For You, Navi

There was one good thing about Navi from Ocarina of Time. No matter how annoying she got, and no matter how many times she pestered you… she helped you find your way across Hyrule, and fulfill your mission to save the land.

Our friend Aslan,  however… has not done the same.

Okay, okay. Yes. It may have been a bit of my own fault for-

uh…

constantly…

following…

the…

wind direction arrow…

thinking that’s where I was supposed to go…

-_-

But hey! It’s a been a few weeks! I’m more used to when you don’t have the Wind Waker, and that actually is true! And Aslan probably had many opportunities to tell me, “Uh, where the HECK are you going?”

But anyway… with doing that, I went on a slight side-adventure.

[About a Post for this Month (Delays)]

Due to having a decent amount of schoolwork and whatnot, it doesn’t look like I’m going to have this next post done by the end of this month (er, today… XD). It is in the works, however, and should be posted in the near future!

Also, I’m going to be starting a new blog project here soon with some friends of mine, where I’ll be one of the authors! So look forward to that as well!

Thanks for reading this blog, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what’s been posted so far!
Jared

Go Airbender

[Note: With making the blog publicly available for search engines to index, and adding tags to the last post, I’ve been notified of my first followers that aren’t people that I already know, and I didn’t show the blog to myself. Awesome! Glad some of you like what I write enough that you want to hear more!

However, I also noticed that all of the likes were in fact for solely the last post, “Get on the Dragon Wagon.” I feel it’s worth clarifying that The Zelda Email Blog is a series, and several running gags and such will be much better explained if one reads the earlier posts. That’s what this blog is meant for, anyway – you don’t have to, but I’m going to pretty much entirely assume in my writing from here on out that you’re reading this from the beginning to the end.

Also, I am aware that I only post about once every month… that’s because I do a bunch of other stuff, and writing these takes quite a bit of time. Sorry ‘bout that.

Anyway, thanks again!
Jared

On with the post!]

We continue on to our next destination.

The farther and farther we go, though, the worse things seem to look…

Game: “Turn back, kid.”

“No, we’re not kidding: turn BACK.”

“We are SERIOUS. Turn. Back. NOW. You are GOING. TO. DIE.”

“…Eh. This could be entertaining…”

Thankfully not hitting any of those tornados, we exit the storm to a view of the night sky.

Not after too long, Aslan catches sight of something that strikes his fancy.

The sun? …Gummy bears?!

Nope – instead, our next location.

Get on the Dragon Wagon

A place where there’s a dragon. That roosts.

This is Valoo. He is a dragon. That roosts.

Our next task is to get a certain jewel for some certain reason. From the dragon. That roosts.

The titular item! Acquired on an ancient island that the Rito people inhabit. Along with a dragon. That roosts.

Ah, Dragon Roost Island. After our little bout with irritating kids and possibly more irritating adults, we reach a place where there actually aren’t any humans to speak of. Instead, we have the Rito people, a winged species oft noted for their delivery services.

Before we can get up to talk to them though, and get that pearl, we have to clear some obstacles. And now, as much as they seemed so distant and far-off before, we now have access to…

(Wind) Falling on Deaf Ears

[Note: I knew that there were some people that hadn’t played Windwaker yet that were reading this blog, but now that I know there’s quite a few people in that boat, I kept it in mind as I wrote this post. It was in the back of my mind a bit during the last two posts, but here it’s really more of a focused effort to explain some story bits to people who haven’t seen them before.

With that said, I’m not very used to that, since everyone who read the first series had played the game before (excluding me, of course!), so… this post is massive. No seriously, MASSIVE.

From the next post and on, I’m going to try to make a concerted effort to make the individual posts shorter – mainly so I can get through the game in decent time and still enjoy writing these! Because for massive posts, it gets irritating by the end of production…

Anyway, enjoy!

Jared]

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*sigh*

All the kids all the kids these days, (x2)
Do you really wanna be that way? (x2)
Lemme say lemme say lemme say (x2)
Does it really have to be that way? (x2)
And you know and you know what’s good? (x2)
Like the kids in the neighborhood (x2)
Tell me what to say tell me what to say (x2)
Did you do your best today? (x2)

Oh, Sleigh Bells, you notoriously polarizing crazy awesome noise rockers. How relevant your song – heck, your whole album – is to our coming quest through Windfall Island…

You’re all alone, friend
Pick up the phone, then
Ring, ring, call them up
Tell them ‘bout the new trends

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We load up the game on the beach, next to Aslan.

Before doing anything else, however (like getting a sail… or Turkish Delight), I remembered being told in a conversation I was having with someone about this blog that although there are no Cuckoos in the game, hitting pigs has about the same effect…

“Dude, he’s totally lying to you. I’m an innocent little pig. Don’t you try to- don’t- hey!- HEY!- wha-“

Up Ship!

(And yes, for the very few of you who may have caught it, that title is in fact a Port Blue reference. One of my personal favorite “bands”!)

We pick up our adventure from our hero jumping aboard the pirate ship in order to save his little sister.

Our hero was about to call out “I’M ON A BOAT!!”… but then another overused meme got jealous, and he took an arrow to the knee.

Ugh.

(Note: “I’m on a boat” links to the Know Your Meme article. The song and video itself, of course, are quite NSFW…)

Anyway, it doesn’t take Tetra very long to start bossing people around.

Waking the Wind

(Apologies in advance for some of the pictures with “waves” in them – it was the result of the video splitter being hooked up funny, and I got it fixed after several pictures early on.)

Yes. It’s here. The second Zelda email series!

Except… it’s not quite an email series this time. As evidenced by the surrounding webpage, this series is going to be told through the use of a blog! It makes things a lot less frustrating than using email, is able to be edited afterwards (no more “NO, READ THIS ONE!” stuff!), and can be found on any computer with internet access by typing in thezeldaemailblog.wordpress.com into the URL bar.

Also, I now have a capture card, so all of these pictures are generally going to look a whole lot nicer than in the last series!

(If you never read the first series, reading this About page would probably be helpful.)

So let’s get started!