March catch-all

[newmemorywhodis]

WHO: Link and you!
WHERE: Temba (in the Agriculture building, Spidersilk factory, and all over the shopping and transportation district)
WHAT: Link gets his expertise, collects spidersilk, looks for a book, and tries to figure out how to climb with a paraglider much bigger than he's used to
WHEN: Throughout March
WARNINGS: None yet!


I. Agricultural datapoint | Yellow 01 (Agriculture Building)

After Lark mentioned the agricultural datapoint - and the fact that it would let him know how to make things like the anti-spider elixir - it had taken Link approximately half a second to decide that he wanted it.

So he'd made his way to the Agriculture Building. Which was fascinating on it's own - there were plants, and they were growing inside!. But then he found the floaty light and touched it - and suddenly he knew what all of the plants were.

Which meant, of course, that Link then had to run up and down through the entire building, looking at everything. And as he looked at the plants, he would just know how to cook them. Which of course meant he had to take some of them, already making plans for all of the dishes he could make...


II. Collecting spidersilk | Orange 20 (Factory)

Put on the salve. Don't kill the spiders. Get their silk.

This was the task Link was here for, ready to take on the spiders. Or not take on, since Lark had been very insistent about not killing them. Just in case, though, Link had found a broken-off piece of door, which was now serving as makeshift shield.

He also has four small dead mammals, there as gifts to the spiders. A bit strange, Link thought, to be giving gifts to spiders. But Lark seemed to think it was a good idea.

Anyone passing by at this time might spot Link going in - or spot him coming out. Over the next few hours, he'll come in out out repeatedly to add to a growing pile of spidersilk he's building just outside the factory door.


III. Searching for the book | Pink (Shopping and Transportation district)

Find a red book, with a star. One that apparently had some kind of enchantment or curse, if you read it.

Tony said it was somewhere between the Hangar and the Train station. It took him a little while to figure out what a 'train station' was. But eventually he figured it out. And now he's looking everywhere between the two.

And everywhere means everywhere. He looks under every rock. In every bush. Every rabbit or rabbit-like-creature hole. And then when he's done that, and still found nothing, he starts looking through all of the nearby buildings. The little shops, some still standing and some not. The really big shop - which Link finds a bit strange, because how could anyone have a shop that big?

Ooh, and a tunnel. That's interesting. For a while Link gets distracted by exploring that, though eventually there's a dead end with a big metal door that he can't get through. Maybe somewhere else there's a hidden key, that will open it up...


IV. Who made this paraglider so big? | Any tall building in Temba

So Link has a paraglider now. Tony said Link could take it, so he did. Only problem is, it's...not really the kind of paraglider Link was expecting.

Namely, it's huge. Far, far bigger than Link's own paraglider, which doesn't really extend all that far beyond the width of Link's hands. Which means Link now has a problem.

How in Hylia's name is he supposed to climb with it?

So he tries to fold the massive paraglider up, best as he can. He manages to fold it up so the wings aren't outstretched, but it still isn't small. Then ties the whole thing to his back, which doesn't work very well because the thing is still twice as long as Link is tall.

Then with this very much not ideal solution in place, he finds a large building and...tries to climb.

It looks very, very awkward.


V. Wildcard!
[[OOC: Choose your own adventure! Let me know if you'd like to set up anything not covered by the above]]


VI. BONUS aka Obelisk ping pong
The obelisks were strange. And unsettling. Not least because when curiosity brought Link closer to them, he soon realised that the Sword that Seals the Darkness was glowing.

The Sword, which Link knew only shone with a bright blue light in the presence of evil, and dark forces.

Link didn't know what these obelisks were - but obviously they were bad news. Except as he tried to move even closer - close enough to swing the Sword and strike the obelisk down - he just...couldn't. Some invisible force seemed to push him back, no matter how hard he tried.

Okay. Stop a moment. Try to find another solution. He can't get close. But that doesn't mean he can't attack from afar...

Eyes narrowed, he focused on the obelisk. Draws back the Sword. And swings, releasing forth a spinning beam of blue light that hurls towards the obelisk.

Which then hits the obelisk, and ricochets back.

Comments

[doubled_speed]

Huh, weird.

"How are you going to defeat architecture with a sword? I mean, clearly your little magic energy thing didn't work."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link looks at Tommy. His expression is blank, but somehow still conveys a sense of defeat. How do you defeat architecture with a sword? Particularly architecture that won't let the sword get near in the first place?

