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Volcano event log [Open]

WHO: Link (and Zelda for prompt ii) and you!
WHERE: Hotel, Agriculture building, the Warrens
WHAT: Link runs for supplies, introduces Zelda to a bunch of people, and does some cooking and exploring
WHEN: Before and after the eruption
WARNINGS: NA

i. A race for supplies [open]

Link doesn't have all of his memories of the Calamity. But the ones he does have are vivid, and he is reminded of them all too much right now.

The first thing he does is get Zelda to the mines. Before anything else, she has to be safe. Anything less is not an option.

But once she's there, there's more to do. Because it's not enough to get to the mines; Link knows that they'll need supplies.

It would be easy, if he had his korok-enchanted pack. He could carry enough to feed everyone, if he had that. But he doesn't, and so Link has to carry things the hard way. In his hands, with only as much as he could carry in one trip.

Right up until the deadline starts getting close, Link journeys back and forth. To the Agriculture building and the Diner, for food and ingredients. To the hospital, for Tae's medical supplies. And the Hotel, for Lark's cloth and materials.

And his own room. This he gives a brief look of despair, at all the things he's going to have to leave behind - his giant mgoose antler, his pressed flower collection, his shiny rocks...

But he leaves them all. It's only the elixirs that he takes - the chilly elixirs, and fire resistance. And a few of the speedy ones as well - which he uses to move faster than usual as he keeps running relentlessly, back and forth between the mines.

ii. Royal introductions [open, will be joint threads with Zelda]

The mountain erupts. They enter the warrens. And then they're all just...stuck in there.

Well. There are some people that Zelda needs to meet. Why not now? They're all stuck in here without much else to do - and it's probably easier that dragging Zelda all over Temba and Sh'Ka in search of them.

So Link and Zelda just wondering around the Warrens. And when Link spots someone he thinks Zelda should meet, he just pulls her along by the arm towards them. Hovers awkwardly in their general vicinity. And then says, "Hi".

He is, perhaps, not the best at introductions.

At first, the focus is on people who have knowledge or skills he knows would interest people - the smart science people, as Gladio would call them. But eventually that ends up being expanded to pretty much everyone who Link vaguely knows and doesn't actively dislike. Because who wouldn't want to meet Zelda?

iii. Food and explorations [open]
Amazingly, Link does not spend the entire time in the Warrens glued to Zelda's side. Just most of it.

When he isn't, he's usually on cooking duty. He hasn't had to make his food stretch like this in a while. But he still knows a few tricks, a few good recipes that'll do more with less. He can make a few good stews and soups. To everyone that needs it, he hands out a meal.

And sometimes, when Zelda's busy and he isn't needed at the cooking pot...Link ventures out into the Warrens. Just a little bit. Or maybe more than a little bit, because Link can't help but feel the need to explore every little nook and cranny.

iv. Wildcard!

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

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The animal might have had some ideas, both of her front paws flailing out with murderous intent as Tony deftly lifted the Slate passed her, raising it to catch the light and test its weight before venturing to ask, "This thing that was sealed and came back and is defeated again...It's some kind of power source?" Something that caused other things to stop working without narrowed down the options. "Or shield?" was Tony's other guess, making him glance up and around, like he could see the radiation that this new technology might have been sensitive to.

"Not at all." Zelda shakes her head. "Calamity Ganon is hatred and malice incarnated. Though its power was great and it did manage to corrupt much of the technology we intended to use against it." She explains.

"The Sheikah artifacts only started working again when there were signs of the calamity's return. So, if the Sheikah Slate is losing it's abilities it could be because Hyrule is safe once more, thank to Link, of Course." She says fondly as she glances back at him.

Link nods. And then provides further information, although it probably won't help to clarify much. Because Calamity Ganon, as it turns out, is a bit difficult to describe.

"More like a giant spider. With Guardian legs," he says. "And then...a giant boar?"

And when Zelda starts to sing Link's praises, he doesn't say anything - but his eyes to flicker briefly over towards her, before looking away quickly.

It's not like Link isn't use to people calling him a hero, or talking up his achievements. Sidon does it all the time, after all. But somehow, he's not quite sure yet just how to react when it's Zelda doing so.

Link had said Zelda liked science, he was very straightforward about that, so Tony did not know why he was left glancing between them with the problem he was trying to solve held aloft, and thinking about a spider-boar. That did sound like Tony would have hated it, though he had yet to meet a computer that ran on adrenaline. "Okay," he tried to accept, bringing the Slate around and hearing the shutter sound just as Link started to blush, making Tony go 'hm' as he considered the screen then. "So, it's bad then, that I can do that?"

