Standard title and contact information stuff: Final Fantasy 5 Walkthrough, v1.2, 2/14/00 by Vilurum, crodgers@uclink.berkeley.edu Standard origin stuff: I wrote this for self-reference a while back (mid to late '98) when replaying Final Fantasy 5, due to the fact that at the time, there did not exist any *highly* detailed walkthroughs. So I decided I'd make one for myself, to refer to. I then thought I'd expand it a little, fleshing out the shorthand notes, and put it on my homepage on the web. There it sat, gathering dust, being of no use to anyone despite (imho) being fairly well-written and informative, so I thought, why not actually send it somewhere people would see it, and possibly even *gasp* help me out by sending me advice, strategies, and secrets to help me improve it? So, off it went to GameFAQs; although by this time there are already a few good, in-depth FAQs which weren't there when I originally wrote this, none of them are in the style of incorporating the majority of the information into the walkthrough itself (thereby saving on much scrolling and searching). Uniqueness, however arguable, rules. Standard info stuff: Anyway, the history lesson being over with, this walkthrough is based on RPGe's ROM patch (I've heard all the arguments, don't bother) of Final Fantasy 5, version 1.10, released sometime in October, 1998. The names, therefore, will only refer to that version of that translation of the game. I have recently gotten Final Fantasy Anthology, and have played it a bit, but until I have the time to sit down and play through the whole game, I'm not going to update the names. Most are similar anyway, I'll give you credit enough to figure them out. Besides, I personally like RPGe's translation better. Square butchered my beloved Faris' language by enforcing a stereotype. :( I tended to use magic-based jobs when I made this walkthrough, and the boss strategies reflect that. I may, at some future time, go through the game again using different classes to come up with other strategies. Keep in mind, however, that this *will* work. The only jobs I had mastered at the end of the game were Thief, White Mage, Blue Mage, Berserker (for what reason, I still do not know), Time Mage, Geomancer, and Mimic. Black Mage, Summoner, and Red Mage were all short one level of being mastered, Knight, Monk, Mystic Knight, and Mediator had a few levels each, and everything else was untouched. Say what you will. As it was, except for occasionally running out of money for equipment, I breezed through the game pretty easily with these jobs. I would appreciate all contributions, strategies, and information which I don't already have covered. Flames will be ignored, although I am well aware that this walkthrough is very much in need of *constructive* criticism, editing, and contributions (and should anyone help out, I will be deeply grateful and on top of that put you at or near the top of a new credits section). Standard disclaimer stuff: This document is Copyright 1998-2000 Cyrus Rodgers (Vilurum). I wrote this. By myself. When playing through the game, I referred to Tatsushi Nakao's walkthrough for a checklist of treasures and also for particular boss strategies that I didn't know about. I also cruised around the web (mainly at RPG Classics, a bit at GameFAQs which then had a rather dismal collection of FF5 info) to make sure I didn't miss too many "secrets." This walkthrough, however, is entirely my own creation. If you want to copy it and use it on your own page, that's fine, just as long as you give me credit and leave this disclaimer in here. And, preferably, let me know about it - although if you're afraid I'll turn you down because your page is too boring, you don't have to. (Besides, you can't top my page, which you'll find the original of this on, for being boring anyway. And no, I'm not releasing the URL, I'm no longer updating that site anyway.) Standard version history stuff (beginning to see a pattern here?): v1.2 Can be found at GameFAQs. Introduced version history. Updated with mention of FF Anthology, included a shop listing (after walkthrough). Still no Omega/Shinryuu strategies; I lost my save games and haven't gotten around to getting up to that point in the game yet. v1.1 Released, but only on my aforementioned boring homepage. Covered the entire game, including all secrets (that I know of) except for Omega and Shinryuu. v1.0 Not released. Covered from the beginning of the game through to getting the airship in the third world. That being said, on to the walkthrough! ----------------------------------------------------- WORLD ONE Meteor at Tycoon Treasures: Phoenix Down You'll start off riding a Chocobo (Boco). Go east to the meteor and follow the path inside (you'll hop off Boco at the entrance). At the end of the path you'll find a girl with pink hair being accosted by some Goblins. Kill them. Watch the event. Name yourself when the occasion arises. When you can move, go to the upper right and talk to the man lying on the ground. Watch this event. Go to the lower right of this area and look for a secret passage to a chest with a Phoenix Down. (Don't pass this up: Phoenix Downs are 1000 gil in this game!) Then leave the way you came in, talking to Boco to climb back on. Pirate Base Treasures: Leather Helmet Ride Boco west, then north until you reach a canyon. Then ride north through the canyon, fending off Goblins, and rescue Lenna and Galuf. Sit through the event scene, then ride north to reach a cave. Save, then ride in. You'll hop off Boco at the entrance (again). Follow the path through the cave. It's pretty straightforward. There's a recovery spring right near the door to the second room. You'll see a treasure chest in the second room, but you have to go around and get it from the right. Before you get there, though, you see a pirate. Watch what he does to open the door. After he's gone, collect the treasure (a Leather Helmet) and equip it on someone (doesn't really matter who). Then go and do as the pirate did to open the door (i.e. push the skull switch on the wall). In the third room, you'll see a ship sailing without wind. Ignore the door you see it through (it just leads outside to an enclosed and featureless two squares of grass), and continue through the cave. You'll soon reach another door, and this one actually leads into an interesting place: the pirate base! Try to go left and a short event will occur. Don't worry, all the pirates are asleep. Just go up to the stern of the ship (the top, in this case), and inspect the wheel. Then watch the long event. Town of Tule Treasures: 100 gil, 150 gil, Ether, Leather Shoes x2, Phoenix Down x2, Potion x2, Tent Sail the ship out of the cove and a pirate will offer to take it to the Wind Shrine. Decline, since you want to visit a town and do some shopping first (makes the Wind Shrine a lot easier if everyone has broadswords). Sail west along the coast until you see the town. Disembark and enter the town. All the pirates run into the pub looking for beer and Faris joins them. Enter the pub yourself and sit down in the chair by the stage to get the dancers off the stage and onto you. When they're finished, go onto the stage yourself and play the piano (1st piano). You're pathetic right now, but when you get up to the 7th or 8th, you sound pretty good (as far as video game piano music is concerned). Note that you can't play one piano over and over to get better: you have to play many different pianos once (or more if you feel like it) each. Go to the second floor of the pub, and go right to see an event. When that's done, go back downstairs and out of the pub. Go to the lower left corner of town to find the Beginner's House. Even if you're not a beginner, say you are to go inside and collect the treasures. The three non-chest objects in the upper left corner of the first room have a Tent, Phoenix Down, and Potion inside (right to left). You can walk through the wall on the left to reach the chest in the corner (Ether), and you can collect the other chest (100 gil) either from there or as you're going up the stairs. The chest upstairs has a monster in it, but also has Leather Shoes. Talk to everyone if you've never played the game before, otherwise you can leave now (talk to the lady who let you in to get out). Go to the top center of the town. By the bridge are a bunch of barrels and crates. The right one in the top row holds a Potion. If you go across the bridge, Lenna will point out Zokk's house. Since you haven't finished the Wind Shrine yet, he's not here, and Butz will suggest (as you're leaving) that you try back later. If you go left from Zokk's house (staying on that side of the river), you'll find a small path through the trees leading to a bush. Search the bush for a Phoenix Down. Then if you go right from the house you'll find a waterwheel. The crate next to it contains Leather Shoes. Finally, if you go around the right side of the inn, the barrel there contains 150 gil. Now you can go shopping. For the time being, buy 2 Broad Swords (Butz has one, and there's one for free in the Wind Shrine, and Faris can survive until then with just a Dagger), 3 Leather Shields (Faris has one), and either 2 or 3 Leather Helmets (there's one of these in the Wind Shrine too, but they're so cheap you may as well just buy one now). Equip all your new stuff, including your two pairs of Leather Shoes on whomever you please. Sell your old stuff, but be careful not to sell anything you got for Faris. If you still have money left over, buy some spells. The great thing about this game is that you only have to buy a spell once, not once per character. (Of course, this is kind of made up for by the fact that you can't share progress in Jobs with other characters.) Anyway, if you feel like sticking around the town and killing wimpy stuff, go ahead and buy as many spells as you can afford, then kill and earn money until you can buy the rest. If not, then buy a few spells and leave town. Faris will rejoin you if you leave, and return to the pub again should you return. In other words, he'll always be with you outside of town and never inside of town (at least for a while). Don't forget to equip any new stuff for Faris. Wind Shrine Treasures: Broad Sword, Potion x5, Leather Helmet, Phoenix Down, Staff, Tent When you're done in Tule, sail your ship along the northern/western coast until you reach a small forest with what looks like a temple inside it. This is the Wind Shrine. Disembark, save, and enter. The first floor has no enemies. Go to the left and meet with the people from Tycoon. Look at the pot to rejuvenate your HP/MP/status/life, and talk to the person to the left of the pot to get 5 Potions. Go to the far right and climb the stairs. On the second floor, go up, then left (past the central path), and down to find a chest containing a Tent. Then go up, down the central path, and into the door there. That glowing circle is a Save Point. If you step on it, you can use a Tent or Cabin and/or save your game. Don't waste a Tent just yet, but do save your game. Exit the room through the lower door and go right and up the stairs. Collect the treasure (the Leather Helmet I mentioned earlier) and go back downstairs. Go up the stairs on the left, and go all the way around the room. When you get to the center area, DO NOT approach the bird just yet. Go into the door on the left to get a Broad Sword (equip on Faris). Either go back downstairs and save, or just take your chances with the boss. If you're level 5, he's really easy. He's moderately easy on level 4, but anything lower than that and you die pretty quickly. Heal up with Potions before approaching him. BOSS: Wing Raptor Generally, just whack him as fast as you can, heal with Potions when necessary, and don't attack while his wings are closed. He should die in 2-3 rounds if everyone's got Broad Swords. You get a Phoenix Down for defeating him. Continue upstairs and poke around below the lower right pillar thing to find a secret passage leading right. It leads to a chest containing a Staff. Get that, then go up the stairs in the middle of the room to reach the Wind Crystal. Go straight up and sit through the long event. You then get the Crystal shards, which give you the following Jobs: Knight, Monk, Thief, White Mage, Black Mage, Blue Mage. Lenna directs you to a warp gate behind the altar. Go step on it. In the ensuing darkness, a Chocobo shows up and offers to teach you how to use the Job and Ability system. If you don't already know (it's the same as what the appropriate guy in the Beginner's Hall said), say yes. Otherwise, say no (it takes a long time). Torna Canal Blue spells: Aero, Goblin Punch, Vampire Treasures: 300 gil, Ether, Potion x8, Tent x2 You'll end up outside. Return to the Town of Tule and go to Zokk's house at the top of town. He'll be home now. Watch the event. In the morning, try to leave town. Faris and the pirates will have a little event of their own, then Faris joins up with you for good (town-wise). Get on your ship (another short event), and sail back south. Remember where the cave to the pirate base was? Land as close to it as possible and go through there. Be sure to pick up the Blue spell "Vampire" from the Steel Bats here, and "Goblin Punch" from the Goblins outside. Talk to the pirates when you get to the base. One of the first ones you meet will give you 8 Potions (this guy and some others won't be here until Faris has sent them home from Tule). In the lower left of the big room is a skull switch. Go into the left door after you hit it, and the wall inside will be open. The chests beyond contain a Tent, an Ether, and 300 gil. Beyond the right door is an injured Boco. Watch the short event, then talk to the rest of the pirates and leave. Return to your ship and sail to the Wind Shrine. Go up at least to the second floor (third or fourth would work better) and meet a creature called Mold Wind. Learn the Blue spell "Aero" from it. Be sure to be in good health: it does about 70 HP damage or so. Go back downstairs and heal at the pot, then leave the Wind Shrine. Pick a combination of Jobs and Abilities (you should have learned one or two by now) as your working party. My advice is to stick with this working party until you reach a town, then (even if you don't pick any new Jobs) switch the Jobs around between your characters so they all get moderately good at everything. The reason to wait until you reach a town is so you can buy equipment and rest at the inn when you're done changing your party around. South of the Wind Shrine is a place that looks a bit like a claw, with a river flowing back from it through the mountains. Go there. That's the Torna Canal. Search the gate to open it with a bit of dialogue, then go through the canal. There are random monsters here: a good whack with a Knight or Monk, or a Bolt spell by a Black Mage will deal with them. Pretty soon a whirlpool will appear, followed by a boss. BOSS: Karlabos Knights, Thieves, and Monks should attack, White Mages should cast Cure, Black Mages should cast Bolt, and Blue Mages should cast either Aero or Goblin Punch. It's a pretty easily dispatched monster. If you have the Build Up command (Monk level 1), then stick it on your Monk or Knight to do a lot of damage. Use that instead of attacking. You'll get a Tent for defeating it. Watch the sad event. Ship's Graveyard Treasures: 990 gil, Antidote x2, Bronze Shield, Flail, Phoenix Down x2, Potion, Tent, World Map First off, keep in mind that if you ever get weak, you can always return to your ship (provided