No, I'm not talking about the caption contest thread on OtakuBoards; my youth group has had a caption contest going for a while now, and the winners (one for each of the two pictures) were announced tonight. The prize for submitting a winning caption was a $15 gift certificate good at any of the shops in the local mall, and I guess my caption for the first picture was good enough to win. So now I've got an extra $15 to spend in GameStop, heh.I'm thinking that I'm going to wait until I get the money for that PS2 (my brother really needs to hurry up and pay me) and then put it towards getting a PS2 game. (Possibly Final Fantasy X?) I figure I should be able to get an older game for around $20-$30, so $15 will take a good chunk out of that.
In The Wind Waker, I acquired and deciphered two more Triforce Charts today, as well as getting the Ghost Ship Chart. (Which will allow me to get another Triforce Chart whenever I get around to tracking down the Ghost Ship). I also got two more figurines: the Moblin figurine and the Wizzrobe figurine. And again, I took a picture of a Darknut thinking it was a Mighty Darknut (it was even red this time!), yet Carlov wouldn't take it, saying he had already made a figurine of the same thing.
Going through the Savage Labyrinth on Outset Island (to get one of the Triforce Charts and a Piece of Heart) was fun. Now, for anyone that doesn't know, the Savage Labyrinth is 50 -- I'm pretty sure it's 50 -- rooms of enemies with breaks every ten rooms. None of the enemies drop anything when you kill them, so you the only life you get back while inside the dungeon is either from a couple hearts in the "break rooms" or from potions/fairies that you've brought with you. Getting through this place is one of the hardest parts of the game, though you're only required to go through the first 30 fights to get the Triforce Chart.
The first three levels, corresponding with the first three dungeons, I breezed through without ever taking more than one and a quarter hearts worth of damage on each. (Which I got back in the break rooms afterwards). Then the Earth Temple level was just a pain in the butt; Stalfos are, and will forever be, my most hated enemy in The Wind Waker simply because there are times when you just can't avoid taking the hits when you encounter them in groups. This is where I took the majority of the damage over the last two levels. But then when I got to the Wind Temple level, I just kicked so much ass. A room with three Darknuts and two Wizzrobes? No problem -- I did it without taking damage, heh.
In the end, I could've completed the whole thing without ever using any potions, but I was in a hurry to finish it up and go help with dinner, so I ended up using one helping of my Elixer Soup during that last fight (which was against five Darknuts all at once) to let me do double damage until I got hit again. And by the time I did get hit again, they were almost dead, and I had had enough life left before using the Elixer Soup that taking the hit wouldn't have mattered. Heck, I could've taken three hits and still have survived; I had about six hearts left when I used the Elixer Soup.
