zelda vi: majora's mask
walkthroughs - getting to woodfall

After recovering the ocarina and becoming regular Link again, go straight ahead of where you are standing in front of Clock Tower to the guard blocking that big gateway. He will say that you are heading for the swamp, but a child has no business in the swamp. Then he will see your sword and let you pass. After getting out of Clocktown, go straight down the path. When you get to the entrance to the swamp, there will be a cut-scene where Tatl remembers when her and Skullkid were friends. Once the cut-scene is over, enter the swamp. When you enter the Swamp, run down the entrance path until you come to a fork in the path. You will see Tingle. If you want, go ahead and shoot him down and buy whatever it is he has to offer. After that, go right and enter the main part of the swamp. You should see a large wooden hut on stilts with a boat under it. 

Go in the house and talk to the fat man at the counter. He will say something about his kid being out collecting fairies (I presume he's talking about Tingle). After that, he will ask you where your pictograph is. What on Earth is a pictograph? Well, listen to him a little longer and he will give you one. It's like a camera, but it only holds one shot. Now, leave the house and swim through the water down the path behind the house for a little ways until you get to a fork in the path. Go left and walk past the Deku Babas until you get to another house on stilts. Go behind this house and you will see a cave in the wall. Enter it. You should be in the Woods of Mystery. You will see a little white monkey sitting there. Talk to him and he will say to follow him, so follow him. If you already have the bunny hood, which you could have gotten at Romani Ranch at any time, it will be a lot easier to keep up with him. 

Anyway, he will run through different caves and you need to keep up. Follow him until you come to a room with a witch flying on a broomstick. Z target her and talk to her. She will give you a red potion. Now exit the woods by going into one of the caves and then go back in. Follow the monkey again but this time until you see a witch lying on the ground with a bunch of other monkeys around her. Talk to her and give her the Red Potion. She will be revived and you get to keep the bottle the potion was in. (Empty Bottle Number One). She also tells you that you can take a free boat cruise anytime. 

Now exit the woods and go to the house on stilts that you saw when you first entered the Swamp. Go into it again, but don't talk to the fat man. Go to the smaller window off to the right and the witch you saved will be in there. You get to take your free boat cruise. Ride the boat for a while. Look at the scenery. Tum te tum… Oh crap! A giant Octorok! Don't worry, the boat will crash right through and kill it. Once you get past the octorok, the boat will float along for a little bit longer until you get to the Deku Palace. A voice (I don't know who's) will ask you if you want to disembark. Say 'yes'. Now, go into the palace.

Once in the palace, you will walk down a path where there will be two Deku guards. They won't let you in if you are regular Link, so you'll have to put on your Deku Mask. Once it's on, talk to them and they will say to go "only to the king's chamber" or something to that nature. Well, disobey them. When you get in, go into the door on the left. Like in Ocarina of Time, where you had to sneak around the courtyard guards, you will have to sneak around the Deku Guards. Be careful not to let them catch you. Sneak through the path until you come to a hole in the ground. Drop down into it. The bean man from Ocarina of Time is down there. Talk to him and he will say, "

Do you know how to use magic beans? I'll give you some sample beans" or something. Take the beans with gratitude. While you're down there, collect some water in a bottle. I'm pretty sure there's some down there. You might have to take the Deku Mask off to do that stuff. Now, go into the light and leave the hole. Sneak back through the courtyard and back into the main room. If you want to, go into the door on the right and sneak to the courtyard. There is a heart container at the end of it. Now, go into the King's chamber. In there, one of those monkeys is tied up in a cage. Poor monkey. Talk to a few people in the chamber, figure out what's going on, and then leave. When you get out of the chamber, a monkey will drop down in front of you and say he knows you have special powers because he has been watching you. Creepy. 

He will also say that he knows a secret entrance to the palace and that you have to help his brother. So, get thrown out of the palace somehow and after the Deku Guards get down griping at you, go right. Go to the rightmost corner (you may have to hop across water, I'm not sure, I'm doing this from memory) until you come to a spot to plant beans in. Kill the Deku Baba that is hanging around there and plant your bean. Water it with the water you collected, or just wait until the second day when it rains. A plant will grow. Get on top of it and it will give you a ride upwards to the secret entrance to the palace. Go inside.

Once inside, put on your Deku Mask, because you're going to have to fly around on flowers. You will see some platforms with flowers growing on them floating around in thin air. Shoot yourself from one flower to another until you get to the end of the flowers. There will be a cave or something. Go inside it and you will find yourself inside the monkey's cage. Talk to him and he will say a bunch of crap about the Deku princess being in trouble and that there is a monster in the temple, and then say that you need an instrument to get into Woodfall Temple. Put on your Deku Mask and pull out your Deku Pipes and he will teach you the Sonata of Awakening, I think. After that, you will be caught and thrown out of the palace.

Once again, the Deku Guards will gripe you out. When they're finished, turn around and you will see a cave in the wall. It has a ledge under it with a Deku Flower there. Use the Deku Flower to shoot yourself up into the cave. Now, from where you're at, you will see a whole row of orange mushrooms or trees or something with flowers on top of them (this flower flying business is getting old, huh?). Launch yourself from one flower to another (watch out for the dragonfly monsters) until you get to a ledge. This ledge has an old friend on it. Kaepora Gaebora, the owl from Ocarina of Time! What a pleasant surprise! He will talk to you about the owl statues around Termina. He will say he put them there to aid you. When he flies away, look at the altar he was standing on. You will learn the Song of Soaring off of it. Once you do that, use the flower on the ledge to shoot to another ledge to the left of you. This ledge leads to Woodfall.