#splorin……

[medusolo]

clammy ganon will become a fixture to my vocabulary now. excellent

[flickering-nightfall]

How long do you think they would last if a pink lizard walked in here? 10 seconds? 20, maybe,

[amygdalae]

My options in my elden ring playthru rn are 1. Fire giant 2. Mohg or 3. Ordina, liturgical town (getting sniped by albinaurics and one-shot by invisible assassins)

[naturepunks]

treasonous activities

[skoulsons]

minor totk spoilers

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so. I just think it’s so funny that like… six years ago (and even up until totk was released), people were goofing off in the Faron region and elsewhere of botw and being like “whoa look at these statues and hints at an ancient civilization” and then theories every five minutes about the zonai and who they were and what they were and their whole deal and all that good stuff. and everyone was like “man I hope the sequel does something about this bc it’d be pretty cool to have this all in canon”

and not even two minutes into gameplay and Zelda is like “ZONAI ZONAI ZONAI LOOK AT ALL THIS ZONAI STUFF LINK DID YOU KNOW THE ZONAI ARE A THING AND THAT THEY MINGLED WITH THE HYLIANS TO CREATE HYRULE AND THEY LIVED IN THE SKY AND HAD POWERS”

not to also mention- hearing Zelda say “Demon King” had me doing somersaults around my room. Ganondorf my king how I’ve missed you

I guess we got what we asked for 😭

[tiabwwtws-art]

Madame Odile save me. Madame Odile. Save me Madame Odile

[tortoise-teapot]

it will probably change but here are my predictions that i'd be willing to bet money on

[grovesnail]

officially hit the 150 hour mark in botw. Havent gotten to any divine beasts yet.

[waloeders]

waiter waiter!! a silly promo for jupiter please!!! waiter!

(quick dni: no prosh1p etc + no minors ty 🙏)

[inquis1tor]

im really trying to like the witcher 3, i just got to skellige but i like. lose interest so quick

[syn4k]

also the shenanigans level in headspace has gone up a noticeable amount since the mianitians showed up. much to think about

[thiefking]

~280 hrs of gameplay

finally about to fight clammy ganon

[blackjackkent]

Szarr palace exploration!

The chamberlain (who I assume is Vilhelm?) has a suite of rooms on the upper floor, an office and a bedroom. The first thing we see in the office is an "Elegant Robe" which feels like it should definitely be SOMEONE'S camp outfit - I'm taking votes on who:

Also in the office is a desk with some documents:

Hm. I'm assuming the vampire spawn level is the area downstairs, and the ballroom door is the "Sinister Door" we saw before, so we need to search downstairs to find out how to get in. Easy peasy. I'm so good at this detective stuff.

In the bedroom, we find a book called "The Quarta Sune" on the bedside table, which is a sex manual. We also find out that Vilhelm is NOT the chamberlain:

Interesting. Investigating him shows him as a vampire, so it's not clear if the fact that he is dead here is meant to be undead instead, but he sure seems to be dead-dead. His body is giving off a weird fog that is not explained in his detail notes, and neither he nor his casket are carrying anything.

Hector's perception pings the man's diary under the bed:

Aha. This guy meant to fake his death so he couldn't be forced to take Astarion's place. Don't think it worked out for him; I suspect he accidentally drank the lookalike one, though, because there was a full vial of feign death potion in his office desk with the documents.

Whoops.

This seems to be the only stuff of interest here, so let's check out the spawn quarters downstairs.

Intriguing. The weird magical energy is labeled as "Sinister Seal" and inspecting it gives no information about what it does. Trying to open it causes a condition called "Vitality Drain" that causes 8-28 damage per turn.

Wait, dead girl?

Oh. Huh. [thinks]

The condition on the girl's body is a curse, which leads me to believe Hector should be able to just run in and use a scroll of remove curse on her and we'll be able to look around. Right?

\o/ Success.

Ugh. >.< Can't wait to smack Cazador right in his stupid face. Let's see if we can figure out what happened to her.

She's carrying a note:

Hm. Is "Father" Cazador?

The answer to the puzzle is in a desk nearby:

It seems Leon was NOT bluffing. Yeesh. (Also he must be who "Father" is in the note.)

The book he referenced in the note is in a closet, and I'm wondering if it might be related to the book that the note in the chamberlain's study mentioned, as Leon said she would need it to move freely around the place.

Hector the history nerd is trying SO hard not to get distracted by geeking out about this.

I'm assuming somewhere else we'll find the book that instructs how to use these words to properly open the Ballroom, and we need both in order to proceed. So next we'll check out the other lower floor rooms.

[stickytm]

anyways on my old about i had peter at 23 but i definitely feel like i will writing him closer to thirty this time around

[soloavengers]

idk they look friendly to me

[codgod]

ocarina of time and majoras mask r really good! i have them both on ds and love them soooo muchhh but im fairly certain u can emulate them and loads of other zelda games on the switch if u have the right subscription... theres also a skyward sword remaster on there which was also REALLY good. I AM SO GLAD U LOVE BOTW BY THE WAY... ive bawled my eyes out over the story too many times to count esp the zora... mipha just makes me so sad. BUT IM REALLY EXCITED YOU LIKE IT

honestly if nothing else i figured out how to use emulators recently so i can probably just play them on my laptop lol

i think my little brother has the skyward sword remaster and he fucking hates it LOL i don’t remember if he has a physical copy or not but if he does maybe i’ll borrow it from him when i’ve finished botw 🤔 we tend to have different taste in/ways of playing games so maybe i’ll like it more than him