Quest 07 (Open + Closed)

[newmemorywhodis]

i. Making new, wolfy friends [Open]
In the wild areas near Elysium, Link’s been exploring. It’s a common activity for him. There’s mushrooms and flowers to pick, game to hunt, monsters to fight…

…Then one day, while he’s up in a tree collecting some bird’s eggs, he spots a wolf. A big wolf. A really, really big wolf. It’s as big as a horse.

And once he makes that mental connection, Link immediately thinks, I could ride that.

Which naturally means Link now has to find out if he can. He pulls out a Sneaky Elixir, and swiftly swallows it - demeaning the sounds of his movements. Silently uses his paraglider to move from tree to tree, getting closer. And then carefully drops down behind the massive, monstrous wolf.

He crouches down. Creeps forward. Slowly, slowly. Until he’s right behind the beast, so close he could reach out and touch its fur.

And then he leaps up onto its back, and grabs on.

The wolf yelps and snarls - but Link’s got a good position, and he doesn’t let it twist back and bite him. He just directs the beast to run, and keeps a good hold.

What do you know, he can ride it!


ii. A retrieval of memories [locked to Shu]
Shu had spoken to the Admiral. They’d tracked down the Imperial Commander who’d been given Link’s Purah Pad.

And then they’d sneaked onto the Commander’s warship and completely trashed his quarters.

Well, Link had trashed his quarters. Shu was a bit too dignified for such wanton destruction, but Link wasn’t. And he didn’t regret it either, since in the process, he’d found the Pad!

Now, their getaway was nearly complete. Here in a small alleyway in Elysium, they were far from the scene of the crime. The Crimson Portal wasn’t far off.

But Link had to pause. He hadn’t had a chance yet, but - he had to see. Were all of his pictures still on the Purah Pad? Were they safe?

He pulls out the Pad, and turns it on. And turns to the photo gallery.


iii. Link has a slide show and he’s gonna make you watch it [semi-closed]
Later, Link thinks of all the new people he’d met. People who’d helped him grow plants from home, or who’d shown interest in things from his home. Shu wasn't the only one who he knew would like to see his pictures.

Before, he hadn't had any way of sharing these images of his home. But…now he could.

So Link tracks those people down. Says, “Hi,” when he finds them. And then shoves the Purah Pad - with a picture from Hyrule that would interest them on the screen - right in their face.

[[ooc: this prompt is for Nephenee, Ilphyll, Donnie, Maomao and Atom - but could be open to others if there's a reason for Link to decide to share]]


iv. Wildcard!
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[purplexing]

"Hey!"

Donnie grabs at the pad, more out of irritation at this point, but he holds it at a more suitable viewing distance if Link allows him to take it.

"Is that like...a chunk of someone's floor?" he can't help but wonder allowed, because the 'glider' doesn't look at all very aerodynamic. Yes, he's judging it. But he does eventually focus on the actual important part of this image, lifting the tablet closer to try having a better look at one of the pointed shaped things.

"Is this what I think it is?"

[newmemorywhodis]

There's a bit of resistance, as Donnie tries to take the Pad - it's Link's, and he's maybe more than a little possessive about his things. Especially after the Empire took all of them.

After a moment though, the resistance fades - though Link absolutely keeps his own hold on the device. But he had least lets Donnie move it to a more reasonable distance.

And then his nods his head, rapidly. "Rockets!" He says cheerfully.

[purplexing]

Sure, Donnie remembers how adamant Link was about when he'd asked if he could try pulling something out of the magical bag. But here he has the guy literally putting something in his face, so of course Donnie is going to reach for it since he thinks it's being offered him to at the very least, hold.

He squints at the pictures. "That seems like a silly thing to mount them to. Heavy, even. But I guess that's why you'd need four of those rockets. Is this the controls? How do they activate? Do you have schematics somewhere on this thing?"

[newmemorywhodis]

“Not that heavy. They glide." How was it that they did so so easily? Link had no idea. Zonai technology was like that.

Then he pauses, thinking. The next part was rather difficult to explain, especially without the ability to just demonstrate. And Link would very, very much prefer to just demonstrate.

"Zonai devices could be stuck together," he says. "Wing. Rockets. Steering stick." And he hadn't used schematics for this contraption. He more kinda eyeballed it.

[purplexing]

"...and I guess that's the very bare necessities to making something fly," Donnie notes dryly as he looks back at the picture. Yes, he has problems with the design. It is literally a flying slab!

"Did you make the rocket then?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Hey, don't knock the flying slab. Link got a surprising amount of use out of those flying slabs.

In response to Donnie's question though, Link shakes his head. No, he didn't make it.

"Ancient Zonai made it," he says.

[purplexing]

SCOFF.

Donnie deflates with a sigh.

"...wait, but you said you had some, right? Are these the same as whatever might be around somewhere?" With who knows what other stuff Link had confiscated?

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods. "Empire took them."

Which meant that out there, somewhere, the Empire had a whole stash of zonai rockets.

