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I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight [Open]

WHO: Link and you!
WHERE: All over
WHEN: The month of March
WHAT: Tiny hero doing tiny hero things
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Cutting Grass for Fun and Profit: Heropa
Sometimes a kid need to make some money and what better way than that classic stand by of mowing lawns? Not a lot of lawns really needed mowing yet in the northern cities, but some in Heropa sure did and many citizens were more than thrilled to have a pint sized hero come along and do it. That he did it with a sword and just kind of wandered into their yards without asking was largely ignored once they realized what he was doing.

Of course, there was always that one grouch on the block that chased him away for 'tresspassing' and 'destroying a garden' or 'vandalizing a valuable art installation' in front of a museum.

The shouts of the security guards followed the small child as he dashed away, around the corner and straight into someone's legs. An armful of sparkling stones and tiny nuts - sort of walnut-like - scattered across the ground, which the kid was fast to start scooping back up, his actions a bit more frantic as the shouting grew louder.

~~Stealing~~ Finding Maps: All Cities
The biggest problem Link had in his quest to find the princess the Great Deku Tree asked him to find was that he didn't know where anything was. And thus far he'd found no treasure chests with a proper map containing the lay of the land anywhere around. And no chests with a compass, either. And considering how big the different cities were, there really should be a good dozen or so chests with maps and compasses in them just to cover the various sections within the cities.

His own attempt at creating maps had thus far been failures. He just couldn't get them big enough to cover everything. But just recently he'd discovered that there were maps sitting around in various stores. They were in stores, so he figured they probably cost money, but no one would take his rupees for some reason. And he really needed the maps. And why would you sell a map anyway? People needed those for quests, selling them was just rude.

Surely... surely no one would miss just one? And he could leave some rupees...

Glancing around to make sure the shopkeep wasn't watching, Link started discreetly taking a copy of each map on the display and putting them behind his shield. As discreetly as any child shoving things into what was essentially a backpack could, anyway.

Choose your own adventure!
Link can be found around the various cities - often times in places a small child really shouldn't be - generally exploring and sometimes brandishing his sword at people who're being bad and are not sure how to handle a three foot kid brandishing a sword at them. He can also be found getting chased out of pottery shops on a near daily basis for completely destroying their stocks of basic pots or being confused at people yelling at him for cutting down bushes and small trees. He's usually gone by the time all the broken and destroyed items reappear good as new, but occasionally the verbal dressing down holds him there long enough to give his confusion full justification.

If you wanna do something, or want a starter and aren't sure what, PM me and we can figure it out!d

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The shopkeep may not have been looking Link's way but a customer, standing silently to the side did notice the young boy in an act that certainly looked like stealing.

The blue alien covertly watched the child for a while, seeing him pushing things into his backpack. When it seemed that he was almost done and ready to leave, Cad Bane sauntered casually over and murmured within hearing range of Link:

"I don't think that's legal."

The six feet tall alien may be quite the sight. Obviously not human with blue skin and piercing red eyes staring out from under a wide-brimmed cowboy hat.

Link let out a sharp, but still quiet yelp of surprise at the sudden voice in his ear. He cringed a moment later, both hands going over his mouth as he ducked behind Cad's legs and made sure the shopkeep wasn't looking his way. When it seemed clear, he let out a soft sigh and glared up at Cad. The guy didn't have to startle him. And anyway, he was going to leave some rupees. Just... had to figure out where.

He reached into the space behind his shield and pulled out a red stone. It was a rupee worth twenty green rupees, so that should totally be enough. He held it up so Cad could see, mild annoyance on his face trying to covey the sentiment 'Was gonna pay for it. See?'

Examining the stone with interest, Bane shook his head. "I don't think they take that sort of currency here. But I can give you an exchange... How much are those papers you have worth?" He meant the maps.

As he spoke, he pulled out a roll of cash, pulling off a few bills. "I give you these, you give me the stone. Fair exchange? Then you can pay for the things with something the shopkeeper will actually take."

The glare disappeared immediately and Link's face lit up. He wasn't sure how much the maps were worth, but he could find out! Instead of handing the stone over, he grabbed Cad's hand and made to drag him to the counter.

His brow raised at the enthusiasm but for now he allowed it. He wasn't a charitable person. He was interested in the thievery at first and now that stone. Was it really worth something? How did the kid get it? He was curious enough to help out with this exchange. Maybe it would be worth the risk of losing some cash. He'd been doing quite well lately so it would't hurt him financially if the stone proved to be worthless.

He waited while Link showed the clerk whatever he was trying to buy.

With Cad coming along without complaint, Link let go of his hand and pulled out all the maps he'd taken. From behind, it was pretty obvious Link didn't have a backpack or anything under his shield. It was just shield, sheath, clothes. No real room for as many papers as he was placing on the counter and the stone (or stones, potentially) he'd shown Cad.

And yet, somehow, Link had room for them all. Probably a power at work.

Once all the papers were out, Link stood on his tippy-toes to look over the counter while the worker rung all the maps up. He gave a total and then pointed at Link, "And I'm not taking the stone. You want this, you pay with real money."

