FF6 O_o - Page 6

As far as spells go, I just have just taught everyone Vanish and Doom, lol

http://www.gamefaqs.com/snes/554041-final-fantasy-iii/faqs/35118
Basically every normal monster (and few minor bosses) you fight appears on Veldt, where you can use Gau's leap command to "learn" the monster rages that are in that fight and the one you get him back. All rages have 2 attacks, normal physical attack and special attack that depends on the rage, and gau will randomly use either one. Also some rages have for example elemental protection or weakness, status effects like float or haste.

If you don't want to bother to learn all 255 of them (which you shouldn't), few of the most important ones are

Early game
-Stray cat (4x physical attack)
-Chimera (water multi-attack)
-Templar/Slam Dancer/Hazer (fire2/ice2/bolt2)

Late game
-Brontaur/Punisher/Woolly (fire3/bolt3/ice3)
-Tyrannosaurus (meteo)
-Outsider (pearl)
-Behemoth (meteor)
-Nightshade (charm that works against EVERYTHING, from final boss to those little bunnies, i dont use this one myself because it's quite obiviously bugged and makes the game far too easy)

That's just a few of them and there are many other good rages and gau is good character even if you just use Stray Cat all game, also he makes a good non-combat healer because gau doesn't use mana in combat

This part will cover Locke's scenario.


Locke started on South Figaro, evading the Empire's forces which were occupied there.

Because of the Empire, South Figaro was a bit different from when Edgar and others were there. Namely, many paths were blocked by Empire's soldiers.

But there were nevertheless some places Locke could go to. One NPC, in particular, gave the key piece of information as to what Locke should be doing.



A room with draft? I actually remember this room. When Edgar was in South Figaro, a woman in the Rich Man's House complained about draft. It must be that room she was in!

Unfortunately, there was a fair bit of work to do to get there - because Locke was hunted by the Empire. The only possible passage to the Rich Man's House was blocked by a litle kid - he demanded that only MERCHANTS could pass. Mmm....

In the same house, there was an old man. He said he'd tell a secret if Locke would bring him some CIDER.

Anyways, the game didn't tell me what else to do, so I had to talk to a lot of NPCs. Finally, there was this NPC...



Apparently he insulted Locke by calling him a thief (remember he wanted to be regarded as a treasure hunter). After this chat, Locke engaged in battle with him.

Now, I am not 100% sure if I can actually kill the merchant - but that's probably not the point. The way to end this battle, as I discovered, was simply to use the Steal command on the merchant. Eventually it would succeed, with the following result:



Locke... you monster, you.... stripping others clothes....

Anyways, after putting on merchants' clothes he was able to pass the kid.



Great! Locke was still not there yet, unfortunately. To proceed, I discovered that Locke needed to also fight an officer of the Empire to obtain a set of uniform:



Then talk to one particular solider to make him leave his spot - thus clearing a new path.



It took me great pain at this point to discover how to proceed after this. The scene above cleared the way to the pub. The pub had TWO merchants in them. Originally I found only the one on the upper floor. Talking to him would change Locke back in merchant clothes, which was useful to go back to the kid (he would block Locke's way if Locke was in officer's uniform). Without knowing what to do, I tried to talk to every NPC around the pub - even the soldiers. However one soldier attacked me and gave me a gameover. Sigh... back to beginning...

On my second try, I discovered there was another merchant on the lower floor of the pub. Beating him not only gave Locke a set of merchant's clothes to go back to the old man, it also gave Locke the Cider.



He seemed to have enjoyed it.... (I didn't. I had to play this part twice. GRRR)



Now, he was finally ready to talk about the secret passage.



O great, you drunkard. What is the damned password?




Maybe the game had a hint somewhere which I missed, but I couldn't figure out what the password was. So I decided to guess. I was not very smart at it, either, as I guessed the first option first - typically the first option is wrong. Upon giving the wrong password, the kid senselessly beat up Locke and throw him to the place he started with on South Figaro - SO I HAD TO DO EVERYTHING AGAIN. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Anyways, I guessed the second option on my next try and cleared the way.



The secret passage is here...



In the secret passage, Locke saw two Empire's soldiers brutally beating a girl - calling her a traitor for some reason.




At this point a new character was introduced, Celes.



After a series of beatings, one soldier left and the other one, supposedly guarding her, fell asleep.



Locke came in and untied Celes.




Wait... didn't he say that to Terra, too? Basically, Celes initially did not want to escape, but she was eventually convinced by Locke the pimp to go with him.

Celes could use Magic, too.



Which is interesting. She was almost a clone of Terra except she started with Ice, not Fire. She also had an ability called "Runic", which for the life of me I could not figure out how to use at the time (I figured it out later... so I will describe it eventually).

