Errands Here and There

The first thing Link realizes is that adults run errands.  More than children do.  What do I mean?  You'll soon see.  Our first stop is the new Lon Lon Ranch, which is now under Ingo's management.  That was a bad idea...I think I might need to contact the corporation about that decision and raze them!  What drunk human resources manager put him in charge?  Seriously, this guy just irritates you (his eyebrows and his evil eyes) and the things he says makes you just want to slice through him with the Master Sword, even if you are good-aligned.

Regardless, it is easy to dupe this loser, and after a bit of coaxing and he bets Epona on a race (after all, he doesn't want Ganondorf to know that he lost a race to you...why you, I don't know...after all, does Ganondorf really know who we are yet, though he does a little, does Ingo know about that relationship?  I doubt it).  This meltdown causes him to lose the horse.  Awwe.  And while he "honorably" gives us the horse, he then informs us that we are trapped in the ranch.  Um...horses jump fences, moron.  So we're on our way to our errands.

The first thing I do when becoming Adult Link is get the Biggoron Sword out of the way.  This weapon is entirely optional, however it is so useful for defeating bosses that I can never pass it up and since the entire quest can be completed immediately upon getting Epona, why not, right?

This quest is just like the Happy Mask one, in which you gather various items and trade them for new ones to find the next one in the succession until you finally have the Sword.  This one is different in that you are often timed, and you have to help others out often with the items you are trading back and forth.  Well, that seems to be the theme of saving Hyrule is saving people often involves running errands for them that they're too lazy to do themselves.  Either way, this side quest is a lot of fun and adds a new dimension to the game which we must complete.  While not difficult, the labors involved add more playtime to the game.  Yay!

All our errands out of the way, oh yeah, Rauru told us we needed to awaken the sages...then let's go do that, right?  Sheik, a mysterious figure, told us that we would find the first one as someone we knew (ironically, all the sages are persons we met in childhood.)  So here we go!