Dear Readers,
I wasn't able to do the missions for this one, so I just equipped my new Ditto and Zygarde 10% in order to finish the puzzle quickly. I beat the puzzle in like 20 seconds with all the awesome reveal moves. I had a lot of power in this one. Still chasing after that rare Pokémon and I have to run through this to get to it.
Dear Readers,
I levelled up to 9 in daily training! Also, this time I definitely got the 8 Picrites in my pay packet! Woo! Let's keep that level increase going as much as possible! I need that income!
Dear Readers,
I thought I had levelled up to 8 but apparently not? Today's training I had to level up to 8 again for some reason. I have no idea why. Anyway, I did for definite this time, so I will get an increase in my Picrite pay packet.
Dear Readers,
I finally got the target time in the daily training! I'm level 8 now. It was stupid hard trying to meet that time and I didn't beat it by much. Anyway, I'm just glad that I have now and I can earn a bit more in my Picrite pay packet.
After this I had enough to unlock area 8, so I did that.
Dear Readers,
I'm not getting anywhere in the daily grind, earning the same 7 Picrites all the time. I came very close though. In fact, it was the closest yet, finishing the grind with just a few seconds over the target time.
Dear Readers,
I put on my Bokoblin mask and went riding southwest of the Rito Stable.
I came across a Bokoblin camp and I got on well with them there until one of them set themselves on fire and blamed it on me. I made myself scarce after that.
I explored some hills with Spotty, passed by a sleeping Hinox and went through a pass that took me to the edge of the world. It was just a sheer cliff that looked over a big chasm with some big cliffs beyond.
I saw the warblers area, which is gonna be a shrine thing later on when the Rito aren't threatened anymore.
Speaking of Vah Medoh, it was a constant looming menacing noisy shadow. It hovered around all the time. I often looked up at it and thought about exploring it all later.
Before all that, I still have to gather stuff, cook some stuff and sell it so I can earn enough money for warm clothes.
The blood moon happened, which made the woodcutter axes respawn, so I went chopping wood again.
I did fairly well, earning well above 3,000 rupees. I still have a bit to go.
Dear Readers,
I brought Pancham and Chatot to Buizel's stage. I was getting bored of doing Pikachu's stage.
It took a decent amount of time and I got to use the two hyper scan moves. Thinking maybe I should search for the perfect stage. Not just energy wise, but also just a stage that's very easy and quick to do.
Dear Readers,
One of Jirachi's missions was to have two fire Pokémon in your team. I didn't have any that I could use in the puzzle itself as it was too big, but I could equip them anyway to complete the mission.
However, this made the puzzle take me a lot longer to beat. An hour and a half in fact. I was not going to get that 6 minute mission this time.
Dear Readers,
I haven't got much to do except grind for medals. I'm focusing on the hyper scan one so I took on Pikachu, the puzzle with the least amount of fills and did it over and over until I ran out of energy.
I used Chatot, who also has the hyper scan move, but it gets tired. Pancham is tireless.
I then used the Zygardes, whose square reveals are very much overkill for this puzzle. I made sure to use hyper scan as much as I could. This grind will continue.
Dear Readers,
I set Celebi and Zygarde Complete Forme and went into the Jirachi puzzle. I used the two square reveals in the centre with the aim of working from the inside out. I got on really well, but I did have to use all my freeze times. In any case, I had no trouble and got the mission completed.
Dear Readers,
I set Mew and Pancham to get the time mission for Vaporeon and stopped time from passing much. I'm also grinding for the hyper scan medal which was why I had Pancham along. I got the time mission done and got the reward for it.
Dear Readers,
I finished the daily grind quicker than usual but still over by about half a minute. This time I didn't take time putting X-es everywhere. It kind of helped. Anyway, another 7 Picrites for me.
Dear Readers,
I didn't get the time record again today. In other news, I almost missed out on this as it was close to midnight and I hadn't played it all day. I'll have another chance in a few minutes. In any case, I'll get another 7. Woohoo!
Dear Readers,
There's a couple having their honeymoon at Rito Village. It didn't turn out as expected at all and they weren't having a good time. I sold the husband some flint and the wife some baked apples and they became much happier, giving me lots of rupees.
This helps a lot. I'm still saving for the warm equipment. I'm even using the Master Sword to cut grass so I can obtain materials to sell.
At one point I decided to climb the very tall pillar near Rito Stable. At the top was a chest with a bow in it that the Rito seem to like. It has very low power but it has good speed. Hopefully that'll help me when I get up to Vah Medoh someday.
Dear Readers,
I headed back to Rito Village and headed to the armour shop. This equipment is perfect for the cold but it costs a lot of money for a full set. It's well over 2,000 Rupees.
I have most of it but I decided to do stuff to earn money. I looked around the general area, around the village and around the stable. There are tools like the iron sledgehammer and two woodcutter axes lying around. There are many trees and patches of grass to cut. I found some ore deposits and mined for materials that I could sell.
I also used the Master Sword to cut the grass, finding frogs and bits of wheat.
I chopped lots of trees, gathering many pieces of wood.
I gathered other bits and pieces and sold them to Beedle and the shopkeepers in Rito Village. I have a bit to go yet to obtain enough funds, but I'll get there.
Dear Readers,
After chatting with Teba at the flight range I headed back towards Rito Village. Along the way I came across some horses in the snowy area, so I decided to tame one and ride it all the way back to Rito Stable.
