1st Dive

[shortpants_knight]

[Cambot focuses in on a pointy-eared young man who clearly seems lost. Judging by the way he's looking around, he probably came from a situation where being off guard could get him hurt or worse. He can be heard grumbling under his breath a little bit, but he doesn't say anything clearly enough to be understood.

He hasn't noticed Cambot yet. Although the fact that Cambot is staying out of his line of sight doesn't help matters, but this gives anyone watching a good opportunity to make some observations, such as how he looks like he might be a warrior, if that ring mail is any indication.

Nope, he's not going to notice Cambot until it needs to let him know someone's talking to him through the network.]

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[solmidna]

Link?

[He doesn't look quite like her Link, but that is absolutely Link. Maybe she won't be alone here any longer.]

[shortpants_knight]

[Cambot finally moves into the young man's field of vision, startling him at first. On instinct, he reaches back to draw his sword, only to remember it's gone. However, when the robot cowers at the sudden aggression, he realizes it isn't a threat.

After a little confusion, he figures out its purpose and gets the message that's intended for him. He's mildly puzzled at an unfamiliar female voice saying his name and more puzzled still to see the source of the voice. Some sort of imp? But she doesn't seem dangerous in anyway and he has met stranger individuals.]

That's my name, but I don't believe we've met.

[solmidna]

[Midna sags a bit. It figures. Of course it's someone else. How the hell many Links are there, anyway?]

I'm Midna. I know someone who looks a lot like you.

[Well, she may as well play exposition fairy.]

You're on something called the Satellite of Love. No one knows how we've ended up here, really, but two mad scientists are keeping us trapped here. They send us bad novels and make us read them to try to drive us crazy, but mostly it's just annoying. So far no one has figured out how to get home.

[shortpants_knight]

[Link doesn't miss her disappointment, but he's not quite sure what to say. He does feel kind of bad about it, though.

He's never heard the term 'satellite' before, but of greater concern is that it sounds like this satellite is being used as some variation of a prison.]

They want to drive people crazy? That's... a little weird.

[solmidna]

They're not exactly sane themselves, from what I can tell.

[Midna crosses her arms.]

Unfortunately, they've got us trapped.

[shortpants_knight]

I wouldn't exactly expect sanity from a couple of guys trying to drive people insane with bad fiction.

[And he thinks for a moment.]

There's no way out of here at all?

[solmidna]

[Midna shakes her head.]

You can ask around, but no one's found a way. We're up in space, so if you go outside unprotected, you die.

[shortpants_knight]

[Well that's... disconcerting. Link sighs.]

Is there anything else I should know about?

[solmidna]

Most of the people here are nice and willing to help each other out. And you might run into people that you know, or who look like you, because whatever brings people here seems to take people from the future and the past.

[Okay, that was confusing, but there's no good way to explain.]

[shortpants_knight]

[He's not a stranger to freaky time stuff, courtesy of the Timeshift Stones in Lanayru. The idea that this strange place can pull people from different points in time is odd, though.

Although thinking of that reminds him that he's supposed to be in Lanayru right now and he sighs again.]

This would happen when I'm in the middle of something important...

[solmidna]

It seems like it happened that way to a bunch of us. I'm sorry.

[Midna sighs. Maybe they'll be able to help each other out, but really this is just reminding her of her Link.]

[shortpants_knight]

Why are you apologizing? It isn't your fault.

[He's starting to want to do what he can to help her somehow. Even if it's just figuring out a way off this satellite...]

[solmidna]

I can still be sorry for the situation.

[Midna is kind of embarrassed. she shouldn't get silly just because he's not her Link.]

[game_over_pal]

[TALKING BIRD STARIN' RIGHT AT YOU]

Y'look kinda lost, pal.

[shortpants_knight]

[He's seen talking seahorse/jellyfish creatures, talking kiwi/potato creatures talking rock men and all manner of other odd creatures. A talking bird is relatively tame next to all that.]

Yeah, I kind of am...

[game_over_pal]

[gorons are hardcore]

Well, you're stuck in space on a satellite now.

Welcome aboard, I guess.

[shortpants_knight]

Uh, thanks, I guess.

[ocarinahero]

[What. Even?

Yeah, this Link has no other reaction than that right now]

[shortpants_knight]

[And this Link is wondering why such a young boy is wearing something resembling his year's uniform for the Knight Academy. He's also maybe mildly comforted that he's not the only human here. Still, for the moment, he'll just stare back.]

[ocarinahero]

[Meanwhile, Link is wondering why someone so old is dressed like a Kokiri |D]

Who're you?

[shortpants_knight]

[This Link also wonders why a kid is stuck here alone.]

My name's Link. What's yours?

[ocarinahero]

[There's a long, somewhat apprehensive pause]

...It's Link.

So awkward...

