Quest 04 (Open + Closed)

[newmemorywhodis]

i. 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.

Comments

iv

[spacetogrow]

Ilphyl was not expecting Link to pull out a live lizard from his pack. Yes, they were familiar with Bags of Holding, but those required tracking air use. A lizard didn't need much air, but they did need some.

"you generally need at least two lizards to get more."

III

[2mao]

"Ah, Link." Maomao is, indeed, present; currently in the process of grinding down something with mortar and pestle. Did you trade names last time? Don't Worry About It. "Did you need something?"

As usual, there isn't much room in her apothecary, but do try not to brush up on any of the drying herbs or knock over any jars, you never know what might be inside.

i

[fish4science]

"What are you making there, some kind of potions?" The footsteps of the approaching girl had been swallowed up by the crowd, but her voice is smokey and raspier than usual. Turning around reveals the reason why-Angelika's face is still messed up from the fight, one eye completely covered by a patch of gauze, ointments and bandages covering her ears and nose, and the entire face pink and swollen like it's been plunged into too-hot water for too long. Which, is basically what happened, after the immediate application of healing, medic's interventions, and drinking five potions. She would swear she can feel it sloshing around inside her stomach right now, but still with one eye swollen shut and her throat still lightly burned, she doesn't look or sound very much like she's on the road to recovery.

Her hair isn't much better either, her bangs singed and cut back to the roots and her side-braid and forelocks significantly burned or trimmed back as well. The short hair is making her skin crawl, but it's not proper dysphoria, not yet, and she has a date with some magical hair tonic if she can find any. But since she earned these wounds in battle alongside Link, showing them to him isn't quite as bad as it would be to anyone else.

II

[relentless_sentinel]

Link finds Nephenee on the boat she lives and works on, hanging off the crow's nest by a rope around her waist, tending to some hanging planters with vines crawling out, a small net slung underneath to catch any wayward veggies.

Spotting him from her perch, she waves with her free hand, the other holding a watering can. "Howdy, Sir Link!"

The one for her, obviously

[ordainedbarkeep]

Today was a day to check the hives. Summer was over and she had to make sure they were good and healthy enough to make it through the winter. She knew some beekeepers who were so confident in being well known by their hives that they didn't bother with netting, but she wasn't one of them. She had on the full veil and suit, so as to not get stung.

So now she was running into a problem: There was someone else checking out her bees, and she only had the one veil.

"You probably shouldn't get any closer!" She called out, with concern. "The hives don't know you!"

II

[purplexing]

Donnie had fallen behind in a lot of the tasks he'd meant to do. Personal upgrades to his weapons and armor had taken a complete backseat in favor of finishing up preparations at the mines, but at least he now has the materials that he needed so that he can work on them now that there's time.

Plants however always take precedence when there's something along those lines to tend to. They are alive and even seeds have a timeframe that they must be used. At least Link's magical bag seems to somehow keep things preserved, and Donnie had figured it was better to start small than not at all, see if he could get some results before putting time into something larger. At least most of the species that Link had provided seemed to be found in a similar environment.

After obtaining permission to expand his little garden area into the wall itself, Donnie had worked to carefully widen an alcove into a small cave-cubby. He tried a couple of each of the samples Link had given him, taking care to spray a little water within to keep things slightly moist. Covered the hole with cloth like a curtain, and then...he'd forgotten about it for a bit. To be fair, the past month had been a busy one, after all.

Now with a chance to breathe and tend to his plants, Donnie also checks on the progress within his little experiment. He'd purposely made the opening away from where the ether lights shine, but all the same he keeps the curtain over him as he peeks in.

I

[upupatomway]

Atom doesn't really know his way around a kitchen, and he had heard of people eating frog legs in other countries. But Link's lineup of exotic looking ingredients doesn't match anything he had seen in a kitchen before. The scene he stumbles upon, with Link stirring a bubbling pot, almost looks like a fairy tale illustration.

"Is... Is that a kind of witch's brew?" Atom asks.

ii

[singlemilletgrain]

Given that Shu is nearly always found in her fields, Link will find her quite easily at most times throughout the day. The harvesting season is nearly over, and she is threshing the last of her wheat stalks, gleaming under the ether lights of Vault.

"Ah! -- Link. How are you?"

She stands, the filled sacks attached to her back almost larger than she is. Shu is stronger than she appears.

"Have you recovered from that battle?"