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]]

Comments

[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."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Calmity Ganon," Link says. "A primal evil."

Although it's a hard thing to explain. Especially when you're Link, and you're not very good at explaining. It's something he's seen, felt, fought - but he only knows the words Impa used to to describe it.

[deal_me_in]

Cayde strokes his chin. "Sounds kind of like what we'd call the Darkness, but to be honest, there's a whole lot we don't know about it, and the same can be said for the Light. On the label you figure they're two sides of the same coin, one's just the all-engulfing one."

[newmemorywhodis]

"Two sides of a coin?" Link says, frowning. The analogy doesn't make sense to him at all. Is Cayde trying to say that a dark primal force and the people that battle against it are the same thing?

[deal_me_in]

"Like...you can't have one without the other. Opposites," the Exo says after some consideration. He fishes around his pockets and pulls out a gil coin he'd kept from the last time they'd gone off-world, holding it up.

"Light, and Dark," he says, flicking each side in demonstration. "So...Calamity...Ganon, you said? Is on one side. What's the other?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link considers this.

"Me," he says. "And Zelda." Sure, the were the Champions and the Divine Beasts...but really isn't just them, isn't it?

[deal_me_in]

"Wow, that's it?" Cayde blinks over at him before flicking the coin into the air and catching it in again.

"Well, anyway, my point being.... Actually I forget what the whole point of this was. Aside from that if there's one side, then usually there's another side to counter it, or try. Sometimes it's been happening for so long that you don't remember or know who was at the start of it and when the other decided to join the party."

[newmemorywhodis]

"The Champions and Divine beasts helped." That was something, wasn't it?

He does nod, however, at Cayde's further ruminations. That sounds about right to Link. After all - the last time the Calamity came was ten thousand years ago. And who knows how long before that. At this point, the history of Ganon was myth and legend. Who knew how it all started?

[deal_me_in]

Pocketing the coin, the Hunter nods thoughtfully. "I mean, if it were just you and this Zelda person, that's impressive but it's always good having some help. And it'd be hard to believe only two care to go against something like that. ...of course if it's a matter of ability then that's understandable too."

Cayde looks over the knife spread, setting aside a couple, including the one with the wonky handle. He gestures.

"So...need a knife?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link shakes his head a little, when Cayde suggested no one else cares. That definitely wasn’t the case. Fate decreed that it had to be Link and Zelda, not anything else.

However, when Cayde asks if Link might like a knife…well. He nods her a head very, very eagerly.

Of course he wants a knife.

[deal_me_in]

Those are some strange restrictions, not that Cayde knows that's the specifics of it. He figures Link means more that it's a matter of capability, which is something he more than understands. Not everyone was equipped to fight off some greater power or even armies of alien hordes.

He grins at Link's response, folding his arms.

"Take your pick."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link takes a moment to inspect the knives. Picks up a few too feel the weight and the balance of them. He's handled enough weapons to be able to tell which ones are the better quality.

So he narrows it down to the better knives on offer - and picks the one with the prettiest handle. He points at it and looks back at Cayde, a clear declaration: that one..

[deal_me_in]

Cayde grins, picking it up to give it a look over himself before giving it an expert twirl. He holds the knife out to Link, handle first.

"Nice choice. Take care of it now."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link takes the knife, nods solemnly, and tucks it away. "Thank you."

And then, because Link's still curious enough to not leave just yet, he starts looking around more. What's behind the bar here? What's this interesting looking machine in the corner?