#tomorrow or thursday (day off) bc i do want to either get another chunk of my drafts or asks (or both) out

[bravevolunteer]

i DO think teenage michael should get picked up by the scruff by the way ( literally or metaphorically ) ( in the holding him back from being an idiot or adopting him way. or both. )

[glassandmetalwings]

Wings plays BotW, Day Twenty

Okay, I'm writing this from mobile in bed because it's after one in the morning and I don't want to get criticized for being on the computer still. But I played a little BotW on Wednesday, and a decent chunk on what is now yesterday, so here's as quick a rundown as I can give you.

Wednesday:

Didn't do much. This was while Dad was doing PT. But I stocked up on Durians as planned. I realized there's nothing stopping me from bombing the Durian trees. That helps when it's raining.

Looked over what I could upgrade thanks to all four Great Fairies. Decided to go get dragon horn shards to level up the Champion's Tunic. And...actually did pretty good. At one point I'm almost positive Dinraal spawned in the wrong place though.

Yeah that was about it.

Thursday:

As a point of reference, most of today's stuff had me looking things up. And that's okay. But don't think I figured most of this out by myself.

Started off my looking for the Leviathan bones in the Hebra Mountains. Never would have found that on my own. I also had to leave and return because I messed up and ran out of snowballs to hit the door with.

Got a second piece of Ancient Armor! I just need the middle piece now and then I'll feel more confident going in to Major Test of Strength shrines.

I did take on one Modest Test of Strength though! One that handed my butt to me a long time ago. It took awhile, and wasn't the most enjoyable thing, but I did it! Also the Guardian glitched near the end, ran away from me, then got stuck in a corner about a foot off the ground? I took pictures and video-I'll see if I can upload the latter tomorrow (I know there's a way to do it using Twitter but...connecting accounts isn't fun).

Leveling up some of the armor isn't going to be fun, I rediscovered. Because I went looking for Stealthfin Trout and they aren't easy places to go looking (Eldin and the Great Hyrule Forest). I think the ones in my bag must have come from either Octoroks or Hinox.

After that I decided to backtrack towards the beginning of the game to gather monster parts for other armor sets.

Did the 'just past the tutorial' part of the map always have Bokoblin camps with Silver Bokoblins in them or is that new? Either way I took two down.

Strolled thoughtlessly onto the same Talbus island twice in rapid succession. Not feeling that today.

Found the one memory I always assumed was /supposed/ to be the first you find (the one with Dueling Peaks in the background). After checking my album, I realized I only had four left to collect, so that was most of the evening.

On a different note, how did Link obtain the Master Sword 100 years ago? Was it in the Korok Forest and he had to prove he was worthy like this time? Was it in Hyrule Castle, awaiting the birth of the newest incarnation of its wielder? Bc he already has in the memories.

Back to the story, I managed to find the first of the four by myself- though it took like half an hour just figuring out where in Eldin I was supposed to stand. But I did take out several Moblins and Lizalfos on the way so that's good.

The second was the one in front of Hyrule Castle. I didn't die! And didn't need help finding it either.

Also finally realized that the blue sashes the Champions wear have their respective Divine Beasts on them. That's cool.

Third was the one at Hyrule Castle, which...not fun. I was able to (accurately!) pinpoint the location on the big map, but that doesn't help once it switches to the castle map.

Before doing that, I decided to got find the shrine Elliot told me I missed inside the castle. I assumed I'd just gone in the wrong entrance, but after having to wait out a thunderstorm on a block of ice and deal with two Guardians and finding nothing, I looked it up. And I absolutely did run right past it on my first trip. It's a Major Test of Strength (of course, so I didn't do it, but it's active now so I can get in the castle easier.

With the aid of a video I found the third memory. I also almost got zapped because there was ANOTHER thunderstorm and I was busy paying attention to the Guardians.

I really don't like the Hyrule Castle music because it constantly sounds like a Guardian has honed in on me. Honestly it happens on horseback too and I don't like that but at least on horseback there's never more than two or three so I don't worry as much.

In other news I can successfully one-shot a Guardian via Ancient Arrow about one out of every three times. That's an improvement.

I messed up on the last memory because I only looked at the name of the location, telling myself I would find it from there. Spent a very long time searching in the location of the final bonus memory that you can't find until after you collect the other 11. Go me.

Found it eventually. Very impressed with myself. Went to go tell Impa.

...Except I forgot about that one quest I hadn't activated yet: Stolen Heirloom. So instead I consoled Paya, then prepared to do that.

Despite having a guide right in front of me, I followed the wrong suspicions-looking person and, instead of finding the heirloom, found someone's grave. That was sad.

Second attempt went much better. I didn't get caught, either! And then the Yiga Clan member only got like one swipe in on me thanks to the Thunderblade. So it worked out well.

In other news there are lots of dead Sheikah. There's lots of dead everyone because of Calamity Ganon but especially Sheikah.

Also got the Windcarver I needed for a side quest. Two birds one stone.

Ended there because it was almost 1. But that's good progress. Tomorrow I should finish off the memory stuff, exchange some Spirit Orbs and Korok Seeds, and then...? Maybe something on that previous list but I'm open to ideas. But progress happened.