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AQUAZINE 2020 | 28 Free weekly magazine by the Aquarion tribe. Crab Cult Roleplay! What’s up with Steam Edition? What’s Ullefurgh? The madness begins! Contents Polytopia News 3 – Summer Skirmish The first segment 4 – Steam Edition What are they doin’ over there? 10 – Ullefurgh What’s actually in it? Fun pages 5 – Wordsearch puzzle Find all animals and fruits! 6 – Vexil Wonders Argentina 7 – Astrology What do the stars predict? 9 – Weekly fact file Siphonophores 11 – Otlaxuv’s Urban Legends Ever heard of Népeid? 11 – YT channel recommendation Kurzgesagt – In a nutshell 12 – Ksidehros Cyclops tribe! Aquarion News 8 – The Crab Cult roleplay plot contest This is just the beginning! Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 2 Tamarissz Summer Skirmish We now have gotten the first spoonful of the tournament and oh boy, was it a comically large one. New directors are promoted on a daily basis because of all the help needed to run the event. The Director role is only pinged 50 times on a calm day. Processing wins and losses, setting up new games, fixing errors and answering an infinite amount of questions is the Director way of life. As one of them, let me give a tiny little insight about how things work. The whole thing is sourced on a Google spreadsheet. The bot only fills in the cells so there is no need to manually write in the sheet… Except when an error occurs, in most cases through a human typo, then it takes some filtering and editing to get everything normal. There is also much hassle with people who just decide to leave the server after registering, so please don't do that. Seriously there are more than 20 people who did that. There have been some rule changes since the beginning to make it more fair for everyone. From now on, the finalist level is 9 and not 7. People get games only every 5 days and the maximum game limit rises by 3 every time, so at first 3, then 6, 9, 12 and so on. This gives people a better chance to recover from losses and take back time. Theoretically, if enough players win all of their matches, the tourney can end as early as July 18th, but latest on July 23nd, if everything goes as planned and there are no more rule changes. One thing is for sure, this won't turn into a Summer-Autumn Skirmish. On the topic of winning every game in the least time, 12 people have won 3 out of 3 games in the first segment. Here are some more stats facts: More than 1100 people signed up, which is the 0.0001% of all people who downloaded the game. Most of them heard of the event from the in-game news section, Discord being blose second, and the third largest group was through a friend or Instagram. Slightly below half of the winners were the hosts of the game. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 3 Tamarissz On the way to Steam release Releasing Soon™, the Steam edition of Polytopia is easily the most anticipated update in the community. After delaying the release for more than a year now, it’s safe to say that it will be finished this year. Zoythrus mentioned that there will be a huge discussion about desktop edition very soon. „More than an @everyone ping,” as he said, so it must be big. Most likely announcing some less publicly known news and features, such as: no crossplay with mobile Polytopia at release, or customizable profile pictures in game. Generally, the game is finished and ready with the exception of a handful of bugs. Meanwhile in the beta test server, another tournament has started, since Steam players can’t participate in the Summer Skirmish. Each week until release, there is a contest to reach the highest score with apreviously determined tribe, that changes every week. The first week is for Xin-xi. The player with the highest score under Xin-xi when the leaderboard resets on Sunday wins. The winner is promised to recieve future DLC for testing upon beta release. Well, there has to be someone to test those too. There is no information about what the future DLC is, but even if there was, I wouldn’t be allowed to write about it here. Players can’t win more than once in this tournament, so that others have a chance. ttttitttt won the first round with Xin-xi. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 4 Tamarissz Animals & fruits wordsearch A Nature bunny shredded the Zuzanna yaya and now every animal and fruit name are scrambled all over the floor. 32 words can be found in all 8 directions. E L T X H G L L A M O U U B I G I I U E E R H L S K U W M P M B O D A M A Y R Z A O A C V O C I N U T P L R F M M N E J Q D N Z N N V E D R I F O I P X I N I K A I N O Z E X O O H E W H A L E T C O R O B I R J R L A K X D F U O L T G S M I K L E M A H K T R R E E E S B N X E S G Q T I Y E N M B L I P O C H I L L I P Z B E R A F U Y L I L T S R U B N U S U E U Q Z S H E B R A Q N Y N Z T R S C O J A H I K R I A N N U Q I S X I R T N A H P U Z D Y S V A T W A O N G I I M Q S A J A A N Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 5 Tamarissz Vexil Wonders Argentina Argentina used to be a colony of the Spainsh empire, and therefore they used the spanish flag in their early days. During the Argentine War of Independence (1810-1818) it was time to design a new