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"Bye chat! Have a great night!"

Eric shuts down his stream and closes out for the day. He gets to bed and goes to sleep. Like any other normal day. 

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He first started to notice that he wasn't aware of who he was. He then took a look around him. A dark cavern, a lake underneath him. Where and who is he?

Eric. 

Huh? Was that his name?

Eric, you must save me. I am stuck in Hyrule Castle. You are a human, and you do not belong in this world. 

Human? Okay, he did not know what human really was, but otherwise he could guess what it was. 

To remember and to return, you must save and free those who are waiting. Save me Eric.

Eric looks around the room he was in. There was a glowing slate near his right, and felt a sort of pull towards it like he should touch it. 

That is a Sheikah Slate. You shall use it to save this land. 

Eric takes the slate and holds up against the pillar. The slate glows and the door opens to the next room. 

There is 2 chests and each has an item of clothing. Eric puts them on, and walks out the newly opened door. Eric climbs up the path, and sees the sun once again. 

Eric, this is the land you will be protecting. Defeat Ganon and save me. Find your memories and get back to your world. I am Princess Zelda and you are the hero to save this land.

Eric had to save this land. This is just what he needs to remember. 

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Abby checks up on Eric to get him up for his next stream. "Eric, wake up. C'mon, you need to start stream soon. Eric?"

Abby shakes him, he doesn't wake. She checks his temperature as he's boiling hot and shaking. "Oh my God, Eric wake up!"

Abby panics as she calls 911. "H-hello? Yeah, um my friend here, he's really sick, he's not waking up and his temperature is really really high. His exact? Hold on, let me get it. ... Yeah, oh my God, its 102.4°, okay, I'll try to get him up.

"Yeah, what do I do if he doesn't? Okay, I'll just try and keep him cool, yeah thanl you, please come soon. Thank you."

Abby ends the call, and tries again to wake up Eric. No luck in trying. She isn't able to wake him as he starts to shift. Still doesn't wake up. 

The ambulance comes and bring Crow to the hospital. 

"He seems to be in some sort of coma, but there is not real diagnosis. I'm so sorry we can't do more, but this is all up to him."

"No thank you doctor."

What was Abby going to do?

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Pointcrow. Thats his new nickname. He saw a crow outside the structure and pointed at it. He was bored okay? He didn't know what to do now that he was an appointed hero. 

Just so we were clear, he just wants to remember. Who was he? Where was he? Who was Zelda? He knows 2 of the 3 answers but still doesn't know who he is.

He just has to find out.

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Eric walks out of the shrine, and looks outside. 'Wow, amazing. I can't believe this is real. Just what do I do?' 

Pointcrow sees a stick on the ground and picks it up. He then sees an apple and picks it up as well. There was a worn out path leading to a small dented cave. There was a dead bonfire and a axe nearby. 

Crow looks around for anyone nearby and finds no one. Eric takes the axe and puts it in his inventory. He continues down the path, finding more apples and mushrooms. They look edible, so he guesses that they are safe to eat. 

Eric's ears pick up some rustling from behind him. As he turned around, he got jumped by a, a creature? It was black with a club.

Eric saw the club, "Hey man. Could I have that?" 

The Bokoblin looks at Pointcrow in confusion, then charges at him. "Ah! God dammit man, at least I asked!"

Pointcrow dodged, hitting the creature with his stick. "Die you horrible monster!" He wackes the creature with the stick once more. "Why won't you die!" He hits once again.

He stabs the monster with his stick as it snapped, leaving Eric with the remains of the Bokoblin. He picks up the horn, and fang, as well as his club he worked so hardly for. 

"Damn, he broke my stick." Eric huffed. 

He continues on his path. He stumbles upon another campfire, but this one lit. There is an old man near the fire, sitting on a log. "Hey!"

Pointcrow turns toward the person with confusion. "Who, me?"

"Do you see anyone here?"

"Um, no? I, uh, what do you need sir?"

"How are you young man?"

"Um, im good. I just woke up, I have no memories, but I'm doing okay for now. How are you?"

"What do you mean you have no memories? Have you not recall where we are?"

"No, I uh..." Eric trails off. 'Dammit, if I tell him that I had a voice in my head, he'll for sure think I'm crazy.' 

"No, I know where we are, but I don't know who I am. All I know is that I don't really belong here. Apparently I'm not supposed to even be here but, I guess I just break the rules."

"Hm, interesting. Well, here I thought life couldn't get any better, but we've got a traveler here! On the Great Platue! Hm? Whats that?" The old man looks curiously at the Sheika slate. 

"Oh thats a Sheika slate. All I know is that it opens doors."

"Oho, boy. This handy device does much more than just open doors. It can also open shrines and activate towers. You may also get runes that active powers that you may use in your journey. The way you get these runes is by opening shrines, using your Sheika slate. 

"You see that map on your slate? That is revealed by activating towers. When you activate one, you receive a portion of a map on your slate. The monsters you encountered are called Bokoblins. They are fierce monsters that will stop at nothing to destroy you." The old man warns.

"Well, thanks for the warning, but I could've used that information a bit earlier. But thanks for that. But what else do I do?" Pointcrow asks.

"Find the 4 shrines. Bomb, Magnisis, Cryonis, and Stasis. Collect the shrines, and gather the runes. But first, find the tower. Then you may talk with me once again." The old man walks away, leaving Eric stunned at his coldness.

"Wow, what an asshat."