Link turned to look at Cad and held out the rupee. Cad pays, he gets the stone.

It wasn't a surprising statement from the cashier and Bane glanced from them to Link. He nodded and pulled out the appropriate number of bills to pay for the maps.

"Pleasure doing business with you," he tipped his hat at the store clerk and would take the stone from Link if he let him.

"Now, you and I should have a little chat. Outside," he suggested.

Of course he'd noticed the discrepancy between space and items.

Link handed the rupee over without issue and took back all the maps Cad had just bought for him. When he had them in a nice big stack, he stuck them behind him and followed the nice man out. The least he could do was talk to him since he did Link such a big favor.

Once outside, Link put his hands behind his head and waited expectantly. He was all ears, now!

"Looks like you've got some potential, kid," he began, sizing him up.

He rolled the stone over in his hand, examining it again. "So what exactly is this? Where'd you find it?"

He blinked a couple times, not sure how to explain that it was a rupee and he found it by breaking stuff or cutting grass. It was never guaranteed one would pop out. Sometimes it was hearts or nuts or sticks or a fairy. Well, not here. Not the fairies, anyway.

So instead he just stared up at Cad for a moment. And then he shrugged.

In the next moment he was reaching behind him again and pulling out a bag with a similarly shaped gem patch stitched into the side. His wallet didn't hold a lot, but he had more rupees if Cad wanted to trade them.

Bane started back at the silence. Hm. But then the kid was pulling out a bag.

"You got more of them? Show me."

He paused. "Can you understand me? Nod or shake your head."

Link leveled the man with an annoyed, deadpan stare, free hand going to his hip for a flat two seconds before rolled his eyes and went back to digging out some more of the rupees. He had 73 still, between the greens, blues, and other red still in there. He held a small handful up: just greens and a couple blues.

"Give me a few and I'll trade you some cash from this world," he offered. "Keep you out of trouble for a bit."

He pulled a handful of bills out for Link to take if he wanted to make an exchange.

"You got a name? What do I call you?"

Finn sipped his lemonade when he heard some noise nearby. Someone was yelling, shouting "vandal" and "come back and pay for these". Being the inquisitive sort, Finn went to investigate, still sipping his lemonade.

His eyebrows rose when he reached the pottery store, seeing the owner brandishing a broom at a boy in green. He looked angry. Very angry.

Taking another sip of lemonade, Finn approached the store owner, who turned to him, prepared to yell at him, clearly in a bad mood. Finn put a hand on the boy's shoulder so he wouldn't be affected.

"Faas Ru Maar!"

A wave of red magic hit the store owner the second the last word left Finn's mouth, and he ran away, back into his store. Finn looked down at the boy, walking him away from the store.

"Come on, that doesn't last very long."

It took no time at all for Link to attach himself to the owner of the hand that fell on his shoulder, slipping in behind the guy as he opened his mouth and... shouted something. If he hadn't been holding on, he probably would have run back a bit, too. It was loud. No wonder the shopkeep seemed frightened by it.

Link hesitated a moment when the guy started walking away, but ultimately followed after. The guy sounded like he was trying to help him. So he jogged to catch up and walk as best he could at the man's pace. He looked up at him, curious. The guy was, well, he wasn't like the round-eared people that most of the people of the city were. Very different, including the pointed ears similar to Link's own. That was kind of neat.

After a couple more moments of silence and the guy sipping at his drink, Link grinned at him and gave him a thumbs up in thanks. He really didn't need it, but it was still nice of him all the same.

Finn wondered if this kid was mute, or if he just didn't talk much, like Red. The dunmer finally stopped when they were both pretty far away from the pottery shop, figuring they lost the owner.

He sipped the last few drops of lemonade before tossing the cup into a nearby recycling bin. Afterwards, Finn leaned down so he was less imposing.

"You wanna tell me what that was about?" Realizing what he said, he added, "Or let me know with pantomime or hand gestures? Or draw me a picture?"

Link tilted his head in consideration. He could draw it, sure, but it would be far easier to show him. He turned in his spot, looking around intently for something easy to pick up and break. There wasn't much.

Link frowned and then waved for Finn to follow him, heading for what looked like a park a little ways off. It wasn't overgrown - for some reason most of the grass was cut regularly in the city - but it had some trees and bushes and...

Ah ha! A large rock!

Once spotted, Link hurried over to it and picked it up. He made sure Finn was close by and watching before he hurled it very hard at the ground. It broke apart into a few smaller pieces and luckily out of it popped a tiny heart - the cartoony valentinesish sort - that floated slowly toward the ground. Link pointed to it with a grin.

Curious, Finn followed Link, wondering what he was up to. He stood by patiently as Link picked up the rock and tossed it. Then he raised his eyebrows when he saw the heart. Where did that come from?

Since when did rocks contain hearts?

It also wasn't hard to put two and two together, since Link had been in a pottery shop and he broke the rock. "You were breaking pots? Because you thought they had hearts in them?"

