Waking of Friday, January 11, 2019
Ahhhh, Rito Village.
I wanted to find a shrine. There must have been another shrine.
I warped to Robbie’s to check that
strange jut of land I had seen on my map—the one at the east end of that chasm
that separated Hyrule from the north countries. It was just a raised bit of the
topo that ran between the chasm and the eastern sea, flat for a good while as
it jutted north off the Hyrulean landmass, and then degrading into rugged and
more treacherous spiky formations that marched away to the northeast and off
the edge of nowhere.
I had to kill a Lynel before I got
there—such a daunting thing before—but
once I’d made it to the spot, there was nothing to find after all. No hidden
alcoves. Just that chime and You can’t go
any farther once I came to the end of the flat part.
Filled with a kind of loneliness, I
only gazed out into the mist and across the chasm to the towering northlands.
Out of reach.
It looked kinda cool, so I took a
pictograph.
After a brief warp to the Great
Fairy Mija to upgrade my Barbarian Leg Wraps with a giant fairy-kiss to the
face.... I consulted my map to see if I could find any other places I’d never
tracked out on foot.
Tanagar
Canyon. I’d never combed its bottom.
And so it was a warp to the
Snowfield Stable and a jog and paraglide down onto the roof of the Forgotten
Temple.
I had my work cut out for me
here—Tanagar Canyon was huge.
The windy canyon stretched on and
on before me, an endless beige track beneath the strip of sky over my head.
Ruins and rubbled bits of stonework littered its floor, becoming more sparse as
I moved away from the Forgotten Temple. These were hardly replaced by what
scanty scrub had been able to take root in the bone-dry earth down here. And
there were hecktons of wolves. Lots and lots and lots of wolves.
Dinraal passed overhead twice, but
he was far out of reach of any of my bows.
And
then my shrine detector went off! :D
I went and found it! It lay
secluded in a jagged little corner veering off to the right—the north side—and
back behind some large rocks. The Dunba
Taag Shrine.
“Build and Release” was the name of
the trial inside—it was a DEVILISH Stasis-based Shrine.
And that made 28 Spirit Orbs.
I
must pray now, I thought.
But
I am so tired.
I kept going, down to the south end
of Tanagar Canyon—it curved that way—until I found a Goron who ran.... the Boom Bam Golf! Course.
The Boom Bam Golf! Course was a
long, raised strip of the lower bedrock with some minor lateral angling to it,
which connected to a large mound at one end with a sizeable depression in its
middle. And a very tall flagpole.
Like any good Goron, this one,
Modar, huffed and puffed and groared and whooped about the sheer and raw
amazingness of his game and how awesome one would be to play it. He actually
asked me, “if ya got the stones to strut your stuff in a game of BOOM BAM
GOLF!”
Oh wow I can’t believe a Zelda game
just said that! XD
So I played it. It was fun.
I didn’t like wearing down my
weapons unnecessarily just to whack around the big Stasised golf ball, but....
It
was fun.
I kept going. And toward the very
last southern end of Tanagar Canyon, as the ground began to rise again.... brreep-brreep! went my shrine detector!
The canyon floor came gently up,
curled around to the right and back northward, and it was there that I found
the Kah Okeo Shrine, buried in a hole
in the ground under a giant slab.
OH MY GOSH WIND GUIDE—THIS TRIAL—
THIS SHRINE WAS DISGUSTING.
But as soon as I had beaten it—Oh, I saw.
I
guess that’s 29 Spirit Orbs now. Oops.
I was out of gas. I wandered north.
The impassable chasm gaped stark and dusty to my left. Seas to the east and south, chasms and deserts to the north and west....
I wondered what the lands beyond were like....
Wandered north over the same beige
rock.
Found a Gisa Crater with a Talus sleeping in the middle of it.
Pass.
This western coast of the country
was long. And I was tired.
I called it a day, went to Pepp’s,
and slept.
I
guess I have 29 Spirit Orbs now. But
I’ll pray next time anyway.
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