Waking of Saturday, August 4, 2018
I warped back to Outskirt once
again to hit up Trott.
Plus three hundred rupees.
Then to Goron City to see if Ramella
had changed her mind, but she still
wanted Sapphires.
No way.
From there I warped.... to Gut
Check Rock. Perhaps there wasn’t a plethora of rupees this way, but being on
the volcano had reminded me....
The last time I had crossed the
Deplian Badlands, my shrine-detector had not been active. I wanted to comb the
north skirt of the volcano again—I thought there MUST be another shrine
somewhere that I had missed! For it was a difficult area to get to, and
bordered only by the shrines at Gut Check rock far to the east, and the dark
Thyphlo Ruins far to the west—and that
shrine wasn’t even worth warping to for the dark way you would have to make out
of the maze and over the bog! Dang
you, Ketoh Wawai, what were you thinking?
I started westward from Gut Check
Rock and climbed up and down all over the mountainside. I killed overly-ready
supplies of baddies and collected tons of loot; I got a great pictograph of the
Eldin Great Skeleton for those chumps at that Akkala Stable; I nicked off two
shards of Dinraal’s horn! didn’t play with the Lynels, though, nope—but still.... I could not find another
shrine.
Deplian
Badlands.... Too bad even for any
Sheikah monks?
....!
Hm. Only now do I consider how the
cliff descends into the northern chasm.
I wonder what’s down there....
Although.... doesn’t my sensor
detect in lateral directions just the same despite
any differences in altitude? Surely I would have heard something already....
Though I’ve never put that to a rigorous test....
As I meandered back to Goron City
on foot, I was at least grateful for one thing—there had been a HECKTON of rare
ore deposits on the north side of the mountain. And with my new supply of
baddie-bits I went to visit Tanko again and sold him a bunch of stuff, and even
some Topaz.
That
kicked me over ten thousand.
Okay....
hoo.
I warped back to the Gerudo Great
Skeleton, and the Great Fairy Tera’s cocoon.
“I got the stuff,” I said,
“....This has not been easy.”
I held it out....
The
way they always grab the money from you—and just like that—
My hard-sought ten thousand rupees
disappeared.
I was poor again, in goods and money.
It was the thinnest I’d felt in a
while.
The Great Fairy was rejuvenated,
and her cocoon pulsated and opened into a white
flower with pink-orange speckles!
And up came Tera AND HER HAIR WAS SO BIG
it just wouldn’t STOP—VICTORIAN—WHAT A POMPADOUR! White hair, looming in a HUGE and luscious poof to lean into a dip
on her right side—and she had bigger fairy-fin ornaments behind her ears than I
had seen on any of her sisters! <3
She was decadent.
She gave a watery cough before
properly introducing herself as the eldest of the Great Fairy Sisters. And she
said that she had seen my efforts
from within her bud.
Well
that was heartening. :]
She said that she sees everything. In fact, she said, she was
going to predict what I was thinking at that moment!
...
...
And after a moment she said, “I bet
you’re probably thinking, ‘Can’t we just get to the part where she enhances my
clothes?’”
Haaa
lawl. |D
“What an impatient person,” she
said. But she impressed that she really did appreciate what I had done for her.
And she said that now.... she could
enhance my clothes TO THE MAX.
But.... I’d noticed this pattern
with the clothing enhancements. My wardrobe was becoming quite extensive, and
whenever I took something to a Great Fairy for an enhancement, the item was
returned to me waaaay at the back of
my inventory. This made it a little difficult to keep the various sets near
each other and together, but I was managing that pretty well.... mostly.
I had never employed the Sort button within those menus.... Not
on purpose that I can recall anyway. But you know how it is when you accumulate
so many messy piles—you know where
everything is.... until you clean.
But this was getting to be a lot of messy piles....
Hrmmmrmm....
Maybe I’d try it.... I walked
toward the shrine until I got an autosave, after which I entered my menus and sorted my clothes.
Heh,
sounds like a chore I’d been neglecting.
I observed the results, which came
in two orientations: one by body part.... and oh! one by sets! :) Well
that was nice! Perhaps I could utilize that....
Oh
I should just do it, I thought. Besides, Tera could work on seventeen of the forty-two items of clothing
I had.... I may as well.... eh?
But.... I just.... couldn’t. Not yet.
I paused again, reloaded from just
before I had sorted and kept my messy
closet.
Mmmmm but to start I would let her enhance the Climber’s
Bandana—that one wasn’t part of any
set that I had....
It was already up to the third
level, so this should have maxed it out then.
So I turned it over to Tera and she
leaned in close and HER MOUTH WAS OPEN WIDE
AND OH MY GOSH SHE JUST GRABBED ME
IN HER GIANT FIST AND SNOODLED ME SO HARD AGAINST HER SWEETLOVING FACE AND THEN
PLUNGED BACK DOWN INTO HER WATER
INSIDE HER FLOWER WHAT—
Link’s scream so quickly faded away
and the screen went black.
My mind instantly conjured up the
deep blue, rippling, colorful world inside her home, and I wondered.... What would I see?
Inside her flower?
But the screen only came back a
moment later, above ground as ever.
When I came to, I was lying face
down on the petally platform where would I normally speak to any Great Fairy.
I got up with a groan.
My Climber’s Bandana was enhanced.
“Want me to enhance any others?”
she asked me in some such words of her own verbiage.
And I would have imagined the
answer to be NOPE NO THANKS, THANKS BUT NO.
OH MY GOSH I THOUGHT SHE WAS GONNA
EAT ME.
But.... I upgraded a bunch of clothes
anyway. And those pieces ended up all out of order in my inventory but.... that
was okay. I couldn’t complain with the results; they were so strong.
“Sometimes I’m so good it’s scary,”
Tera said.
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