Link climbs a hill up to a well. Like pretty much everything in Ikana Canyon, the well is dry. Crawling down into the well reveals that it is full of mummies. Using the wraps that came off the guy from earlier, Link passes off as a mummy capable of jogging that also wears green. The mummies in the well each ask for stuff, and Link brings each thing so that the souls of the mummies can be laid to rest. At the far end of the well is a chamber with an image of the sun in it. There is also a treasure chest. Within the treasure chest is a mirror shield. Upon the mirror shield is the most unpleasant face of what would seem to be a gorgon. By standing in the light shining into this chamber, Link reflects the light onto the walls with the sun on them. The sun gives a creepy smile, opening the way to another chamber. Then in a long bit of puzzle solving and slaying the dead, Link works his way through the castle of the Ikana royal family.
Link finally reaches the throne room. The drapes over the lights descend as the dead king of the Ikana people admonishes Link for entering the throne room. The room descends to darkness as two armed guards approach Link. Link fights with these guys a bit, but because of the darkness the spirits reenter the bones. As it turns out, while drapes can block out all light in a room, they are quite old and subject to burn easily. Using fire arrows, Link completely burns away the drapes filling the throne room with light. In the light, the bodies of the guards cannot reform. The king of the Ikana then challenges Link, but Link beats him as well.
With the spirits of the king freed, he reveals that the reason the souls of Ikana Canyon have been stirred is because of, yep you guess it, Skull Kid. Well, probably Skull Kid, the King just says "the masked one." It would seem the dead have been roaming this place for a while. Its hard to say when Skull Kid came and started causing trouble with the mask, but it is most likely him. The Mask Salesman is also not outside of the realm of possibility (what? I don't trust him). He mentions that all this trouble began with the dead raising when the Skull Kid (probably) entered the Stone Temple. Unfortunately, all the armies of the dead were perplexed by the puzzle that guards the temple (yeah it's one of those "really?" kinda things. but how many fairy tale kings can't figure out puzzles and stuff which calls for a hero to do it?) It does require more than one person to enter the temple, and Link is only one person, so the king teaches Link a song. The Elegy of Emptiness.
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| You shouldn't have done that... |
This is a creepy song, not because of what it sounds like, but because of what it does. When Link plays the song a statue of himself appears in his place but it just doesn't look quite right. This statue is now known as Ben, due to a creepy internet story (otherwise known as a creepypasta if you want to look it up) called Ben Drowned. Basically, the story goes that somebody received a cursed copy of Majora's Mask that contained the damned soul of the child (named Ben) who previously owned the game but died by drowning in a lake and now manifests himself in the form of the statue. Ben's spirit becomes a demon that torments the writer of the tale before the writer finally goes insane. This story is hardly the only one of its kind, there are too many stories of cursed games for all of them to be of good quality. The writer provides footage of how the game messes with him, and I must admit it's some eerie stuff. I encourage you to read it. It is probably one of the creepiest things I've ever read.
Sure it's fiction, but still I enjoyed it
Link takes this song to the temple. Where we will pick up
next time.
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