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Eric walks away from the old man's camp, towards a large rock. "Hm, this looks sus. What do I think is this?" Eric rounds the rock, seeing a faint glow come from inside the rock.

When the rubble came to a clear, and the rock was split in half, there was a stand similar to the one where he got his Sheikah slate from. Eric was curious on what it could mean, so he put his Sheikah slate on top of the stand.

Eric felt a rumble come from the ground, as he hopped off the rock. The rock lifted to a larger size as it grew into the sky. The tower then stopped, as it had reached its limit.

"Wow, I don't remember this type of thing in my world. Although I don't remember anything either."

He hears a distant rumble from far away as he can faintly see the glow from the other towers, far away.

As Pointcrow walks up to the tower, he takes a good look at it. It glows a bright orange, and has platforms all around it leading like a staircase. 

Eric grips the bars of the tower, to proceed in climbing it. He manages making it to the top while stopping frequently to regain his stamina. 

As Pointcrow walks to the stand he saw before, he holds the Sheikah slate up.

The Sheikah slate glowed once again as the map feature turns on. The tower had somehow activated the map, making the surrounding area visible to him.    

The tower turned blue once the map was received. 

"Ho-hoh!" A distant voice calls from above.

"Ugh, not the Old man again." Pointcrow sighs.

The old man glides to the tower, as he calls down to Eric. "So you've found the tower, eh?"

"Yeah, I have. And what did you do?" Eric says sarcastically.

"Oh me? I've been doing some yard work, chopping some trees. But anyway, enough about me. You found the tower? You see the map you have now? You will find shrines around this part of the map. There are the four shrines you needed to go to, as well, you can see one from here! Oh, you can actually see 3 of the four from just up here alone. 

"Zoom in with your camera to place a pin down. That way when you look at your map, you can see where you put your pin, and get to the place you're going. There you go, you're a natural!"

"Okay? What was that thing you used to get up here?" Pointcrow asks.

"This is the paraglider. It helps you fall from greater heights without taking damage. Just as long as you have enough stamina, then you should be fine. Now then, if thats all, then I must be on my way. Have a safe trip going down!" The old man glides down with the paraglider, making his way back to a camp site.

"Ugh, telling me what to do, I'm not that much of a baby. Don't need to tell me to be careful, I can get down just fine-" Eric slips on the way down and hits the ground a bit too hard, making him loose all his hearts. 

"Yow, that hurt. Huh? Why am I back here..." Pointcrow trails off, thinking. "Oh wait, I just respawn? Must have just had this as my respawn point."

Eric is definitely more careful this time around going down the tower. 

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As Eric heads down the tower, carefully, this time, he sees a glowing orange shrine up ahead. "Huh, wonder what that could be?"

But before he reaches the shrine, he stumbles across a few Bokoblins. "Oh gosh, 3 of them? How am I going to take care of that?!"

As Eric backs away from the Bokoblins, one starts to creep up towards him. Pointcrow sees this as he starts to wave his club around to try and hit any Bokoblins in his way.

Once he manages to kill 2 of the 3, he takes it upon himself to notice that the third one had a shield. What a great addition to his ever growing need of protection!

As he winds up breaking one of the clubs, he switches to the next club he can find in his inventory. 

Weird right? His inventory is like a storage system that can carry everything, all up to 999x, yet he can't feel any of its weight. And once it is in his inventory, he can't see it at all. The only limited space he has is with bows, arrows, swords, shields, and runes. Its complete magic.

As he finishes off the Bokoblin, Pointcrow makes his way through the body of water, and onto the shrine. The stand glows orange as it waits for the slate to touch it. 

As Eric opens the shrine, the pad transports him to the inside of the shrine. There is another stand on the inside, and as he steps towards it, he puts the able on the section. The stand glows, and opens up the slate.

The rune glows, as he receives this to open the big metal gates underneath the floor. As he opens the doors, it reveals a passage way underneath. "Wow, this is, um, interesting. Am I supposed to go down there?"

As Pointcrow slides down the ladder, it show the passage leading to a pair of stairs. There seems to be a rock blockade with a metal block in the left middle. As he looks to the side there is a singular metal block, as he walks towards it.

He then looks back to the block in the middle, and plucks it out with the magnisis rune. He then pushes the rest of the rocks out, making then fall, revealing another area behind them. 

There seems to be water all around him, as he then sees a bridge connecting the two, no, three platforms. "So I have to move the platform to the other side? But there's also that chest up there?" 

 So what Pointcrow ends up doing is transferring the bridge over after crossing, then lifting the chest, (since he found out it was metal), and he saw a Traveler's Bow inside. "Cool" is what he said after slinging it on his back. 

He then reached two big metal doors, as he used his rune one last time to swing the doors open to reveal a statue encased in a blue lighting.

Eric touches the symbol on the blue lighting as it shatters, revealing the statue saying,"

You have proven to possess the resolve of a true hero

I am Oman Au, the creator of this trial

I am a humble Monk blessed with the sight of Goddess Hylia and dedicated to helping those who seek to defeat Ganon.

With your arrival, my duty is now fulfilled. 

In the name Goddess Hylia, allow me to bestow this gift upon you.

Please accept this spirit orb."

"Wow, uh okay." Pointcrow reaches out, as he takes the orb from the air as it flloats.

"May the Goddess smile upon you."

The statue then dissapears.

The shine gets encased in a bright light as he then opens his eyes, revealing he is indeed back outside where he had entered the shrine. 

"That was something, huh." 

"Hey!"