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May catch-all / The Sports games [Open]

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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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."

"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?

"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?"

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?

"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."

"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?

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?"

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.

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."

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..

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."

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?

At least Cayde doesn't seem annoyed at Link's snooping around. He gives the guy a nod at his thanks before resuming his knife sharpening, casting an amused glance after his overly curious guest.

The bar's pretty standard behind the counter, bottles of assorted liquors he's acquired from the times they've managed to go off world. The glasses and mugs and cups that Cayde's scavenged and collected are a haphazard mix of things that have caught the Exo's fancy, going from sophisticated and fancy to toeing the line of practicality for all its whimsy.

The backroom is storage, containing a sink and a few cupboards, and something of a little countertop stove though there's no obvious fuel source. There's an old-styled still sitting in a corner containing Cayde's latest experimentation with making alcohol from whatever's in the greenhouse. A couple of crates, the top one nearly empty but still containing a few packs of instant spicy ramen, of all things.

The karaoke machine starts into its next random set, relegated to providing background ambiance when no one's singing up a storm.

The liquors definitely get a curious, interested look. But is Link old enough to drink them?

(In his opinion, yes. He's over one hundred, after all. Furosa, however, always tended to irritatingly disagree.)

But those mugs also get a thorough inspection, as well as the storage room, the inside of all Cayde cupboards and crates.

The karaoke machine, however. That's particularly interesting. Namely because Link's never seen one before, and has absolutely no idea what it does. Doesn't mean he can't try and figure it out, however. Namely by poking at all the little buttons to see what they do.

"I better not find anything missing," Cayde says lightly even as he doesn't spare a glance after Link's snooping. He's half-joking.

The karaoke machine's screen changes upon the first button press, the music still playing although it's dropped down into the background while a selection screen comes up. Link picks another song at random and the screen changes again, this time showing words as the music stops in order for the selected one to cue up and start playing.

"Heh! You gonna sing us a song?"

Well, Link may have been known to - on occasion - decide to simply help himself to what he finds in other people's houses. But only things they don't mind.

Cayde, it seems, will mind. So Link takes nothing.

At Cayde's suggestion, however, he pauses in his ever-inquisitive button pressing to look back at him. "It's for singing?"

That the curious machine played music - and let you change it, whenever you wanted! - had been clearly evident. That Link was supposed to sing to it - that was less so.

The Hunter much appreciates his things being left where they are, he does get pretty possessive of things but he's also not above sharing. It's just that usually there's some work involved on the part of the person he's deciding to share with.

"Yep! The words show up there on the screen, and you're supposed to go along with the tune. Easier if you know the song already but it's amusing when people don't."

"...I don't know these songs." He knows the songs Kass would sing. A few others he heard in the Stables sometimes, as people gathered round the campfire. But the long list of songs here are utterly unfamiliar to him.

Does he know how to sing? He's not sure. He does always find himself humming, when he cooks. Does that count?

He looks at Cayde. Which want does he want Link to sing?

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Cayde chuckles, waving a hand. "Not a requirement. But it's there for fun. So if you ever feel like trying to belt out a random song, there you go," he says, shrugging.

He doesn't know a good number of those songs either, all of them way before his time, and any he does find at least remotely familiar is due to complicated events.

Link shrugs. And, because he has a tendency to take any kind of vague preference someone expresses as a request, he presses another button to play a song at random.

The song that beings to play is...not at all like anything Link is used to. For the first verse, he kind of just ends up...staring at the machine, a faint frown on his face, as he tries to figure what in Hylia's name this music is. It's so outside his realm of experience, he doesn't even really know how to follow it.

In the end, he's only ends up able to hesitantly sing along to one part - the chorus. Apparently, it's a song about a really, really hot day. So how that you have to take all your clothes off.

Makes sense to Link. He's done that, on more than a few occasions.

Huh! Cayde hadn't really expected Link to go through it. What a trooper!

There are probably a number of songs on the machine that he is unfamiliar with. Of course, they're likely all pre-Golden Age so there's one problem.

The song Link ends up choosing definitely has an interesting beat, but the lyrics come as a complete surprise given the Exo can't see the screen from where he is. He stares because first off, this is a song?

Apparently. It's on your song-making machine and everything, Cayde.

Link, however, is very aware that he did not do a good job. He's not an amazing singer, sure, but he's decent enough - however, he did miss most of the lyrics.

"...I'll try again." Because clearly, Link needs to complete the task in front of him. And that task is to Sing The Song, With All Of the Words. Even if he's a bit lost on what all of them are trying to say.

He presses the button to make the song play again.

Technically it was made and donated by Billy!

Cayde is still kind of trying to figure out whether to laugh or not at the first performance, but Link's already decided on doing an encore.

"Uh, sure?" Well, it'll be entertaining at least?

Link is, quite clearly, approaching this with nothing but sheer determination and stubbornness. He stares at the karaoke machine as if it's his opponent, one he is determined to defeat.

And indeed, this time - after having at least heard the song once before - he does better. He doesn't manage to follow the right rhythm and timing all of the time, or hit all of the right notes. But he does, at least, manage to sing most of the words.

Okay, it's kind of funny how intently Link is sizing up the karaoke machine. Usually karaoke battles are between two people from what Cayde's come to understand, so this is an amusing twist.

The performance, while not perfect, is still admirable and it's clear it's something Link at least has heard before.

The Exo grants him a round of applause once he's finished. Either way, it takes guts to be willing to belt out a tune in front of a stranger!

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