Odyssey Feed ~ Issue #10! 🎈

[Cryonical]

The Odyssey Feed
The convenient weekly newspaper for Arcane Odyssey
Produced and written by Fang C. Percy.

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3/20/2021. Welcome to Issue 10! We’re in the double digits!

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Trello News

Welcome back to another issue of Odyssey Feed! We’ve hit several milestones recently, both in AO development and in the newspaper. Vetex has accomplished 60/113 goals in his to-do list! However, the remaining tasks will be much harder. Share your thoughts here in this topic by @Ultra.

Vetex just reached 60 completed items on the Trello today

[image] [image] (Mar 19) I find this a little disconcerting. It was exactly 2 months ago when he finished the 50th item. [image] There is 53 items left. If he goes at the same pace he has been going, it will take ~11 months for him to finish what is on the todo list. Testers have said there is a lot that is not on the todo list yet. He will likely complete more items per unit of time in the future. The previous 10 items included some very long tasks, such as revamping every magic. Despite…

Also a bit of a short week due to OF coming out super late. However, we’ve got some pretty cool news to share with you, even if short.

Remember the sailboat? Well, that’s what almost all of the news this week is on. Here we go!

The sailboat has been added. It’s stats, behavior, and shipyard UI were also finished. But this is old news, isn’t it? Let’s move on . The sailboat is now listed in the “Ships” tab of the Shipwright store. Which means they’re purchasable! Well, maybe not yet. But soon! Also, you can now switch between your owned boats at the Shipwright. It will keep the colors and name, but you’ll have to equip your things again. This could be interesting.

Remember the gamepass though, haha. I’m sure it will most likely be cheap. We’ll have to see!

Also, ship lanterns can now be turned on and off via clicking. It’s details like this that really put the immersion factor into the game and make it so great!

Similar to the Ship Lantern detail, we have some more small but cool things. For example, bulk selling has been reoptimized. This was something that might have annoyed several people, but fear no more!

But now for something bigger…

See that? Well, that’s pretty cool… More customization! Remember when people were complaining about the lack of boat personality recently? No? Well, they didn’t… Anyways, this is what I personally really wanted! Now, we can have different colors for almost every single part of our boat! This will certainly add much more immersion than these boats had before, with every single little bit of love being poured into our new boats. The color combos people are gonna make will be insane! Felt this coming, glad that it did.

But did you see what was above that? Sailboats can now be purchased! If I remember, sailboats were pretty expensive in Arcane Adventures if you went off the story alone. Hopefully it will be easier!

We have one more version to cover, that being v1.5.26! Take a look.

First, the sails for our new Sailboat are fully functional! When these are toggled (From a key or a GUI button, the latter most likely) The boat will speed up and move forward, similar to how they did in AA. You can then even exit your captain’s seat and do other things like walk around on the boat while it’s moving forward.

Hey, remember your boat getting attacked and sunken, then being stranded on Permafrost Island while you wait a million years for it to respawn, or running around trying to scrape up the money to fix it ?

Well, now that I think of it, that doesn’t really have to do with it… We already covered how the boat will fix itself over time in previous issues, unlike it did in Arcane Adventures.

But, you’ve probably had your boat despawn on you before, and that could be annoying when you’re trying to get away from something. They won’t despawn now unless you die and don’t enter the driving seat for a long time, so you can just hop on in. Even if you die, you can get back to it. Something small but great!

Also, animations for both the wheel and the character when turning your ship have been added. It’s going to look super good, and very dynamic!

Anyways, that’s it for this week. While some people might not even notice some of the small things Vetex adds, they certainly improve the experience. And some of these big things, like ships, players couldn’t imagine being without. Also, thanks for reading the Odyssey Feed, through our tenth issue.

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Forum Topics of the Week

Here’s a quite interesting topic by @anon85429269. Who would win, 1 billion lions, or 1 of every pokemon. Before it’s closure, it had 380 replies, and people were getting pretty heated. It was pretty cool to read through and see people’s opinions with the blurry rules. Who do you think would win? Share in the comments!

Which would win, 1 billion lions or one of every non-mythical and non-legendary pokemon?

the lions would win, simple as that

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And now, for a dose of Arcane Odyssey suggestions. Here’s Bards in Taverns by @Dogleg. Here, we see a new Bard NPC, who can be paid to play music. You can also buy sheet music for instruments. Remember the playable banjo in Arcane Adventures? Me too. No doubt there will be more instruments in AO. It has almost 50 votes, so take a look!

Bards In Taverns

Details Looking at the trello card of planned items to be added in the game, instrument tools are going to be added. Assuming the instrument tools are going to be musical instruments, i’ve thought of a bard NPC that would be in taverns and such. There would only be one bard in each tavern since they’ll have a feature that would only require one bard in the tavern. What could the bard NPCs do? They could do the following: Play Instrumental Music - When interacting with the bard npc, you’ll have…

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Finally, we’ll end off with some new music. Forum hasn’t had a lot of music in it’s time, but the bit of it has been great. We had music last week as well, but didn’t see it. Oopsy! Anyways, this is the Low Battle Theme Re-orchestration by @Meta. There’s several different versions for preference. This is a remix made of the Battle Theme. You’ve definitely heard this music a lot , but a remix might freshen things up! Lots of love went here, so check it out!

