Waking of Saturday, June 2, 2018 ~ 3
I didn’t have enough cores on me to
get the Ancient Greaves from Cherry. But with twenty-three gears.... I was able
to have Cotera upgrade my Ancient Helm and Ancient Cuirass.
Funny how I could just blow them
all like that. I guess when terror and difficulty no longer affect the value by
creating rarity and scarcity.... Hrm, then
again with a more ready supply for my demand maybe I could even make a little
cash on the side....
But I never really studied
economics.
I needed to get to the desert, but
I only warped to Dueling Peaks. I don’t know what it is—sometimes I just like
to take my journeys in smaller steps.
However this does make it easier to
get distracted. After learning from Hino that there would be no blood moon
tonight, I went inside the stable and spoke to a couple of guys I hadn’t
interacted with in a long time, but whose facial animations I just really
enjoyed: Domidak and Prissen, twins I think, brothers at least, stood in the
back of the stable musing on some mysterious clue they had heard regarding the hidden treasure of one Misko.
I remembered. They would tell me
the clue if I paid them a hundred rupees. When I’d talked to them the last time,
which was also the first time, I blew them off right away! I didn’t have money
to just throw around!
Well, now I did. I paid their silly
price and they told me the clue, something about the little twin over the little river, and that the treasure was at
that river’s source....?
A glance at the map told me all I
needed to know: the Big Twin and Little Twin Bridges were just a stone’s cast
south of the stable.
One sizeable climb up a waterfall later
and I had found Misko’s treasure: a few fine ore samples, and no shortage of
rupees.
Nice.
As long as I was so high up I
decided to have a little look around, and kept climbing the mountain. The peak
didn’t seem too far distant, and I was betting I’d find a Korok at least—which
I did.
I also found that I was a little
bit off my charted map.
I did not know the name of this
mountain, but it certainly offered me some great views, particularly of the red
plateaus beyond Faron Woods. I could even see a Blue-Maned Lynel prowling
around the top of one broad butte, roaring in the rain. I Stasised him for
kicks before marking his location on my map; I’d have to be careful when I ventured out that way—
AND THEN OF A SUDDEN FAROSH CAME
FLOATING UP OUT OF A SMALL LAKE. I watched him arc smoothly into the air to
swoop low over the watery valley between the red buttes.... and then descend
into another small lake on the other side.
And then after a while, he flew the
same graceful path in reverse. Heh. It made me think of something playful,
jumping from puddle to puddle, only greatly slowed for its enormous scale.
And then after a time, he emerged
from one of the lakes, and took to the sky.
David had never seen him do this
before. But I had.
We watched him for his whole, long,
slow flight, up into his vortex of cloud far away above the distant sea....
I only guessed it was above the
water for the marker I stuck to his tail just as he was disappearing; it showed
up on my map pretty far to the
south....
David enjoyed the rare sight
anyway. :)
But now.... I really did want to be
on my way toward the desert.
I’d thought about seeing if I could
paraglide all the way back to the stable from the heights above the waterfall,
but David suggested I go straight down and keep to the cliff’s edge along the
river on my way out. There wasn’t even a bank
down there that I could see.... But, trusting in his tidbit, I performed
one of the more thrilling HALO-jumps I’d ever done and pulled up on my
paraglider just short of smattering all over the large stone at the waterfall’s
base.
Link’s got good arms.
I waded downstream until I came to
a little stretch of explodable wall! This I removed with a Bomb I let float
down the current toward it, and when I came round to see what lay beyond the
opening, I was shocked to discover.... a Shrine!
And then I remembered my Sheikah
Sensor had still been tuned to detect Hearty Bass.
Heh. Silly me.
I switched my Sensor back to
detecting Shrines, and then stepped inside this one, the Toto Sah Shrine. There were Apparatuses
inside. Uh, Apparati?
At any rate it was a most engaging
challenge. And when I was done I combed the little woods nearby to see what I
had placed stamps there for—I was rather at the limit of how many stamps I
could place on my map, and wanted to get rid of what I could.
I found the treasure box I had
marked, but I could not make sense of why I had placed a leaf stamp nearby. I removed it anyway.
Aside from that, the only other
interesting thing I found was a Stalnox
lying facedown under the sunshine. I decided I didn’t want to hang around for
when that thing woke up, and so made my way back to the Dueling Peaks Stable
via the adjoining Valley of Terror.
I find myself no more struck with
incapacitating fear in the face of Guardians.
I
can handle them.
When I finally got back to the
stable, and told Domidak and Prissen that I had found Misko’s treasure.... they
didn’t believe me.
Eh, that was okay.
I’d gained back more rupees than I
had paid them for the clue.
I rode Brown all the way to the
desert with only a few more stops along the way—grabbed a Moblin Club to show
Nebb in Hateno.... almost rode right
by an embattled Mils and Mina.... but turned around to make sure they were all
right anyway.... And they were.
It rained a lot.
Eventually and on the last legs of
my battery, I made it to the Gerudo Canyon Stable, where I saved, and quit.