one, without using the red and yellow spanish colour scheme. So the leader of the revolution, Manuel Belgrado, made a new flag. There is some controversy about what the colours mean, but the most widely accepted one is that the blue is the sky and white is clouds. The sun was only added later. It’s called the Sun of May and is the national symbol of Argentina and Uruguay. It alternates between 16 straight and 16 waved beams, and symbolises the Inca sun god, called Inti. Both 1:2 and 2:3 proportions are in use. The flag was adopted as national flag right after the independence war ended. Later, in 1938, Flag Day was declared a national holiday and the date was chosen to be June 20, because that’s the day when Manuel Belgrano died. The design and colour scheme influenced the flags of multiple Middle- and South-American countries, such as Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay and Uruguay. Source: Wikipedia Manuel Belgrano holding the flag (without sun version) → Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 6 Tamarissz & Kenz Yadakk Astrology Your khamelk will lead you Zebasi off the road to a ruin. You will get a real leoon hat Ai-Mo from Kickoo as a gift. The next lïpo-chilli you eat Oumaji will not be spicy. You will die of thirst. Imperius Hoodrick The next lumaepeles you eat will have a worm inside. You will build the perfect pile of cubical rocks. Xin-Xi Quetzali A global pandemic will spark in Xin-xi land. Qorn. Rain. Luxidoor Vengir You will be able to upgrade The next decision you make your capital 3 times in a turn. can be a double-edged sword. Kickoo Bardur One of your leoons will run Double-check which direction away and never be found. your catapult faces! Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 7 We take no responsibility if any of the predictions turn out to be untrue. This is for entertainment purposes only. Tamarissz Tunicorner Roleplay storyline contest On the Crab Cult server, we used to have a really fun roleplay chat going, but it became less and less active. Recently, Tribe leader Matthew came up with an idea to revive the roleplaying. By creating a story, and every location has a channel where the characters can talk. But we needed a good story to begin with, so a storyline contest was organised. Over the course of the week, 4 people took the effort to make a submission and they were really elaborate and creative! There were stories about polytopians becoming aware of the superior being that made them, great wars and historic relations. The winner turned out to be gamesRme123 with his above 20 pages long history of tribes and wars. During the next week, him and staff members will be setting up location chats and character sheets, as well as clarifying some lore elements that might be differing from the canon, since some people found the lack of genders and the egg-laying anatomy of polytopians unfun for roleplay. Hopefully the roleplaying can start sometime during next week, with many character submissions. This picture has been added as the last Map from the winning story. emoji on the Crab Cult. Drawn by Kat. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 8 gamesRme123 Siphonophores Siphonophorae are a class of marine creatures with around 175 different species. Despite appearing to be one creature, every body is actually made of a colony of individuals. Every individual is specialised to their tasks. These colonies separate out from a single egg into mega structures that can span up to 20 metres or more! These creatures use jet propulsion to move around the sea and mostly live in deep water areas however some live on the surface like the Portuguese man o'war. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 9 Tamarissz Ullefurgh Ullefurgh is mentioned on the Polytopia merch site, as the favorite beverage of Bardur youth. Its ingredients are pine needles, hot water and rabbit fat. It is traditionally consumed from mugs made of Baerian fangs. It is up to question if "rabbit fat" refers to Nature Bunnies or Bardur has normal rabbits too. According to the Ullefurgh Wordpress page however, it is a traditional soft drink made by Bardur. Its ingredients are blood, Coch Uigeadail (an existing scotch whisky brand) and bone marrow of Bardur pine. All ingredients must have aged at least 132 years. The procedure of creation can be read on the official Ullefurgh blog, which we can discover, is also made by Wordpress account Bryant Thomas Moore, the person behind Polaris subzero science blog. At the bottom of the page, customer reviews can be found, one of them is signed "Cawas." It is possible that this is Cawas Talaya, the famous Quetzali musician, but there is no confirmation. The others sound like Bardurian names, „Mourdagurr” and „Guidafyr”. Questions about Ullefurgh and its usability as an everyday drink can be found on several message boards, for example roadfood.com, eslcafe.com and funcom.com, but they were never answered and occasioanlly labeled as spam. It is also possible that there have been more, but they were victim of deletion because of spam most likely. I speculate that these questions were made by Zoythrus, as the majority of the asking accounts can be traced to originate from the