I went to the bug island with the intention of playing Stitch’s game. But when I talked to him, he told me that he found a rare bug. Sure enough, it was Beedle’s horned colossus beetle. But he wouldn’t just give it back, he was going to make me earn it. He would choose ten bugs and I would have to catch all ten within three minutes. If I could do that, he would give me Beedle’s beetle back.
It took me a number of tries, but I did accomplish my goal eventually. As promised, he gave me the beetle.
I returned it to Beedle and he gave me five gratitude crystals. He also generously offered to sell me any item at half price. But he has no items for sale! Wow, what a reward!
I then returned to the bug island to play Stitch’s bug-catching game the normal way. Because of all the practice I already had doing it earlier, I had a much easier time of it. On the beginner course, I had a time of 1:35.89. However, my award was 5 Deku hornets.
Seems like an odd prize, and it didn’t help me anyway since I already had the maximum number (99) of hornets I could carry. But he reminded me that the “Bug Wrangler” game is basically the main event. So I did the Bug Wrangler game and finished with a time of 1:33.53. My reward was five Faron grasshoppers. Say what?
I was expecting a better prize…like a piece of heart or a gold rupee or something. Very disappointing. But still, it’s one less thing on my list. Speaking of which, here is my updated to-do list.
- Win the game on Fun Fun Island
- Earn more gratitude crystals and turn Batreaux into a human
- Consider getting the best shield from the Thunder Dragon
- Complete any other side-quests that pop up
Even better, he said my debt to him was fully repaid now. He said he could now afford to get a new chandelier. I went to bed, and when I woke up, the new chandelier was already up!
But now the owner’s daughter Kina said that she needs someone who is good at plowing the field. Smurf-Fi popped up and told me I can now dowse to find that person. Dowsing led me to the volcano, where this Mogma was excited about the opportunity.
Smurf-Fi called in the robot, who hauled the Mogma away. Once at the Lumpy Pumpkin, he got to work. Kina was happy and she gave me five gratitude crystals.
Back in Skyloft, I went up onto Beedle’s ship shop, which no longer has any items for sale. He said he wanted to talk to me, but told me to sleep until he felt like talking. So I slept until night and I woke up on his island. There, he told me he lost his rare horned colossus beetle. I’m supposed to find it for him, but so far there are no clues on where it might be.
In Skyloft again the next day, a man wanted me to perform a very odd task. I had to break his daughter’s heart.
Once I did, his father gave me five gratitude crystals. I then had 72 of them, so I went to see Batreaux. He gave me a total of 600 rupees, but he still didn’t turn into a human. He told me to come back when I had 80 gratitude crystals. I then saved my game.
Dowsing led me to Lake Floria, where I found another.
Dowsing indicated there were no more goddess cubes in the Faron Woods area, so I headed to the volcano area. I knew of one goddess cube there…in fact, there had been two separate times I had tried to figure out how to get it, but it left me stumped both times. Earlier, I had assumed I needed a longer clawshots to get it; that turned out to not be true. I did finally figure out how to get it today, using a completely different approach. At any rate, I’m glad I finally got it.
Dowsing did not detect any other goddess cubes. So I believe I have now activated all of the goddess cubes on the surface. I then went back up to the sky and started collecting the treasures the cubes unlocked. I also returned to The Lumpy Pumpkin. Let me describe what happened there before, since I don’t think I blogged about it at the time.
He told me to say thanks to the owner of the Lumpy Pumpkin (I almost typed Pumpy Lumpkin). But while I was still in Skyloft, I saw that a treasure chest (unlocked by a goddess cube) was in the area, so I went up and grabbed it for 300 rupees. A hint from a gossip stone also led me to a missing baby rattle. I returned it to its owner and got five gratitude crystals. That brings my total up to 61.
I then returned to the Lumpy Pumpkin and the owner gave me another task to complete. I had to help harvest pumpkins and move them to the shed.
After this, the owner still wasn’t done with me. He now wanted me to use my harp for something, but at nighttime. So I had to sleep until night. When I woke up, he wanted me to play my harp while his daughter sings, to entertain his customers…both of them.
You have to strum the harp with the rhythm, using one of the customers’ arms as a guide. But I had trouble getting it good enough so that the customers were satisfied. I failed, again and again and again. Eventually I got tired of it and gave up for now. I’ll have to come back to it another day.
The next day, I went inside the thunderhead to collect a treasure and ended up on Stitch’s bug island.
He has a game where you have to try to collect the bugs he shows you within a time limit. I tried once and failed. At this point, I decided to end my game for the day. But I’m going to update my to-do list: