Waking of Friday, January 19, 2018 ~ 6
Did you know that if you press jump
repeatedly while running, Link will put alternating feet forward on every leap?
Like you’re skipping.
I skipped over the rocks beside the
oasis at Kara Kara Bazaar, in my Gerudo outfit.
....
I’m
so pretty.
Upon arriving back at Kara Kara
Bazaar, I’d fooled Rhondson. “What a cute vai. Are you out seeking the love of
your life, as well?” she had asked. I had answered in the affirmative and she had
wished us both good luck.
My pretty disguise seemed to be
working all right, and dusk was falling—prime time for traveling in this
dangerously hot desert.
It was time to head to Gerudo Town.
I was quickly discovering that the
distance between the town and the bazaar was not so great after all. I covered
the distance in a trice, but not before running into the brusque and imposing
Kyra once again on the way.
She complimented my clothes.
Huh, how warm and genuine she was.
....
Yes, this was a very good disguise.
I arrived at the town well before
dawn, but.... I wanted to enter it in the daytime, and so passed the hours by
exploring some ruins to the north until sunup. Tons of Warm and Electric
Safflina. A Korok. And no shortage of Lizalfos by any means. They followed
chittering after me as I searched the ruins in my mask....
But I did not finish combing the
structures before the sky began to lighten. It was going to get hot soon.
I would explore the rest of the
ruins later.
Dashing back to town, I ducked into
the shrine to remove the Lizalfos Mask and put my Gerudo outfit back on.
Man
the defense was so low. Just 1 for
each of the three pieces.
When lightning struck my brain.
I warped to Cotera’s spring—it was
raining in Kakariko—and asked for her help, but.... there was nothing she could
do about my Gerudo clothes.
Oh. Never mind. >_<
Back to Gerudo Town.
I approached the gate. Merina and
Dorrah still stood sentinel on either side.
....
I calmly walked in without a word
like I owned the place.
And
I was IN.
Some part of me had expected the
view through the gate to be a flat, painted backdrop, a la the entrance into
the desert city of Nasrad. But I just watched in only slightly jarring
astonishment, as the already-rendered depth took me in, the paved ground opened
wide around me, and an enormous plaza springing with palm trees burst into
colorful life.
Oh
my gosh this town was BIG.
One Fegran told about Chief Riju
and her worry about the Divine Beast. A little girl Gerudo ran around at play.
There was a clothing shop! I bought a set.... and found them to be little
different from what I already had, except in color.
I liked my original ones better.
THERE WAS A GORON! “Are you a lady
Goron?” I asked as I ran up to.... her??
Lyndae was her name. But her voice
was as low as any other Goron’s. “Sa...botta? You really have to bite your lip
to get that V sound out clearly.”
More
linguistical delights. XD
“A little kid made fun of me
yesterday for not being able to get the pronunciation right,” she went on, “I
don’t know why, but it sounds the same to me no matter what I do...”
Someone named Ms. Ashai taught
classes on relationships and cooking—AND I SAW A RITO LADY! :D Frita was her
name, she had a rosy tint to her plumage, and she was looking for some good
meats. But she complained that they didn’t seem to have any poultry....
I’d seen a joke about that
somewhere on the internet. XD
The
place was too big, too tangled—how
far did it go?
I ran around, taking it all in in a
flurry. The inn, run by Romah, had a spa
plan, instead of a soft bed. (Come to think of it I wonder if that would
have blown my cover!) Rima, a retired palace guard whom I found out toward the
back, felt like she’d met me before. But she’d never been outside the city. Well she looked old enough—did she know me from a hundred years ago?
I heard gossip and rumors: Some
thieves had snuck in and stolen the heirloom of the chief, the Thunder Helm—Oh my, that sounded like something I wanted....
The chief’s sand seal had spooked and pulled her close to Vah Naboris! But she got
away. But it never would have happened if Buliara had been there. Who’s Buliara?
New
captain of the guard?
And then there was Isha. She made
accessories—
OUT OF GEMSTONES? D8
THAT TRANSFER THEIR POWER TO
WHOEVER WEARS THEM? ತдತ
“YOU ARE THE DROIDS I’VE BEEN
LOOKING FOR!” I shouted through the screen.
She just needed ten pieces of flint
to kickstart her business—I gave them. And she offered me my choice of
accessory in return: a Ruby Circlet, a Sapphire Circlet, or Topaz Earrings.
Cold resistance, heat resistance, and electricity resistance respectively.
I chose the Sapphire Circlet, since
I was in a desert.
“Heehee, I thought you’d pick that
one,” Isha smiled.
You
did?
“Wait just a moment.”
The screen darkened and there were
craftsmanly noises while she made it for me.... and then she handed it over!
Ah! Thank you, Isha! ^__^
And since I’d gotten her business
up and running for her, she said I could come back any time for a special
discount! “Just...don’t tell my other customers, OK?”
“Don’t tell your other customers
what?” I said. ;)
I walked into the shop and spoke to
Isha’s associate, Cara. “Vas’aaq,” she said, “I heard you brought some flint
for us, little vai. You’re a lifesaver!” And then in small font: “How about...I
tell you one of the owner’s secrets as my way of saying sarqso?”
“Tell me!” I say. :D
“I heard the owner... sleeps
wearing nothing... but accessories...”
Oh dear! Ó༤Ò
“I wonder if she gets cold...”
Haha, yeah, I wonder, Cara! ^_^;;
She gave me a few other secrets—it
seemed they varied—before I bought two more accessories: Ruby and Topaz.
Back outside and the city was as
large and sprawling and confusing as ever, so I started climbing the walls—and found that there were aqueducts up on top!
All nicely tiled and everything! Wow!
I was certainly enjoying the bird’s
eye view—and there were still so many
ways to go up here! I dashed along edges and looked and climbed until—
I was momentarily bemused by a
melon rind floating down the current; it spilled over an edge and into a
rubbish heap.
I looked upstream: another melon
rind came drifting after the first.
What
the heck?
I followed these mysterious rinds
up the aqueduct until I climbed up over a high ledge and discovered.... a
single, solitary Gerudo, sitting cross-legged on top of the wall, pigging out
on melons and tossing the rinds into the water.
Her name was Calyban, and she
didn’t really care for my company or my conversation, but only continued
eating, up here in her sequestered hideaway.
....
I hoped she was not named for her
father.
Though if that were the case the
city might have been peopled with
Calybans by then.
*
In climbing higher up the aqueducts
I had come closer to the enormous central stone formation from which all the
water seemed to be flowing. It came down in great, cascading falls that spilled
into an encompassing, beautifully tiled channel before draining out to the rest
of the city.
I
wanted up there.
But the rocks looked . . . .
difficult. The formation flared outward before the top came to its crest—would
I even be able to hold on? And I couldn’t wear my Climber’s Bandana; that would
leave my man-face exposed....
Hmmmm....
! The Zora Suit! I could swim up
the waterfall in my Zora Armor!
I ran around the central water
channel until I found a place where I was sure no one could see me, and ducked down for good measure.
I wonder why I didn’t think to just
put on the chest piece.
As soon as I unpaused, wearing the
complete Zora Set—
“Sound the alarm! A voe has been
detected,” said Dorrah.
And the screen faded to black and
they threw me out of town.
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