you're nearby), go down the stairs, and go into the right room to sleep. Secondly, almost all (if not all) the monsters here are undead, and thus are weak against Cure (used as an attack) or Fire magic. Some are immune to Fire, though. From the deck of the ship, go right to the first plank, then down to what looks like a dead end. While standing on the rock, search (A button) and some more rocks will show up. Hop along and you'll eventually find a Flail. Give it to your White Mage. Hop back up along the rocks and go right at the fork, unless you need to go back to your ship and heal while it's still nearby. Go up and into the door in the ship. Go right and down the stairs, then left and into the door to find a Tent. Go back out of the small room and go right and down to find a doorway into the lower part of the room. Go left and your party will talk about going through the water. The steps into the water are on the left side of the room. NOTE: On some emulators, you cannot see yourself while in the water. If that happens, turn off layer 2. Turn it back on when you enter a battle if you want the background. This only works for rooms which are partially underwater. For completely underwater rooms (like the next one), you'll need to rely on either another emulator :) or step-by-step directions. I'll give them. From the place where the water is lapping against your feet, go down 7 (you should hit a wall if you try to go down any further), right 6, and down one. New room. Left 3, down 3, left 3, face up, search (A) for 990 gil, left 1, up 2, left 1, up 6, right 1, up 5, right 3, up 2. New room. You should be able to see in part of this room. I'll give directions anyway. Left 4, down 2, right 1, up 6, right 1, search for a Phoenix Down. This room is just for treasure, so, left 1, down 6, left 1, up 2, right 4, down 1 to retrace your steps and get out of the room. Underwater again. Down 3. New room. Down 12, right 3. New room. Right 2, up 5, search for a Potion, left 2, up 5. Left 1, down 2, right 1 (or right 1, down 2, left 1, doesn't matter), down 6. You're out! The stairs to the lower level (don't they ever drown?) are in the lower right corner of the underwater area. In the next room, go left, down the steps, and left over to the box with the skull and crossbones. Search it for 990 gil. Then go left and up the ramp. Soon you will see two doors. Go into the upper one, then go left, down the ramp, right, and up to get to a chest containing a Phoenix Down. Retrace your steps to the two doors and enter the lower one. Go straight down to descend the ramp. The stairs are in the lower right corner. In the next room, go right and up to find a chest containing a Potion. Then go left a bit and up the stairs. In the next room, go around the stairs on either side, but then center yourself again and walk straight down and out the door. In the next (dry!) room you get an event and automatically rest; you can come back here to be healed. Go through the upper right door and save at the Save Point. Go straight up through two empty rooms and then you'll be out in the open air again. Go right, then down (you can hop across the rock to the ship, but there's nothing there ‹ and you can just walk through those small patches of water between the boards), then hop right to get to the ship. Go in the door and look at the yellow thing (a map, surprisingly intact for something that's been sitting around the ship's graveyard for who knows how many years) to get the World Map. When you get outside to the world map you can look at it by pushing Y. Go right and down the stairs and get the three chests (2 Antidotes and a Phoenix Down). Go back upstairs and go outside. Go right and hop along the rocks. Open the chest (it's empty) to make the ship you're on resurface. Then go up (be sure to be healed) and hop across the rocks to get an event and a boss. BOSS: Siren Same as usual. Have your fighters attack while your White Mage heals and your Black Mage attacks (magic is ineffective). When she turns into an undead, have your White Mage attack with Cure since the fighters won't be doing as much damage. Your Black Mage can also use Fire very effectively now. You'll win a Bronze Shield for defeating her. Leave by going up. You'll find yourself back outside again (finally), so save and also check out your World Map. The big cross is you and the little crosses are locations to visit. There's a little cross right under you, in fact, for the Ship's Graveyard. Note the closest one below you (there's one off to your right that you'll visit soon, but not now) and go there. Carwen Treasures: 1000 gil, Antidote, Ice Rod Carwen is a ways off, so you might need to use a Tent. When you get there, go up, a bit right, and under the walkway. Search the second from the left of the five barrels you see to get an Antidote. Visit the shops and buy equipment and spells. New spells are Sleep (Black) and Mute and Armor (White). Buy Daggers for Black Mages and Thieves (unless you've already got 4 by winning them from Skeletons in the ship's graveyard), Regal Cutlasses and Bronze armor for Knights, Copper Plate for Monks, and Cotton Robes for White and Black Mages. Down below the pub is a ramp leading to the lower level, and a woman is standing in a garden or somesuch right next to the ramp. Talk to her for a very short event. After that, enter the pub, play the piano (number two), and go upstairs and talk to the man there for another short event. On the first floor of the pub, there's a secret passage in the lower left corner. It leads to three barrels or pots. Search the topmost one for 1000 gil. Down below the woman who told you about Worus are some crates by the dock. Walk between and look for a secret passage to some more crates. The bottom crate there contains an Ice Rod. Drop by the item shop to pick up supplies if you need to, and heal up at the inn. Leave town. North Mountain Treasures: Mythril Helmet, Phoenix Down, Power Drink, Soft, Whip Remember that mark on the map right of the Ship's Graveyard? Go there now. It's a long walk, so use a tent when you get to the North Mountain. Save and enter. Go straight up and into the door. Go down first, and collect the chest with the Phoenix Down. Then go up, past where you came in, and follow the path until you see the exit from the cave and a path going down. Follow the path down to a chest containing a Soft potion. Go back up and out the door. Go up, following the path until you see another door. Go in there and follow the path until you reach the exit. Out here are purple flowers. Don't step on them: they'll poison you. Go right, up the long ramp, and left (either around or through the flowers) to the door. Inside is a save point. Use a tent, save, and continue through the door on the left. Go left to have an event and a boss. (King Tycoon's helmet is added to your inventory as a Mythril Helmet.) BOSS: Magisa and Forza Note that Lenna starts this battle poisoned. Hit them for all you're worth. At first it'll only be Magisa, but soon Forza will show up. Get either one out of the picture, then take out the other. Ice works well on both, as does plain old whacking. The White Mage should use Cure or (if given the opportunity) Armor. You get a Power Drink and a Whip for beating them. It is possible to beat Magisa before Forza arrives, but you only get a Whip if you do that. Then again, you save yourself a lot of trouble. Continue left and go through the door. Go up for an event. Now you can fly around everywhere you want, except over mountains (which kind of limits the places you can go in this mountain-surrounded area). The Hiryuu can only land on grass (the meteor's rut counts as grass, btw). Worus Blue spells: Frog Song Treasures: 490 gil, 1000 gil x2, Drag (spell), Elf Cape, Glasses, Ice Rod, Phoenix Down, Tent Worus is almost due south (slightly west) of Carwen. Fly there on the Hiryuu. First, enter Castle Worus. Go up through the main gate and into the castle, then go up to enter the throne room for an event. Time to explore the castle. From the throne room, go down, right, through the door, up, right, down, and down the stairs to the storage room. Of the three barrels in the lower right corner, search the top one to find a Phoenix Down. Search the barrel in the upper left for a Tent, and the right crate in the upper left for 490 gil. There aren't any other easily gotten treasures in the castle. There are some well guarded ones, though. Go back outside and save, and make everyone a Monk (high HP), preferably with White magic as an ability. Then make your way back to the main hall (the room before the throne room). Go down the stairs this time, then go right, up through two doors, and down the stairs. Down here the only monster you meet is Garkimasera, who can quite easily kill you. So if you have a Thief with the Escape ability, use it. Otherwise, just run. You want to follow the path until it forks, then take the right fork. Search all three pots. The middle one contains Dimension magic Drag, and the two on the sides each contain 1000 gil. Return to the fork and go left. Follow the path until you get to a chest containing an Elf Cape. Then get back to the stairs and leave. It's extremely unlikely that you'll survive a trip down there at this point in the game, but give it a shot or two. Don't waste any more than one Phoenix Down (remember they cost 1000 gil each). The other well guarded treasure is the Esper Shiva, who is held atop the water tower of the castle. To get to her, go down the stairs from the main hall and out the door in the lower right. Then follow the path to the waterway, and go up until you reach a big waterfall. Head into the center of the waterfall to enter the water tower. Go over to the ramp on the left, descend, and go through the door. Then just go around the central block in each room and climb the stairs. You can learn "Frog Song" from the Elf Toads here. Shiva is on 4F. Talk to her if you dare. At this point in the game, the battle is very tough. The boss strategy is in the Karnak section. If you don't want to fight her, either go back down or go straight down from where she is to go out a door and fall down the waterfall you saw. One last thing about Castle Worus: don't let the prisoners out of jail. Lone Wolf is the only one you can actually let out, and so far I've found no benefit to doing so, and even a disadvantage (he steals two treasures later in the game). Anyway, when you're done with the castle, head into town. Buy new equipment (I'm not going to tell you what to get for who: I trust that you have sense enough to figure it out yourself) and spells. Actually, if you're low on cash the spells can wait until later, since you can't use these spells until you get the Summoner and Time Mage Jobs. But if you have money, just buy them all now. That Drag spell in the basement of the castle is also something you need a Time Mage to use, so you can use that as an excuse not to go down there just yet. When you're done shopping, head to the lower left of the area you've been running around in (in town), and there you will find a ramp leading into the water. Go down the ramp and up another one just to the left to enter a building. On the far right is a pot which contains Glasses. That's all the treasures in this town, so leave and climb aboard your Hiryuu again. (And no, there's no pub, so no piano, so you can't improve your skills here.) Worus Tower Treasures: Ether, Hi-Potion, Maiden's Kiss, Silk Robe, Silver Ring Fly the Hiryuu to the Worus Tower, save, and enter. Talk to the two downed soldiers to learn about the situation, then start climbing. You find the King on 4F, near a pillar covered with vines. Enter the pool on the left from the top, and climb the pillar (face it from below). There's a chest up there, containing a Silk Robe (equip on a mage). Step on the hole to drop back down, and go up the stairs. There's a semi-hidden passage to the right of the save point here, leading to a chest containing a Maiden's Kiss (cures frog status). Rest and save at the save point. Continue onward, until you reach 8F. There aren't any stairs here, just three vines. Ignore the pillar and go up the left vine on the wall. Collect the treasure (Silver Ring) and go back down the hole, then climb up the right vine. Collect the treasure there (Ether), and go up the stairs. You can't climb the vines here. The Water Crystal is here on 10F. Galura proceeds to dispatch a warrior and attack you. BOSS: Galura This guy hits hard and fast. The best way to beat him is to Mute him and cast Frog Song on him to turn him into a frog. Then pummel him with weapons and Ice magic (Aero also works well) while the White Mage heals everyone up from the damage he caused before you turned him into a frog. Keep in mind that eventually the Mute will wear off, and he'll change back, but hopefully you can kill him by that time. Alternatively you could fight a defensive battle, but it's much slower. You get a Hi Potion for beating him. You get a short event. Go around and pick up the Crystal shards (there's one you can't get). Here are the Jobs you get: Berserker, Mystic Knight, Time Mage, Summoner, Red Mage After you pick up the fifth one (and are going over to try to reach for the sixth), the tower starts shaking, and a door appears nearby. Since you can't get the last Crystal shard anyway, go out the door. Watch the sad event. Worus Revisited Treasures: None (unless you want to get some that you didn't get before) You and the Hiryuu end up near the meteor. Hop on the Hiryuu and fly back to Worus. Change your jobs around (since you have new ones; you can always keep the old ones if you want to). My suggestion would be to have a Mystic Knight, a Red Mage (since you don't know any level 4+ white or black magic yet, it doesn't limit you), a Time Mage, and a Summoner. You can always tack on the old abilities of previous classes, remember. Outfit your equipment in the town (keep in mind that Red Mages can use swords), then head to the castle. Go to the throne room, then right and up the stairs. Talk to the two women (you'll be following the left one's advice in the next section) and then the king for a short event. Also go to the soldiers' room and talk to the wounded soldier from Karnak (pretty obvious how to get to Karnak now). Leave the castle and hop on the Hiryuu. Tycoon Treasures: Cabin, Elixir x2, Ether x2, Giyaman's Bell, Healing Staff, Hi-Potion, Katana, Maiden's Kiss, Phoenix Down x2, Shuriken Follow the mountains below you to the left until you reach a gap, then fly into that gap and south (you should be in the area you started in). Fly right over the meteor and land by the castle of Tycoon. Talk to the guard to enter. First go straight up for an event. Leave the room and go down the stairs. Search the right pot for a Hi-Potion. Go through the other door to reach the main hall. Go up through the central door to get to the throne room. Go through the upper right door and go upstairs until you reach 4F (the room with all the pots). Search the one just to right of the stairs down for an Elixir, the next one to the right for a Phoenix Down, and the one on the right wall for a Maiden's Kiss. The one next to the stairs on the left contains an Ether, and the last two are empty. Go back downstairs (nothing interesting up) and return to the main hall. Go through the door and up the stairs on the right. Go into the door and search the pot and barrel to the right for an Ether and a Cabin, respectively. The barrel in the lower left corner contains an Elixir, and the