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.
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Date: 2024-10-09 09:07 am (UTC)If only Link had thought to go on a fireproof lizard collecting spree before the Empire nabbed him.
But when asked about the ingredients he's brought...Link hums for a moment, thinking. Where to start? He goes quiet, looking at his stash of ingredients.
And then he reaches out to group a bunch of disparate items together: Stamella shroom, Stambulb, Courser bee honey, Staminoka bass, Bright-eyed crab and restless cricket. (Although he has to grab at the crab while it tries to scurry off; meanwhile, the restless cricket has disappeared entirely.)
"For stamina," he says.
Then, he brings together another group: Flotus-leaf seeds, Rushroom, Swift carrot, and Swift Violet. (Having learned a lesson, he does not attempt to bring out the Hot-footed frog and Tireless lizard.)
"For speed," he says.
After that, a number of other groupings: for health, for the ability to move more silently, to ward off gloom, to not slip when climbing, for greater damage, for greater defence, for resistance to cold or heat or electricity - or, to deal additional damage when it's cold, or hot, or storming. And then one last group - ones which can make you glow.
It takes a while to get through it all.
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Date: 2024-10-30 11:55 pm (UTC)Magical herbs, to be sure. Magical creatures as well. Interesting. Very interesting.
Still, certainly the work of an apothecary like herself. After all, she could hardly ignore one ingredient over another simply by the inclusion of ether. Not to mention the difficulty in sorting that - some magical plants had completely mundane uses, or parts with varying amounts of ether, including none.
But this was a huge list of new ingredients to gain all at once. Maomao's eyes were practically shining with anticipation.
"How many do you have? I'd love to-" experiment "-have a sampling of some." A polite cough. "And, of course, I'll help you try and find replacements for any ingredients missing for your own recipes."
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Date: 2024-10-31 09:47 am (UTC)There was a reason he'd gone and asked Donnie, and Shu, and Nephenee for help. Some things, he knew he'd get more of. But they couldn't grow everything.
So he pauses. Considers her request. And then starts pulling more items out of the pack. Apparently, the answer to whether she can have some is yes.
[[ooc: In the interests of not taking forever writing a big list...if you go here and then click the "Materials" tab, assume that Link gives her five of anything he has at least 30 of. He also doesn't yet have monster parts at the time of this thread, but you can assume he drops off those as well later. Exception to this is any dragon parts - those he won't hand over even if he has heaps.]]