Today was kind of a day of failing at life, so when I came home from work, I expected the same from my continuation of attempting to beat Ocarina of Time/Quest One.
I was sort of right.
"When we last left our hero, he (she) had attempted to beat Dodongo's Cavern, but had not yet been victorious." Luckily, the tricks for slaying King Dodongo were as fresh in my mind as they could be. I destroyed that giant fire lizard with hardly a mark on me.
Darunia rewarded me with the Goron's Ruby, and then one of the Great Fairies gave me Din's Fire, which will probably be pretty useful down the line.
From there, things. went. really. slowly.
I couldn't remember for the life of me what to do next.
I decided to check out Lon Lon Ranch, since I hadn't visited yet. Got Epona's Song. I kind of figured this was not where I needed to go next... so I left.
Then Navi suggested I talk to Saria, since Saria, of course, knows everything I'm up to and what I should do next. This, in the past, implied that I should go back to Kokiri Forest. So I went back to the Forest, and made my way through the Lost Woods. Having to re-enter twice after picking the wrong log to walk through, I eventually made it to the Sacred Forest Meadow (a.k.a. Saria's "Secret Place"). I found that girl-next-door, and she doesn't tell me anything. No-thing. I started leaving, and then Navi bugged me again to talk to Saria. Then I played Saria's Song. Saria tells me to go to get the third Spiritual Stone from the Zoras, down at Zora's Domain. She couldn't have told me that while I was standing right next to her and after I had ran through the pain-in-the-ass Lost Woods? Fine. I guess I'll just call you on my ocarina when I want to talk to you since you just got all awkward face-to-face. Then, I went to get the last spiritual stone from the Zoras.
I made it to Zora's Domain. I even met King Zora himself. However, he seemed as if he didn't even notice I was there. He just said something about the princess going missing. I tried everything to get his attention. Nothing. I wandered around the Domain. Nothing. Some guy asked if I wanted to play a diving game. Like I have time?!? Kept wandering around. Left. Came back. Left. Visited Lake Hylia (It's quite pretty this time of year). Noticed something on the bottom that I couldn't quite reach. Wandered around. Came back. Tried talking to the King again. Thought about offering him a fish. Then I realized that he kind of is a fish. This time I decided to take that diving game guy up on his offer since I obviously didn't know what to do. He took my rupees and threw them off the cliff. "Go get them and you will get a prize." Oh, really? Like a biscuit? Okay, fine. I dove the most beautiful swan dive, and then collected the rupees in the 20-something seconds. Went back up to get my prize.
Turns out it was a pretty cool (and completely necessary) prize: a Silver Scale. It let me dive more deeply. It also turns out the Zoras have a shortcut between their Domain and Lake Hylia. I snuck back, and got that thing in the water. Letter from Princess Ruto. Great, now the King will pay attention to me and I can just get that third Spiritual Stone. I show it to him, and he implores me to go get Princess Ruto out from Jabu-Jabu's belly. Fuck. What? [Side note: Jabu-Jabu is the furthest I have ever gotten in the game. I've watched some people get further, but that's it.]
Speeding up the story:
-- Got through Jabu-Jabu's belly by beating a merry-go-round of jellyfish death.
-- Got the third Spiritual Stone: Zora's Sapphire (by getting engaged to Ruto).
-- Went to the castle to meet up with Zelda
-- Watched Zelda & Impa get chased out of Hyrule by none other than GANONDORF
-- Zelda tossed the Ocarina of Time (!) in the moat before He-Who-I-Call-GANONDORF could see
-- GANONDORF made fun of me because I tried to be the hero that everyone's been telling me I am
-- I picked up that new Ocarina, listened to Zelda talk to me (apparently ocarinas were used instead of phones back then), then headed to the Temple of Time
-- A lot of crazy shit happened, and I woke up seven (7!) years later. With the worst hangover ever. And then this dude with an amazing mustache tells me that GANONDORF has taken over as an evil king and has the Triforce. Dude. Can I at least get some coffee here? Isn't now the time to give up? No, I guess not. He talks me into saving the world now that I'm all grown up.
-- I get a hint from somewhere that I should head to Kakariko Village. So I do.
-- Someone tells me that Impa's in the graveyard dealing with some ghosts...
That's when I decided I should stop. This was a good place to decide that today was not a complete waste. Afterall, I completed my original goal (spiritual stones) and then some (dealing with that fucking Jabu-Jabu's belly), and then some more (7 years later...).
Later.
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