Hi guys, now that we've got an airship that can fly over the lava, we've got things to do. First, we go back to the Dwarven Castle and drop off the 485 Sirens we stole last time with the Fat Chocobo.
Next, we head southeast to a small building. This is Kokkol's Forge. Kokkol doesn't want to do anything, however.
My smithing days are over! I won't forge a sword again until I find the legendary ore, Adamantite.
We'll be back later. Next location is Tomra, west of here. Tomra houses the best shops in the game, the ones with the almighty Diamond Equipment and Gold Hairpins. Lightning attacks do little to us now. Except Edge, as he can only equip one piece of it. Weapon shop's not bad either, we can get another Ashura and a Chain Whip.
Oh right, I forgot to mention that Rydia's weapon of choice post age up is the whip.
Final location today is a small area northwest of the castle. This area is only three squares of the world map, but it has plenty of rare encounters, at least one we can't find anywhere else, too. I fill out some bestiary entries here. Rosa learns Float in the process, which I need for the next dungeon I'm going to.
One interesting enemy we can encounter here (and common, too, it fills 5 of the 8 encounter slots) is the Mystery Egg. Basically, a Mystery Egg hides the identity of another monster and can't attack, once it loses some HP, it counters with Hatch, which removes itself from battle, bringing the monster in. We have to kill at least one of these before it uses Hatch for the bestiary, which is easy, as one monster that is cannon fodder at this point in the game is a common find in a Mystery Egg.
That's all for now, I'm afraid. Next time, we ignore the plot and will get covered in status ailments over and over again!
Stats:
Kain: Lv 36 HP:1595 MP:0 Strength:37 Speed:27 Stamina:32 Intellect:8 Spirit:22 Attack:95 (6 attacks) Defence:55 Magic Defence:11
Rydia: Lv 34 HP:813 MP:269 Strength:18 Speed:18 Stamina:17 Intellect:49 Spirit:31 Attack:42 (4 attacks) Defence:29 Magic Defence:25
Cecil: Lv 35 HP:1662 MP:146 Strength:39 Speed:23 Stamina:35 Intellect:19 Spirit:23 Attack:97 (6 attacks) Defence:56 Magic Defence:11
Rosa: Lv 35 HP:1224 MP:293 Strength:33 Speed:19 Stamina:21 Intellect:25 Spirit:47 Attack:63 (6 attacks) Defence:28 Magic Defence:23
Edge: Lv 30 HP:1070 MP:80 Strength:35 Speed:27 Stamina:31 Intellect:14 Spirit:14 Attack:96 (6 attacks) Defence:34 Magic Defence:12
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