269 zelda breath of the wild - something nice for the hylian couple at rito village

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.

268 zelda breath of the wild - saving up for warm equipment from rito village

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.

267 zelda breath of the wild - taming snowbus

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.

266 zelda breath of the wild - going to see teba at the flight range

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.

265 zelda breath of the wild - fan logic grid puzzle at akh va'quot shrine

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.

101 pokémon picross - buizel time mission and auto fix x medal obtained

Dear Readers,

It was overkill, but I had nothing better to be doing, so I set Celebi and Jirachi as my Pokémon and went into Buizel's puzzle.

I froze time straight away so not a single second passed on the timer. Whenever it ran out I froze time again. I didn't let a single second go the entire time, completing the time mission.

I solved the little puzzle at my leisure and used up all of Jirachi's 25 auto fix x moves until I got the medal, rocking it like a Mario 10 coin block again.

Living life slowly, but living it well.

264 zelda breath of the wild - my first visit to rito village

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.