barrel next to it contains a Phoenix Down. Go back to the main hall and exit via the bottom door. Once in the courtyard, go left and down the ramp, then follow the path until you get to a door. In this room, push the switch on the wall to show a door, then walk into the door and move through the secret passage (you can see it with a Thief or the Passages ability, otherwise you have to blunder your way through). Talk to the Chancellor to get the Healing Staff. Open the chests to get a Katana, Shuriken, and Giyaman's Bell. Retrace your steps and leave the castle (talk to everyone, of course). Meteor at Worus, Meteor at Karnak Blue spells: ???? Fly the Hiryuu back to the meteor near Worus, and go inside (there's a hole for that purpose). Go around and downstairs, and step on the warp for a little event. You'll be warped to the meteor near (actually quite far from) Karnak. Check out your map. That flashing cross west-northwest of you is Karnak, but you'll have to go around and approach from the north. So start trudging. Sylph is a good Summon to use for now, since it both heals you and does a respectable 150-200 damage (most of the time). Also, learn "????" from the Wild Nack monsters in the forest. It'll do to you the total damage you've done to the monster (it does Max HP - HP, thus injuring the enemy as much as the caster is injured), so wait for them to use an attack, with a slight pause beforehand, which does 0 damage. (There will *not* be a name popping up at the top of the screen.) Karnak Treasures: Shiva (spell) When you do get to Karnak, they won't let you into the castle or the steamship, so look around the town. Go to the pub and play the piano (number three). Have a rest at the inn, then buy something at the weapon or armor shop (I suggest a Mythril sword, since this is the only time you can get it so cheaply). Another event will occur. Trudge around in your jail cell for a while until an event happens. Go right, up, and upstairs, then go straight up, around and down, and upstairs. Go up and right and upstairs, then go right, down and out the door. Note that there are lots of treasure chests around, but they're all blocked by flames. Go down to see a tiny event, then go straight down to get outside. Visit Karnak and buy stuff. The spell shop is open now, and you can freely buy weapons and armor (but the prices have gone up). Now that you have the Fire 2 spell, return to the Worus water tower (yes, I know it's a long walk) and get the Shiva Esper. Trust me, it'll make life much easier. BOSS: Shiva Throw Fire 2 around at all enemies, while you use Cure 2 on the party. Mystic Knights should cast Fire 2 on their swords and then whack. Here's where having a Red Mage, with other characters having White and Black magic as abilities comes in handy. White can continually Cure 2, Black can continually Fire 2, and Red can do whatever's necessary. Shiva isn't too tough a boss, anyway. You get an Ice Rod for beating her. Steamship Blue spells: Exploder, Flash Treasures: Cabin, Elixir x3, Flame Scroll or Fire Bow, Full Moon, Green Beret, Mythril Glove, Phoenix Down, Thief Glove Once you've gotten yourself completely and utterly ready (Cid wasn't joking when he said to be totally prepared), head to the steamship right next to Castle Karnak. When you enter, Cid leads you to a door which you automatically enter. Go right and down the stairs. Then go around and down, and down the stairs. From here on, there are monsters. Be sure to learn "Flash" from Crew Dust (it'll use it when alone). Also, if you beat a solitary Defeater, it will leave two Motor Traps, and if you use Bolt (not Bolt 2, since that would kill it) on one of them, it'll counter with "Exploder," another Blue spell. Go left, up, and into the nearest door to get a Mythril Glove. Leave the room and continue left, climb the ramp, and go left, down, and up the stairs. Go right, up, and through the door to find an Elixir. Retrace your steps back to the room below and go up. Go down the ramp on the left and collect the chest (Cabin), then go back up the ramp and right, down, and downstairs for an Elixir. Go upstairs, up, left a bit, and up and through the door to the elevator. Flip the red lever on the left to make it go, then go down to exit. Go right and get the Phoenix Down, then go left, up, up the ramp, and through the door to reach another elevator. Go back down and exit. Go left and up and follow the pipe to a small ladder. Then follow that pipe to another ladder, and then go straight up and through the door. Go up the elevator, exit, and enter the rightmost of the four pipes on the lower side of the room. It'll take you to a mess of conveyers, which will drop you in another room. Go right, and enter and follow the pipes to a Green Beret. Then go down the nearby ramp, across the conveyer, and through the door. Go up the elevator to find yourself in the same room with four pipes. Take the second from the right this time, and it'll drop you by a chest you might've seen earlier. It contains a Thief Glove. Hop on the conveyer and go up the ramp and through the pipes the same way you did the first time. When you get to the room with the four pipes again, go into the second one from the left (the furthest left leads nowhere interesting). Go up the nearby stairs and flip the switch. This one doesn't activate an elevator, but it does open a door. Go inside, collect the Full Moon, and return downstairs. This time enter the door on the left, then enter the left door in the room that follows (the right door, across the conveyer, takes you back to the other area). Here you'll find a save point. Do the usual tent and save. Go up through the door and as far up as you can go in the next room, then hit the switch from the right. Hit the switch you end up next to, then go down and hit the last switch in this area that you haven't touched yet. Go right across the new bridge and hit both switches. Go down and hit the upper switch while standing on the platform. (Don't hit the lower switch while standing on the other platform: it'll take you back to the beginning with no way to return.) Go left and up and get the chest (Elixir), then go back down, right, and through the door. Here you find the power room of the steamship. Watch the short event, and prepare to fight a boss. BOSS: Liquid Flame Pound it with Ice 2, Shiva, and an Ice 2 enchanted sword. It'll change forms every once in a while. Be careful when attacking it in hand form (be ready to heal), but it'll change into something else after one hit. You'll get a Flame Scroll or a Fire Bow when you beat it. Listen to the Queen. Go straight up and through the pipe to reach the Fire Crystal. Another event will occur. Escape from Castle Karnak Blue spells: Aero 2 (if you have time), Death Claw Treasures: 2000 gil x3, Elf Cape, Elixir x6, Guardian, Heal (spell) Ribbon, Shuriken, Thunder Scroll First off, you're automatically dashing, and secondly, you need to dash since you only have 10 minutes to get out of the castle. That wouldn't be too much trouble except this is your only opportunity to get all those chests that were oh, so conveniently blocked with flames earlier. Anyway, you start off in a room with a save point, so save quickly and reset if you don't manage to get however many chests you want and get out of the castle. Oh, and thirdly... all but three of the chests contain monsters in addition to treasures. Have fun! Go down, left, and search the pot to heal since your status isn't recovered automatically. OR use a Tent, which might actually take less time. Regardless, you *will* need to heal. Go straight up from the save point, then up and right and into the nearest cell. Open the chest for 2000 gil(the ones which contain money are the ones which have no monsters). Then run around and enter the upper right cell and open the chest there. Kill off all the monsters using Shiva and Ice 2 (this applies to every last battle), and you'll get an Elixir from the chest. Go right, up, and upstairs. On each side of this room is a treasure. The chest on the right contains a Shuriken. I forgot to mention, that some of the chests contain a monster called Gigas. He'll use "Aero 2" on you (Blue spell), but don't kill time trying to get him to use it. The chest on the left contains a Ribbon. Go up through the center door, then go around, down, and upstairs again (no treasures in this room). Go up and right and upstairs (again, no treasures). Go into the nearest door and upstairs. Collect the treasures from this room (2 Elixirs and 2000 gil) and go up the stairs in the upper left corner. Run along the castle wall and go down the stairs. Go down and downstairs, then up and downstairs, and then down to a chest containing an Elf Cape. Go back to the room with all the chests (up and upstairs, down and upstairs, up and upstairs, along the wall, downstairs) and go out the door you came in (in the middle). Go across the hall and go into the equivalent door on the other side (there's nothing up the center aisle). Repeat the exact same process on this side. The chests in the big room contain 2000 gil and 3 Elixirs, and the chest that you have to run all that way for contains a Guardian dagger. Return to the main hall, and this time go down. Get the chests on the left and right for the Heal spell and a Thunder Scroll. Now, heal up, and go out the door. Go down and you'll be attacked. BOSS: Iron Claw At first this may seem to be another one of those random battles against a Sergeant and three Karnaks, but soon the Sergeant's true form will be revealed. If you have time, try to learn "Death Claw" from him. If not, don't. Iron Claw is still pretty wimpy. Use Ice 2 and Shiva. Whacking is fairly ineffective: you'll do damage, but not too much. If you're low on time, try going into a magic menu while spell effects are taking place. You need at least a minute to beat him. You don't get any treasure when he dies. After the battle, hurry and run down and out. You get a short event and some new jobs. You'll get the following jobs from them: Ninja, Mediator, Geomancer. Be sure to give the Mediator to someone. The Control ability (level 2) is incredibly useful. The Ancient Library Blue spells: Aero 2 (if you didn't get it in Castle Karnak), Fusion, Level 5 Doom, Magic Hammer, Moon Flute Treasures: Ether, Fire Rod, Flame Scroll, Ifrit (spell), Phoenix Down, Protect Drink, Stealth Robe Go to the steamship and talk to Cid, and he'll run off. Visit Karnak and heal up, buy items, whatever you need to do. There's a new guy selling weapons in the weapon/armor shop. Also, visit Cid on the second floor of the pub for a tiny event. Before you leave, go to the castle wall (stairs are in the upper right) and go left along the wall until you reach a barrel. Search the barrel for a Fire Rod. Leave town and go west. Part of the wall that was blocking the path blew up with the castle. Just follow the map to the next flashing cross. Oh, and try not to be attacked in the desert. The Dohlm Chimera is very dangerous. Run (if you can) if you meet it. Hopefully your party's levels are around 15. If they're 15 exactly, kill one person and keep fighting with everyone else until they gain a level. If they're under 15, get everyone up to level 14, close to level 15, then kill three people and have the last person gain a level. If they're over 15, well... come back here when you near 20. In any case, one person in your party should be level 15, and the rest should be either 14 or 16. When you reach the Ancient Library, the scholars will be going around fussing over Mid being missing. Talk to everyone, look at the pot in the second room for healing, and go back outside and save. Now go back in, and up to the roof of the library. Look at the right hand book to be attacked. In this battle, you will (hopefully) cycle through all four of the Page enemies before winning. If you don't, meet the appropriate monsters randomly lower in the library, and learn the spells then. If you do, try to learn "Aero 2" from Page 32 (if you didn't get it from the Gigas monsters), "Level 5 Doom" from Page 64 (that's why you wanted one, and only one person to be level 15), and "Moon Flute" from Page 256. Apparently Page 128 doesn't have any useful Blue spells. Talk to the people on the roof, look at the other two books, and heal yourself again. Now get everyone in your party to level 16 or above, because you don't want to have Level 5 Doom working on you any more, now that you've learned it. Remember that you can always heal yourself on the second floor of the library. While you're leveling up outside, try to learn "Fusion" from the Mithril Dragon monsters. There are two ways to get it. First, have a Mediator get the Control command, and use that. Second, kill off all but one of them (should there be more than one), then get its HP pretty low and cast Charm on it. With any luck it'll use Fusion on you. If you want to risk going down a short ways into the library, you might want to get the Esper Ifrit. If so, then do the following: Enter the door on the lower floor of the Ancient Library. Go straight up and the bookshelf will move. Step into the gap between books on your left, and the bookshelf will move back. Go through the bookshelves on the right using the gaps, and climb up the ramp. Walk along the top of the bookshelves to the right, and when you reach the end of the path, another bookshelf should move to allow you to continue further. Keep going to the end of the path (skip the ramp), and the bookshelf should move back. Now go down the ramp and search the bookshelf with the black bit below it. It'll move to reveal a stairway (the big black blob). Go downstairs. You can now be attacked by random monsters. Go down and right and open the chest (Ether). Go all the way left, down, right and out the door. Go down the ramp, left, up, all the way left, up the ramp, and search the bookshelf. Go into the gap, walk along the bookshelf, and go through the gap to reach a room with a book. Search the book to get into a battle with Ifrit. BOSS: Ifrit Really easy. He only uses Flame (hits all allies for 80-100 damage) with the occasional Fire 2 (hits one ally for about 250 damage). Use Ice 2 and Shiva, and have someone cast Cure 2 every round, either on one person (Fire 2) or the whole group (Flame). You win a Flame Scroll. Once you've gotten Ifrit, get out of there. Retrace your steps to the room with the shifting bookshelves. Go stand in the lower right corner to get the bookshelf to move to the right, then make your way back to the ramp down. Go all the way left from the bottom of the ramp and the bookshelf will move. Return to where you stepped in the gap to move the bookshelf. There, just face the bookshelf where it opens up, and it'll move. Go down, out the door, upstairs to heal, and outside to save. And now you have Ifrit! Once you've gotten Ifrit, battles outside are a little easier. But don't venture down into the library if you've still got a level multiple of 5. It's very irritating to get almost all the way down to be killed by Level 5 Doom. When you're ready, retrace your steps to the area where you got Ifrit, but instead of going up the ramp, go into the nearby door. If you tried this earlier, the bookshelf would block your way, but Ifrit ... makes it behave. Ifrit's a mandatory summon, unlike Shiva (who's optional but useful). From there, go past the bookshelf, left, and down through the gap in the books and down the ramp. Open the chest (Stealth Robe) and return to the room with the bookshelf, this time taking the upper gap. Go right, down