I'm not an artist: Five items from Majora’s Mask owned by the world’s second tourist.

Five items from Majora’s Mask owned by the world’s second tourist.

Pictobox: Link is given the pictobox so that he can participate in the Swamp Tourist Center’s photography contest. The pictobox can only hold one monochromatic, or full color in the 3D remake, photograph at a time. This means Link must choose what he submits to the contest specifically. Based on the content of Link’s submission, he can earn anything from five rupees all the way to a piece of heart.

Having been a page on the ship that the first tourist took home, the world’s second tourist was inspired by the vivid images captured by the first tourist’s camera. Ever generous, the first tourist gave the page their pictobox, seeing in them the same spark for adventure that took them to the very ends of the world. The young page had a gift for photography, and their first collection of photographs, entitled Frozen Waters: Life at sea, catapulted them to stardom and earned enough money to pay for a tour around the world.

Lens of Truth: This item works exactly like the one Link gets in his adventures during Ocarina of Time. This lens of truth is located in an isolated shrine near the Goron village that is only accessible by jumping onto platforms that are invisible during the long winter. Talk about a few leaps of faith. The helpful owl Keapora Geabora shows Link where these invisible steps are by dusting them in feathers. Link must use this vision item to get off the spire by the same invisible platforms he used to get there in the first place. An excellent bit of player training.

During their first, and to this point only, fortune-telling, the second tourist’s oracle had a sudden heart attack and came to their untimely death. Having no other experience with fortune tellers, the tourist assumed the convulsions were a normal part of the experience. After waiting for longer than was comfortable, the tourist took the crystal ball from the oracle’s death grip, assuming that was what one does.

Hookshot: Link’s trusty hookshot makes an appearance in Majora’s Mask. While there is some variation in how the hookshot is usually portrayed, its appearance in Majora’s Mask is entirely unique. It doesn’t even really look like a hookshot at a quick glance. To earn the odd-looking hookshot, Link must infiltrate a Pirate Fortress and sneak by its guards as he hopes to rescue Zora eggs from the thieving outlaws.

The second tourist accidentally took an incriminating photo of an honor-bound lord during the cherry blossom festival. The lord sent their most skilled assassin, Night-Eyes, to destroy the photo and the photographer. The incredibly observant tourist spotted the ninja before they could strike, they were so eager to document a real live ninja, they snapped a quick picture. The flash briefly dazed the ninja, and in their confusion they from the ship the tourist was departing on, staining their honor and reputation.

Great Fairy Sword: Under the malign influence of Majora’s Mask, Skull Kid has shattered the great fairies of Termina into smaller helpless fairies. If Link can gather all the stray fairies in the Stone Tower Temple, he is rewarded with this greatsword, the most powerful sword in Majora’s Mask.

My drawing is based on the stalk of a bromeliad. Check that out and get inspiration for rainforest fairies wielding magical flower daggers they can simply pluck out of the nearest bush.

In their tireless search for ever more impressive vistas to capture on film, the second tourist visited truly exotic locations. One such excursion took the second tourist into the lands beyond the rose thorn wall where fickle fey sovereigns rule their petty fiefdoms. The earnest tourist was such a welcome change from the conniving two-faced fey nobles that one ruler became enamored and showered them with gifts including an ever full bottle of perfume and a flower worn in the lapel that can grow into a sword when the secret command word was spoken.

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I’m on vacation again so no links this week. Since I can’t subtlety Link to my references, I will just tell you that the first tourist is Rincewind from Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic. You should note the very British up floating in that colour. Check out the book and the mini-series, or I guess just the mini-series if you don’t love reading fantasy.

Please use my work personally however you see fit, but do not profit from my efforts without my consent.

Go out in the world and be excellent to everyone.

-Ceph

Edit: Fixed some typos and added links.