Fortunately not to be found amongst the
lovely Black
Hills caves in my home state. Sadly, nothing as interesting
happened this time around, though.
This time around, we'll actually be
needing a Chocobo for something. We need a Black Chocobo to get to
Cave Magnes in order to fight the Dark Elf and retrieve the Crystal
of Earth. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. There are a few
things that need to be taken care of first.
Amongst those things is equipping
everybody in the party with as much silver equipment as can possibly
be afforded at this point. Sadly, that's not as much as I had
remembered, but that's because I haven't been abusing the clone trick
the way I normally do. It's in the name of expedience, you see.
But to get the silver equipment I'm
talking about here, you've gotta go to the town of Silvira, which is
inhabited by Small Folks, Toads, Piggies, and the like, who mine
silver and make weapons and armor out of it. The good news is that
it works great against the Dark Elf we'll be going after in a minute.
The bad news is that it costs a ton to get. What's worse is that
Cave Magnes gets its name from the strong magnetic field in it. Due
to troll
science, magnets work on anything and everything metal in there,
so if everybody's got something metal equipped, they can't fight or
run away from battles, and they all die. But I'm getting ahead of
myself again.
The other things we need to do before
we actually go into the cave are to talk to the ruling council of
Toroia, who say they'll let Cecil and gang use the Crystal of Earth
for a good cause if they get it back from the Dark Elf. I don't
think they mean turning it over to the bad guys, but that's why Cecil
doesn't tell them that's the plan.
We've also gotta talk to Edward so he
can give us a critical item called the Twin Harp. It's important
because without it, Edward can't play a song to bind the Elf's
magnetism and let us kick the Elf's ass. Edward wants to join, but
he's in too bad a condition after being in the shipwreck, so he gives
us the Twin Harp instead so he can play the song from his room in
Toroia Castle
After that, it's another
fifty-three-mile hike through monster-infested woods to the Chocobo
Forest to get the Black Chocobo so you can fly to the entrance of
Cave Magnes. And then it's just as long a ways to the bottom of the
cave, too.
Once you're down there, though, the
fight in the Crystal Room isn't so bad, really, especially once you
realize that you're supposed to lose the first round. Just put the
metal equipment back on everybody and get it over with. Edward will
play his harp, the Dark Elf's magnetic field will go down, and it's
pretty much a matter of wailing on him until he changes form. Once
that happens, this boss is a real sissy. Just have Tellah cast Weak
on him, and the Elf goes down to the next person to hit him.
With that, Cecil and party take the
crystal back to Toroia for the council there. If there's anything
you need to stock up on, do so before you show off the crystal,
though, because once you do, there's not going to be another chance
for awhile. But we'll get into that next time, by going Zot Zot Zot.
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