#rereading and catching up with everything again was a wild ride hahaha

[shubaka]

Continuation of that long, ridiculous kimchay idol resort au thing.

Part 1 is this way Part 2 is over here (last addition Oct 23, 2024)

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@subtextsays @mightyyoiko

Chay shimmies around the trunk of the coconut tree and does his best to keep his body out of the direct line of sight from the beach.

The armed men gather around the tangled mess of parachutes that Chay and the others had left on the beach when they first arrived. He watches as the men split up into three pairs. One pair starts walking along the shoreline, no doubt tasked with checking and securing the perimeter of the island. One pair heads further inland in the direction of the abandoned resort. The final pair return to the speedboat to keep watch. And the last figure, the man who had been shouting orders, begins walking.

Towards Chay.

Chay quietly starts cutting at the stem of a particularly hefty coconut. Just in case.

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Kim feels his phone vibrate and loses a smidge of the tension in his shoulders as he reads Arm's latest text.

Khun Nu located. Coordinates attached. Extraction in process. Chan to report within 24hrs or back up will be deployed.

There's not much Kim can do about his brother and Chay, but there is something that he can do.

He stalks out to the beach where the huddle of penguins idols-to-be and surveys their work. Tawan has been lowered feet first into a long narrow hole (he's impressed with their ability to dig so deep so quickly). Two boys have him propped up by the armpits as the others carefully fill in the hole with wet sand.

In a pleasing turn of events, he notices that Tawan is facing the slowly setting sun. As soon as the jerk is packed into the sand up to his neck, Kim positions himself between Tawan and the sun before slapping the man awake.

Tawan blinks up at Kim's foreboding figure. The face, cast in shadow and twisted in a sickeningly sweet sneer. The bright glow of the sun behind him. The row of idols caging them in from the sides. "Fuck," thinks Tawan.

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Gun calls Vegas in for a quick meeting. Vegas learns that Tankhun went missing during a flight back from the idol resort, but word around the compound is that they've pinpointed his location to a smaller nearby island.

They have a few men inside the rescue team.

It would be such a shame if Korn's eldest son never makes it home.

Wouldn't it be an even bigger shame if the other two brothers never make it home from the other island too?

Vegas knows it's not a rhetorical question.

[theriu]

(More!) Impressions of “Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild”

(Previous impressions can be found HERE)

UPDATE: So apparently it is always raining in the Zora domain until you beat the giant metal elephant and so it was never, ever going to stop raining so I could climb the side of the bridge and shortcut into the kingdom, so I literally wasted an hour sitting on a cliffside and ranting at the rain for nothing. At least I got some cleaning done. Rain is still annoying but I’m less mad at it now.

I love having so much money but it does make me feel less enthused when I do an adventure side quest collecting dragonflies across the country and all I get is a “measly” 100 rupees. WEALTH CHANGES YOU

Dude who even needs heart containers when you can cook a bunch of durian and turnips and you SUDDENLY HAVE LIKE 20 HEARTS HAHAHA COME AT ME NOW YOU BIG FREAKIN’ MONSTER CENTAUR

On the negative side you better have like seven of those dishes ‘cause the giant monster centaur will take like 13 hearts in one go if you mistime your dodge jump.

WHY. IS. IT. SO HARD. TO GET. BACK. UP. BEFORE. THE GUARDIAN. BLASTS YOU AGAIN THISISSOUNFAIR!!!

The helpful hints they give during the loading screens are actually VERY helpful sometimes! I honestly did not know until like the third tower that you can sprint. Or that horses follow roads automatically. Or, just now, as I was rereading a list of them online to remember examples, that bokoblins will run if menaced by bees. Does this mean I can throw a beehive at them??? I must test this…

Did you know that if you fly up high and then fall and then try to shoot your bow you will SLOW-MO ACTION AIM LIKE A TIME-PAUSING SUPERHERO? Well you would have learned eventually because that’s how you beat the elephant but regardless, IT IS FREAKIN’ COOL

YOU. CAN. RIDE. THE BEARS.

YOU CAN ALSO RIDE THE DEER!!!!!!!

Best way to solve a puzzle ever: decide you want to see if you can ride the deer. Catch and ride a deer. Walk up to the accordion bird who tells you a riddle. Realize that the answer to the riddle is literally “ride a deer” because you are currently sitting on a deer caught in this very field and the answer is literally under your nose. You still have to go out and catch the boy deer because you’re riding the girl deer but even so. ACCIDENTAL BRILLIANCE

Unlimited bombs solve everything. Don’t want to be pounded by a Hinox? Bomb it. Find a skull-cave full of bokoblins? Climb up the back side and shoot bombs through the nose socket until they are decimated. Need fish and don’t want to chase them? Bomb them and they will float the surface. BOMBS ARE GREAT

Also if you switch rapidly back and forth between the square bomb and the round bomb you can bomb twice as fast!!!

Just don’t bomb yourself. You will feel Really Dumb every time.

It’s great how Beedle the traveling salesman is at every stable you pass, and when you initially go to each stable manually, it even seems realistic that you’d “just run into him again!” The facade starts to break down a little when you, like me, stock up on arrows by jumping from stable to stable, and Beedle is ALWAYS THERE even when you JUST SAW HIM TEN SECONDS AGO. Beedle: Actually a teleporter???

Going to the Great Fairy Fountain is like walking into a tailor shop only to find that the tailor is a gigantic burlesque dancer who wants to breath on all your clothes. In short: it is kinda awkward (although to be fair not NEARLY as awkward as those… ladies… from Ocarina of Time. *shudder*)

I seem to be creating a personal trend of trying to get into major areas through the backdoor only to find that it is impossible. I mean, I was gonna have to explore back here anyway, but dangit, I wanted to get to the Korok Forest sooner…

Awww, what do you mean I can’t bring my horse to Goron City? *sees lava* *heat rises* *clothes burst into actual flames* Ah, yes. I see.

HOT HOT HOT HOT WHY AM I STOPPING TO FIGHT THIS MAGMA ROCK MONSTER HOT HOT HOT WHAT DO YOU MEAN EATING A MEAL CANCELLED ONE OF MY FIREPROOF POTIONS HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!!!