Waking of Saturday, May 27, 2017 ~ 3
There is a really joyous kind of
abandon to this game that.... really doesn’t give a fig whether you’re hungry,
or low on sleep, or even trying to keep a careful log.
There are colors in the distance, and creatures
to behold.
There
are hills with other sides to be got to....
Sometimes I forget why I’m writing
this.
Sometimes I wonder what I’m even
doing.
Part of it is for me. I’m a
journaler, I’m a logger, I crave the
art of crystalizing experiences within combinations of words—and this is one
exciting adventure to take down!
But part of it is still a love
letter too. Still one great big reaction
comment composed with love to the game’s developers.
Hhhh, I just keep falling into this
cycle lately. It goes like this:
1. Plunge into the game for several
hours without coming up for air.
2. Jot down a skeleton of notes and
then crash.
3. Guardians in all my nightmares.
4. Flesh notes out into proper log
entries.
5. Get super caught up in finessing
the writing until I think I’ll never
catch up to my last save point.
6. Procrastination Oreos.
7. Half-watch David play when it’s
not too spoilerish, and if he starts laughing at how few shrines I have
compared to him, remind him that I’m still way richer than he is. And I have Zora pants.
8. Ache to play the game again
myself.
9. Remember that I’m not writing a
friggin’ novel; zoom out, pull back, and gloss over with quicker, easier log
entries until I write up to where I am in the game.
10. Repeat.
It drives me.... only a little bit
batty.
HuHHH I didn’t want to keep falling
into that one; it’s just that I love the game so much. I love to play it. I
love running around the world and seeing where the trails lead and rooting out
the secrets.
I’d thought to just take smaller bites
of the gameplay, to make the logging easier, but....
Oh
man....
KNOWING the heaps of self-inflicted
homework it would lay on me, and yet.... feeling so full of a glorious lack of concern, and ultimately deciding
that.... I didn’t care! —
~
It was with the freest, sunniest
abandon that I forgot the Hateno House, warped to Zora’s Domain, climbed up
into Upland Zorana, and paraglided into
the warm, autumnal glow of the north countries. The sweet lush valleys I
had so scarcely laid eyes on.
(Which was the same route David
used to get into Zora’s Domain, by
the by: he Cryonised his way up one
of the waterfalls near Toto Lake.
He said he’d tell me some day and
now he’s told me and now I’ve recorded it.)
I sailed down into lush grass
beneath ruddy trees with golden leaves, where red rocks broke through the
surface of the earth in lumps and piles and wild cascades just begging to be jumped and hiked and
climbed upon!
Scattered a pack of wolves just to
enter that first nearby shrine!
Crossed over beautifully shaded bridges beside towering, romantic waterfalls
beneath the cliffs of Zorana!
Trekked westward past the Akkala
Parade Ground Ruins!
There were parades here once? :D
Contracted a tiny case of the
willies as I looked over the big open square—decided to stay on the road!
All the while the terrible Sheikah
Tower patrolled by Guardian Flyers loomed tall and mighty above me to the
north....
Threw a bokoblin off a woman named Chabi,
who gave me in return.... what some kind of Monster
Essence? 8O
Said she got it off a guy named Kilton, who runs some kind of
establishment called Fang and Bone,
and that it’s only open at night, and it deals in.... all things monster??
She said that essence would go
great in any dishes I cooked, but.... I had reservations.
Continued west as the path gained
in altitude, and came upon—a diverging of
the ways! The bridge north to the tower? Or a paraglider float west to a
very near stable?
Briefly felt like Robert Frost! D:
HNNNGGG Decided to lock down the
stable first and SO....
Continued west again!
Rescued a couple of sisters from
some more bokoblins! How dandy it was
to be able to read my enemies’ health-meters!
“I got the Champion’s Tunic!” I had
joyed to David.
“Oh!” he gave me a polite smile,
“where’d you get it?”
“Impa gave it to me!”
—And his furrowing brow made his
eyes narrow at me and he looked confused....
Well where’d he get his Champion’s Tunic?
Continued along the yellowy path!
Found the Foothill Stable and beat the
resident shrine!
Cliiiiimmmbed
the long road back to the bridge toward the north!
SPORTED WITH SOME BAD GUYS AND
FOUND SOME LOVELY WEAPONS!
CROSSED THE
BRIDGE TOWARD THE NORTH.... CLOSER TO THE
AWFUL TOWER....
Found.... another Stable first! :D The South Akkala Stable!
This was Akkala! I knew it!
Robbie
was somewhere close!
And that tower, high up on the red crag, had to have the Akkala map!
Started climbing the red, red rock!
Encountered—
Oh....
Right....
GUARDIAN
FLYERS. .__.
