Waking of Friday, May 3, 2019
I warped to the Akkala Tower.
Time for more exploring.
I sailed down, moved into the trees and cleaned out the Torin Wetland—that waterlogged version of the Valley of Terror. Aside from all the dead and rusted Guardians in there, there were also two crawling Guardian Stalkers and one stationary Decayed one. I’d wanted to practice my range parrying the Guardians’ attacks; I was doing okay I thought. But it was still easiest to time it when they were right next to me.
When there was nothing awful left to slay I hiked back up the road and cleaned out the Akkala Parade Ground ruins. There was a Hinox in there, and it was good enough to drop some GUTS for me, which brought me up to seven. I could upgrade some clothes with that....
I was exploring around, exploring around, sniffing into all the various corners of the leafy Parade Ground court, when.... I heard someone in trouble.
But there was no one nearby.
But I was deep in the shadow the Akkala Citadel and its bridges, towering above me. The person must have been....
“Revari.... ONEGAI,” I geeked, and the Rito Champion’s spirit took me up in a trice to the bridge ruins where a lone Hylian man was cornered, beset by Bokoblins.
I fought them off, and the man, Neil, thanked me, and gave me an elixir of some kind.
He told me about the Akkala Citadel. Evidently it had acted as a last stronghold of a sort. It was said to be unassailable. But when the Castle fell, the army here, originally meant to protect Akkala, had no royalty to lead them, and the concentrated attack from the out of control Guardians brought it to ruin.
“Hyrule may very well have made its last stand here,” he said, or something like it.
Hm.
I paraglided or galed my way over the broken bridge, over to the Citadel side, to sport with the Flyer making its rounds about the lower level, and took it down after only a few mishaps.
The Flyers were hard, but.... I was getting better, I thought.
Okay. I had enough Hinox guts, and Mija was just over there across the way. I sailed over to see her, keeping my eyes open for shrines all the while, but.... nothing.
Mija upgraded my Barbarian Armor to the max. YES.
From there.... Hhhhhh I considered messing with some Lizalfos down by the Rist Peninsula, but.... ehhh, decided against it.
Instead I warped to Gut Check Rock and traveled thence up and around the volcano to....
That Skeleton.
THE ELDIN GREAT SKELETON.
WHY DOESN’T IT HAVE A SHRINE?
I searched for clues. Anything. Something that could trigger the appearance of a Shrine. I scoured the adjacent ashfalls and cliffsides. I climbed over the nearby rocks. I ran along the skeleton from nose to tail-tip. I crawled in its giant eye-sockets and planted bombs. Nothing.
....
Well it had worked in Ocarina of Time.
....
But I was just having no luck.
Well, different luck—for there was a music and a sudden wind....
Dinraal!
I tried and failed to get another claw from the dragon. Nuts!
Eh I went and killed the Lynel next door. Silver. Did pretty well.
Came back and killed the bad guy camp under the skeleton—
WHY IS THERE NO SHRINE?
....I may never know.
Or it wouldn’t be any time soon at least. Because now.... it was time for sushi.
Hahh, the Eldin Great Skeleton was a hard place to get to, but.... ehhh I would just warp to.... somewhere.... and save.
I’d warp to my house. No. The Deku Tree.
I’d warp to the Deku Tree’s Navel.
And I did.
Sushi.
Ice cream.
Great afternoon with Mom. ^_^ <3
When I picked up the game again I did a little shopping and cooking at the Deku Tree’s Navel, and some more of the same at Rito Village. I just wanted to buy some ingredients that I couldn’t get out in the field, like wheat and sugar cane and butter.
Siara was around, and she’d been interested to see the amusing clothing-upgrade animations. So I warped to the Great Fairy Tera in the desert and set her to work on my long-neglected Climber’s Shirt, which I’d been retaining at low level for just this purpose.
The animations were cute and Siara laughed, from the glitter-blowing to the head-bopping to the face-kissing to.... well, whatever it is they do on the fourth one.
And I finally got the perk for the Climbing Set, dimly registering that my climbing stamina usage was reduced or something to that end.
But my mind was already back on shrines.
I scanned the map, looking for triple-trees. Those anomalous little mini-copses of three trees or bushes or cacti standing in perfect, orderly little lines. Did those point to shrines?
I took stock; most of the things these formations pointed to were easy to find. There, that one pointed to a shrine, which had been hidden.... But that one in the desert pointed to Pocky’s Shrine, which was never hidden. But THERE, on that waterfall.... Where did that point to?
I warped to Faron to check it out, and couldn’t find a shrine. But I did find an ore cache that had been hidden.
Maybe the triple-trees pointed to secrets, and not necessarily just shrines.
Still, that desert one....
Hmm.
Running out of gas I worked my way over to the Highland Stable. I visited Malanya, who reported that I’m good with horses. Cool.
Took out Dragmire from the stable and rode to Kakariko. Didn’t stay at the inn, though. Just.... saved and put it to bed.
