Quest 04 (Open + Closed)
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vivalai. The joy of cooking lizards and frogs [Open]
If there was one thing Link had learned from the battle at Flotsam, it was that he really, really needed to build up his stash of elixirs again.
So not too long after the battle - when Link’s recovered enough to stay on his feet, and limp his way towards one of Flotsam’s communal kitchens - Link gets to work.
It’s a process that involves Link cheerfully humming while he babies a big boiling pot, and some…unusual ingredients. Most notable is the big giant pile of lizalfos talons; large wicked claws that look like they’d come from some kind of large reptilian creature. These talons are an ingredient in every elixir he makes, but the accompanying ingredient varies.
Sometimes, it’s the sort of thing you might expect someone to cook with; fish, vegetables, mushrooms. Sometimes it’s flowers or herbs. And then for some concoctions he tosses in…frogs and lizards?
ii. More ingredients. MORE! [closed to Nephenee, Donnie, Shu]
The trouble with making elixirs is that he can’t just run out and find more ingredients when he needs them; all the recipes he knows best use things from Hyrule.
Which is why Link decides to seek out those people he’d given some of his plants and mushrooms to, in the hope that they might be able to grow more. If he can, he’ll try to find each of them at whatever garden patch or farm they’ve been working in.
And then say, “...Hi.”
iii. A visit to the apothecary, because maybe Link should share sometimes [Closed to Maomao]
It had occurred to Link that the other thing that might help is knowing more about the local fauna and flora - maybe there were ingredients he could find here that he could use as well?
And if there was anyone who can help…well, an apothecary seemed a good place to start. And maybe Maomao might find some of his materials useful too.
So he makes a visit to Elysium, silently slipping in through the door of the apothecary and looking around. Is Maomao in?
iv. These lizards won’t breed themselves [Closed to Ilphyl]
Ilphyl could turn into animals. So…maybe it stood to reason, that they might know how to breed them as well?
So Link tracks Ilphyl down. Reaches into his korok-enchanted pack, and pulls out a fireproof lizard. Despite being carried around in what looks like an ordinary leather bag, it is alive, and wriggling in Link’s hands.
“...I need more lizards,” he says.
v. Bees, bugs and butterflies [Closed to Iren]
The lizards might be sorted - but Link could use someone to help with his butterflies as well. But who could help with them?
Fortunately, while exploring the outskirts of Elysium, he'd run into a few locals who mentioned that someone was keeping bees. Link didn't even know you could keep bees. He'd only ever seen wild bee nests, and no one kept them.
But if someone can keep bees...butterflies shouldn't be a problem. So he makes his way to the location given to him.
When Iren comes out to check up on her bees, she’ll find Link curiously inspecting her bee houses. From a short distance away, that is - Link’s well aware of how bees can sting when angered.
If there was one thing Link had learned from the battle at Flotsam, it was that he really, really needed to build up his stash of elixirs again.
So not too long after the battle - when Link’s recovered enough to stay on his feet, and limp his way towards one of Flotsam’s communal kitchens - Link gets to work.
It’s a process that involves Link cheerfully humming while he babies a big boiling pot, and some…unusual ingredients. Most notable is the big giant pile of lizalfos talons; large wicked claws that look like they’d come from some kind of large reptilian creature. These talons are an ingredient in every elixir he makes, but the accompanying ingredient varies.
Sometimes, it’s the sort of thing you might expect someone to cook with; fish, vegetables, mushrooms. Sometimes it’s flowers or herbs. And then for some concoctions he tosses in…frogs and lizards?
ii. More ingredients. MORE! [closed to Nephenee, Donnie, Shu]
The trouble with making elixirs is that he can’t just run out and find more ingredients when he needs them; all the recipes he knows best use things from Hyrule.
Which is why Link decides to seek out those people he’d given some of his plants and mushrooms to, in the hope that they might be able to grow more. If he can, he’ll try to find each of them at whatever garden patch or farm they’ve been working in.
And then say, “...Hi.”
iii. A visit to the apothecary, because maybe Link should share sometimes [Closed to Maomao]
It had occurred to Link that the other thing that might help is knowing more about the local fauna and flora - maybe there were ingredients he could find here that he could use as well?
And if there was anyone who can help…well, an apothecary seemed a good place to start. And maybe Maomao might find some of his materials useful too.