It wasn't difficult to tame. I just fed it apples and soothed it while riding. It eventually warmed up to me. Like Spotty, it has spots, but darker patches. I named it Snowbus, since I found it in the snowy area.
Dear Readers,
Teba is the name of the Rito who was determined to take down Vah Medoh. The villagers told me he tried before and failed and his friend even got hurt. He was still determined though, so he was at the flight range all the time to practise his skills.
I was told that I could glide there from a certain spot, so I decided to try it out. Sure enough It got me to the general area easily, but the instant I got there, I got cold.
I warmed up with the warming concoctions I had on hand and put on my Bokoblin mask before hiking through the snow, past some Bokoblins on horseback.
When I got to the flight range, Teba was there. He wasn't too pleased to see me, but he treated me fairly. I was glad to see a cooking pot here and I made more warming concoctions.
The flight range has an updraft so there's no stamina involved in gliding and I can shoot my arrows at targets all I want without that worry of running out of stamina. It was pretty nice and I was able to impress him easily.
We chatted about going up to take on Vah Medoh together. He agreed to it but cautioned me about being properly equipped. He gave me some bomb arrows, which seems to be the thing needed here. I decided not to go for now as I wanted to get some warm clothes first. I'll come back to him when I get them.
Dear Readers,
I took on this shrine in Rito Village. Before me was laid out a big grid like structure of fans blowing on windmills. I had to turn the fans so that all the windmills could get a chance to spin. I had to think it out at the vantage point of the entrance, as if it were a puzzle on paper. I was able to figure out which mills absolutely needed a certain fan while other fans could power other windmills. I was able to do it handily enough.
Before the puzzle though, there were three treasure chests hidden behind the entrance. I was able to obtain them through doing another windmill thing as well as cryonis to cross the water. I got a Rito spear and added it to the compendium as well.
Dear Readers,
After surviving the guardians and doing that last shrine, I rode all the way to Rito stable with Spotty. We continued across the bridge to the village. Spotty could only go so far and I had to continue on foot.
The moment I got off Spotty, I heard this loud bird-like shriek in the sky. This huge bird-shaped machine in the sky was flying around. The Rito called it Vah Medoh.
Is Vah Medo named after Mido of the Kokiri? It's hard to know. The village had a very similar theme to Dragon Roost Island, home of the Rito in Wind Waker. It's easy to start wondering where they're all connected!
The Rito were friendly. I was worried they weren't, but they were. However, they had Vah Medo on their mind. They told me Vah Medo suddenly showed up and started zapping at anything that got too close. They didn't like living in fear and having to only fly at a safe distance.
I chatted with many of them, including the elder. I met a Hylian couple, but that's another story. There was a shrine here too I hadn't activated yet. I'll do that soon.
There are Rito here that want to take on Vah Medo. I'm finding as much information as I can about them. It seems I have to meet them at the flight range, which is the next major thing to do.
I even got a flashback from looking at the landing of the legendary Rito, Revali. He was the champion I met 100 years ago. I remembered him showing off his ability to create an updraft for himself that enabled him to fly to Vah Medo and gloating about how I wasn't able to do it. His spirit is probably up there now.
The Rito village was lovely, very treehouse like and built around isolated rocks and cliffs at a great height. It's very much a place you'd expect birds to live.
Dear Readers,
Zalta Wa Shrine was puzzle oriented, which suited me at the moment, because I was after fighting a lot of guardians outside.
All I had to do was shoot one orb with an arrow, throw another orb into its chamber and use the trampolining platform to help me reach an activated platform. I grabbed the treasure along the way too.
Short and sweet enough.
Dear Readers,
I decided to visit the Rito area and take on the divine beast there. The other places I couldn't really visit without medicine to cool down so I decided on this one next. Besides, I didn't meet many Rito but I met plenty of Gorons and Gerudo so far.
The way I wanted to take there was across the northern part of Hyrule Field, because I wanted to get practice in fighting Guardians. I got some practice and I made many costly mistakes, but they seem manageable enough. Before this my strategy was mostly about avoiding them. I lost a lot of swords and shields as I went through them. I must've fought about four or five of them?
I enjoyed chopping their legs off and stunning them with arrows. Deflecting their beams seems to be the best way, but it's a tricky thing to do right. Also, for some reason, the Master Sword always lights up when I'm around them.
In any case, I'm glad to have more experience. I continued riding until I got to that shrine I saved for later.
Dear Readers,
This puzzle was handy enough and fairly straightforward to figure out. The pattern I ended up with kind of looked like a cartoon lightning bolt, especially when lined up with the tile above it. Lookin' good.
Dear Readers,
I took on Bidoof's one minute mission with Mew equipped. I also had Klefki for any auto fix x parts I needed to take care of. Just like the other one with Celebi, I finished the puzzle in one second thanks to the freeze time moves.
I got to unlock a mural tile, which was nice too.
Dear Readers,
The training was very slow today. Much slower than usual. After a while I didn't even feel like racing anymore and just saw it through to the end for my 7 Picrites. It took me well over 3 minutes.
Dear Readers,
With three entire columns of 0 fills, I thought this was going to be another easy one, but it wasn't. It was fine, but it was very tightly clued, filling in lots at first but then filling one here and there, chipping away like a sculptor. It ended in a very satisfying way and felt like a good puzzle.
This tile had a line going down the left side before turning in a diagonal. It joins with the tile underneath, continuing that diagonal line along with a branching line of its own.