USA, except the account on facmedicine.com discussion forum, which claims to study medicine in Bangladesh. Ullefurgh was also served at the Polytopia party in Stockholm. Stats on the blog Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 10 Otlaxuv Polytopia Urban Legends Welcome to the first colony of the Aquarion federation! Népeid is a small city with almost no reliable places of food, surrounding waters infested with dangerous aquatic creatures and water that is not good for farming either. Instead, this city has relied heavily on trade to feed its population. When the Aquarion empire fell it faced a massive famine which was the birth of the total trade policy. When the crisis of the empire finally was over and the Aquarion Federation was formed, Népeid stood as an independent city of Aquarion. The Federation asked if the city could peacefully return, but this caused more problems as the Federation had policies unknown to Népeid. This led to the Battle of the Frontier, where hundreds died, but eventually the Federation-friendly technocrats emerged victorious and Népeid joined the Aquarion Federation. Lost Comet Kurzgesagt Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell is a Youtube channel founded by Phillip Dettmer in 2013 that has over 12 million subscribers as of the writing of this article. The videos are animated in a flat, geometric colourful style and explain a variety of scientific topics in many branches such as astrophysics, particle physics, chemistry, biology and medicine with a few videos on politics and psychology. The videos use simple language that can be comprehended by commoners like many pop-science channels and simple but clean visuals. The sources are always cited, and as Kurzgesagt puts it, „We encourage you to use our sources document as a starting point to look at the topic yourself and learn more.” Overall, Kurzgesagt has received mainly positive feedback. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 11 Tamarissz Ksidehros Description The Ksidehros is incredibly skilled in working with metals. That and their hard-workingness made them able to rise. They start the work with the Forging tech. Design • Head: one angry eye and battle tattoos • Colour: Navy blue (#000080) • Field: rocky limestone plain • Fruit: lettuce • Mountain: limestone mountain with a cave • Forest: a few but tall and wide trees with blue leaves and golden trunk. • Animal: lion with golden mane, called Tügroks • Cities: white and gray spiky looking blocks with rare windows Language phü oph os eph sür psü lo ksol ülph re erph eps psor mü meks - Terrain • More than average: mountains, metal, water • Average amount: forest, farmland, fish, empty field • Less than average: fruit, animal Techs They have 3 techs modified, Smithering to Forging, Climbing to Archaeology and Philosophy to Vision. They also have a modified super unit. Forging Swordsman is replaced with Blacksmith, it has a hammer instead of sword. Forge building is replaced with Smithy. It can be built for 5 stars, on any terrain except Ocean. Smithies level up for every nearby Sawmill, Windmill, Customs house and Forge. Smithies give +3 stars per turn for every level. Archaeology Besides the ability to climb mountains, they get double the reward from ruins, except if it's a super unit, then they get an explorer too. The tech also makes you able to "find” metal to mine on empty mountains for 5 stars. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 12 Vision Mind bender is replaced with Scepter unit. It is a floating giant eye. It traces through the map, roguely converting unsuspecting units, but it can be killed with one hit of anything. If converted, the colour of the eye changes to tribe colour. The tech also grants the ability to see water and land through clouds, the clouds that have water below them get darker. Super unit The Ksidehros Super Unit is the Titan. They can demolish anything but are more vulnerable than usual super units. Name Cost Health Attack Defense Speed Range skills Blacksmith 5 20 3.5 3 1 1 - Scepter 5 5 0 0 2 1 dash, fly, convert Titan - 20 0.1 2.5 1 1 crush Gameplay The Archaeology tech enables them to make use of every single mountain, which makes them able to adapt on foreign tribes terrain too. They don’t have forges though so no crazy combos. Instead of forges, the smithies require many other tier 3 techs to operate meaningfully but once they do, production is unstoppable. They can also be used as Scepter opportunist invaders, using someone elses special buildings. Server advertisement Polytopia Fan Ideas Fan-made tribe making community, with concept artists and suggestion givers. Join if you have an idea for a tribe, or just would like to see a tribe being made. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 13 Credits Editor-in-chief: Tamarissz Content managers: MatthewPyro, Ftag15 Lector: Sophiacastle Cover art by Midjify Ksidehros art by Tamarissz Game sprites by Midjiwan, Midjitree and Midjify Special thanks to Zoythrus, Ramana and You, the reader Next week on Aquazine! Art contest results! Hopefully the winner lets us use their art as cover image… Fan made tribes How, Why, What, Where, When Steam edition again. Aquazine 2020 | 28 | Page 14