So he makes a visit to Elysium, silently slipping in through the door of the apothecary and looking around. Is Maomao in?
iv. These lizards won’t breed themselves [Closed to Ilphyl]
Ilphyl could turn into animals. So…maybe it stood to reason, that they might know how to breed them as well?
So Link tracks Ilphyl down. Reaches into his korok-enchanted pack, and pulls out a fireproof lizard. Despite being carried around in what looks like an ordinary leather bag, it is alive, and wriggling in Link’s hands.
“...I need more lizards,” he says.
v. Bees, bugs and butterflies [Closed to Iren]
The lizards might be sorted - but Link could use someone to help with his butterflies as well. But who could help with them?
Fortunately, while exploring the outskirts of Elysium, he'd run into a few locals who mentioned that someone was keeping bees. Link didn't even know you could keep bees. He'd only ever seen wild bee nests, and no one kept them.
But if someone can keep bees...butterflies shouldn't be a problem. So he makes his way to the location given to him.
When Iren comes out to check up on her bees, she’ll find Link curiously inspecting her bee houses. From a short distance away, that is - Link’s well aware of how bees can sting when angered.
II
Date: 2024-10-06 03:12 am (UTC)Spotting him from her perch, she waves with her free hand, the other holding a watering can. "Howdy, Sir Link!"
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Date: 2024-10-06 03:18 am (UTC)Naturally, he decides to climb up the mast too, casually hanging off it near where she's working. "Your boat farm is nice," he says.
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Date: 2024-10-06 03:38 am (UTC)She's surprised exactly none when he scampers up the mast. Honestly, this is one of the tamer things he's done around her. "Thanks!" She says, beaming. "Gotta make do with the space bein' at a...ah, premium." She thinks that's the word. "An' a bunch o'plants can be grown like this, so, might as well take advantage o'it."
"So, what brings ya 'round?" Looking at their current positions, her smile turns a bit mischievous. "Ya need somethin', or ya jus' lookin' to..." Her emerald eyes twinkle under her wide-brimmed hat, "hang out?"
Who let Nephenee make dad jokes?
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Date: 2024-10-06 04:40 am (UTC)Link grins. She made a pun!
If only he could make one in reply...but alas, Link's mastery of the language is not that advanced. He'll have to just appreciate her puns.
As for why he's here...
"Have you grown..." he says, looking around. Trying to see if he can spot an oh-so familiar white and blue flower...
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Date: 2024-10-06 05:40 am (UTC)Happy he caught it, she nods. "Yep, couple different things comin' in. Not up here, though. Ah gotta spot I'm able to grow some stuff on the...uh..."
Now it's her turn to not remember the local term for something, partially because there's a few different ones, and neither make sense to her. She usually just says "deck" but that's not helpful here.
"...Ugh, can't remember the term in Imperial. Think back home it's {fo’cs’le} or {forecastle} or somethin' like that? Or maybe it was {bowsprit}? The deck area near the front o'the ship, in front o'the mast up there." She waves a hand towards the bow of the ship. She admittedly didn't spend much time around ships before here, but she vaguely remembered some weird terms that stuck in her head specifically because they sounded odd.
"Anyways," She climbs the rope holding her up, speaking a bit louder so she can be heard as she climbs over the rail into the crow's nest, "over yonder's where Ah got stuff growin' that can't be up here. Like them pumpkins, too heavy."
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Date: 2024-10-06 09:21 am (UTC)But he glances over in that direction as he climbs up into the crows nest with her.
"...The silent princesses?" he says. Were they growing there? Not that he didn't care about the other things Neph was growing, but...really, it was Zelda's favourites that Link was most concerned with.
He'd taken a few out in his dorm room. Put them in vases by his bed, so he could look at them as he went to sleep. But they were still flowers, and eventually they died. Unless Neph could grow more, he wouldn't be able to keep doing that.
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Date: 2024-10-15 10:12 pm (UTC)"Yup, they're o'er there. Lil' finicky to get t'get goin' at first, but after that they've been pretty hardy." She's glad for that, both for Link's sake, and perhaps because there's a bit of a farm girl's pride at stake there. But also, they're really pretty flowers.
"Guessin' ya wanna go see 'em?"
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Date: 2024-10-16 12:42 am (UTC)He wants to see them very much.