《Odyssey》The November Update!
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Hello everyone! Digital Riot here, and I have come with a very exciting announcement! I'm proud to announce the November Update! Essentially, it is a major overhaul of a lot of things for Odyssey!
First and most noticeably of all: Everything looks different! I finally got my own cover art and banner (Created by me :D and with a few second opinions from KoiYujo!) I personally love the art far more than the previous one - which was meant to be a placeholder anyway. This art really represents the vibe that I wanted to take the story in more or less, displaying the modern and fantasy worlds side-by-side. So that's that out of the way!
Second: Chapters 1-4 (The Opening, Red Letter Day, Fargo The Great, and Point insertion), are being almost completely rewritten and combined into two new chapters named; Talking Heads Want To Rule The World, and, Red Letter Day.
The reason for this is simply because my state of mind going into writing this story is almost entirely different from now. What I mean by that is simple, this story origi ally started out on Fanfiction.net as a Gate Fanfic. When I uploaded to Royal Road, I thought that I was just going to copy past everything and leave it at that, only improving and tweaking some things here and there slightly. As such, the introductory sections for my story are almost completely the same. But the issue is that Odyssey has grown much more than that, and has grown in a completely different direction. As such, I needed to rewrite the opening as the vibe of the first four chapters does not match the later chapters at all.
Not only that, but this also to improve your reading experience. The original four chapters (Especially Chapter 3 as pointed out by the wonderful horizon108) is filled with long winded info-dumps and ridiculous dialogue that makes the story arguably worse. This is a symptom of me still being in the mindset of writing fanfiction, and I have plans to tweak a lot more chapters that suffer from that. All in all, improvements are finally here!
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(The original chapters are still being kept as a comparison point, you are free to reread them if you wish and compare the two).
Third: Chapter 35 Kafkaesque is coming on Friday at exactly 12 o'clock PM EST, and what that means is that we are going to start exploring a lot more of the emotional side of all our characters. As you can already tell, there is a lot of drama going on right now, especially within Unity. Hezekiah has gotten himself in some deep shit, and his problems are only gonna get worst. The same is true for a lot of other characters. I intend to exploit the dynamics of Hezekiah and his squad, explore Cathy's character further, and tie Yuri more firmly into the setting. In the rewritten introductions, Wendover, Perceval, Newman and Sherman have been expanded as a characters too! Of I do this right, we'll get some really great chapters in the future with these guys.
Fourth: I've fixed a few more grammar issues Devil Dogs, which had quite a surprising amount. I'm not sure if I caught them all. But we'll see.
Fifth: changed some tags around, nothing major.
Alright, that's all for now. If you could, consider dropping a favorite or a review, they really do help a ton! And if you have a question, concern, or just wanna chat, feel free to leave a comment as well!
Until next time, :D.
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