April catch-all

[newmemorywhodis]

WHO: Link and Dustin, Tommmy, Radley, and you!
WHERE: Various places in and around Temba and Sh'ka
WHAT: Link goes hunting, bothers Dustin, makes some dubious drinks and attempts to contact the Funfronds
WHEN: In the weeks after the Ah! Real Monsters! Event
WARNINGS: animal murder


i. Senseless animal murder aka Hunting [open]

Link's hunting more frequently these days. Mainly because he learned, much to his dismay, that without his korok-enchanted pack he doesn't have a good way to keep meat long-term. So rather than doing a lot of hunting at once, he needs to head out regularly for smaller kills that he can cook that day.

So he can frequently be found in the forests outside Temba - or Sh'ka, if he happens to be there instead - moving swiftly and silently, his compound bow at the ready.

Between the trees, he spots one of the small, dinosaur-like Gallies. Crouches down, and inches further. Before drawing his bow, aiming right for the creatures head, and letting the arrow go.


ii. You can never have too many shields [closed to Dustin]

Dustin had made Link promise not to tell anyone about the Workshop, or where it was. A promise he had absolutely taken seriously, and had kept.

What Dustin had not done, however, was make Link promise not to show up there whenever he felt like it.

The challenge, however, was getting in to the workshop. Dustin had evidently left a puzzle for Link, because he soon found that the door was locked and the windows boarded up. But there was this little square flap at the bottom of the back door. If Link takes of his Sword and bow and makeshift shield - and carefully lays them next to the flap - he might be able to squeeze through.

Which he, of course, immediately proceeds to attempt to do.


iii. Making The Frog Drink [closed to Tommy and Radley]

This wasn't Link's first time cooking at the diner. He'd become a bit of a regular, actually - though he was always happy to cook for everyone else around too, when he was there. Sometimes making unusually elaborate dishes using whatever new and interesting ingredients he'd managed to find.

Today, however, it was a bit different. Today, Link was experimenting.

Thanks to the Agriculture datapoint, he knew how to make something close to the elixirs he made back in Hyrule with local plants. But the datapoint didn't tell him anything about using animals, or insects. Which meant Link had to figure out what he could make by pure trial and error.

The end result of this was Link cooking up an increasingly odd series of concoctions, using things like butterflies, beetles, lizards, crabs, grasshoppers. And, of course, frogs.

Link had a good feeling about the frog. This one, he was sure, was going to do something.


iv. Are these the new Koroks? [closed to Funfronds]

Link had heard about the Funfronds from Dustin. Knew at least a little of what they were, from the Dictionary. But hearing about them was one thing - Link wanted to see them for himself.

And he was so very, very curious.

So, he's staked out the ruins near the greenhouse, late one evening. Thought a little about how he might indicate he was friendly to them. He ended up combing through the ruins, and leaving an apple or other piece of small fruit whenever he found a little nook or cranny. He didn't know if the Funfronds were anything like Koroks, but if they were - well, maybe they'd appreciate the gifts too? Course, Koroks also liked thinks like Link picking up rocks, and shooting balloons, and jumping into circles of lilies in the water...

...Maybe he'd try those later. If the apples didn't work. For now, though, he just sits in one corner in the ruins. And waits.



V. Wildcard!

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

Comments

[doubled_speed]

More energy? What? Was that...

"Can I try?"

Damn, he can't believe he's asking.

[newmemorywhodis]

Why wouldn't he ask? Stamina Elixirs are awesome.

And Link's more than happy to make one for Tommy - so he nods, and quickly starts tossing together the ingredients for another one. Which, of course, includes another frog.

[doubled_speed]

The frog thing is just going to be so weird.

"How long does this take to make?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link thinks about it. He hadn't actually timed it, so he doesn't exactly have an exact number.

"Maybe twenty minutes?" he guesses.

[doubled_speed]

Huh, that's intersting.

"And it's like coffee or something?"

Because if so, he wants some.

[newmemorywhodis]

"...What's coffee?" Link asks, as he stirs the pot. Is that another kind of elixir?

[doubled_speed]

"Drink with tons of caffeine. Gives you energy. Or, well, it makes you feel more energized, even though it's a lie."

So no, not another kind of elixir. Still...

"Let me make you some. One cup."

[newmemorywhodis]

A drink that was a lie...? That sounds strange.

Naturally, Link wants to try it. He nods.

"The recipe?" he says. Because Link always wants to learn the recipe.

[doubled_speed]

"Not really a recipe. It's just about how to prep it."

He's gone and back in an instant with the french press.

"It's about hot water and time."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link stays by his pot, continuing to stir and monitor - and add in more ingredients when necessary. But he watches Tommy and the odd device he brings back with interest.

"What goes in the water?" Because surely, this 'coffee' can't come from just hot water alone?

[doubled_speed]

"Ground coffee beans," Tommy says, going to a sealed metal canister and opening it up. Once it is he brings it over to Link to smell. "This stuff."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link leans over to look.

"It smells nice," he says. Real nice, actually. Now he's even more keen to find out what this tastes like.

[doubled_speed]

"It'll be a few minutes," he says, measuring it into the press. "sometimes, when the water is bad I put some egg shells in to compensate, but it hasn't been needed lately."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Egg shells?" Link asks, curious about that as well. He doesn't know anything about using egg shells in water. Eggs, yes - but not just the shells.

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah. There's something in what they're made of that makes the water... I don't know, better. At least with coffee. I don't know if I'd do it with other stuff."

Some people even put in a tiny bit of salt, but he's not going to mention that. He's too busy setting this aside to put a kettle of water on to heat.

[newmemorywhodis]

Links hums, and makes a mental note to try that out himself sometime.

“What does that do!” He asks, nodding towards the French press.

[doubled_speed]

"You don't want to drink the grounds. The press lets the grounds mix with the water. The plunger then pushes all the grounds to the bottom and leaves the seasoned water."

Makes sense, right? He hopes so.

[newmemorywhodis]

It does make sense - or at the very least, Link is nodding his head and indicating that he's following along.

And he'll watch, of course, when Tommy demonstrates - paying close attention to just exactly how it's done.

[doubled_speed]

"How long on that potion?" Tommy asks as he gets the water heating up. That's gonna need to wait. He could rush it, but why?

[newmemorywhodis]

"Nearly ready!" Link says. And indeed, in just another minute or so he peers inside the pot. Looks at it with his usual blank-faced intensity. Before nodding to himself as he, apparently, judges it done.

He pours it out into a glass. The drink is bright, lime green. And he holds it out for Tommy.

Time to drink a frog!

[doubled_speed]

And here is Tommy, pouring hot water into his press.

"Mine will still be another minute or two."

Though he does take the glass.

"You sure? Like, this was just out of a hot pot. Won't it be super hot?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link shrugs. Has he burned his tongue eating and drinking things too quickly in the past? Yes, yes he has. But Tommy doesn't have to do the same.

"You can wait if you want."

[doubled_speed]

"Probably better. So I can taste stuff to season it, you know?"

Seems reasonable to him.

"Tell you what, when the coffee is done we can both try."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods. That makes sense to him - he does the exact same thing, when he's cooking.

So he sets down the elixir, and then settles in to watch the end of the coffee making process.

[doubled_speed]

"What other things do your elixirs do?" Tommy asks as he leans against a counter to wait.