Wasn't just hearts, but other things too. The finer points of it was hard to explain when he didn't have the words to, though. So he gave a nod, instead. Just one. And he went over to the floating heart and touched his hand to it. It disappeared and he lost interest in the stone, moving back toward Finn while the broken pieces started to fade away as if they'd never existed.

Well, Finn had seen stranger powers than that. But it seemed like a pretty mundane power, truth be told. Still, the kid seemed excited about it.

"Well, maybe stay away from that pottery place for a while. People tend to get mad when you break their wares." Noticing the weapon strapped to the kid's back, he asked, "You know how to use that thing?"

Link still didn't understand that part. It wasn't like the pots wouldn't come back so what was the problem?

The sour face he was starting to make went away at the question, though and he smiled and nodded. Just the once. He wouldn't have it if he didn't know how to use it.

After a second of thought, he unsheathed it, leaving the shield where it was for now, and swung it in front of him a couple times. It was definitely sharp!

It certainly wasn't a toy, Finn could tell that. Were Finn a more responsible adult, he might have questioned why the kid had a real sword. But Link obviously knew what he was doing and wasn't about to accidentally chop his fingers off or anything.

"Not bad. Mind if I try it out? I'll give it right back."

So far no one had not given it back after asking to see it, so Link had no reason to say no. He shifted his grip to hand it over for Finn to take it by the hilt.

Behind him, the large rock he'd broken just sort of... grew back. Like someone blowing up a balloon in it's shape. Exactly where Link had picked it up from.

Finn took the sword in hand, looking over Link's shoulder and giving a curious look at the rock. Interesting.

Standing back, Finn twirled the sword in his hand, like it were a baton, testing the weight. It was obviously shorter than a sword meant for an adult, which suited Finn, since he usually fought with daggers. He liked short blades.

He then swung the sword in an uppercut, spun around with the sword aimed high, and finished his routine off with a forward thrust.

"Pretty nice sword you got here," Finn held the blade back out, handle-first.

Oooo fancy! Link never really did much fancy stuff with it. Just used as he needed. But that looked like a lot of fun!

He took it back and hopped back a couple feet before attempting to twirl it in his hand the same way Finn had. It took a try or two but he seemed to get the hang of it quickly. Then he followed through with the same upper cut, spin, and forward thrust.

If nothing else, the kid was a fast learner.

Anybody might have told Link to be careful and try that with a wooden sword first. Finn wasn't anybody. So he just gave an approving nod as Link mimicked his display.

This kid would go places when he was older.

"Personally, I prefer daggers, but that is a nice little sword."

Dorian was just minding his own business. He hadn't sent a prayer up to Andraste to be inadvertently assaulted by a child today, and so when Link came around the corner and smacked directly into his legs he wasn't expecting it in the slightest. Which would explain the sudden shout, and the stumbling, and the cursing in a language that thankfully Link didn't speak as he righted himself and looked down disapprovingly at the small child. Dorian didn't really do children, he had no intention of ever having any of his own, and largely found them to be forgettable when they were being inconvenient bits of the scenery or annoying when they were very inconveniently not being bits of the scenery.

He glared at him, brushing the non-existent dirt off his still pristine shirt. "Where precisely do you think you're going in such a hurry that you can not watch where you are going?" The gaudily large jewels and nuts are being ignored for the moment, and he hasn't quite connected the distant shouting (someone was always shouting about something around here it seemed) with the child trying to pick up the items that have been scattered on the pavement.

Heroic as Link is, he may be drawn to a small scene happening at one of the docks. At the end of a short pier, there's a large blue robot (that one Link "fought" before) standing waist deep in the water. The pier is... not as long as it used to be, and there's a couple of thick planks of wood lodged in Riptide's shoulder. He does not seem happy. Neither does do the dock staff.

"--Well, you should mark the underside of the wood!" he complains, pulling at the debris stuck in his shoulder. "It's hardly my fault you people don't clean up!"

Link doesn't pay attention to anything that's being said. All he sees is Big Blue, a broken dock, and some people that don't look happy. Pulling his sword and shield he rushes down the pier to put himself between Big Blue and the people. This time he knew he had to dodge the big hands if he wanted to land a proper blow and protect the people from this menace.

It's rematch time!

Riptide looks just as confused as he did the first time Link showed up. He recognises him, but... isn't sure what to do.

"Er... hi?"

Does Link think that sword'll do anything?

Steve isn't from this time, so there is a lot he doesn't know, but there are somethings he does know, like he doesn't need maps. Mostly because the communicator actually has a world-wide map (Googlemaps are amazing) and all you have to do is write down the place you want to go, and it'll even tell you where to take a turn.

So watching some kid stealing maps at a random stop is really strange to him because it makes no sense why he'd want to do that. He doesn't approach at first, just watching this slightly bizarre situation happening (of all the things to steal, why a map? ) but eventually he just approaches and taps his shoulder. Steve isn't loud, since he doesn't want to call attention to the kid, so at least there is that.

"What are you doing, kid?"

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Fun AND Profit? Oh boy! In Heropa

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Don't steal maps Link