Taking Care of Business

Waking of Saturday, May 27, 2017 ~ 2

Taking Care of Business

I marked that shrine with a beacon, and found it to lie just north of the Honeydell, in the middle of a queer lot of huge circles in the topography that I had wondered about.... I warped to the Wetland Stable and went up the road to see—saving Leekah on the way again.

It was the giant tree stumps. And I discovered what they portended: Wizzrobes.

But they were easy enough to avoid, and the shrine was easy enough to find with a little dedication.

It was a Modest Test of Strength.

I’d seen David best a Major Test of Strength....

I decided to give this one a try.... and I conquered it!

My first Modest Combat win. ^_^

I’d had a lot of adventures all over the map. But I decided it really was time to go see Impa again after having regained a few of my memories.

I warped first to the Dueling Peaks Stable and chased down a few Koroks. After that I warped straight to Kakariko and—having about six thousand rupees to my name at this point—decided to look at the clothing shop.

That Sneaky Suit was 1800 all told.... Mmmm but I’d still have plenty left over if I wanted to go buy that house in Hateno as well....

But I passed on the heavy shopping for the time being.

TIME TO SEE IMPA.

There weren’t any deep cinematics this time aside from our conversation. But she acknowledged that I had regained a few of my memories—and she gave me something that she had been keeping safe for me....

The Champion’s Tunic.

Ah! So that was where David had gotten it! I thought.

Ah! I was finally garbed in the iconic blue tunic.... oh how smashing I looked....

I took it to Cotera straight away, and she took a few Lizalfos horns from my monster-bits collection and upped its defense from 5 to 8.

Awesome.

After that, it was off to Hateno Village! I had some business to take care of.... the first item of which was to find that kid, Nebb, for whom I’d been carting around that blasted worthless Traveler’s Sword!

I ran him down and showed it to him. And.... he gave me twenty rupees!

Well that was a nice surprise.

Next he said he wanted to see a Flame Rod. Man, if you give a mouse a cookie....

I happened to have one on me, and I showed that to him too.

And he gave me twenty more rupees!

Well!

Next he asked for a Moblin Club, and I didn’t have one of those, but hm.... Perhaps this Nebb merits some keeping up with, no?

My next stop was the Ancient Tech lab on the hill. I’d collected loads of ancient parts—I could upgrade my other runes: Bombs and Stasis.

So I did. And.... I was in a fine mood, so.... I gave Purah a couple of hearty “Snap!”s along the way.

Once my Stasis and Bombs were upgraded I ran outside to play with both. I glanced around to see if I could find any baddies to test the Stasis on. Accidentally discovered a hidden chest in a pool of water that way.... but no baddies. I probably would have had to leave town for that. As for my Bombs, they didn’t look any different, but I guess they packed a bigger punch now. And the reload time was definitely faster.

For a moment I thought. Outside the game.

I had just played a neat little chunk. If I stopped right here, that would make for easier logging, smaller bites, less stress. And moderation in all things was a good rule anyway.

I really should have just wrapped up the game.

I looked again at the house I could buy. It did have a lot of good points—a lit wok, an apple tree, a little pond, a place for my horses.... It opened right onto the hills, and it was very pretty.

I took a self portrait in front of it.

It was 4:15 in the morning, game-time. I sat by the wok’s fire until morning. By the time I stood up again forty-five minutes later, Karson, Bolson and Hudson had joined me and were sitting along with me.

You know Bolson really rocks the pink headband I must say. And the matching pink pants. Ah dear me. XD

Okay, that was a good little chunk to log about. It was always difficult to log when I took bigger bites than that....

Yes. I needed to stop.

Didn’t want to give myself too much post-game logging to do.

Yeah.

I rode out on the autosave, exited the game, shut down the console, and set the WiiU controller back in its cradle.

Yep. That was a good little chunk of game to play for now until I could log about it.

Time to leave the game alone now.

Yep.

....

I don’t think I lasted five hours.

Oh Snap

Waking of Thursday, March 9, 2017

Oh Snap

Well, I’d given the wood bundles to Bolson.

Now I just needed to come up with a hot three thousand rupees.

It wasn’t like they grew on trees....

I decided I had spent enough time cooling off. It was time to familiarize myself with Hateno.

I found the man, Seldon, whom the man at the gate had told me would be happy to give me a tour—and boy was he ever! He ran around showing me things until he had puffed himself right out.

I also did a good deed for one Koyin, a young lady whose sheep were being hustled by the monsters that kept coming up from Hateno Beach.

So I went down there and gave ‘em what for and came back and told Koyin about it, and she gave me some milk in return. That’ll be good in some stew later, I am sure.

There were other people I’d wanted to get to know better, or who wanted to get to know me better, but.... on a bright, slightly drippy morning, I decided to finally pay the Ancient Tech Lab a visit. This was where Impa had said I could meet her mentor.

It was.... a funny place.

A little girl named Purah told me the Director was in the back, so I went to talk to this big man named Symin.... but he addressed the little girl Purah as the Director!

“Check it!” Purah shouted at me, and struck.... a kind of pose with fancy fingers.

She apparently thought it was very amusing to play a tiny trick on me, but, well.... Whatever.

Purah was odd. She also said she recognized me—but how could that be? She didn’t look older than twelve or thirteen. She said there was a reason for that, some kind of accident I gather, and that the details were contained in her diary upstairs—which she admonished me not to go looking at!

Not that I could find a way “upstairs”; there was only one ladder in the room, up against the wall, and it didn’t go anywhere. It was all one big room from what I could tell.

Her mannerisms were obnoxious, but she seemed eager to help me repair my Sheikah Slate to full functionality. But in talking with me she kept taking furtive little notes on my behavior, like I was some kind of lab animal!

And after a little fetchquest to start up the furnace powering a Sheikah Pedestal she had, she kept trying to tease some kind of cheer or shout out of me. “Snap!” she wanted me to say.

I don’t think she was very impressed by my offerings.

It felt.... childish. Didn’t we have important work to do?

I wonder what had happened to this Purah character, what had made her like this.

And she told me she had brought me to the Resurrection Chamber, after Calamity Ganon had fatally wounded me.

Did she look or act like this then?

Some part of me hoped not.

Somehow it seemed.... well....

Less heroic.

Hey, a man has his pride.

Even a dying one.

I gave her three of the ancient screws I had salvaged off the old dead Guardians, and she used them in her repairs. Now the Sheikah Slate has a built-in Pictobox feature, and the sensor can now be modified to search for other objects or substances. Neat! And what’s more, images I capture with the pictobox can be identified and expounded upon in a built-in Compendium. Very handy!

If I bring her different parts, she’ll be able to upgrade my Stasis capacity.... and my Bombing capacity.

Ja Baij would be so pleased.