[shortpants_knight]

[Well, things just keep getting more interesting. It's true that the name could just be coincidence. It's also possible that time thing mentioned by someone else might have something to do with this. Somehow, he's certain the boy is from the same world, but he's not sure what makes him so certain. For now, it just seems better to roll with it.]

Well, it's nice you meet you.

.

[ocarinahero]

[Another somewhat apprehensive pause]

Do you know someone named Midna?

[shortpants_knight]

I just met her here. Apparently, I remind of her of someone else... named Link.

[Which is awkward, to say the least. He knows it's not uncommon for two or more people to have the same name, but he hadn't thought his name was that popular. Then again, he also knows something of how odd time travel can be...]

[ocarinahero]

[He opens his mouth to say something, but then thinks of what little he knows about this third Link]

Princess Zelda. Hyrule. Gannondorf. The Master Sword.

Does any of that mean anything to you?

[shortpants_knight]

[Yeah, there's only one name he recognizes there, but...]

Princess Zelda? Her father's an important person back home, but they're not royalty.

[ocarinahero]

The Zelda I know is royalty, so it the one Midna knows.

[shortpants_knight]

Huh... That's strange.

[This is starting to give him a headache. Still, there's got to be some way to figure this out. Maybe...?]

Do you know of a place called Skyloft?

[ocarinahero]

Never heard of it.

[shortpants_knight]

Okay... have you heard anything at all about an island in the sky?

[solmidna]

I've been to sky islands, but no humans lived there when we went.

[And Link doesn't look like an Oocoo at all. Thankfully.]

[shortpants_knight]

[Now that's just bizarre. Any islands Link knows of that don't have people on them are really too small to be liveable anyway.]

No humans? Was something else living there?

[solmidna]

The Oocca are like...cuccos with human heads. They lived in ruins on the islands. Hylians and Gorons and Twili and so on all live on the ground.

[Is your brain broken yet? Though Oocca seem to be nice people overall, and good about being used as air transport.]

[shortpants_knight]

[He feels a little dumb having to ask this, but what else can he do when he's never heard of either creature? Admittedly, some of the books in the library at the academy hold images of creatures whose names are in a language long forgotten and are spoken of as either mythical or extinct.]

This might be a stupid question, but what is a Cucco?

[solmidna]

It's a bird that's about twenty inches tall.

[Hopefully 'bird' will be enough to communicate things.]

[shortpants_knight]

[Twenty inches tall... He hadn't seen any birds that size or smaller until he'd finally visited the surface.]

So they're a relatively small birds. And these Oocca are Cucco sized birds with human heads?

[He's trying to wrap his brain around this mental image and kind of failing. But he sort of gets the point. These creatures live on the sky island Midna knows of and not humans. Either there's another large, liveable landmass in the sky that he doesn't know about or there's a very large gap between his time and hers. Both options are quite likely.]

[solmidna]

More or less. They can talk and seem about as smart as other races.

[That doesn't really speak well for other races, but then, this is the place that always needs a Link to save it.]

[shortpants_knight]

Really? Are they friendly?

[ocarinahero]

No, I haven't/

[sylvan_child]

[And Saria looks just as confused.]

He looks like you, Link.

[ocarinahero]

Yeah, I noticed.

[sailorlaughter]

[The Welcome Brigade is not sure what to make of this! Pinkie squints at the maybe-new guy] Liiiiiink? Did you get taller?

[shortpants_knight]

[And there's another unfamiliar female voice calling his name. What is going on here?

Of course, he's really not expecting a small, bright pink creature of a type he's never seen before to be the one speaking this time. Well, not that he'd never seen such a creature. It was more correct to say he'd never seen such a creature in person. Pictures in old books about the time before Skyloft was raised into the sky are another matter, even if that era was generally considered to be myth until very recently. But that was all beside the point.]

That is my name, but I'm pretty sure we haven't met before...

[sailorlaughter]

Oh! So you're like Ven and Roxas, only you both have the same name and one of you's taller, which means you're NOT Link which means you must be NEW!

[She disappears, only to reappear in front of him a few seconds later with a cupcake and a "fwee!" of confetti.]

WELCOME TO THE SATELLITE, BIG LINK!

[shortpants_knight]

[Yeah, he has some adjusting to do.]

Uh... thank you.

[He's met the other Link already and can only assume he'll meet the other two who have been mentioned. In the meantime, he'll try to go with the flow. Sometimes it's the only thing you can do.]

I don't believe I've gotten your name.

[sailorlaughter]

Oh! [She giggles, a little embarrassed]. Silly me! I'm Pinkie Pie! It's great to meet you, Big Link!

[shortpants_knight]

[He smiles, surprisingly. The situation is certainly a little weird, but he's in the same situation as everyone else and it would certainly be a good thing if they can get along and help each other out.]

It's nice to meet you.

[He'd say something about the 'Big Link' thing, but he's already met the other Link and it's not terribly uncommon when you have an adult and a child in the same place with the same name to use 'big' and 'little' to refer to them. So he'll leave it be.]