"Yeah. They were good before the Calamity even! And suddenly started killing everything!"

"Does anyone remember how that happened? I have this one set up to shut off during the Blood Moon but it'd be nice to know specifics about how they change allegiance."

"Ganon did it. That's all I know about that. Maybe you can find some important bit inside and let me strap a, a bomb or something to that just in case?"

"That's a fantastic idea. ... got anything electrical? I could rig it into an EMP."

"...Light...ning? I have, uh, a few shock arrows."

She appears a shock arrow. It looks like an arrow with a shiny yellow tip in a slightly fancy design.

"They make a lightning explosion when the tip smashes."

"I think I can work with that. Might need something non-conductive to insulate me so I don't fry along with it ... do you know where I could find rubber? Or wool or ceramic, I guess."

"I've never heard of rubber! I have some ratty old clothes that are probably wool."

"Those will be better than nothing!"

Flash of blue. Here's some clothes... They're very ratty and old, yeah.

"If the arrow goes off in your hand you're in trouble pretty much no matter what you have on your hands. I'll have a healing potion ready. Rubber doesn't like electricity?"

"Rubber blocks it completely. If it doesn't have holes, anyway."

"Neat. Sounds like really useful stuff! Then again most tech stuff is."

"Well, I can't make it myself. Don't know enough chemistry. But yeah, it is."

"Should I tell you about elixirs? I should tell you about elixirs. Magic drinks that give you useful effects. Some of them give electricity resistance. Uh, the ingredients can be tricky to find, but it's probably good if you had one before doing this? How long will it take anyway, they don't last forever."

"Probably an hour-ish? Maybe I could avoid handling the actual arrow and make the insulating carrier first."

"I have one that should last twenty minutes. So, yes, that."

She fixes something up. It looks like a hackjob and is the opposite of elegant, but it'll work. "Yell at me to tell it to shut down and I'll do it."

"...Can I get the trigger too? Or maybe put a button on it?"

"... I made a button, if you want you can hold onto it. But I'll need some notice to get clear."

"Yeah I wouldn't set it off when you're still on it unless I absolutely had to. If you lose control you can just scramble away hopefully. It just seems to me that it kind of defeats the purpose of, uh, reassuring people if the one who controls it also has the kill button? If you can make a second totally do that, one for each of us, backup plans are good."

"Yeah, I'll do that. Want me to have it now or when we get to Purah's?"

"You've already got all your tools out right? Oh, I cooked some late lunch while you were working, have a meat wrap thing."

Ooooh, food. Nom and rigging commence, and then finish, and now they should be ready to get back onto the road.

Back on the road indeed. Scoots is perfectly happy to move at a light canter to Link's fast jog. Riding a horse is not easy, but it's not harder than walking, at least.

"I'd be asking you all sorts of tech questions but I know that's not my strength. Expect it from Purah, though."

"I'll do that. What else can I expect from her? Aside from looking like a small child."

"Uhhh. Don't ask about how that happened, she doesn't like talking about it. She has an assistant, Symin, and they are both really frustrated about not having a research budget. Don't touch her experiments without asking."