the ramp, left (right leads to a dead end), and all the way down. Open the chest for a Phoenix Down. Go up, take the first right, and go out the door. Go right and into the gap. Go up and stand at the left end of the bookshelf to get it to move. Go up, right, and search the upper bookshelf from the small ramp to get the lower bookshelf to move. Go down, right, and search the bookshelf from the small ramp there to find a book (containing a monster of course), and then opening into a passage. Go into the newly created gap (the door below leads nowhere). There's a save point here. Rest, save, and go down the ramp on the right. Go left and into the door, then up. You'll be attacked by a mean boss. BOSS: Byblos Hit him with fire-element attacks, Fire 2 and Ifrit. Keep your HP up with Cure 2, and try to learn his "Magic Hammer" Blue spell. The battle is much easier if you use Haste (Dimension) and Armor (White) to defend yourself. You get a Protect Drink for beating him. After the battle, go up and talk to Mid for an event. Karnak Revisited Heal up at the pot at the Ancient Library, then trudge all the way back to Karnak. Heal up at the inn there, then go to the second floor of the pub for an event. Leave the pub and the town and go to the steamship yourself. Watch the event. In the morning, go talk to the sleeping Cid. After an event, you take control of the ship and sail off. You can sail anywhere in the world (you can't land if there isn't a beach, of course), but there's one little problem: unlike the pirate ship, monsters will attack the steamship. But they're weak, and most of them are easily dispatched with Bolt 2. Jacole Sail south from Karnak, then east around the cape near the Ancient Library, then due south from there until you hit land. If you look on the map, a short ways west, and a little south is a flashing cross (it's the furthest southwest cross on the map). Go there, though you'll have to walk most of the way, since the path is surrounded by mountains. Ignore the cave you pass on the way. This town is Jacole. There really isn't much of anything interesting here. There's a piano at the pub (number four), and the weapon and armor shops have good stuff, but there aren't any new spells. One of the men in the pub has some useful information about skull switches. When you're finished shopping, leave town. Cave of Jacole Treasures: Shuriken, Tent, Thunder Whip Head back up to the cave you passed earlier, and save (important) and enter. In this cave are only two types of enemies: Nut Eaters (which you saw back near Tule) and Skull Eaters. Run from Skull Eaters. They can easily do 1000+ HP damage in one hit. Sometimes they'll use Escape, however, and you can get 5 ABP from them that way. But don't rely on it. Make sure everyone can cast Life, or at least two people in case your White magic user gets killed. Go down and push the lower skull switch. Then go right, down, right, down, and right to about the middle of the row of skull switches. When all but one disappear, run over to that one and quickly push it before the others reappear. When you succeed, go left, up, right, and up to the empty chest. Search it to find a button, which you should push to open the nearby door. Go down and into the door. Follow the path until it forks, then go left, and left again. Open the chest to get a Shuriken. Go back to the second fork (first going this way) and go down and around and get that chest (Tent). Go back to the fork, and go right and right again. Follow the path until you reach another fork, and this time go down and left. Keep going until you reach a treasure chest. Open it for a Thunder Whip. Go back to the fork and return the way you came. If you'd gone up, you would have come to a dead end wall which you could have climbed to get outside in an enclosed area (like that door in the cave to the pirate base). Just remember how to get here. Anyway, follow the path back to the first fork you came to and go down, follow the path and go out the door. In the next room (the first room), go down, left, and up, and push the skull switch. Go left, up, and push the skull switch by the door to open it. Then go out the door. Return to the steamship. Crescent Treasures: Vitality Song Go south along the coast until you reach a gap between two islands, then go due east (there's a flashing cross in the lower right area of the map if you're confused). You should eventually reach a crescent (backwards C) shaped island. Get off the steamship and enter the town. Almost as soon as you step inside, there will be an earthquake. Try to leave town. Since you're stuck here, you may as well explore the town. Go to the lower right corner and enter the house. Talk to the bard to learn the Vitality song. Also play the piano (number five) while you're here. Talk to the old man in the inn, who'll say something different depending on which kid you talked to before him. The armor and spell shops have nothing new, and you can't equip anything from the weapon shop. Rest at the inn, buy some items, and leave town. Go south to the small circular forest and step in the middle of it to enter. Go up to see a black Chocobo. Butz will try to catch it. It's not easy to catch. Talk to Galuf if you want to leave, but you have to catch it eventually. When you finally do catch it, you get an event. When it's over, you'll have two new jobs and a black Chocobo you can control. You can only land in forests, though. The new Jobs you gained are: Hunter, Bard. Lix Treasures: Charm Song Fly your Chocobo either south or north until you get to the Wind Shrine, then go just to the northwest to find a town surrounded by forests and mountains. This is Lix, Butz's hometown. Talk to people around here if you like. Butz's house is on a hill, right above the inn. Go in there and look at the pink music box on the table. You'll get a flashback to Butz's past. Talk to the bard after the flashback to get the Charm song. Go outside and look for a scholar-like person near the central pond. Talk to him for another flashback. Rest in the inn (for free, this time and every time) for yet another flashback. The stores in town don't sell much of anything interesting - although the item store is half price - so leave. Istory Treasures: Love Song, Ramuh (spell), Toad (spell) Fly over to the northwest cross on the world map and land in the forest next to the town there. Enter the town. This is Istory. Go to the upper left corner of town and walk around the flower bed until a toad hops out. You'll automatically go over and get the Toad spell. Now go to the big sheep pen and talk to the sheep in the upper left that standing still. It ought to kick you over the fence. If it doesn't, talk to it from behind (the left). Talk to the bard there and say Yes to get the Love song. Then work your way through the trees and leave town. Again, the shops have little of interest. The armor shop has some very nice rings for sale, but at outrageous prices (50,000 gil apiece). One person in town mentioned some man who throws thunder in the larger of the forests to the east. Go there and check it out (heal first). Wander around in the forest until you hear boss music and meet Ramuh. BOSS: Ramuh He uses thunder attacks a lot, so keep your HP up. If you can, use the Blue magic Death Claw. Any elemental attack except Bolt works well. He and Ifrit will have a short chat before the battle ends. You get the item "Ramuh" when you beat him. Use it to add Ramuh to your Esper list. Ancient Library Revisited Hop on your black Chocobo again and fly to the Ancient Library. When you enter, Cid and Mid will show up for an event. You end up outside of the library. Go back inside to heal up at the pot. Then start walking towards the Quicksand Desert. Quicksand Desert Save and heal before entering the desert. Try to step on the quicksand. When Cid and Mid ask you if you're ready, say Yes and they'll call the Sand Worm. BOSS: Sand Worm There are three holes in the ground, and the Sand Worm will continually go down from where it is and pop up from another hole. Never attack a hole. Always be certain that your attack will hit the Sand Worm. Provided you attack carefully, this is a very easy battle. Use Ice 2 and physical attacks. Avoid summons, since they hit all enemies (and thus the holes). You could use Sylph summon though. Heal up after it uses Quicksand. Go outside, rest and save, then return. Cross the worm bridge and go down from the end of it. Ride the quicksand, then take two steps down and ride the quicksand some more. Go two steps down, two steps left, and two more steps down and ride the quicksand. Step down and ride the quicksand. Step left, and go down and ride the quicksand, then go straight down to get out. Walk south until you reach a town of sorts. Ruined City Treasures: Ice Bow, Shuriken x2, Size (spell) Enter the town and try to go up the central stairway, and you'll see King Tycoon. Follow him to the right and try to enter the lower right building from the lower left corner. He'll show up and run off again. Go back to the central stairs, and start to climb them, and he'll run into a building at the top of the hill. Follow him into the building. You fall into some strange place. Head left and up through the door. Go straight up and stand in the square and you'll be teleported to some place near Crescent. Go right and up the stairs. Go straight up, then around and down through the door. Go straight down and go to sleep. Look at the lever at the bottom of the left room. Say Yes to push it. Go look at the furthest right flowers in the middle room, then at the sheet of paper in the right room. Search the left pot in the left room, then search the book that's been knocked down. After that, go look at the lever again, and say Yes to pull it. Open the chests for 2 Shurikens and the White magic of Size. (Alternatively, you could just have said No to push the lever and would then have gotten the option to pull it.) Leave this room entirely and push the lever at the top of the next room to open the door at the top. Go through that door to find a save point. You shouldn't need a tent, having just rested, but make sure to save. Go through the door at the top, then go right, down the long ramp, and through the door. You'll find the sunken steamship, and if you continue to the right you'll find a mysterious ship with propellers. You get an event. Go downstairs, down and downstairs, and talk to Cid for more of the event. Go left, up, and talk to Cid again for yet more of the event, but then something finally decides to interrupt your event-watching and starts pulling on the airship. You know what that means.... BOSS: Cray Claw Use Bolt 2, Ramuh, and throw Thunder Scrolls (if you have a Ninja). Keep your HP up, because he can hit pretty hard. Then again, if you attack quickly enough he won't even have a chance to hit you. You get an Ice bow for killing him. You get a short event. Fly back to where the Ruined City is and watch as the Lonka Ruins rise into the air. Go back to the Catapult (Mid refers to this place by this name later in the game, so that's what I'll call it). Approach the bridge to the steamship for an event. Meteor at Tycoon Revisited Treasures: Turtle Shell Fly the airship back to the meteor near Tycoon, heal up, and enter. Make your way to the meteor itself, and walk up to the center. Galuf will find a hidden switch and open the door. Enter the meteor, and search the purple blob on the back wall to get the Adamantium. As you're leaving, however, a boss attacks. BOSS: Adamantaimai The easiest way to kill him is to use Level 5 Doom. If you don't have that, or don't want to use that, hit him with Ice 2, Shiva, and heal yourself with Cure 2 (and try to find some time to cast Armor to lessen his attacks). You get a Turtle Shell for defeating him. Exit the meteor area and return to the Catapult. When you approach the bridge to the steamship, you get an event. Lonka Ruins Blue spells: Aqua Rake, Blowfish, Dark Shock, Emission, Missile, White Wind Treasures: 5000 gil, Ancient Sword, Cabin, Dark Matter, Elixir, Ether, Full Moon, Gold Armor, Gold Shield, Hero Drink, Hi-Potion x3, Phoenix Down, Power Ring, Shuriken First off, land the airship and save. Then you might want to run around and build up Jobs if you like. There's a grassy place over the mountains south of Castle Tycoon where every battle below the halfway-down line yields 3 ABP (battles above are just Goblins), but the monsters (Black Flame) are hard to hit. Try to learn "Dark Shock" from them. If you get your levels high enough, you might also want to try going to the desert near the Ancient Library and fighting the Dohlm Chimeras there. They also give 3 ABP, and you can learn "Aqua Rake" from them. When you're ready, do as Cid said by pressing A and choosing to go up. Go to the left and right of the ruins and fight the cannons, one at a time. If you need to heal, you can always go back down: the cannons will stay beaten. Be sure to learn "Missile" from the Rockets, and "Emission" from the Flameguns. Death Claw works on all the cannons, though with fairly low success rate. When you've beaten them all, the big cannon (the boss) will appear. Be sure to be healed before taking on this one. BOSS: Sol Cannon It's accompanied by two annoying Launchers which shoot Aging missiles at you. Use Level 5 Doom to get rid of them. After that, just pound the boss with Bolt 2, Ramuh, and strong weapons. Use Cure 2 after it fires (luckily, it takes a long time to recharge). You'll get 2 Hi-Potions and some Dark Matter for killing it. Fly into the hole left by the cannon to enter the Lonka Ruins. Be sure to learn "White Wind" from the Whirl Demons here and "Blowfish" from the Lamias. You'll have to Control both of them to get them to use it. Walk down and leave your airship via the bridge. Go down, left, up, and down the stairs on the left. Go down, and right (having the Passages ability makes this place much easier), all the way to the other side. Then make your way along the lower wall, down and to the left. Collect the chest (Gold Armor) and go down the stairs below it. Go down, left, down, and across the secret passage to the lower area. Go left and up the second path from the right. Look for secret passages to get to the chest, which contains an Elixir. Go back down and go up the path on the far left. Go all the way up, then right, down, and all the way to the right, picking up the chest with the Phoenix Down as you go. Go all the way down, and downstairs, then go up the other stairs, and head up and right until you reach a gap. Find a secret passage across the gap and go up and left to get to a chest containing a Gold Shield. Retrace your steps until you get back to the chest that held the Phoenix Down. Go up the nearby stairs to find a save point. Rest, save, and go back downstairs. Finally, go left, up, and down the stairs. Go down, right, up, and upstairs. Go up, left, and downstairs, then down and downstairs. Go down, right, down, and upstairs. Go up and get the Hi-Potion from the chest, then go right and downstairs. Follow the path and go upstairs. Don't go straight forward. The center square of the row below the bottom row of chests is a hole. So is the square just to the right of it. So go around and get the chests from the left side. They contain (left to right): 5000 gil, Shuriken, Ancient Sword, Full Moon, and Power Ring. Fall down the hole now (it's the fastest way) and go up the stairs to the lower left. Go up, right, all the way down, and downstairs. Go down, left, and upstairs, then