There is a save point right after Celes joined the party, so it's a good place to save (otherwise Locke had to do all of the stealing part all over again).

The duo continued through the secret passage. Apparently Celes still questioned Locke's motives.



Locke said it was because Celes reminded him of SOMEONE. Initially I thought he was referring to Terra, then I remembered at the Returner's Hideout either Edgar or Locke mentioned another girl Locke associated with in the past to Terra. So Locke should be referring to a third girl (Locke you pimp, you...).

Anyways, in the next part, the ground started shaking.



And the party had to fight a boss, Tunnel Armor.



Alright. This boss was SUPPOSED to be a tutorial for Celes' ability, Runic.



Locke was confused as always.



Celes explained.



This was actually important. I discovered later on that Celes could not always use Runic - for instance when she was equipped with a flail. Celes had to use a sword of some sort in order to be able to use Runic.

So I used Runic on first turn, while Locke with Genji glove attacked the Tunnel Armor... sigh. This boss was so weak that the duo killed it before I got to witness the "awesome" power of Runic. O well...

This concludes Locke's scenario. Now at Narshe....



Everyone feared that the War of the Magi 1000 years ago may come back. O noes!



Afterwards, every new characters met each other. In particular, Cyan did not like Celes too much.



But Locke stopped him.



Then Edgar mentioned about "THAT". I assume Edgar was referring to a girl Locke met in the past.



Terra tried to break the fight.



In the meanwhile, Kefka was coming to Narshe, too!



As everyone was preparing for defense at Narshe, Celes had a chat with Terra which revealed the source of Celes' power.



Terra asked Celes why Celes wanted to fight. Celes did not really give an answer to Terra.



As you may recall, Terra asked this question (to herself) numerous times. She did not have a reason to fight except to follow what the Returners were doing because she didn't love anyone. I am sure she would find a good reason, soon....

There was a save point there. It seemed like a good place to stop.

Recall last time Kefka was coming to Narshe to retrieve the Esper.

To defend this, three groups were made.



That screenshot above does not depict what I have chosen at the end. Basically, I get to control only the first group. At the end, I chose Terra and Edgar to be in my first group. This proved to be a mistake.

Because I controlled the first group, that group got most of the experience for the upcoming battles. Initially, as the screenshot depicts, I picked Terra and Cyan to be in the first group. That was bad, because Cyan could only hit one target while Terra's Fire was too weak. So I switched to Terra and Edgar. I thought I should level up Terra as she was conclusively the game's protagonist; I felt Edgar was powerful so I wanted to level up him more.

Unfortunately I forgot that Edgar's tools are not scaled to his level, so power-leveling him doesn't really help. As for Terra.... well, read on. The Empire is coming!



Basically, those soldiers would scatter and move North in different paths while the first group (Terra and Edgar) would intercept them. This took a while; but the battles were not interesting (Terra group-cast Fire, Edgar use Bioblaster, done). After all of those were cleaned up the duo moved to Kefka. Before that, a miniboss:



It was pretty easy. But the next battle made me very nervous - only Kefka was left.



As a recurring character and a villain, it was almost guaranteed that Kefka would be difficult to defeat (Yes, I am looking at you...)
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Unfortunately I couldn't save after all of those battles... I really, really did not want to play them a second time should Kefka owned me. To be safe, I gave Terra a Tinculture (Ether) to heal her MP a bit. Here we go!



At one occasion, Kefka used Ice 2 on my duo which almost caused a Game Over. Luckily Terra and Edgar had about 40 HP left and survived. Kefka did not use Ice 2 a second time, though. Instead he used a move to confuse my Edgar and Terra - very annoying considering I only had two characters available to fight him. But I think overall I was lucky - After some constant healing, generous item-useage, and beating, Kefka was defeated. But as expected, he fled.



After the battle, the entire party went to see the Esper. All of a sudden Terra had a reaction.



Then everyone almost got knocked off the hill by a mysterious force, except Terra.



This was likely be due to the Esper.





Warning: Coarse Language Ahead.












And then, she turned PINK.



And then, she DISAPPEARED, flying off the World Map.



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OK WHAT THE FUCK

I spent so much time leveling her TT___TT!!!


Presumably the next day, Celes woke Locke up.



According to her, Terra looked like an Esper.




Now, if Terra started with Ice instead of Fire, I'd conclude at this point she could be Shiva at this point. But since she started with Fire, she must be something else. (In retrospect, she probably couldn't be Shiva.... if she was an Esper she must be something more special than that).

Then a new task was given.



Find Terra! But where could she be?!

I think I will write that tomorrow or the next day. Unfortunately I am still a little bit ahead on gameplay.