OK, sorry for the extra post, but after I sent the last one, I wondered if something different might happen if I tried to extract with WinZip instead of 7-zip.
Both Windows Defender AND my antivirus (TrendMicro) were like OMG ARE YOU SURE THIS IS SAFE
(of course I was like "OMG YES LET ME PLAY" to both -- "Run Anyway" for Windows Defender and added the .exe to my TrendMicro exceptions list).
Then I tried running it again.
The result was this traceback I just got (mmm it's safe that there are file locations in it, right? if not, please lmk and I'll edit lol):
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
After initialization, but before game start.
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3700, in prepare_screen
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3700, in prepare
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3704, in prepare
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3704, in prepare
TypeError: required field "lineno" missing from expr
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "C:\Users\eriny\OneDrive\Documents\itch.io\gildedshadows-windows winzip\GildedShadows-4-win\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 277, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Users\eriny\OneDrive\Documents\itch.io\gildedshadows-windows winzip\GildedShadows-4-win\renpy\main.py", line 660, in main
run(restart)
File "C:\Users\eriny\OneDrive\Documents\itch.io\gildedshadows-windows winzip\GildedShadows-4-win\renpy\main.py", line 95, in run
renpy.display.screen.prepare_screens()
File "C:\Users\eriny\OneDrive\Documents\itch.io\gildedshadows-windows winzip\GildedShadows-4-win\renpy\display\screen.py", line 976, in prepare_screens
s.ast.prepare_screen()
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3700, in prepare_screen
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3700, in prepare
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3704, in prepare
File "game/flow_new.rpy", line 3704, in prepare
File "C:\Users\eriny\OneDrive\Documents\itch.io\gildedshadows-windows winzip\GildedShadows-4-win\renpy\sl2\slast.py", line 84, in compile_expr
return compile(expr, filename, "eval", flags, 1)
TypeError: required field "lineno" missing from expr
Windows-10-10.0.26100 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.0.3.22090809
Gilded Shadows 4
Fri Nov 14 18:28:02 2025