Test 1.

[azumods]

VALOR Your arrival at Lake Valor is met with no fanfare at all, nor are there any obstructions; it seems that Team Galactic has moved on from here, the area devoid of activity and strangely-dressed people for the time being. The area is also largely devoid of water. There's some, in the area that presumably was the lake once; however, it can hardly be called a proper lake now. There's a massive crater in the middle of the clearing that that now-unobstructed path through the woods takes you to; it's refilled some since whatever incident caused it, but the water is only about knee-high at the deepest and generally incapable of impeding you much if you should choose to wade into it. Whatever you choose to do, there's a massive, raised area in the middle of what's left of the lake, a rock formation of some sort; it's capable of being scaled with reasonably little difficulty. An opening is visible in the rock face, large and gaping, leading inwards and downwards into a cavern system of some sort. Your exploration starts now; time to see if there really is nothing worth reporting in the area.

Comments

[heritrix]

Something trying to scare them off... [Rin's breath hitches slightly, as a thought occurs to her.] Affecting their willpower.

It could be this Lake's Guardian. If their powers can be used to drain the will of this world's creatures, it makes sense that before it was captured, it might have used something similar to protect itself from threats. Like Team Galactic.

[hyruglyphics]

As a defensive mechanism...? Yes, that would make sense, or perhaps simply that its own distress permeates out from it.

[ Like a reverse (ish) Malice? ]

[heritrix]

[Rin nods.] That's a sad possibility, but I can't refute it. We know it's been mistreated for a long time.

[hyruglyphics]

And it has been without veneration for some time as well. The ancient spirits and gods of Hyrule, at least, can wane in power without people being attentive to them.

[ Her statement is mostly like "is it like that for anyone else???" ]

[niceoppai]

Wait, gods have needs, too?

[hyruglyphics]

Oh, naturally! [ . . . ] Well, more prime gods, perhaps not, but spirits such as the great fairies of course do.

[heritrix]

It's less point for point, but the power of Heroic Spirits is dependent on that as well. It's why many are at their strongest when summoned in the land of their origin, and the weakest are figures the world barely remembers.

[hyruglyphics]

[ She nods ]

Then it may be something similar in this case. ... Perhaps we should have brought more money too, actually...

[semistableman]

Kind of a shame we didn't find a library; it would probably have books on the customs of this country.

[hyruglyphics]

Honestly! I want so much for us to find one.

[ HUUUf ]

[eudaimonikos]

Too bad only one city in the whole country has one.

[Still salty!]

[hyruglyphics]

It must be a very splendid one indeed.

[ HU FF ]

[eudaimonikos]

It better be.

[eudaimonikos]

What does a god need with money?

[hyruglyphics]

I... Cannot answer, but the great fairies use rupees to empower their springs of power?

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael mutters something that might include the word "scam."]

[heritrix]

Booze isn't cheap.

[eudaimonikos]

I wish you could buy booze around here...

[semistableman]

A tithe, maybe?

[This is a joke.]

[takestheblame]

It's not uncommon to give money to gods where I'm from. I think it goes towards the maintenance of their shrines.

[...well this lake sure needs a lot of maintenance]