right, down, around the hole, further down, left, up, left and up, and downstairs. Go down and upstairs to reach a save point. Go back downstairs, left and up, through the door, up and right, and upstairs. Go right, down, right, downstairs, down, and collect the chests (Cabin and Ether). Then go up, upstairs, left, down, down and right, and hit the switch. Go down the newly formed stairs below you. Go around and up, heal, and talk to King Tycoon. He sends you to kill the monster blocking the way to the Crystal. BOSS: Archaeo Avis Beat on this guy with magic. If your magic starts healing him, switch to a different element. He changes his weakness every now and then. Be sure to keep yourself healed, since this guy hits hard and a lot. After you kill his first form, he'll revive. When he revives, use Level 5 Doom to kill him easily. You'll get a Hero Drink when you beat him. Follow King Tycoon through the door for a long event. You get some more Crystal shards: Dragoon, Samurai, Chemist, Dancer. Meteors at Tycoon, Worus, Karnak, the Ruins Treasures: Hi-Potion, Phoenix Down, Potion, Titan (spell) Land the airship for a short event. Return to the Catapult and make your way back to the laboratory/bedroom area. Look at the piece of paper on the left side of the table in the right hand room. Rest in the beds and return to the airship. Go to the meteor at Tycoon and go inside. Watch the event. Return to the airship and go to the meteor at Karnak. Save before going inside. Talk to Cid. Go inside the meteor and inspect the green aura around the warp point to fight a boss. BOSS: Titan He's really easily beaten, but he'll use Earth Shaker when he dies, and that will probably kill you. One way to avoid that is to go to North Mountain (where you found the Hiryuu) and Control a Gala Cat and make it use Float on your party. Another way is to gain a lot of levels. When fighting him, Bolt 2 and Ramuh seem to work the best, but fire and ice elements probably work just as well. Be sure to have someone who can cast Cure 2 when needed. You get a Hi-Potion for beating him. You get to summon Titan once you've beaten him. Watch the tiny event. Heal up and head to the meteor at Worus. Go inside, talk to Cid, watch, and prepare to fight another boss. BOSS: Puroburos These guys are wimps if you have a Samurai in your party. Just use Gil Toss once and they're all dead. Of course, it costs you, money-wise, but there's no easier way to kill them. The moderately easy way is to use some attack that hits all of them for more or less equal damage, repeatedly (i.e. summons, Aqua Rake). The hard way is to kill them one at a time, making sure they're muted when they die (because they cast Life 2 on all their allies as they die). Much easier to use GP Rain. You get a Potion for beating them. Watch the tiny event. Heal up and head to the meteor at the ruins. Save, go inside, talk to Cid, and watch. Go inside the meteor, go around, up, and downstairs, and go down. There's a tiny event and then a boss. BOSS: Chimera Brain The easiest way to beat this guy is to use Death Claw, then whack him once. GP Rain will also do a decent amount of damage. Ice will heal him. Fire doesn't hurt him any more than normal, so you might want to stick with lightning or try out earth via Titan. If, of course, you want to do it the hard way. You get a Phoenix Down for beating him. Watch the tiny event and hop back into the airship. Drop by Tycoon and have a tiny event with the chancellor, then rest for another event. You can also see this flashback by talking to Jenica at the beginning of world 3, but *only if* you did not see it now. If there's anything you've been putting off doing (like going into the basement of Castle Worus for the Drag spell), do it now. You're not going to be any stronger in this world than you are right now. By the way, just as a checklist, here are the spells that it is possible to skip over (and therefore you should get before you leave): Size, Catapult; Toad, Istory; Drag, Castle Worus basement; Shiva, Castle Worus water tower; Ramuh, forest east of Istory. Warp Zone Head to the spot on the map that all the moving crosses are moving towards (it's due west of Worus). Save before entering, in case you forgot something. When you're ready, enter the blue spot and watch the event. WORLD TWO The Solitary Island (by comparison with FFVI) Treasures: Ether Use a tent (if you don't have any, you can win them from enemies on the island) and watch the event (you get a short event if you run around fighting battles for a while beforehand, hinting you to use a tent). Fight the boss that shows up with Butz alone. BOSS: Abductor This guy's really a wimp. So long as your job has good fighting skills, just pound on him and use the occasional Hi-Potion (or Cure 2, if you have White or Red magic as an ability) to heal. Watch out for its Hurricane attack which will reduce your HP to single digits. Whether you win or lose, the outcome is the same, so don't sweat it if you lose. You get an Ether if you beat it, though. If you win, open the chest. Watch the event that follows. If you lose, just watch the event. Escape from Exdeath Castle If Galuf isn't one of the fighter classes, make him one. You need to get down to the other party members and fight off a boss (who's a wimp) by yourself. Also be sure that you have some means by which to heal yourself. Go left, around the central structure, and down the stairs on the left side. Ignore the doors. Go right along the lower wall and downstairs. Go all the way left, until you can see a dead end to the left, then go up, then left and downstairs. Go down, following the path until you see a person. Heal up and approach. BOSS: Gilgamesh He's really a wimp. Pound on him with whatever you've got, and keep yourself healed. It's an easy battle. And he doesn't have any Genji stuff yet either, in case you've heard about that. Go back the way you came until you reach the room with the doors. This time, the bottom door will be open (the top is open too, and was before, but leads nowhere). Go through it to get outside. Save, but don't heal yet. Big Bridge Go south and west around the mountains until you reach a really long bridge. Heal up and save before entering here. When you're ready, enter and go straight up (it's easy for directions). You'll be attacked a few times as you go, but the monsters are nothing to worry about. Halfway across the bridge, you'll meet Gilgamesh again. BOSS: Gilgamesh He's not quite so much of a wimp as last time (after all, you've four people now, so the game needs to toughen him up a bit), but still pretty easy. Start off by casting Armor and Haste on everyone, while casting Cure 2 to heal. When everyone's ready, set a White magic user to casting Mute every round after the second, and have everyone pound on Gilgamesh for all they're worth. Titan is particularly effective. If you don't manage to Mute Gilgamesh by halfway through the battle, he casts Haste, Armor, and Shell on himself, making it much harder to get rid of him. GP Rain can be used for about 2000 damage in that state if you're getting desperate. And no, he still doesn't have any Genji stuff. When you reach the far end of the bridge, an event will occur and you'll be thrown to another continent. Rugor First thing you do, rest up and save. Next, head east. Check out your map (funny how the world map from one world would show the other world as well) and head for the nearest flashing cross. When you get there (it's a long way), you'll be in the village of Rugor. Sort out your jobs, then go shopping for new equipment. Buy all the new spells. Also visit the pub and look for a secret passage in the lower left corner. It leads to a piano (number six). Visit the inn and you'll stay for free (only once, though). During the night there will be a small event. In the morning, go out of town and run around and kill things. Keep killing until you have enough money to buy everything you need in town. Alternatively, you could just dance in the pub a whole bunch of times - each time you do, the bartender will give you 100 gil. Sealed Castle of Kuzar After you're ready to move on from Rugor, go due south, and you'll soon see a castle to the right. Note that you do not, by any means, need to go in there, but if you do, you can hear Galuf's explanation of the place, and also look around and see the treasures (which you can't take yet). So, if you're going to go in, heal up and save, and (important) give someone the Control command. If you don't have that ability yet (Mediator level 2), just skip the castle for now and come back later. Notes for when in the castle: Run from all enemies you can, but you can't run from the Shield Dragon. So control it and make it use Flame on itself several times until it dies. Piece of cake, and 1000 gil, 2500 experience and 5 ABP to boot. Enter the castle and go straight up and into the next room. Go straight up again. Go straight up a third time to get to the Sealed Room. Around this room are 12 treasures, apparently turned to stone. You can't get them. Walk down and watch the short event. The treasures, clockwise from the top are Excalibur (sword), Assassin Dagger, Sasuke's Katana, Holy Lance, Rune Axe, Masamune, Yoichi's Bow, Firebute (whip), Sage Staff, Wizard Rod, Apollo's Harp, and Earth Bell. When you're done, leave the castle the same way you came in. Underground River Treasures: 4400 gil, Phoenix Down After healing and saving, head south from Kuzar, then east along the northern coast. When you can go north, do so. Save before going east into the mountains and entering the forest there. Inside the forest, you will find none other than a genuine moogle! Talk to it for a short event. Jump into the hole after it. Go down into the river, then right and down into the river, then right and down to the treasure chest (4400 gil) and down into the river. Go right and down into the river, then left to the treasure chest (Phoenix Down). Go back to the right, ignoring the stairs, and up the ramps to the moogle and a boss. BOSS: Tyrasaurus This guy has a number of hard attacks, but generally just treat him as you would any undead, and keep your HP up so that Zombie Breath doesn't turn you into zombies. Cure and Fire work wonders, but the easiest way to kill him is to use Death Claw. After you beat the boss, you get an event. Observe the route the moogle takes, and the place he stops. The reason he doesn't go into the desert is because there's a nasty monster there that you can't run from. In fact, it's possible to take the long way around through grass and forest and not be attacked at all (are there even any monsters there to attack you?). So take the long way around, so you'll have the option of running. Moogle Forest Treasures: 1 gil, 10000 gil, Cabin, Dancing Dagger, Elf Cape, Ether, Phoenix Down When you get to the big forest, the place you want to go is the row just past the last row of mountains in the little tip on the north side of the gap, and just left of center (the center of the lower rows, anyway). Wander around in that area and you'll find it. Go up and the moogles will scatter. Your friend is in the upper right. Talk to him for a short event. Open the chests inside the tree for Ether, Phoenix Down, 10,000 gil, 1 gil, the Dancing dagger, and a Cabin. Then go outside. The moogles will be out and about now. Go more or less straight left and enter the right tree. Inspect the moogle to find it's really a moogle suit. Put it on. Exit this tree and enter the left tree. Talk to the moogle in there, and it'll open the chest (Elf Cape) for you out of love. You must be wearing a very beautiful moogle suit. Leave this tree and go back to the first one you entered. Your moogle friend will be standing outside. Talk to him for a longish event (your moogle suit disappears as soon as your party splits up). Castle Bal Treasures: Angel Suit, Epee, Exit (spell), Hero Drink, Lamia Harp When you can move, go to the left and open the chest for a Hero Drink, then go down through a secret passage and open the chest there for the Dimension magic of Exit. Go up, right, down and out the door. Go down and out the door. Go down, left, and into the second (left) door. Beyond the first door is an inn and item shop. Beyond this door are spell, weapons, and armor shops. There's a bit of new stuff (okay, just one piece of armor), but nothing much. Go upstairs, down and upstairs, right and down the hidden stairs, and up and downstairs. Open the chest for an Angel Suit. Look at the wall behind the weapon and armor sellers. See the switch there? Go to the same place behind the wall and search to open a door. Walk up to the middle of the counter for a short scene, and you'll be given a Lamia harp. Work your way back upstairs, downstairs, and out of the building. Go straight down into the pool of water, then go left to be sucked out into the moat. Go all the way around the moat until you reach the upper left corner, then go left to the end of the moat. Search the lower left corner of this dead end for an Epee. Work your way back to where you started in the moat, and push the switch there to be sucked back into the pool. Climb out of the pool and enter the castle proper (all the way to the right). Go up, then right and upstairs, then left, up, and upstairs. Go around and down and out the door. Talk to Cara for an event. Go back down to the main hall (the room below the throne room) and go down the stairs on the right. Save at the save point there. If you're up for it, there's a great place to gain ABP here. If you go downstairs from this room, you'll find the basement of the castle, and in this basement you can meet Statue monsters. They can easily be killed using Level 5 Doom or the Soft item (directed at them). They come in groups of two or five. The former gives about 1000 gil and 4 ABP, and the latter gives about 2500 gil and 8 ABP. If you've got a Blue Mage, or someone with the Blue command, and you know Level 5 Doom, then you can just hang around here and kill forever. You get enough money after each battle so that even if you need to heal at the inn every time, you can easily afford to. Plus, you'll be mastering jobs really quickly, and that'll give you an edge in the rest of the game. Of course, it does take forever (even at 4 or 8 ABP per battle), so if you'd rather not do this, go ahead and continue with the walkthrough. But I'd suggest taking out a few hours and leveling up your jobs here. Besides, you'll be filthy rich if you do it for long enough. Ready to continue? Leave the castle proper and head toward the front gate. There should be three soldiers standing there. Talk to the center one (or one of the side ones while standing in between them all). Watch the tiny event, say Yes, and prepare for a boss. BOSS: Abductor Remember this guy from the Solitary Island? Well, he's back, and apparently no more difficult than before. In fact, he's easier, since you have four party members. Just beat him up and continue on. Death Claw will work, if you're lazy. Go down to get outside. Kelb Treasures: Corna Jar, Potion x24, Requiem Song Now that you're outside of Castle Bal, head north and you'll soon see a small town blocking the way between some mountains. So enter the town. You'll notice that almost all the buildings are locked up, there are no people around, and the gate at the back that you need to pass through is also locked. So go into the center house. Go up and look at the locked door, then try to leave. Watch the event. Leave Kelgar's house and go to the lower left corner of