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Darmok: Pulled most of the Zelda examples:
- In The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, when you ask Biggoron to fix his broken Biggoron Sword, you are given a claim check and told to wait a few days. Sure, you can wander around and come back, but most people just play the Sun's Song (which advances time 12 hours) six times and talks to him again.
- The Wind Waker's figurines side-quest is similar to this.
- The blacksmiths in A Link to the Past. You have to go not only out of the house, but also out of its map "screen".