[center][h1][color=00aeef]Hyrule[/color] [color=darkgreen]Warriors[/color][/h1][/center] [center]Word Count: 1351 [/center] [center][color=00aeef][b]Level 5[/b] [/color] - (28/50) + 3[/center] [center][color=darkgreen]Level 9 [/color] - (17/90) + 3[/center] [hr][hr] [h2][center][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/center][/h2] [center]Location: The Edge of Blue ~ Luma Pools[/center] [@Potemking] [hr] Link surfaced to find Ms. Fortune staring down at him from the lakeside, evidently worried over having lost sight of him. He felt a little bad for that, but he couldn't help but think his prizes were at least worth a little worry. Especially after he got them up in the sunlight. He admitted it, he had gotten a little greedy. The four gemstones glittered in the afternoon sunlight, green and blue casting glints over the water's surface. Blue was a good sign. Blue could be Topaz, which was an extremely valuable gem. Ms. Fortune just so happened to agree, setting their value in the thousands. He didn't know if she was serious about that, but it wasn't like he had ever seen this kind of gemstone before. "You think so?" He asked as the woman extended her arm, literally, to him to help him out of the lake. "Give me two seconds." He said, storing the gemstones and dropping below the water again. He pointed the slate at the outcropping and snapped a clear photo of it. Like he suspected, the slate registered it as an ore deposit and as he set the compendious to track them it started letting out slow, sharp, intermittent pings. If nothing else that could help them avoid the things going forward. "Sorry." He said, popping out again and taking her hand. The beeping got slower and slower as he got further from the outcropping, outright stopping as he stepped up onto land again. With the support of Ms. Fortune and the way he was now anticipating his own stumblyness he managed to do a little better this time. He took a few heavy steps, just putting one foot in front of the other, before realizing that the heaviness of his feet had nothing to do with fatigue or the new spirit floating around in him and everything to do with those new shoes he still had on. That took a second to fix, swapping out the boots for the purple shorts he had gotten earlier. He liked to try on the new outfits he got even if they didn't provide any benefits besides being loose and comfortable. Walking still took focus and concentration he likely hadn't had to use since he was first learning to walk, but unlike Rika and Bella he had been doing this for most of his life. He could do this. He would not fall on his face. He would, however, continue to walk like a drunk baby. He had overheard what Geralt and the Cadet had been discussing onboard Shippy, so as the man strode confidently across the sand to set up their fire only one thing came to Link's mind. "Why did you get to keep your land legs?" He asked. [hr] Geralt and the Cadet made quick work in setting up and lighting their fire, certainly more careful about it than Links method of putting a pile of wood on the ground and hitting a flint with his sword. They set it up bokoblin style, with a spit over the top of the fire. As they did, Link started laying out the fish on some of the spare rock the Cadet had brought over, the things just popping into his hands one after the other waiting for the skewers. Each one was odd, like no sea creature he had ever seen before in Hyrule, and it made him seriously consider Ms. Fortune's offer to taste test. Giant eyeballs, holes in the middle of them, weird fins. The most normal fish of the bunch has been a vicious little blight that had come right at him and required a bop of the head before he could catch it. "Not a bad idea." He said, snapping a photo of each fish as he laid it out. "If it doesn't agree with you just open up and pull it out." He joked, picking up and examining the fish that looked like a boomerang. Curiously he drew back his arm and gave it a throw. It spun through the air, as aerodynamic as he thought it would be, before it suddenly losing altitude and splashing into the lake. “It didn’t come back…” He said, disappointed, before getting back to work. [hr] The rest of the party returned bearing a bountiful bevy of fruit. His mouth started watering just imagining the size of the thing the girls must have taken their haul from, even if he wasn’t familiar with the color, scent, or texture of what they had brought back. As Ms. Fortune suggested roasting the pineapple Link dragged himself over to the yellow stuff and pulled out his broken sword to carve a mouthful of the stuff. He ate the portion right off the blade and was instantly smitten. “This is kinda like an apple. A tangy apple.” He said after swallowing. “I can work with this stuff. Hold on.” He said, dragging himself back toward the lake like a lizard. Climbing the earth like he would a mountain was faster than walking. He returned with his freshly cleaned Abyssal helmet, which he flipped upside down and placed on the fire. By that time the new guy had also returned dragging the second biggest pile of bananas he had ever seen. Bananas. His eyes narrowed as he looked at them. He hated bananas. Well, no, he could enjoy a good banana. He could live off nothing but bananas. Bananas made you strong. He hated what he associated with bananas. “You didn’t see any weirdos when you were picking those, did you?” He asked, scanning the foliage around them before going back and carving a few more chunks out of the fruit. He tossed the parts he’d cut into the helmet to simmer. “Nobody suspicious?” Nevertheless, he did ask for bananas to add to what he was doing while also setting a few around the fire to roast alongside some of the pineapple slices. In just a few fiery moments, between the rounds of roasted fish, they also had [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/c/ce/BotW_Simmered_Fruit_Icon.png]Simmared Fruit[/url], roasted pineapple slices, and rich syrupy [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/6/67/BotW_Roasted_Mighty_Bananas_Icon.png]Roasted Bananas[/url] to go with the mysterious roasted fish skewers. At Ms. Fortune's blessing he eagerly dug into one of the [url=https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/subnautica/images/e/e4/Cooked_Holefish.png] hole fish[/url]. "Feel's a little like eating chu jelly." He said. "Unfortunately I've never found a way to combine fruit and fish into anything but a disaster. I should have bought butter back in town." [hr][hr] [center][h2][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h2][/center] [center][h3][color=red]Merge Rate: 30%[/color][/h3][/center] [center]Location: The Frozen Highlands - Snowdin ~ Morshu's Shop [/center] [hr][hr] Linkle collected the Lamp Oil, wrapping it up almost immediately and tying the top in a big bow as she heard the shopkeep rummaging about in the back room. She really hoped she wasn't off track with this, but she had never met a fire that didn't get excited to have oil splashed in it. She almost bounced up and down when he came back with the green notes. "Yeah, that's exactly what I needed. Thank you so much." She said, taking them and enthusiastically handing over the rupees. He had even given her three of them, it was a total steal. She stored all her purchases in he sack. "When my friends get here, they'll probably set up an easier way to get around the world. I'll be sure to point people your way." Except she got waylaid by the Lizalfo resting next to the door. She had heard the two merchants conversation when she had been browsing the shop, but she hadn't seen the other voice. He wasn't the first lizard she had seen in town, but unlike the one from the library this one was packed for travel. Besides, what would be the point of selling weapons to the town shop when you could just open your own? "Hi." She said as she approached. "Are you a traveling merchant?" She had met people like that on her journey, wandering Goron's that bought weapons and made potions out of the monsters bits she had collected along the way. "If so where from? And, can I look over what you have?"