town. Inspect the well and an old man will jump out. Go to the upper right corner of town and talk to the werewolves running around in a circle. One of them will give you the Requiem song. Go to the inn and sit at the left chair in the upper room three times. You'll get full healing and 8 Potions each time. Of course, you could always save these free heals for later, but inns are so cheap in this game that there's really no need to bother. As for that old man who jumped out of the well, he wants a frog. If you want to be nice and bring him one (and get a useful treasure in return), here's what to do. Make one of your party members a Mediator (or someone with the Catch command), go outside (preferably south), and walk around until you meet a monster named Conago (an orange frog). Kill the monsters it's with, then cast Stop on it and hit it with either multiple Demi spells or Death Claw. Then Catch it (it needs to be at or below 1/8 of its max HP) and go back into town. Talk to the old man again (you need to search the well to get him to pop out again), and he'll offer to trade you a jar for the frog and 10,000 gil. If you have the money to spare, say Yes. You'll get the Corna Jar, which lets you catch a monster at or below 1/2 of its max HP. So it's very useful if you catch monsters, and if you don't... well, it's still nice to have around in case you do. Just be sure to equip it (it goes in the relic slot) before you try to use it. It doesn't do any good just being carried around. Hiryuu Valley Blue spells: Magic Hammer (if you didn't get it earlier) Treasures: 5000 gil, 7000 gil, Air Blade, Bone Mail, Cabin, Coronet, Elixir, Golem (spell), Phoenix Down Leave Kelb through the north gate and go north. Enter the valley. The entrance is at the bottom of that solitary mountain in the middle of the forest. Sometime when in this valley, you'll encounter a monster called "Golem" fighting two other monsters. Help the Golem out (heal it, kill the monsters), and then wait after killing the other monsters. It'll talk to you a bit and then you'll get an item named Golem. Use it and you'll be able to summon him. Also, the easily-encountered "Drippy" uses Magic Hammer, if you missed it at Byblos. Anyway.... Go right, up, and into the first door you come to. Open the chest (5000 gil) and go back out the door. Go left, up, and into that door. Follow the path and go out the door. Go right, up, and into the door. Go right, down, and down the ramp on the right. Open the chest (Cabin), go back up the ramp, and go down the ramp on the left. Go left and out the door, then left across the bridge, down, and into the door. Follow the path and go out the door. Go left a bit, down, right, and down. Search the third group of bones on that last down for Bone Mail. It's like the Relic Ring in FFVI (FF3 U.S.): it'll make you resistant to Doom-style attacks, but healing you in battle will do damage. It's got high defense, though. Personally, I avoid wearing it: it's easier just to heal someone who's injured or dead, rather than dealing with all the problems of the armor. Problem is, the game always equips it when you choose Optimum. So if you plan never to use this armor, sell it. Go left and into the door. This place apparently gives people a lot of trouble, so I'll explain carefully. You want to fall through a hole in the floor. The hole is over on the right, one space away from the gap below and the walls above and to the right. Open the chest next to where you land (7000 gil) and go into the door on the left. Ignore the ramp and door on top for now. Push the skull switch and go back down through the door. Now go right, up the ramp, and out the door, then left, down, and out that door to get back outside. Go right, down the new pathway, and into the door. Go left, down the ramp, through the darkened passageway, and open the two chests for Coronet and Air Blade. Go back through the darkened passageway, back up the ramp, and down the ramp on the right side. Go through the darkened passageway there, and open the chest when you come out (Phoenix Down). After that, go down a few ramps, then straight down through the door (the one which doesn't have light coming through it) to find a save point. Rest up and save, then go back up through the door, left, and out the door to get to the outside area. Go right, down, left, and down for a short event and a boss. BOSS: Hiryuu Plant Ignore the Hiryuu Flowers that grow around it. If you got him, summon Golem to block all physical attacks (when they start hitting you again, summon him again). Try to use Death Claw on the Hiryuu Plant. If you don't have it, use Demi. If you kill all the little flowers that you're supposed to be ignoring, five will appear instead of three. Once the Hiryuu Plant itself is dead, finish off the flowers with some strong spells (Fire 2, Titan, something of that ilk). You get an Elixir when you win. When the short event following the battle is over and you have the Hiryuu Plant, cast Exit or trudge down the mountain (if you don't have Exit) and return to Castle Bal, again going through Kelb. Castle Bal Revisited Go up to the gate for a short event. You'll end up in the moat. Go left, up, and hit the switch to end up in that pool inside the castle. Wonderful defense they have here. Exdeath's army could get in that way in a matter of minutes. Anyway, go into the castle and up to Cara's room for an event. Go up and out to the tower (where you spoke with Cara earlier) for another event, and when it's over you'll have the Hiryuu. This Hiryuu is just like the one from the other world. It can't fly over mountains, and it can only land on grass. Guido's Cave Go north to the Hiryuu Valley, then east, and north through the gap in the mountains to reach the ocean. Go northeast and you'll almost immediately see an island. Land there and enter the cave in the middle. Watch the event. The island is now at the bottom of the sea. So much for talking with Guido. Castle Surgate Treasures: 5000 gil, Float (spell), Speed Song Check out your map and head to the nearest flashing cross to the west of you. This is Castle Surgate. Enter the castle and try to push the switch by the door. Watch the short event. From the throne room, go left and take the lower set of stairs up. Go up and look at the book to learn the Speed song. Go back downstairs and take the upper set of stairs on the left. Go right, up, and into the door. Go left and downstairs. Talk to the scholars (note the half-book, much like the one in the Ancient Library), then go left and downstairs. Pick up the open book on the table to your right, then go up to the middle bookshelf in the top row (a bookshelf is the group, not the individual square's worth). Go back down and pick up the closed book. Put it in the far right bookshelf in the middle row. Pick up the last open book, and put it in the second bookshelf from the left, in the bottom row. If you did this right, the "Forbidden Book" should go in DEF, "Monster Encyclopedia" in MNO, and "Secret of Lonka" in STU. Talk to the librarian on the right and follow her through the new door and upstairs. Check out the book, and go downstairs at the bottom of the room. Get the chest in the lower right corner (5000 gil), and go down through the door. Go down a bit, and left, under the bridge, until you reach the wall, then go up and into the door. Go down the stairs and open the chest for the Float spell. Make your way all the way back, through the courtyard, the various library rooms, and so on, until you reach the throne room. If you go down the stairs on the right, you can reach the soldiers' dormitory, and if you go down the stairs on the left side of that room, you can reach the shops. The weapon shop has interesting stuff, but besides that there's nothing new. Rest at the inn, return to the throne room, and go straight down to leave the castle. Zeza's Fleet Blue spells: Death Claw, Missile (if you missed them earlier) Treasures: Genji Glove, Gold Shield Check out your map again. There are two flashing crosses you haven't visited yet. Well, actually, one you kind of have visited. The one on the far left is completely surrounded by mountains, and thus utterly inaccessible to you on your Hiryuu. The one in the lower right is Exdeath's castle. Fly there now. You'll notice you can't get near the castle due to the barrier. So continue east and you'll find a fleet of ships. Land on the ground nearby and save, then land on the largest of the ships, on the right side. Watch the short event. You can talk to the Hiryuu if you want to leave. Go down the stairs behind the Hiryuu, then go around, all the way up, and down the stairs. Go right, down, right, up, and into the door. Take a nap, then go back up to the deck of the ship. Talk to Zeza for a short event. Now, if you just want to get this over with, go down to the bow of the ship and talk to the guy there. If you want to have a bit of killing first, talk to the monsters running around to fight them. By the way, if you need to rest, there's still time to go back downstairs and take a nap. :) When you're ready, talk to the guy at the bow of the ship, who turns out to be none other than Gilgamesh. And, of course, that means you have to fight him BOSS: Gilgamesh and Enkidou At first, there'll only be Gilgamesh, and if you summon Golem, he can only hurt you with magic, which he rarely uses. So summon Golem. While you're protected, take the opportunity to cast all your protection spells on everyone: Haste, Armor, and Shell. Armor's kind of superfluous with Golem, but it's useful for the time between when Golem wears off and when you summon him again. Also, be sure to have a Thief, or someone who can use Steal, in this battle, so you can steal the Genji Glove from Gilgamesh (finally). When you're all prepared, start pounding him with your strongest stuff. He's immune to Death Claw and Demi, but you have Titan and a lot of Black magic to use instead (try Bio). Oh, and you can learn "Death Claw" and "Missile" from him, and maybe others. This is a good opportunity to learn Death Claw if you didn't get a chance while escaping Castle Karnak. After he gets hurt a bit, he'll call Enkidou, who'll promptly heal him with White Wind. So concentrate your attacks on Enkidou (Death Claw and Demi DO work on him), then attack Gilgamesh as before. You'll get a Gold Shield for defeating them. Watch the short event, then go downstairs. On the second floor down, go left instead of right, and into the door over there (don't worry about healing just yet). Talk to Zeza, and search the chest across from him. Go downstairs and rest, then go back up and talk to Zeza. Watch the short event, then follow Zeza out the door and talk to him. Barrier Tower Blue spells: Guard Off, Level 4 Quarter, Time Slip Treasures: 9000 gil, 18000 gil, Dark Matter, Drain Sword, Gold Hairpin Go down through the door, and watch the event, then go down, left, and up the stairs (don't bother going downstairs, Zeza won't let you past). Save at the save point (you shouldn't need to rest) and go up through the door. There are three monsters in this tower that you can learn Blue spells from. The first is Traveler (a guy riding a moon), which may use "Time Slip" on you. The second is Ziggurat (looks like a Gigas from Castle Karnak), which may use "Guard Off," and the third is Tricker (a computer screen on a stand), which may use "Level 4 Quarter." For the last one your level would have to be a multiple of four to learn it. Follow the path until it forks. Go up and follow the path to the chest. Open it for a monster-in-a-box, and a Drain sword if you beat it. Go back to the fork (return to the save point to heal if you need to), and go down this time. Open the chest for 9000 gil, and go down through the door. Once outside, go left, up the long ramp, and around to the door, which you should enter. Go left, up the ramp, right, and out the door. Repeat the process as for the previous outdoor portion, except go right to get to the ramp. Once inside again, go left and open the chest (18000 gil), then go right, up the ramp, left, and out the door. The ramp's on the left outdoors again, climb it and approach the upper door. When you do, there'll be a short event. Go in the door, left, up the ramp, right, and out the door. This time there are ramps on both sides. First go right, up the ramp, in the door, and save and heal at the save point. Then go out of this room the way you came in, back down the ramp, left, up the other ramp, and into the room. Heal up and open the chest to fight a monster and get a Gold Hairpin. Return to the save point room, heal up again, save, and go through the door below the save point. Go around either side, up the ramp, back to the center, and up the long ramp there. Heal before you reach the top platform. When you get there, you get a short event and a boss. BOSS: Atmos This boss is one of my least favorites. You have to fight him with one character dead, no matter what. Atmos kills someone with Comet right at the start of the battle, and if you revive that person, he'll either kill them again or kill someone else. Also, he apparently tries to suck the dead people into his mouth (or whatever that is), and if they get there, he uses Wormhole, they're gone for the battle and he kills another person or two (!). So if the victim gets close to the mouth, revive that person and let someone else die. Otherwise, he's not too bad a boss, and is pretty easily killed with strong spells or attacks. Don't worry about the dead character falling behind in experience. You only get ABP from this battle, though you win some Dark Matter. Watch the event. Talk to Galuf if you like, but just wait a while until he's ready to come with you. Watch the event. You now have control of the sub. If it's docked somewhere, you can run around inside it (and rest downstairs). The map is different for the underwater world, and you can press A to surface. Ghido's Cave Open your map and head to the cross roughly in the center, the place where Ghido's cave sunk to. It still looks like a cave, and it's roughly circled by those red flower things you see down there. Go inside, and you'll find yourself in the submarine. Go downstairs and rest, then go back upstairs and exit the sub. Go down, right, and downstairs, then down and through the door at the bottom. You should be in a room with five chests. Search the middle one (which is closed) and pick up the rock. The chest you drop it into opens one of the doors. Numbering the doors from one to five, going left to right: Door 1: upper right chest Door 2: center chest Door 3: lower left chest Door 4: upper left chest Door 5: lower right chest First open door four, go inside, and push the skull switch. Then open door three and go up, right, down, and downstairs. Doors one and five lead to dead ends, and two leads back out the way you came. Go left and down to the lower left corner of this room and look for a darkened passageway. Go down this, then right, and push the skull switch, then go left, up, right, and down the stairs in the center that you just made appear. This next room is full of darkened passageways, so I'll just give directions and not mention where each one is. Go down, left, down and left, down, right, and down and out the door. Go down and say Yes to jumping in the pond, then go up, climb out of the pond, and up across the bridge. Watch the event. You'll get the Elder Branch, which allows you access to the Great Forest of Mua. Cast Exit and warp out of the cave (a lot faster than walking). Obtaining Shoat