Zelda does like science and technology and she loves learning about new things however, their technology in Hyrule is both more primitive and more advanced than one might expect.

She's trying to think of a better way to explain the Calamity without just offering entire hour long history lesson about Hylia and how Ganon was said to reincarnate until he gave up reincarnation and took the form of pure malice.

She's pulled from her thoughts as she hears the shutter and looks up. "No, even I can use it to capture images. I was using it for studies of flowers that grow in Hyrule Field. However, in Link's hands it's supposed to be capable of much more."

Link nods. "The Camera rune is different."

And then - because Tony's just taken a picture of them and Link wants to see it - he leans forward, trying to get a peek at the screen. Is it a good one?

Link only had a moment where Tony tipped the screen for him to see Zelda's captured expression that he had missed in his bashfulness, then Tony was turning the device away and toward his chest, where the mothcat seemed to intuit that he wanted her to grasp it firmly while he searched along the edge of it for a seam. "What else is it supposed to do?" he asked very conversationally for someone who looked like he was about to break it.

Zelda is quite fond of her appointed knight and she's not very shy about that fact in the sense she has the utmost faith in him. So, she's not exactly embarrassed by the picture and doesn't seem phased in the slightest.

"For starters, there was a map of Hyrule. The other runes included Remote Bomb, Magnesis, Cryonis and Stasis." She explains matter-of-factly, though she is a little wary of how Tony's looking at it like it might come a part. She's fairly certain that is exactly how Purah looked at it upon first seeing it, too.

Link also watches Tony closely, with quick glances towards Zelda to see if she's upset. So far, she's not objecting to the way Tony's treating it. So no need for Link to step. Not yet.

"And one to summon the Master Cycle Zero," he adds. That rune he didn't get until much later...but he missed having access to it, all the same.

He likes his horses. He likes his horses a lot. But the Master Cycle Zero was just fun.

Luckily, if Tony met a mutant called Cryonis, he'd know he could ask them to chill his Shirley Temple. How exactly a tablet was doing any of those guesses Tony had to make at the list of names Zelda had so helpfully provided him with, that was a different issue, and maybe Tony would find out as it did come apart with a click. The pair were going to have to start actually saying anything substantive quickly, because Tony was already charging on, "I can make you an anti-grav field, do some polarization manipulation, you can't afford bombs, but you'll have to tell me what a Master Cycle Zero is, I'm only a genius." Still with one hand, he shifted the case toward Zelda between two fingers so someone else could hold onto that while he found out what else was in this thing.

She winces a tiny bit as the slate is split open. She knows the best way to learn how something works is to take it apart but still taking the Sheikah Slate apart seems wrong.

"Oh." How did she explain the master cycle? "It's sort of like a mechanical horse, I suppose-expect it's on wheels." Hyrule technology isn't quite to the point of bicycle and motorcycles just yet.

Zelda gently takes hold of the casing she's been handed and watches with interest what Tony's planning to do.

Link does not wince. Honestly, he's probably done worse to the Slate: dropped it, gone swimming with it, fell of a cliff while trying to take a selfie with it. The thing's pretty sturdy, really.

"One wheel at the front, one at the back," he adds. "Instead of legs."

Tony didn't really have a plan yet beyond considering the inner workings of the Slate with interest, searching for anything in the hardware that would have rendered most of its uses inert, and what he could reconstruct for himself. While he did, he cautioned, "Unfortunately, that one definitely won't be happening any time soon. Not too much of a loss, silver linings, not sure how much good it would do you down here, and you'd definitely be getting complaints."

"Oh, that's too bad." Zelda comments as she watches what Tony does with it. She likes the master cycle zero but she's not a fan of Link doing reckless things just for the sake of being reckless.

"I'm sure we'll manage without." She honestly doesn't have high hopes for Tony to be able to get it working to full capabilities. After all, she doesn't really know what the Sheikah did to create it in a the first place. It's a shame Purah isn't there as she's certain that she would know.

Link sighs - rather more disappointed than Zelda’s that the Master Cycle couldn’t be recreated.

Oh well. At least he could still shield surf.

“What about magnesis?” He asks. “Or stasis?” Of all the runes - apart from remote bombs, which could solve all problems - they were probably the most useful.

That got Tony to look up from the mysterious parts, glancing between the pair of them and not having expected them to sound that disappointed about not having a motorcycle in the mushroom bunker. "Oh, uh, no, it's...I'm sure I can find some parts..." he started to try, already formulating what lies would be most effective to get what he needed out of people who would not be pleased when the project was done.

