May catch-all / The Sports games [Open]

[newmemorywhodis]

WHO: Link and you!
WHERE: The Hangar / 'sports area', The Deep End
WHAT: Link does ALL OF THE GAMES. And visits a bar
WHEN: During and after the Sports Games
WARNINGS: None yet


i. Illegal frog drinks [closed to Tae]

Link was very enthusiastic about the games. Very, very enthusiastic. To the point where he essentially spent all available time madly running around, doing all of the games he could. And then running around and doing them all again.

Eventually of course, he ran low on energy. But that was okay - because he'd figured out how to make a good Stamina Elixir earlier. Which he decides to drink midway through the first day.

It's bright green. He doesn't make any effort to hide it as he skulls the thing in the middle of the 'sports area'. And immediately after drinking it, he perks up.

Now he can do go all of the games again!


ii. Balloon popping [Open]

Link has an interesting approach to the balloon popping. He stands on the chair, his compound bow drawn. And then when the timer starts, he jumps off of the chair and aims the bow.

As he hands in mid air, time slows down - allowing him to line up multiple shots at the balloons. To everyone else, it will look like Link is shooting impossibly fast. Then he lands and runs to where the balloons popped, trying to grab the points out of the air before they even hit the ground.

It probably only makes finding the points in amongst the glitter only a little easier. But he seems to make it work anyway.


iii. Climbing wall [Open]

Link does all of the games multiple times. But the climbing wall? That one he repeats to possibly ridiculous levels.

He doesn't bother with the ladder at the back. He just zooms up the wall with sheer climbing skill and ability. The fact that Link is good at this particular game is probably a surprise to absolutely no one who has already seem him climbing all over Temba and Sh'ka.

Eventually though, Link gets bored of climbing the normal way - and starts calling on Revali's Gale, a gust of wind accompanied by the spirit of a Rito. It launches him up into the air, and then Link just grabs onto the wall, getting a quick and immediate boost at the start.


iv. Paraglider Please [Open]

The moment Link has enough points, there's only one thing he's after.

The paraglider.

It looks different from the one Tony directed him towards. It's a lot smaller, and just made of wood and fabric rather than any more advanced materials. When folded up, it doesn't take up much space at all. But it's Link's, and he wants it back.

"Paraglider please!" he says to the projecting managing the prizes, before urgently grabbing at it the moment it's in range.


v. The Deep End [Closed to Cayde]

A few days after the sports event is over, Link takes a few pieces of the mgoose's anters that had broken off as he shoved them into his room at the Hotel. Then he makes his way to a place he hasn't actually explored yet, but which he's managed to find marked on his map - the Deep End.

When he walks in, he gives the bar a quick glance - but it's the wall of windows looking out into the lake's water that he's immediately drawn to. He moves over to the windows, staring out at the underwater landscape and aquatic life.


vi. Wildcard!

[[OOC: Choose your own adventure! Let me know if you'd like to set up anything not covered by the above. Particularly for the sports games - Link's doing pretty basically everything, so he is easy to run into at whichever game you want]]

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[deal_me_in]

"Neat, huh?"

The Hunter's in his usual spot behind the counter, idly sharpening a knife, one of several that he's got laid out on the counter. On one of the barstools on the opposite side is a reddish-brown feathered hen who looks to be napping.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods, clearly rapt as he doesn't even tear his eyes away from the window. He just...looks.

He's seen lakes, of course. Seen reefs under the ocean's surface. But never from this perspective, like he's in it. This must be what the Zora get to see.

After a few moments, though, Link manages to tear his eyes away from the window and come over to the bar. Next to the collection of knives, he carefully lays on the bar the pieces of mgoose antlers that he promised Cayde.

[deal_me_in]

Cayde grins, setting his things down to reach over and pick up one of the antler pieces.

"Nice! I think these'll work out great. Dare I ask what you did with the rest of the thing?"

Because that was a whole lot of mgoose.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Put it in my room."

Which meant that now, his room was pretty much entirely taken up my mgoose antlers. And all of Link's other stuff. Traversing through it was now somewhat of a challenge.

He was probably going to need another room.

[deal_me_in]

"What, the whole carcass?"

Cayde laughs, trying to imagine that. Actually that would be kind of gross. He turns over the antler piece in his hands, bouncing it in his palm to get a feel for the weight.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link gives Cayde a look, and then shakes his head. "...The antlers."

Which where still pretty big all on their own. But not as bad as stuffing an entire dead body in there. Which, he's pretty sure, wouldn't fit.

He glances at the piece of antlers, then the row of knives Cayde laid out on the bar. "You'll make a knife?" He said something about wanting to do that, didn't he?

[deal_me_in]

"Right, of course. Makes more sense. I don't think there's any one place that would fit all of that thing anyway." Even if chopped up.

The Exo looks down at the knives he's been sharpening, chuckling. "Well, more like repairing. I'm not exactly a smith, although I know a pretty good one so I guess making a knife's not impossible."

