First Night in Clock Town
There’s a lot to do in the wee hours of the morning/night on the first day. Shortly after midnight, a thief accosts a woman carrying items for her shop; Link can stun him with a bubble and return her items to her, and she rewards him with a Blast Mask which lets him blow stuff up at point-blank range (yes, it hurts), and tells him to stop by the store tomorrow. The Stock Pot Inn’s doors are locked after check-in time, but Link can Dekucopter his way into a second-floor entrance and look around. There’s not much of interest, but there is a hand sticking out of a toilet and desperate for paper. Link can’t help him just yet, but he goes back outside, finds the business scrub selling his flower, and brings the deed back to Mr. Handy. Mr. Handy repays him by bringing out a heart piece that fell in, and Link apparently has no problem using a heart piece that had fallen into a toilet given to him by a hand that just been used to wipe its owner’s bum.
In the little secluded area where Link found the missing piece of the great fairy, there’s the game’s equivalent of the organ player from the Kakariko windmill, still playing the Song of Storms. He tells Link he was once part of an animal troupe, and was jealous of the leader’s Handle Animal skill, and stole his mask; after the confession, he gives the Bremen Mask to Link. North of town, there’s a dancing ghost who teaches Link his dance and gives him a mask in the hopes that the dance will be spread further. Link gets his chance when he finds a pair of twin sister dancers wearing really really short dresses who are trying to figure out new moves for the festival. He puts on the ghost’s mask and teaches the sisters the dance, and they give him a piece of heart out of gratitude.
Falling Down Holes
Link returns to the Astral Observatory and uses the telescope again. He notices the business scrub who bought the Moon's Tear flying over the town and landing in a hole in Termina Field near the observatory. So, it’s time to run out into the field and fall down holes. The scrub’s still in the hole Link saw him fly into, and sells him a heart piece to keep the location a secret to everybody. (He abandons it anyway, just to be on the safe side.) There are two more holes: one near where Link saw the ghost dancer with a pair of dodongos inside, and one near the takkuri’s spawn point with a peahat. Falling in these holes and killing the enemies therein awards Link two more pieces of heart.
Going past the takkuri leads Link to the Milk Road, which will ultimately lead to Romani Ranch, but the way is blocked by a giant boulder. A man is chipping away at the boulder, and tells Link to come back tomorrow and maybe it’ll be gone. There’s not much else here, except Tingle. Shooting Tingle down lets Link buy maps from him… after Tingle goes through his whole introduction speech again. Back in town, Link can buy a bomb bag from the woman whose inventory he saved, and even skip right to having the first bomb capacity upgrade.
Romani Ranch
On the third day, the boulder is gone blocking access to the ranch. The music is the same from Lon Lon Ranch in Ocarina of Time, and as Link wanders the ranch, he discovers that the people here have taken in his horse. But something terrible has happened. There’s a young girl more than a little reminiscent of Malon in the fields with a terrible expression on her face and unable to say much. Her older sister (who resembles the older Malon) in the barn blames herself what happened to her, as well as to their cows, because she didn’t listen. There’s not much Link can do for them except add their names to the notebook and hope that on a later rotation he’s able to get past the boulder in time to prevent whatever happened.
In the cucco house, the man tending the chicks says he’s not too upset about the world ending, but he wishes he could have seen his chicks grow up. Remembering what he was told about the Bremen mask, Link puts it on and starts marching around the area, and the chicks all fall in line behind him. This is a really cute sequence, between the cheerful music Link’s playing and the little lemons lining up. Once they’re all caught, the chicks grow one-by-one into full-grown cuccos, and the man is happy to see it and has no regrets about his impending demise. He gives Link the Bunny Hood, which now allows Link to run faster. After a brief stop to kill the takkuri one last time and drop all the rupees in the bank, it’s finally time to reset the clock and start over.
Next: Monkey business.