Treasures: Shoat (spell) Once back in your sub, check out the map. There are only three flashing crosses down here and you've already visited one. Head to the upper one of the two that remain. There should be a yellow cave (or something) there. Go inside, rest in the sub, and then exit the sub. Go down, right, up the ramp, right, up the second ramp, right and down, and out the door. Watch out for the Iron Dress monsters in this cave: they use powerful physical attacks. The door will take you outside. Wander around for a while in the forest until you meet Shoat (much like Ramuh). BOSS: Shoat This guy is really easy, in fact probably the easiest of all the summoned monsters you have to fight. Use Golem to protect against physical attacks, then just hit him with Titan three or four times. He'll counterattack with Demon's Eye (stones target) against the caster each time he's hit, so have a party of four Summoners with White magic level 4+ as an ability. Just cast Heal to the stoned character, and continue hitting him with Titan. If the caster's wearing Gaia Gear, Titan will do even more damage (I killed him in three shots). Use the Shoat item to add him to your Esper list, then head back to your sub the same way you came. Mua Treasures: Guardian Heal up in your sub again, then check out your map. Go to the last of the three flashing crosses (the lower left one). You'll want to go around that continent on the west side, and approach from the south. When you get there, you'll notice that there isn't actually anything there. At least not underwater. Go all the way to the end of the dead end, and surface your sub. You end up in a small lake in a mountain-enclosed area, near the flashing cross your Hiryuu couldn't fly to. Get off the sub and walk west to the town. First off, go to the pub and play the piano (number seven). You'll be surprised to note that you actually sound halfway decent. Note that it says you ALMOST mastered the piano. There's still one more to play, but you won't get to it for a while. Now visit the shops. The armor shop has some cool Diamond stuff, and a bunch of equipment for your mages. The weapon shop has a nice bow and a new dagger. And (big surprise), there are actually some new spells at the spell shop. Buy your fifth level White, Black, and Dimension magic spells. You should by now have your spell list full up to level 5 for White, Black, and Dimension, and up to level 3 for Espers. Finally, walk around behind the pub and search the top barrel to the left to find a Guardian. If you changed Jobs, heal up at the inn, otherwise you don't need to since you healed in the sub. Leave town. Great Forest of Mua Blue spells: Aero 3, Aqua Rake (if you didn't get it earlier), Tiny Song Treasures: 2500 gil, 4900 gil, 9500 gil, Aegis Shield, Cabin, Elixir, Ether, Flame Shield (if you didn't get the Aegis Shield), Flame Tongue, Giant Drink, Morning Star, Phoenix Down, Soot Walk east from Mua, past the little lake where you left the sub, and you'll easily see a huge forest across a river. So go to the bridge, save, and then enter the forest. It's almost impossible to see anything in here. If you're playing on an emulator, try turning off layer 2 when not in battle. It'll make all the treetops disappear, and you can see much more easily, but it'll also make battle backgrounds disappear. You can learn "Tiny Song" from the Mini Mages here. First go up, and maybe a step or two left, into the gap in the bushes. Watch the short event. Then go all the way up and open the chest near the trees for 2500 gil. Go down a bit and all the way right. Open the chest for an Ether. Search the hole in the tree next to it to open a path. Enter the doorway of sorts (from the bottom), and go up and out the door. Go up, right, and up at the first opportunity. Go all the way up, past the trees, and open the chest for 4900 gil. Go right, and up through a small gap in the bushes. Open the chest for a Phoenix Down, then go back down through the gap, all the way down, right, up a little, then right and up. There are some trees at the top of this area. Go around them on the right and you should find a chest containing 9500 gil. Go back down and left, then go straight up and search the hole in the tree for another doorway of sorts. Go through this one like you did the last. Go up, and turn left when you reach the first tree. Open the chest for a Cabin. Go all the way to the right and open the chest for a Giant Drink. Go almost straight up from that chest to reach a welcome save point (the monsters in this area are a pain). Go up from the save point, then all the way to the left. Go up a tiny bit, then left (basically around the tree) and open the chest to find an Elixir. Go right, and straight up all the way, and open the chest for a Morning Star. Go left from this chest, and watch the event. Go up between the flames, right, and up (around the tree on the right), and open the chest for an Aegis Shield. Then go back to the central fiery area and wait for a moogle to pop out of the ground. Once it has, go jump into the hole it made. Go down the ramp and touch the water for healing (it's a recovery spring). Then wait a while until the moogle by the door starts moving, and get past it and go out the door. Go right and up from the moogle's hole to find a chest. Open it. If you got the Aegis Shield from it earlier (it's the same chest), it's empty. Otherwise, it holds a Flame Shield. Go left from the moogle's hole and up a bit to find a chest containing something called Soot, which is, I think, a Chemist's "Mix" ingredient. Go all the way left from this chest, up, and left (around the rocks) and open the chest to get a Flame Tongue, which is a sword. Go right to the main path and all the way up. Watch the event. Go up through the newly created path and enter the tree. Heal yourself, then go up, watch the short event, and prepare for the boss. Oh, and if you want to learn some Blue spells from it (see below), give someone (doesn't matter who, since the spells will hit everyone) the Learning ability. BOSS: Guardians of the Seal There are four parts to this boss. Being elemental, they each use a different element. The top one is fire, left is wind, right is water, bottom is earth. The strategy for this battle is very simple. Kill them off one at a time, using whatever attacks work best (okay, so it's not very specific). At first, they'll only use physical attacks, so if you summon Golem, you're all set. When they get weaker, however, they'll start using powerful magic spells, so cast Shell on everyone beforehand. The water and wind pieces use "Aqua Rake" and "Aero 3" as their spells, so try to learn them. The fire piece uses Fire 3 (very damaging), and the earth piece uses Earth Shaker (very damaging, but easily avoided with Float). Oh, and spells like Death Claw, Demi, and Quarter work against these guys. One way to kill them is, after setting up your defenses, pounding on the water one with Fire 3, then pounding on fire and wind with Titan, and finally using Quarter a few times on earth and then whacking it once or twice to kill it. After you win this battle, you're in for a long, sad event. In the battle with Exdeath, just whack him. You don't need to bother with anything fancy (of course, you need to do a certain amount of damage before the in-battle dialogue will start, so don't avoid spells either). Watch more of the event after the battle. You need to wait for Cara just like you needed to wait for Galuf back at the Barrier Tower. Watch yet more of the event. When it's over, you'll be flying the Hiryuu. Fly west and south, and out through the new gap in the mountains. Money Cave Treasures: 10 gil, 20 gil, 40 gil, 80 gil, 160 gil, 320 gil, 640 gil, 1280 gil, 2560 gil, 5120 gil, 10240 gil, 20480 gil, 40960 gil Fly back to Kelb, and talk to Kelgar a few times (just so he knows about Zeza and Galuf). That's optional of course. While in town, however, you should stock up on supplies, especially Ethers, Hi-Potions, and Cabins. Be sure to give Cara a job and ability while you're at it (if you don't feel like buying new stuff, just give her whatever Galuf had). If anyone needs equipment, buy it at Mua, since that's the best store in this world. This section is optional, and if you'd like, you can skip on ahead to Exdeath Castle. However, as you can see from the treasure list, you can get a lot of money here. This cave doesn't actually have a name, so I gave it one which suits it. It has two entrances: one east of Castle Bal, the other directly over the mountains from the first. Don't go here at all unless you've gotten Exit from Castle Bal. Either way, when you enter the cave, you want to head towards the center, keeping down. At the center, there is an easily missed path leading downward. If you follow that path, you'll eventually get to a door. Beyond that door is a long hallway leading to a dead end. However, each step on that hallway yields money, and from the second step on it's twice the amount of the previous step. There's only one problem, and that is that there's a randomly encountered boss in that hallway. And not only is he almost impossible to kill, you can even meet him again further along after you've killed him once. He always attacks you on the last step (40960 gil). And, of course, it's impossible to run. When you get the last bunch of money (40960 gil), cast Exit. The last space on the corridor doesn't have anything interesting. BOSS: Gil Turtle This guy looks unassuming, but he hits hard. And when you do kill him, he hits you with a 3500+ damage Quake spell. Here's your checklist of things you need to make it through the battle: Golem, Ice 3, Armor, Cure 3, Heal, Float, Haste 2, Regen (optional) Everyone needs to be able to cast Golem at a moment's notice, because it wears off quickly given how hard this guy hits. So you'll need either four Summoners or four people with level 3+ summon ability, or some combination of the two. You'll also need at least one White Mage, one Black Mage, and one Time Mage (or people who can use level five spells in those categories). My recommendation is to have four Summoners, with two people having Black magic as an ability, and one each for White and Dimension magic. Start out by summoning Golem, then casting Haste 2. Before you start attacking, be sure everyone is in the back row, and then have your White magic user start casting Armor on everyone. In the meantime, the Dimension magic user should cast Float on the party (you could do this before the battle, too) to protect against Quake. To save on some trouble with healing, you might as well have the Dimension magic user also cast Regen on everyone, although like Armor, you'll have to do it one at a time. Summon Golem immediately, no matter which character is up, should someone get hit, because that means the spell's worn off. You'll have to summon Golem several times over the course of the battle. Now, your Black magic users should start pounding on GP Turtle with Ice 3. Don't use Shiva, save your MPs for the more useful spells. Each time he's hurt, he'll counterattack with Turtle Shell, which will hit either two people once or one person twice, and (if it makes contact) poison and blind the target, if the target is still alive. Most of the time, unfortunately, your Golem shield will wear off just in time for you to be hit by Turtle Shell. However, if you're in the back row with Armor, it should only do 300-500 damage per hit. Either use Hi-Potions or Cure 3 (on everyone) for healing, depending on how many people need it. Cast Heal on the people who get hit by Turtle Shell, because the poisoning will kill you even if the attack itself didn't. When you finally kill him (after something along the lines of 16 Ice 3 spells), he'll cast Quake, but if you remembered to cast Float, it won't hurt you. If you forgot, well... you're all dead. You get 3 ABP and 5000 gil for winning this battle, which is hardly a suitable reward for your effort. Exdeath Castle Blue spells: Condemn, Level 2 Old, Level 3 Flare Treasures: 8000 gil, 9900 gil, Carbunkle (spell), Diamond Shield, Double Lance, Elixir x2, Ether x2, Excailbur, Gale Bow, Genji Helmet, Ice Brand, Ice Shield, Kotetsu Sword, Partisan, Pinwheel, Turtle Shell When you're ready (you can always build up jobs in the basement of Castle Bal, you know), hop on your Hiryuu and fly to Exdeath's Castle. You'll have to land outside the circle of mountains immediately around the castle, and walk there, but it's not too long a walk. Be absolutely sure you've done everything you need to do in this world (got Shoat?) before you enter, because this is the last dungeon (not in the game, but in this world). Talk to the soldiers lying around. Go through the upper door to reach a save point, not that you need it yet. Go through the middle door (the bottom leads outside), then go up and upstairs. Go to the left side of the room and down, and go along the little path around the bottom of the room. Open the chest toward the left end of the path for an Ether, and open the chest toward the right end of the path for a Diamond Shield. Exit the little path and go up the stairs on the lower side of the central pillar. Go up, left, down, left, look around, and go back right. Watch the event. Exdeath's Castle is now MUCH more disgusting. Cast Exit, and go back inside. Make use of the save point. Then go back up to the place where you were. Go up and up the stairs. You can learn "Level 2 Old" from the Magic Dragons up here. Go right, down, right, up, left, and hit the switch. Go right and open the chest (Ice Shield), then go left, back down, and down the right side. Go left, down, left, up, left, down, left, and then through a secret passage left to the stairs, bypassing going around up, left, down, right, and up. Go up the stairs, then go all the way up, and right, and keep going right through a secret passage. Open the chest (Ether), then go right and up through the door (that gray thing that looks all bony is really a door). Go up, left, and down the steps into the lava (try to have a Geomancer in your party to negate the effects). Go all the way down, then through a secret passage right to a chest containing a Gale bow. Go back left, up through the lava, left, down, and then up the steps out of the lava. Then go down, right, up (not upstairs), and open the chest to get an Elixir. Then go back down, and upstairs. Go up and step on the skull on the floor to start a bridge moving, and press A to stop it. Try to get the two chests. The one on the left contains an Ice Brand (a sword), and the one on the right contains the Kotetsu sword. If you mess up you might have to fight that Abductor guy (remember, from the beginning of this world and also Castle Bal?), so try to time it properly. When you've got the treasures, get the bridge in the middle, cross, and go through the door to find a very welcome save point. Rest and save, then go through the door at the top. Go up, right, down, and through a secret passage right to a chest (Elixir). Keep in mind that the real entrance to the secret passage is on the second row above the chest. Go back left, up, left, down, left, and up the left path to a chest (9900 gil). Go back to the save point and recover if you need to, then return to this place and go all the way up the center path and through the door. Ignore the stuff on the right side of this room for now, and just go up. Go right, down, and put a Geomancer in your party before going into the lava. Go down, right, up, all the way to the right through the big pool of lava, and