Composition - Low Battle Theme Re-orchestration

I think I’m going to try to go with at least one presentable composition a week as I go through my music training arc, so I decided, why not remix the battle theme that we all have heard at least two hundred times throughout our WoM gameplay? Here’s to the first re-orchestration of many that I’ll do. Version with Violin Spicatto and Tremolo. Version without Violin Spicatto and Tremolo. EDIT: I made a version replacing the spicatto with the celeste.

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Art of the Week

This was the hardest art decision I’ve ever had to make, since there was an insane amount of some of the best art I’ve ever seen . I have to decide though, so here’s my pick.

Drumroll please…

You might have already known what was gonna happen here, and it was tough. But, here’s a whopping 23 of @Rlka’s World of Magic OCs in a single topic! Every single one has its own image as you can see, made with utmost effort and care. Each represents one of the 23 magics in the game, and they have separate images and descriptions in the topic. Wonderful job!

23 of my World of Magic Characters

[DONE] Going from row → Akira - Vengeful Adversary

Summary Description

Akira is from Keihatsu that is generally hired as a rogue assassin, eliminating anyone whether or not they’re good or evil, however most of the questionable individuals that hire her are dark wizards itching to have a good person or a hero eliminated. Her magic is Magma. She has half dark brown half crimson red hair that splits halfway down, all in a ponytail, and she inherits red eyes. Currently her form is…

But, there was just SO much good art this week, that i’ll even link some more for you to check out. The art this week was so good… Hope you’ll see it all!

The battle under the moon

[image] you see, pink and purple are pretty

Steampunk(attempted) styled Redwake (4th time drawing redwake, Yes i ran out of ideas)

[steampunkredwake] There is now no rock pillars, there is only weird metal stuff, I kinda wanted to try and turn Redwake into a factory place, i tried to keep some of its elements like the sign above the character (which was originally a flag) and the bridges and stuff but there’s only 2 of them. So ye here is my attempt to make Redwake factory/steampunk/idk. This idea kinda got me thinking of a what if ao had another place called “new Redwake” where the place is just a factory and stuff (just…

Redwake night sailing

[redwake maybepp 3,5hrs] heya! i drew redwake (again) while waiting for new content to draw

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Writing of the Week

Guess what? This was hard to pick too, out of 3 very nice pieces of writing. But here’s what won. Welcome The Perilous Quest by @silveryue. In this short piece, we can see a light wizard fight and win against what we assume to be The Minotaur in a a story filled with blinding detail and quality. Nice job!

[Short Story] The Perilous Quest

Hai! - I’m Silver, and I just wanted some critique on a story I wrote a few months ago. I’m posting this here cuz I obviously can’t show it to my English teacher, and I’d really like some feedback on what I can improve! (Also, please let me know if I’m doing this wrong, this is my first time posting on the forums) The Perilous Quest: It was a bright warm day in June, and the air was tepid with moisture. Golden sunlight beamed down onto the peninsula and dappled through the tree-leaves as the …

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Here’s a Puzzle For You…

Last week’s Riddle Solver is… @archrono! Congratulations for being the first to crack it!

The answer was… 23!

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This week’s Riddle is…

48189/717Guild

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First to message or ping me with the answer will get a shoutout next week’s issue! No cheating!

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Thanks for reading this week’s edition of The Odyssey Feed! Shoutout to everyone who supported me and this whole forum for giving me an amazing time writing this. It’s been a special journey!

[SomewhatUnnamed]

@Cryonical

This will certainly add much more immersion than these boats had before, with every single little bit of love being poured into our new boats. The color combos people are gonna make will be insane! Felt this coming, glad that it did.

did you forget that most ship colors cost robux

[Cryonical]

yes

[Cryonical]

Vulcan would have got into the news but we don’t go into guild drama at all.

Anyways, thanks for everyone who read this newspaper all the way to the double digits, and everyone else!

[bacon_creator]

how dare you not include me
you have betrayed me and all of my trust
im getting abdiel on you now
hell 1v1 you at the sand pit

@Cryonical

Vulcan would have got into the news but we don’t go into guild drama at all.

ok nevermind you have been forgiven

[Phewka]

RLKA ART OF THE WEEK :LFG:
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[Robotstics]

fuck i need to get back to writing anIASIDFHASIIDHUAFGugsd

[lucious]

Im now tempted to do more writing just to be featured, lol

[Danny_Zou]

And I shall beat both of you @Robotstics @lucious .

Or not given that it’s firestorm day again and I haven’t written a word.

[Cryonical]

We’ll see haha

[lucious]

Not if I get serious (which is never ;-; )

I do have a plan for a story series but I’ve reached a roadblock on brainstorming.

[Cryonical]

Keep on writing!

[Cryonical]

Dang, people fighting over being featured in Odyssey Feed now. Knew this would happen heh.

Remember the riddle part and how you can get pinged/featured with that?

[Danny_Zou]

I will be honest I am rather turned off by riddles these days.

Blame tech.

[Robotstics]

we are all mortals to his puppet scheme

[bacon_creator]

i will fight you to get in the next version
even if the word bacon is said at the end

[BNTarwarn]

me who’s planning to update ADIM prologue today:

[LichdaDerp]

In theory I can make a rainbow colored sailboat now

[Cryonical]

Unfortunately the topic has to be made the week of the newspaper.

[BNTarwarn]

oh yea I forgot to say I’m updating the chapter one this week too :troll: