revivalproject | 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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"Taking an elixir is cheating?" Link says, frowning. Is still didn't make much sense to him. Why wouldn't you use whatever you had available to succeed?

"Yes," she says. "Unless everyone is taking them."

Because unfair advantages, get it?

Oh. That must be what Tae's upset about - she doesn't have one for herself.

Well, that can be solved. Link's got a spare. He pulls it out, and holds it out for her. "Have this," he says.

What? No!

The woman looks at him actually offended now. How can he not get it?

"I am not asking for one. I'm saying it's cheating."

“…You wanted it to be fair.” And look, here is Link, offering to make it fair. What more does she want?

"Of course," she said. "To everyone. All the time. That's how sports are supposed to work. People working to show the pinnacle of human ability.

"...What about fun?"

Which, really, was what Link had assumed all this was actually about. Sure, beating your own score was fun - but the pinnacle of human ability? The best of the best?

There were people here who couldn't match that expectation. No matter what elixir they drank. Surely they should be able to enjoy this, no matter their ability?

Well, yes, there is that too. And she sighs because it's a good point.

"Are you having fun when you're not proving you can beat your own best? When you need the drink as a crutch? Is it you that won or the drink?"

"I beat my best using what I have." And sure, he could decide to limit himself to what he can do, physically, without the aid of elixirs or enchanted armors or special abilities.

But he earned all of those. He figured out how to find them, how to make them, how to use them. As far as he's concerned, that's all part of what makes up 'his best' too.

Tae is left sighing. Apparently the man just won't listen. Still, it has raised a question in her mind. A serious one.

"What are the long term effects? Of using the drink. How does it affect, or harm, your body? Has someone tested that?"

"...None?" Or at least, none that Link knew of. Or anybody else, for that matter - Link certainly wasn't the only one to make use of elixirs.

(Although other people probably didn't use them as much as Link.)

"...Zelda might have." Which, in all likelihood, probably involved her making him lick a frog. Maybe many frogs?

None? The answer is also never 'none'. Cue her continuing to not look impressed.

"And I presume she is not here for me to talk to?"

Link's ears droop, just ever so slightly.

"...Zelda's back home." And she was okay, at least. She wasn't stuck in the castle anymore, keeping the Calamity contained. But...Link missed her. And nevermind Tae's questions - he still had so much he wanted to ask her about.

Ah. Interesting note. Ears for emotional expression, how interesting.

"She's probably safer there. One hopes."

Link nods. Yes, she's probably safer. The Calamity has been defeated. Hyrule's safe. He knows there's people who will look out for her, make sure she's okay.

And yet, he still doesn't look any happier about this.

Yeah, that.... is not a face she wants to deal with. Nope.

"You'll get home. We all will. Then we can get back to our lives."

Link nods. And she's right - they would get home. Somehow. He'd see Zelda again. Not that that knowledge made the melancholy go away. But it was something to hold on to, at least.

Maybe something for Tae, too.

"...You miss home too?" She must, surely. Why else would she be so firm, when stating that they would all get back some day?

Of course she misses home. She looks like she's almost confused that he would ask.

"I have patients I care about quite a bit that I wish I was there to take care of."

Link nods.

“Get you home too,” he promises. That was something to remember - it wasn’t just for the Agrii, and for Link, that they needed to stop the storms. It was for everyone.

That's kind of him to say. She would like to be home, very much.

"I wish you luck with that."

Link nods.

And then, because he's had enough of talking - there's games and he wants to win them - he says, "Bye", and runs off.

He has still made absolutely zero promises to not use performance enhancing drugs.

Yes, running off. He is just... doing that. She sighs and turns, walking away. Because what other choice does she have?

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