleaf's herbal tea, which can counteract poison from Nightshade Blossom, a forbidden plant.

**Part 9: Investigating Cedric Wheatcroft's Farm**

- Alden accepts Sylas Greenleaf's request to bring wheat from Cedric Wheatcroft's farm.

- Initially rejected, Alden convinces Cedric to allow him to return for farm work the next day.

**Night time**

-Elden heads off to the lake where he gets some sleep for the night

**Part 10: Caravans and Suspicion**

- While working on Cedric's farm, Alden notices frequent caravans, raising suspicions about the farm's activities.

-Alden notices a marking on one of the caravans with the text “The soup factory.”

**Finding the soup factory**

-With no viable evidence, Alden decides to break into all the factories that seems important

-Alden identifies the blacksmith shop and the soup factory

**Part 11: Breaking into the soup factory**

-with the only clue being the soup factory, Alden decides to sneak into the factory and find clues.

-The name “Elysia Shadowdagger” comes up, as noted earlier – the missing woman

**Night time**

-Elden heads off to the lake where he gets some sleep for the night

**Friendly awakening**

-Alden wakes up to the beautiful face of Seraphina, who brings him breakfast.

-After a short chat, Alden learns Seraphina loves the smell of lilies, found at the lake

-The smell of lilies reminds Seraphina of her sister.

**Back at the wheat farm**

-returning for a final day’s work, the player is told to clean the mess in the yard and notices a patch of ground that is oddly fresh. Using a spade from the shed, the player digs and discovers a body.

-Faced with the option of calling the town guard, reporting to the kings advisor, or confronting the owner, the player decides to do a bit more investigating.

** Finding Elysia’s home **

-Alden revisits the frantic woman, Melissa, to learn where Elysia lives and offers to help search for information

** Elysia Shadowdagger Home**

-Alden went of find Elysia’s home in an effort to find more clues

-Alden discovered a spy’s briefing document, the same given by the kings advisor.

- Alden heads off to the kingdom to confront Elara about Elysia and is confirmed to be a spy sent before Alden was sent. Elara asks Alden to keep the body a secret for the time being and promised to be given a special burial when the quest is completed.

-Alden is also advised to solve the murder mystery

*Invited for a date*

-Alden heads back to town and is stopped by the beautiful Saraphina and invited for lunch at the lake, which Alden accepts

*Casually Questioning the farm owner*

-Alden heads to Cedric's farm to enquire more information about Elysia without revealing details about the body

-A dead end as this yields no results and decides to try and find a job at the soup factory

-As Alden is now more widely known, a delivery job is offered to Alden with the task of delivering soup to the blacksmith. This initially draws suspicion as the quantities of soup is very large. However, Alden commits to service delivery and heads off to the blacksmith.

*Mystery at the blacksmith forge*

-Arriving at the blacksmith’s forge, Alden notices 3 trees perfectly lined up. This questions the cryptic note. Could this be the spy’s work?

-Alden approached the tree and discover a plantation of the forbidden Nightshade Blossom plant

*Buying the cure*

-With all the information at hand, Alden knew it would be a matter of time before he would run into the poison called Nightshade Blossom toxin and decided to buy a vial of herbal tea.

-Sylas sells the vial to Alden and questions why he is not at the lake with Saraphina, who is waiting for him

*Lunch with Saraphina

-Alden arrived at the lake to find Saraphina watching over the lake, but no packed lunch.

-At first Saraphina did not acknowledge Alden’s presence as she just looks deep into the distance

-Saraphina started talking about the death of her sister. How she mysteriously died. She talks about a possible plague her sister was obsessed with, but there has been no evidence of such a thing.

-The Saraphina turns to Alden and asks, “Are you a spy?” [want a better word than spy]

-Alden responds by neither confirming nor denying the claim

Why, Saraphina, what an intriguing question. In a village like Pinehurst, one can never be too sure about who's who, don't you think?

-Saraphina turns around and walks away

*Confirming Cause of death*

-After a very confusing not-lunch date with Saraphina, Alden decided he needs to get evidence if Elysia was indeed poised, and in turn, discover who poisoned Elysia.

-Alden sits on the bench and waits for night fall

-Alden sneak back into the wheat farm to get a better look and assess the condition of the body

-Alden decided to look for professional help by enlisting the help of Sylas

-Sylas provides Alden with an empty vail and asks to bring back a sample of Elysia’s blood

-Alden returns to wheat farm for a vail of blood.

-On the way back, the player notices Saraphina entering the blacksmiths home

-Alden sneaks into the home to eavesdrop on the conversation and learns Saraphina must now murder Alden.

-Alden returns to Sylas with the vail with the hopes of confirming the poison theory

-Sylas requests time to analyse the sample

*Confronting Death*

-As Alden understands he can meet his demise at any time, Alden decides to take the fight to Saraphina and confront her, however he needed an unsuspecting way in

-Alden set off to the lake to find lilies, mention earlier by Saraphina as her favourite

-Alden returns to Saraphina’s home with the flowers

-Saraphina invites Alden in for coffee.

-Saraphina attempt so poison Alden with Nightshade Blossom however Alden expected this

-Alden confronts Saraphina and demands to know if she poisoned Elysia

-Saraphina claims Elara poisoned Elysia as she found evidence of arms shipment.

-Saraphina begs Alden to forgive him

*Allies or Enemies*

-Alden is on a mission to discover if Elara, his ally is a traitor

-He heads off to the castle to discover the truth

-The guard advice Aldon that Elara is out of town, just leave a note at here *identify* house

-Alden breaks into Elara’s house and discovers a vail of Nightshade Blossom

-Alden is sure now that Elara is responsible for Elysia’s death

-Alden needs to break the corruption riving Eldoria without risking his own life.

*setting up traps*

-Alden decided to take harmful action by using the poison against the culprits

-Alden takes the poison from Elara’s desk.

-Alden drops a bit of poison in Elara’s water glass

-Alden sets off to the blacksmith house to poison the blacksmith

-Alden feels satisfied, but somewhat guilty

*Loose ends*

-Alden needs to make a choice, what to do with Saraphina?

-Saraphina did attempt to murder Alden

-Alden decides to let Saraphina live, encourages her to flee, but she remains

*The town guard raises the alarm*

-Dead body has been found!

-Alden and Saraphina heads over to the square for the announcement

-Sylas has been murdered and the body of Elysia has also been found

-The murder points to Alden and is immediately arrested and thrown into the dungeon

*Imprisonment*

-Alden is convicted for the 2 murders and is told he will be executed

-The king arrives shortly

-Alden expected a release

-King tells Alden that Elara is dead, and he knows he poisoned her

-King thanks Alden for doing this

-King tells Alden that the king was part of the weapon smuggle for profit, and Elara tried to stop him

-King admits he poisoned Elysia as she was getting to close and framed Elara

-King thanks Alden for setting everything up so perfectly

-Alden is executed

*Revenge*

-With all the spies dead, The king and the Blacksmith is show celebrating

-However with the water poisoned, the king and the Blacksmith dies shortly after.

What is next?

Instead of an end, Alden will meet the rebellion leader, who together will escape! YAY!