It started off fine. I was exploring the shore of Lake Hylia, discovered a raft, and even though I lost my Korok leaf a while, I learned that if you have a good enough tool, you can Magnesis it against the mast to push the raft forward. That's neat, but too much work to do the amount of exploring I wanted to do. So instead of traversing the lake, I went to finish exploring the area around the Lake Tower.
Much of this area I saw when originally trying to get to the Tower, so I've already discussed it. But in case you don't remember, it's basically a mountain with a lot of winding paths that all eventually lead to the Tower. All the paths are guarded by Bokoblins and Lizalfos in various numbers, and they're the only thing going on in this area, so "exploring" is basically just going around and killing all of them.
Along the way, I did manage to get several chests and a new kind of weapon, the Spiked Moblin Club, which is currently my post powerful at 45, or around there. I also learned that you can bomb trees without burning them, which lets you get all the items from them unscathed. And I saw a Bokoblin kick my bomb away before I could detonate it! The AI continues to impress.
Fighting all these monsters was tough, and I died just SO many times, you guys. Especially when I got to a part of the mountain I hadn't been to before. There was a clearing with two structures. Really, the remains of two structures that had been burned down by these weird-ass bearded guys in long white robes running around on the air. Once they started teleporting, I realized these scary-looking creepoids are this game's version of Wizzrobes.
Wizzrobes are generally bad news in any game, but these were shooting fire, and more importantly, if you get too close to them, they start raining fire down on you, to the point that it raises the local temperature and you can die from heat exhaustion even without being hit by a fireball. What I found works - with these particular Wizzrobes, at least - is to hit them with an arrow to knock them to the ground and then hit them with an ice arrow. That made them disappear in a puff of snow, and they left behind their wand, which turns out to be a Fire Rod.
The Fire Rod is a beast. And like a beast, it can't be tamed. It shoots balls of fire that bounce, igniting everything they touch. That means you too if you're not careful. Creating a flame-covered battlefield has its uses, but it can also be deadly. I thought it'd be a good way to take out all of the Bokoblins that were also hanging around this area, but it most certainly was not. I did, however, see a Bokoblin accidentally kill itself by picking up a flaming spear, accidentally light some grass on fire, and then get caught up in the blaze.
After all this sneaking and bombing and dying and arching and dying and sailing and flaming and dying, I finally - FINALLY - kill the last enemy on this Farore-saken rock. It was an Octorok. And do you know what happened after that?
A fucking Blood Moon.
Fuck you, Blood Moon. (That's assonance, and the Blood Moon is asinine.)
Everything I did was washed away, just like that. Sure, I still have the treasures and the weapons I found, but any more exploration I do in this area will have to involve killing these things again. So I was done for the night.
One last thing to mention is that I did discover there's a shrine in the middle of the lake. So I may do that tomorrow, or I may go back to the woods, or I may go see what's on the other side of those burned out structures. Perhaps all three!
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