He picks one of them up, giving the handle a wiggle that shouldn't be possible. "This one's loose. I've been picking up knives from places whenever I get the chance, but of course some are nice than others, and some could be better."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link looks at the knife, seeing the wiggle. Yes, that definitely looks like a weapon that's on the verge of breaking. Although he's not at all familiar with how you'd repair a weapon. The number of people in Hyrule who still have that knowledge are vanishingly small.

Mostly, you just scavenge old weapons until they break. Still, would be nice to have weapons that lasted a little longer...

"...How?" he says, nodding to the knife. How will he fix it?

[deal_me_in]

"The blade's still pretty good. Someone just did a sloppy job on the handle. I could probably break this part off."

Cayde puts one of the antler pieces beside it as he gestures between them.

"See, the metal goes all the way through, it's kinda sandwiched between the material here- this one's wood but it's falling apart. I just gotta shape this antler bit some, probably a lot of sanding, and figure out how deep and wide the tang on this knife is, either carve out a hole just right to slide it on in or we do another sandwich job. Either way, it'll take a bit."

[newmemorywhodis]

"The antlers will be a new handle?" Link says, fascinated. He never thought of doing such a thing with any of his weapons. When they broke, he had to just find new ones.

He has to wonder - what else could be combined with his weapons, to make them even better?

[deal_me_in]

"Yep!" Cayde arches a metal brow at him, amused. "You've never seen bone or antler-handled weapons? ...although I'll admit, not very common anymore, back home, but it used to be a thing, pre-Golden Age."

He sets the knife down to study the antler shard more closely.

"Guess you could use this as a weapon in a fix- technically they're natural weapons, but obviously not unbreakable."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Not in the handles," Link admits. He'd seen plenty where the bones were part of the weapon itself - or in the case of bokoblin or moblin arms, the entire weapon - but not the handle alone.

Still, he nods. He can see Cayde's point. "Better than a tree branch," Link notes.

[deal_me_in]

The Hunter taps his fingers on the bartop. "...depends on where the bones and stuff are from too. I don't see a whole lot of organic material being used for weapons back where I'm from, but some Guardians have armor fused with bones. More of a preference thing though, really."

He laughs then. "Oh yeah, way better than a tree branch. But I guess tree branches do in a fix."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Guardians?!" Link says, eyes going wide with alarm. Cayde's home has Guardians? Link had never considered the possibility that the terrifying mechanical constructs might exist anywhere other than Hyrule...

[deal_me_in]

The outburst surprises him. It definitely startles Colonel, who rouses out of her nap with a brief fluttering of her wings.

"Yeah? I mean, it's technically my job description. I guess Felwinter could be considered one but I don't think they were calling us Guardians back when he's from." He waves a hand. "Anyway, it's complicated."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link's alarm shifts into confusion.

"You're a Guardian...?" he says. "But you don't..."

He trails off, not sure how to explain the difference. Sure, Cayde was a machine - but one more people-shaped than the Guardians he knew.

[deal_me_in]

Cayde seems to be more amused by this than concerned, but he has no idea what's got Link worked up. A metal brow lifts up again.

"Don't what?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link pauses. Thinks about it. Tries to figure out some way to put into words what a Guardians is.

"Guardians are...bigger. With lots of legs. And lasers."

[deal_me_in]

"How big we talking about? Titans are pretty big but they're still within human standards. Only two legs though. Lasers...debatable. Depends on what we're running with. Me, I'm old-fashioned, but lasers can be fun sometimes."

Cayde, you're not helping.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link thinks about this. Then climbs on top of the bar, stands on it, and gestured to a height about twice Link's own.

They were this high.

[deal_me_in]

...oh sure, stand up on the bar. At least Cayde doesn't mind too much. If anything, he's plenty used to people standing on his stuff. Damn Guardians dancing on his map.

"Huh. With a lotta legs and lasers.... That's quite an image. Yep, pretty sure my version of Guardians is a lot different from yours."

[newmemorywhodis]

All surfaces are the floor to Link. He climbs on everything. Everything.

"...They're dangerous," he adds, before hopping off the bar. Link's usual blank-faced expressions and stoic demeanour tend to make him seem rather solemn most of the time - but this time, there seems to be something more to it.

[deal_me_in]

"We aren't anything to brush off either, but I'm thinking the context is what makes all the difference here," Cayde concludes.

"The title of Guardians is what we've adopted for those who've been brought back by the Traveler's Light. We're meant to protect humanity and resist the Darkness, and that includes fighting against whatever might decide to try snuffing us out. Doesn't just include Exos like me, but humans and Awoken."

He rests his arms against the edge of the counter, head tilting at Link. "Your version of Guardians on the wrong side of things?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Oddly enough, in some ways Cayde's Guardians had a similar purpose to the ones Link knew. At least, originally.

"They were meant to fight the Calamity," he says. "But it corrupted them."

[deal_me_in]

"Unfortunately even those meant for good aren't always impervious to corruption," Cayde says solemnly, nodding. "I mean, even in the Dark Age when the first Guardians were known as the Risen, things got messy. That's about where Felwinter's from."

He shrugs. "What's this Calamity? Other than bad, from what it sounds like."