"No one gave me bomb arrows," he says. Because that was his other idea. An idea that had gone absolutely nowhere.

[doubled_speed]

Bomb arrows? That sounds weird.

"Dangerous shit to want," he points out, though he does take a step forward. "That's all you want? It brought down?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link just looks at Tommy. Of course he wants dangerous things. Link does dangerous stuff.

But he nods, all the same. Yes, he does want the obelisk brought down.

[doubled_speed]

"Okay then. You just had to say so."

With that he raises his hands toward the things and they blur in the air, fuzzing around the edges as the air before him almost ripples, like with a heatwave.

And the obelisk, much to Tommy's consternation, starts to jiggle. Really, it's almost like a mountain of black jello. Which is fucking weird.

[newmemorywhodis]

His hands! They're like dragonfly wings!

And he's not sure how exactly they're making the obelisk jiggle - really nothing to do with these obelisks seems to make any sense - but for the moment, the blurry hands are most definitely the focus of Link's attention.

He moves closer towards Tommy, staring at the hands with clear fascination.

[doubled_speed]

Seriously, what the actual fuck?

"IT's like fucking jello!" he growls, even with his hands still moving. He can't get enough purchase on the cellular structure to fuck this thing up! "What the hell!"

[newmemorywhodis]

"Jello?" Link says, unfamiliar with the word. He looks at the obelisk. He's guessing jello is something that...wobbles?

He looks back at Tommy. "This is why I wanted bombs."

[doubled_speed]

"Don't think the bombs would work, if I can't explode it," Tommy said with a sigh. If he can't do it, other things might not manage.

[newmemorywhodis]

There's a brief moment of silence.

"...Waving your hands makes things explode?"

[doubled_speed]

"I make things explode," Tommy corrects as he lowers his hand. The obelisk still wobbles. "I accelerate atomic structures. Comes with a nice boom. But that's... resistant."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link is, immediately, incredibly jealous. He used to have immediate and constant access to the ability to make things explode too. But that was an ability of the Sheikah Slate, not Link himself.

"Maybe needs bigger explosions?" he suggests. Although where they'd get those, Link has no idea.

He misses having bombs.

[doubled_speed]

"Can't make a bigger explosion with this," Tommy said with a frown. "Literally I make the whole thing explode when it works, if I want. But it doesn't work. So yeah, probably evil."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Not probably." More like definitely. Link had absolute faith that the Sword that Seals the Darkness was not wrong about this.

He looks at the obelisk. There has to be some way to destroy it.

"...Maybe fire?"

[doubled_speed]

"It's an idea. Sometimes I can get fires set up too, but it's not that easy."

Most flammable things are also very good at exploding.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link looks at Tommy. Then his arms. Then back at Tommy again.

"...You can wave your arms to make fire too?"

[doubled_speed]

"I can impart heat to things if I really focus. But fire is a lot harder if something doesn't naturally catch fire when the molecules are excited. It's dangerous."

Even wood can explode after all.

[newmemorywhodis]

"...Can you start one now?" Worth a try, isn't it?

(Also, Link might just want to see how he does it. Just a bit.)

[doubled_speed]

Can he? Well, it's a thing to consider.

"If you get wood I can try. But that thing won't burn from my powers. Still uses the same sort of power."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link considers this. "Okay."

And then he runs off. To get some wood, of course. If Tommy waits around, he'll be back in around twenty minutes with a few bundles of wood in his arms.

[doubled_speed]

Ah, but going alone seems silly. So Link runs off and Tommy takes off after him. And is soon running at speed backwards in front of Link.

"So, you know somewhere we can get wood?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link blinks, and slows briefly when he sees Tommy running in front of him, backwards.

That...was not something he was expecting.

(How does he not run backwards into something?)

"At my place," he says. Because see, his hoarding tendencies are useful.

[doubled_speed]

Oh yeah, that slow down makes Tommy smile. He's confused someone. Always nice.

"Alright then. Where do you live?"

[newmemorywhodis]

"The Hotel." Which is where Link's going right now. But seems Tommy wants to come with him, maybe?

[doubled_speed]

Awesome.

"Want a lift? I can get us there faster. If you've got a strong stomach."

Some people just got queasy. They were less fun to carry unless they were in a true emergency.