up the stairs. Open the chest for 8000 gil and go back down. Go left, up, left, down at the first opportunity, and up the stairs. Go right, don't worry about the skull switch. Walk across the top switch in the left group of three, then go around to the top and walk across the right switch (the other switches are holes which drop you in the lava below). Step on the switch at the top and you'll be teleported. Talk to the glowing green circle with the flame inside it to fight Carbunkle. BOSS: Carbunkle The easiest way to beat him that I've found is to use Shoat. You'll have to try over and over, but it does work. If you're going to fight him the hard way, keep in mind that he's permanently reflective, so if you're going to use anything other than a Summon or Blue spell on him, you'll have to cast Wall (White magic level 5) on someone and bounce it off of them. You win a Turtle Shell after the battle. You'll get to call Carbunkle once you've beaten him. He'll cast Wall on your whole party at once. He's a fourth level spell, though, so be sure that if you summon by way of abilities, you're able to call him. Go down the stairs and step on the switch to be teleported to a little lava-free spot on the lower level. Put your Geomancer back (if you changed jobs) and go back up the stairs directly below you. Cross the left hand group at the top or bottom, don't step in the middle, and cross the right hand group in the middle. Open the chest for a Double Lance, then cross the right hand group again, and cross the lower group at the middle. Step on the switch at the bottom, then cross the lower group at the middle, the left group at the bottom, and go left (don't step on the far left switch), and down. Make use of the save point, and go up the stairs on the left. Ignore the chest in the middle of the room for now. Go to the upper right, and up the stairs, and collect the two chests (Partisan and Pinwheel). Go back downstairs, open the chest, then go up, and try to go up the stairs there. Gilgamesh will appear (*only* if you opened the chest, and it closes itself whenever you leave the room). And you know what happens when he shows up... no, besides your dancing to his cool music.... :) BOSS: Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is really wimpy this time. Put up your usual defenses (Golem, Shell, Haste 2), then start pounding him with weapons. Don't even waste spells. If he happens to hit you with a magical attack, heal yourself and keep on pounding. Eventually he'll start blabbing at you. Oh, and about stealing, don't steal from him until after he's finished blabbing (he'll look different). You'll get the Genji Helmet. Even after this, he's still a wimp. In fact, just make sure Golem's working, and let him hit you. The battle will end eventually without you needing to attack, and you'll win the sword Gilgamesh was trying to use on you, Excailbur. First off, never ever equip Excailbur. It is not, after all, Excalibur. The supposed attack power is deceiving - it's actually very very weak. Sell it at the first opportunity. Return to the save point, and change your jobs around. Here's what I recommend, if you've done the prerequisite development: Four Blue mages, one with White magic ability, another with Black, another with Dimension, and the last with Summon. This will let you cast all the spells you know, and also equip some decent weapons and armor (we're going up against Exdeath here, you know). Heal up with a cabin, and save. Return to the stairway Gilgamesh stopped you from climbing, and climb it. Go straight up and through the door. Go straight up here, and watch the short event, followed by (you guessed it) a battle against Exdeath. BOSS: Exdeath He is MEAN. But then, that's what you'd expect. Throw up your barriers as quickly as you can. You can learn "Level 3 Flare" and "Condemn" from Exdeath, without much difficulty since he'll surely use them near the beginning of the battle and you're all Blue mages (if he doesn't, use Reset (Dimension level 4)). If someone gets condemned, just be prepared to revive them when they die and put your barriers around them. If your barriers are up (Shell and Golem), he'll have a hard time doing more than, say, 500 damage to you at a time. So he's really easy to pound into a pulp. Just be careful about running out of MPs. Level 3 spells (of the elemental variety, i.e. Ice 3, Aero 3) all work very well. Aero 3 in particular can be used by any of your Blue mage characters. Watch the event (pretty short for how important it is), and when it's over... check out your map! WORLD THREE Castle Tycoon Walk north to Castle Tycoon and enter it. Talk to the guard to open the gate, and go up and enter the castle. Watch the event. Head out one of the lower side doors and talk to Cara. Watch the short event. Go back to the throne room and leave through the upper right door. Go upstairs to the king's room and search the book for a flashback. Return to the throne room and leave through the main door at the bottom. Watch the short event. When exploring the castle, go through the door and up the stairs on the right of the main hall (not the throne room), and follow the path. Talk to Jenica. You get a flashback if you didn't drop by Tycoon for that event at the end of world one. When you're done, try to leave the castle. Watch the event. Wandering Around Walk southwest from Castle Tycoon until you reach a river, then cross the river using the bridge and head north until you reach a cave. Save and enter. Approach the cave entrance and watch the event. You'll end up back outside (you can press A to climb off Boco, and also to climb back on). Take Boco back to Castle Tycoon, and head north. Cross the river and head west, and follow the only route available until you reach the town of Tule. Nothing much new here, a few people say different things, the only major change is what happens if you say "No" to the person in the Beginner's House who asks you if you're a beginner. Leave Tule and go west, through the river, and down into the mountains. You'll enter one of those little event areas (like the canyon at the beginning of the game). Go down until you get an event. Watch, then fight the boss. BOSS: Antlion He's not too tough. Make Butz and Cara into Ninjas or something like that if you're having trouble beating him. Just club him for a while and eventually he'll run away. After that battle, wait a while. A rope will drop down. Walk up to it. Walk up to it again, and a third time. Walk up to it a fourth time and watch the event. Guido's Cave Go west, then south, and enter the cave. Go up and enter the cave proper, then go up and watch the event. Ancient Library Treasures: Magic Song Continue watching the event that started in Guido's cave. When it's over, you'll be on the second floor of the Ancient Library. Go up to the roof and talk to the scholar on the right to learn the Magic song. Talk to all the scholars and learn what they know, then heal up at the pot on the second floor and leave the library. Pyramid Treasures: 8000 gil, 9000 gil, 10000 gil, 12000 gil, Black Suit, Cabin, Crystal Armor, Cursed Ring, Dark Matter x6, Dark Suit, Earth Hammer, Elixir x4, Flame Shield, Gold Hairpin, Guard Ring, Ice Shield, Ribbon, Thornlet, White Suit Note that you've got some cool new overworld music. Head west until you reach the Elder Tree. Watch the short event, then continue out the other side of the forest. Keep going west until you reach the desert. Watch the short event at the entrance, then you can just walk directly over the desert on the overworld and get to the pyramid. Save before entering, because you'll finally be meeting some monsters. Go up and search the door and you'll be attacked. BOSS: Gargoyles Pretty easy, so far as I can tell. Summon Golem to block their attacks, then just hit them with Titan a few times. Maybe they're harder if you kill them one at a time...? Watch the short event. Go back outside, heal up and save, then go back into the pyramid and in the door. Go left, past the door, all the way up, and then right. Push the right button and the left button. Follow the path between the spikes, go down through the door, continue down, and go right and get knocked off by the stream of sand. Go left and open the chest (you fight some monsters) for an Ice Shield. Go up, right, up, left (killing the snakes), and upstairs. Go right, down, up through the door, all the way up, and upstairs. Make it so you can see secret passages, then go left through the rooms and downstairs. Go right and walk into the coffin. Kill the Grand Mummy and walk inside the coffin. Open the chest to get the Cursed Ring. Cast Exit, heal, save, reenter, and go in the door again. Go left, up through the door, up, and upstairs. Go right, down through the door, and kill the two snakes. Push all three buttons, then go down, left, down, right, up, and upstairs. Go up and open the three chests (Flame Shield, Dark Matter, White Suit), then go down, kill the snakes, and go right. Follow the path until you get to a bed of spikes and a ramp, which lift the spikes and smooth out the ramp every so often. Move right up next to the bed of spikes and wait for them to go down, then dash up the ramp and into the door. This next floor is crawling with Machine Heads. You have two options with these guys: first, just make your way along and fight them when you meet them; second, seek them all out and kill them, then make your way along in peace. You can't run from them, so blast them with Bolt 3 and Ramuh. In any case, make your way to the upper right corner and open the chest for an Elixir. Go to the pedestal to the left and run into the coffin to make it open. Fight the three Mummy monsters inside. Then go up through the coffin and open the chest for a Thornlet. Go back down out of the coffin and go to the left pedestal. The chest there also contains an Elixir. Go to the lower left corner and push the switch in the alcove to lower the spikes to the left. Run up there and open the chest (you'll fight) for a Black Suit. Finally, go up the hallway right of the alcove, open the coffin, kill the mummies, and go up and upstairs to a welcome save point. Rest and save. Go upstairs from the save point (there's a one-time enemy named Sekmet around here - very hard to kill, chats a bit when he dies, you never meet him again if you kill him), then go left, follow the path and go upstairs. Open the two chests up here for Crystal Armor and Dark Matter. Now go back downstairs, to the area where you came out from the save point, and go through the coffin door, right, and all the way down. Ignore the door that won't open. There are lots of secret passages here. I'm not giving directions. Go through the passages down here to the upper treasure room, and open the chest for a Dark Suit (guarded by monsters, of course). Go back to the main path, continue left, follow the path, and go upstairs. Walk into the first stream of sand and fall back downstairs by a chest beyond that door you couldn't open. Open the chest for some (guarded) Dark Matter. Return upstairs and this time push the button on the wall. This will stop the stream of sand. Go right, past the button, and into the door. Go left and push the button on the left (the button on the right will knock you down onto the stream of sand that you've already voluntarily ridden on). Open the four chests, all guarded of course, for 2 Dark Matters, 8000 gil, and 9000 gil. Go back downstairs via the stairs, and push the nearby button on the wall. Go down, left, push the button, down, right, up, and upstairs. Go left and upstairs (ignore the chests for now). Make use of the moving floor and open the top chest of the three you can see for a Guard Ring. Then stand where the floor will give way and fall to the room below. Open the chest there for an Elixir. Go up through the door and right for 10000 gil. Follow the secret passage down to reach a chest containing a Cabin. Go back up, all the way left, down, left, and open the chest for a (guarded) Earth Hammer. Go back right, down, and upstairs. Now make use of the moving floors (just stand on the ones that stay solid) to get the Ribbon on the left and the Gold Hairpin on the right, then make your way to the upper right stairs. Descend them, go down, left, up, and open the chests for 12000 gil and some (guarded) Dark Matter. Go back upstairs and make your way to the stairs in the upper left. Descend them, go down, right, up, and open the chests for an Elixir and some more (guarded, of course) Dark Matter. What's so great about Dark Matter? Go down, right, and CAREFULLY up the ramp, along the dark area, and through the door. Go straight up for an event. Now that you're on top of the pyramid, go straight down to get out, and heal and save immediately. Then go back the way you came, east. Elder Tree Enter the forest again, go right, and watch the event. BOSS: Merugene She'll use a skill called "Barrier Change" to change her weak point, so cast Scan on her every time she does that. Basically, you want to smack her with whatever elemental spell is appropriate, and if you hit her weakness, you'll do 4500-5000 damage with a level three spell. You can put up your defenses if you want, but she dies so quickly you might not need to bother. Watch the short event. Note that since Lenna hasn't been with you for this last excursion, she'll be quite a ways behind in terms of experience and ABP. If you want to even her out, have her fight alone for a while. For now, go east, then northeast and get your airship (it's east of the castle north of where the Ancient Library used to be), and watch the event. For future reference, every location is in just about the same place on the world map as it used to be. The landmarks around them have (obviously) changed, however. Pirate Base Revisited Treasures: Syldra (spell) Fly back to the pirate base, and trudge through the cave until you get to the base proper. Try to go left and an event will occur (a touch sad - I've always liked Syldra). Afterward, you'll be able to summon Syldra (fourth level spell). Sealed Castle of Kuzar Treasures: 3 of the sealed weapons The sealed castle is east and a tiny bit north of Tule. Fly there in your airship, and make sure you have someone with the Escape command and someone with the Control command, then enter. In the first room, there are no monsters. The people from the Wind Shrine are here now. Talk to the guy in the lower right corner, and he'll reveal a pot of recovery spring water. When you're done chatting, go straight up through the door in this room and the next two rooms. Search the sparkly gray thing right below you in the sealed room, then go pick three weapons. When you've gotten three, go back to the central pedestal (the tablet will shatter), and go out the door. Watch the event. Then Exit out of the castle, walk back in, and heal up at the pot (you've got to talk to the guy to have him make it reappear, it disappears each time you leave the room). Crescent Treasures: Power Song Fly to Crescent, which, like everything else, is in the same place as it always was, just with more stuff around it. Inside the town, Mid is running around freaking out about Cid. Never mind him for the moment. Go to the lower right house, where the bard lives, and play the piano. Talk to the bard and he'll give you the Power song. That only leaves one song remaining. Nothing much else interesting here at the moment, so leave town. Mirage Treasures: Mirage Vest, Thief's Knife Go to the third forest south of Crescent (should be at about the bot