And flying slabs.

[purplexing]

"No luck tracking them down yet? This is new, right?" Donnie says, tapping at the pad. No, he hasn't let go just yet because he is a teenager after all.

[newmemorywhodis]

Link shook his head. No, he didn't have the rockets yet. This was the trouble with Link's stolen belongings: there was so much of them, and they'd ended up scattered all over the Empire. It made tracking them down difficult.

But he had the Purah Pad, now. Which Link absolutely does not let go of either.

"Shu helped find it," he says.

[purplexing]

Maybe curb your ah...collecting habits there, buddy?

Donnie taps at the screen, trying to figure out what else the thing does. How do you access anything with this? He can't turn it over very well given Link's still hanging onto it, so he'll have to make do because he's stubborn. And curious.

"Shu, huh? Not surprised." He smiles fondly. Shu's one of his favorite people.

[newmemorywhodis]

It's probably a little hard to tell what it does do, considering that it's all written in Hylian. He'll end up seeing a few different tabs in the Compendium, before ending up in a section that looks like a collection of notes and tasks - the kind someone would make for themselves.

Then he'll end up looking at what is clearly a map - except, not of any place Donnie would recognise.

[purplexing]

This is definitely not going to dissuade him from continuing to explore the tablet's contents as he can in the least. Each new thing that crops up, even without being able to read it, gets an 'oooh' and an excited 'ah!', and his eyes widen once the map comes up.

"Whoa... Is this where you're from?"

[newmemorywhodis]

It might not dissuade Donnie, but at this point Link is getting antsy - and he pulls the device back to him. Link still holds it at an angle, so that Donnie can see. But it's clear that Link wants to be in control.

He's willing to share - but only a little.

Then he nods. Yes, it is where he's from. "Hyrule," he says. Then taps on the screen - revealing another map. One that looks to be overlaid over the previous map. "Sky islands," Link adds. Then two more taps, and the map changes to one that looks like a purple-coloured cavernous space. "The Depths."

[purplexing]

The turtlekin looks a bit indignant when the device is pulled away from him. "Heeey," he not quite whines, folding his arms with a pout. How's a genius supposed to thrive when the new shiny toys are taken away?!

Begrudgingly he looks on as Link shows the map, and then more maps to go over the first, indicating where specific places are. Oh, that's handy.

"Ah, where those flowers and fungi you gave me are from."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods. Yes, this is where the Puffshrooms and the Muddlebuds grow.

He taps away then - revealing another, third section, which looks to be an image gallery. There's plenty of landscapes, lots of selfies - with an alarming number of them being taken in front of various dangerous looking creatures - and right at the end, several photos of a young Hylian woman with blonde hair braided across her crown.

Link opens none of these images. Instead, he scrolls further back - until he finds an old picture of a dark, mysterious underground landscape.

[purplexing]

That is...a lot of images. Donnie tries to make out what he can of the thumbnails, squinting at the sheer number. It's hard to do so when Link's scrolling through them all, and just as the turtlekin tries lifting his hand to point at the young woman, Link pulls up a completely different picture.

"What...is this place?" he asks, blinking. "...is that blood?" It looks a bit foreboding, whatever the location is.

[newmemorywhodis]

"The Depths," Link says. Donnie's not wrong to find the place foreboding - there was always a eerie, unsettling feeling to the Depths.

But at least the mysterious red substance isn't quite what Donnie fears.

"It's Gloom," Link says. "Like Malice. It saps life."

[purplexing]

"Oogh... That does not look like a friendly place," he has to note. His expression twists with a concerned uncertainty. "Yeaaaah, not sure that that's any better." Probably worse, actually. Blood's gross and unsanitary but it doesn't do that.

"Where is it coming from? It looks...liquid? That doesn't sound natural though, no matter how you spin it."

[newmemorywhodis]

Link nods in agreement - the Gloom most certainly was not natural.

"The Gloom is a dark force," Link says. "Ganondorf summoned it."

[purplexing]

"Not a good guy, I take it," Donnie guesses. "Did it look like something else before?"

[newmemorywhodis]

Link shakes his head. No, Ganondorf was most definitely not a good guy.

But as for Donnie's question, Link wasn't entirely sure what Donnie was referring to - the Gloom, Ganondorf, or the Depths?

"...The Depths?" He asks first, starting with what seems to be the most likely option.

[purplexing]

"Yeah, the Depths," Donnie confirms with a nod. He's not even sure what a Ganondorf is supposed to look like anyway.

[newmemorywhodis]

Ah. It was that likely option.

"Don't know what it was like before," he says. "Depths only opened up with the Upheaval. But the Gloom's gone now."

With the destruction of the Demon Dragon, all of the Gloom had disappeared like dust.

[purplexing]

"That's probably a good thing at least. So... a little less foreboding with the lack of questionably red substances spreading along the ground."

Donnie has no idea where Upheavals and Ganondorfs figure into everything, but it clearly says that Link's been through a lot back in his world. As if his magical bag's contents don't already hint that.