Link is trying to help this guy. Really, he is! It's not Link's fault he refused the offered solution!
Based on: me playing totk earlier.
Link buried his face in his hands and groaned. I get that the ancient technology is hard to understand for people who don't often use it, he thought to himself, but does everyone have to be so stubborn?
The man he was trying to rescue (what was his name again? Eugene? Rustis?) ignored Link's ongoing internal crisis and continued to play his horn.
Link sighed. How am I supposed to get this guy out of here if he keeps this up? he wondered. This entire rescue operation would be so much simpler if he would just get. in. the wagon.
And it wasn't as though he hadn't tried; the very first thing he had done was to attach the balloons and flameblowers that were laying around onto the sides of the wagon, with a fan on the back. That way, the guy (Eu…Eustus? Was he called Eustus?) could hop on and they'd all be out of here in a jiffy. Right?
Wrong. The guy refused to get in the wagon with the contraptions attached to it, saying, "I've already fallen twenty feet once this week, and I was lucky enough to get out of it with my skin intact. I don't want to chance it a second time."
Sheesh. You'd think Link's solutions had a reputation for being reckless and life-endangering or something like that.
Alright, Link had figured, Fair enough. I'll get the wagon out first, and then come back.
He made it about thirty feet before the man's plaintive cries of distress and alarm made their way to Link's ears, and overcame his sense of reason. Against his better judgment, he turned the wagon back and landed in the hole once again.
"It's incredibly rude of you, you know, stealing a person's wagon right out from under his nose like that!" Eustus scolded. "If you really have nothing better to do than take the most precious belongings of a man who's trapped, then perhaps you can put that brain of yours to good use and help me get out of here instead!"
Link blinked. He hasn't heard a single word I've said, has he? Sometimes I wonder if the world makes these sorts of things harder for me on purpose.
Well, since this was currently his only idea, and the man obviously wasn't listening, Link figured he'd just have to make the guy get on.
Probably accuse me of stealing and kidnapping, both, knowing my luck.
…Except the opportunity for such an accusation would seemingly never arrive. The man was physically immovable.
Link couldn't latch onto him with Ultrahand, of course; he'd expected as much. But apparently, Eustus had some sort of latent magical abilities to go along with his stubbornness, because even when Link used Ultrahand on a nearby metal slab and pressed it against his legs, Eustus stood his ground and refused to get on.
Fine…fine. If you won't go on your own initiative, then I'll just have to try intimidation!
Setting the metal slab directly at Eustus's side, Link drew the Master Sword and stalked towards him. "Hiyah!" He swiped at him- careful not to actually hit him, but trying to get him to jump back. "Yah! Hut!"
Unfortunately, it seemed that- lack of basic travel sense and tendency to ignore other people's advice aside- Eustus had the wisdom to learn how to fight before joining an occupation so dangerous as that of a traveling musician. He immediately went into a defensive position, but still- as if he knew what Link was really going for- he refused to give ground, not budging an inch from his chosen spot.
Link would be pretty impressed if it wasn't so frustrating.
Which brought him to his current predicament. He had no idea how to get Eustus out of the hole when the guy seemed so darn set on staying right where he was until a more obvious, less risky way of getting out of here presented itself.
Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that one of the Great Fairies won't come out of her cocoon until she hears a horn player, instead of acknowledging that she really ought to know me already…I'd just call that group of Hylian soldiers out here, and let them figure this whole thing out. As it is…he sighed. I think I'll have to come back later. My other quests seem a bit more…urgent.
Standing to leave, Link reached into his pack and pulled out a couple dozen hylian shrooms, along with some apples and hydromelons. "Here," he tossed the food at Eustus's feet. "I don't have time to deal with this right now. If you're not going to take the out I've already given you, then you can sit here and stew until I have the time to come back and think of a different one. But the food should tide you over until I return."
He walked over to the cliff face and made his way up. As he reached the edge of the hole, the musician called out from behind him, "but what am I to drink?"
Link peered back over the side. "Haven't you ever been to the Gerudo Desert? That's what the hydro melons are for!"
And with that, he marched away.