Alrighty, to the Swamp we go. But before we can get there, we are met by a scene when we come across a drawing on a tree. 2b+03.jpg
Tatl remembers her and her brother playing with the lonely pre-mask Skull Kid. They played together, comforted each other in the rain, and helped the Skull Kid find some friends. Honestly a very sad moment, and it makes me almost cry. You can almost pity the Skull Kid.
Anyways, off we go. On the path to the Southern Swamp there is a tree with vines guarded by bats. It has a heart piece in it. We collect said heart piece. Then we get the fun times of shooting Tingle down, watching him fall from great heights, and buying a map from him. After this, we finally arrive at the swamp.
It's not the most exciting music. The Deku Palace music, as Health pointed out, is great. I'll include that stuff here in a little bit.
The Southern Swamp has poisoned waters at certain places. A lot of places are also closed off by water monster thingys, so we can't get to them quite yet. There are lily pads all throughout the water to all ow Deku Link to hop about.
The firts thing we do is hop on some of those lily pads to the left until we reach a dock like area. That area leads to the place shown in the second non-map picture, with the weird red building. That is Kotake's Potion Shop. Past there, we enter the woods area, where we are greeted by a monkey. The Monkey instructs us to follow him. Because we are never one to turn down monkeys in distress, we follow him.
Then we have this annoying thing of follow the monkey's path exactly while being attacked by turtles that I'm convinced are saying "Get bent." On top of that, the monkey decides to fake us out on numerous occasions, pretending to go one way, only to turn around and go another. What the heck, Monkey?! I thought you wanted our help?
Once we reach the end of the maze, we find the old witch Koume (previously a boss from Ocarina of Time) who is laying helplessly on the ground.
She asks for our help, but sadly, we have nothing for her right now. So we exit the forest and head back to the potion shop. In there, we apparently let Kotake know that her sister is dying because the Skull Kid played some trick on her. She freaks out and gives us a red potion to heal her, as well as our very first Bottle! Yay!
So we do the stupid maze again (No, YOU get bent) and head back to the old hag and give her the potion. She thanks us and flies off, telling us to pay a visit to the travel agency near the entrance.
So we do just that and head over to the building in the pic after the map pic. The inside looks like this:
Super exciting. We talk to that big hairy gentleman at the counter and he tells us about the photography contest. (Fun fact, he is actually Tingle the map guys dad). Sadly, we don't have a camera. But never fear, for we are about to get one!
We go speak to Koume (a nose poking out of that black square in the above pic) and she gives us a free camera and a free boat ride for saving her. So let's head on out!
The good thing is that the boat impales and kills the monsters blocking our way. Eventually we reach a dock point and are asked if we want to disembark. Yes, yes we do.
The water around here is poisoned, so make sure you don't take Link swimming!
When we walk up to the Deku Palace, we are greeted by these two Deku fellows, who let me know that normally I wouldn't be allowed in, but today is a special occasion because they are about to burn a monkey alive.
They tell me I can enter but I MUST go straight ahead, and nowhere else.
So naturally I go to the left and evade the guards in order to steal the heart piece. THEN I go to the King's Chamber.
The King's Chamber has a giant fire in the middle, a few Deku's around, the King, and a cage with a monkey tied to a pole. The first thing to do is snap a picture of the King for the photography contest.
The monkey, however, claims he didn't steal the Princess and that she needs help.
So we exit the King's chamber and we are greeted by Monkeys again. Monkeys tell us we need to rescue other monkey by finding bean salesman and... well the rest doesn't really matter.
So I head to the left and go through another maze of guards while avoiding being caught in order to fall in to a hole in the ground where the bean salesman sells his beans. Sharky helpfully points out that this is a really bad place to do business.
So we get a free bean thingy and use our bottle to catch some of the conveniently placed spring water over by the exit and head on out. At this point, we can go ahead and get caught and get thrown out. Also, no matter how many times you get caught, they'll always let you back in.
So we get kicked out, and now we need to head to the right and hop over some lily pads to get to this weird corner that allows you to plant the bean. It sprouts very quickly. Then we pour water on to it (unless it is the second day and raining) and then the bean grows very quickly in to a disc like thing that we can ride to the top of the palace. Yep.
So then we have more flower hoping and bullet dodging and guard avoiding to do. When we do so, we get to an opening, which leads to the monkey in his cage. He refuses to speak to us as a Deku, so we switch to human Link and he asks us to chop him down. We fail miserably, so he wonders what else we can do. It somehow leads to me having to make noise (despite the King and everyone else being RIGHT THERE) and then he tells me my Ocarina isn't loud enough. So its BACK TO DEKU and time to pull out the Deku Pipes.
And then he teaches us the Sonata of Awakening, which will let us get to the dungeon, Woodfall, and rescue the Princess. Link falls down under the weight of his Deku Pipes at some point.
We play the song and, sure enough, everyone is staring at us, because we are RIGHT THERE. So the guards rush in and Link falls again, and we get kicked out. So it is time to head for Woodfall.
This involves once again going to the right and jumping up on the platform. Then you do some climbing and some flying on giant mushroom flower... things, and some gigantic scary dragonfly slaying.
Eventually we reach a stone pillar and our friend the Owl, who teaches us the Song of Soaring, which is very useful, because it slows us to teleport anywhere we have activated an owl statue! It is a real time saver.
Just a little ways left to go. The next exit leads us to Woodfall. I'll show the map and everything next time, but from flying using the flowers and hoping on the Lily pads, I am able to obtain another heart piece! There's also an owl statue to activate. We will return to Woodfall next time!
But for now, we use our new Song of Soaring to head back to the Southern Swamp Tourist Center and hand in our picture of the Deku King. The man is very impressed and we get another piece of heart!
Now we can head back and deposit our rupees, and return to the first day!
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