Link moved on quickly, though, and had Tony once again looking at the Slate for any sign that it did anything like generate magnetic fields. "I can set you up with a tractor beam no problem," he concluded with at least a lot of confidence in his voice. "If your magnesis is making other things magnetic, that's a chemistry problem, you might want to talk to Peter. That's the kid who sticks to walls, you can't miss him."

Zelda is much less upset than Link but it still would have been fun to have. "Please, don't let it weigh on you." She tells him as he starts to worry about getting parts. She'd hate for him to feel bad about not being able to help them.

"A tractor beam?" She asks curiously. She knows very little about how the different runes work. "It doesn't really make things magnetic as it only works on metal."

Don't mind Link, Tony. He just always longs for another way to recklessly race across the landscape.

"Magnesis is the magnet," Link says. Because of the two of them, Link is the one who has actual experience in how magnesis works. He might not really understand it. But he does know how to use it. "It lets you pick up metal things. Move them around."

"Powerful stuff, magnetic control," Tony acknowledged, clearly a little distant, either because he was still planning how to build a motorcycle with some ash and berries, or maybe because he was still staring at the alien technology. "I can see why you two were saving the world."

The way Link phrased it, though, he had a very specific kind of purpose for the talent, which Tony could happily report to Zelda, "Tractor beam," with a point at Link and his moving around. "Except it doesn't matter if things are metal. Well, it does, it won't matter to you, it'll feel seamless. Don't worry about it. I can program this." That last part, at least, he did feel very confident about, indicating the Slate with a little wave that had the mothcat's eyes tracking it hungrily.

"The Sheikah Slate is only meant to aid the hero. Really, it's the sword that seals the darkness that's the key element in all this. Without it, we'd have never been able to weaken Ganon enough that I could seal him away for good."

Anyways, enough talk abut the calamity as her eyes light up when Tony says he can program it, hope blossoming into her chest.

"Can you really?" She asks eagerly, taking an involuntary step forward, hands pressed together as if in prayer. "what about Cryonis? That's the ability to instantly freeze water into blocks of ice."

The Sword that Seals the Darkness sat on Link's back, just as it always had. Tony wouldn't have ever seen Link without it. But looking at it, there's nothing about the blade that suggests just why it in particular was key to defeating a great evil.

"Floating blocks," Link adds. "That aren't too cold to touch." If the blocks had been like real ice, Link wouldn't have been able to climb them. Honestly, he wasn't even sure if they were actually ice at all.

Sealing darkness was distinctly magical stuff that Tony had never managed to have a very productive conversation about with wizards that he shared a language with, so he gave a slow nod with his tongue between his teeth, eyes darting between the pair again until he blurted, "So nobody hates anything anymore?" Maybe it was his side of the conversation that could stand to be more productive.

He made an impatient gesture to take the casing back and restore the tablet to how it had been presented to him, although he looked a little anxious about Zelda's optimism, not eager to turn it to disappointment so quickly. "That's kind of a chemistry thing, too..." he started to temper, only for Link to make it much weirder. Tony narrowed his eyes at Link, pretty sure the guy didn't really have a sense of humour and wishing that wasn't true, and had to admit, "Uh...You'll be needing a magic guy for that. Floating warm ice. Not my area. Is it...do you eat it?"

"Oh." Zelda frowns in thought, once again wishing Purah or Robbie were there to explain better. She hands the casing back.

"No, it's more for him to climb on." She offers. Well, at the moment there's not much of a need for Sheikah Slate so it's probably not hurting anything that Link won't be able to use it. At least it still takes pictures.

Link nods in agreement; yes, Cryonis was for climbing. And jumping on like stepping stones. And lifting treasure chests out of the water.

It certainly its uses, though it wasn't Link's favourite rune. (That would always be Remote Bombs. Always.)

It was possible Tony had asked two very stupid questions and Zelda was being very generous to remind Tony of something very obvious: that Link would be asking about things that he could climb on. He pressed his lips together with a short nod of understanding, and kept any more stupid questions to himself as he restored the Sheikah Slate to hand back delicately like he hadn't just been pulling it apart, and was presenting Link with a disgustingly expensive jewel.

"You hang onto that, I'll work up a tractor beam and a hard light projector to give you something to climb on, and we'll reconnect when I've got something for you," he said. "It won't be ice, sorry about that, if that's an important...preference or whatever, not that I'm judging, please, I'm not that hypocritical."

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