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3-3 Alexandria ~ Oeilvert
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MAX TIME 08:43:30

Alexandria

(FMV Skip)

-Garnet commands the army to move out. Choose the third team to go for
data collection and you'll receive the ANGEL EARRING which can be sold
for 10000GIL later on.

-Control Steiner. Equip IRONHELM, ICEBRAND, ESCARTION and POWERBELT,
and with that enable (MP Attack + Undead Damage Up + Level Up).
Followed up by 6 to 7 battles with the Mist Monsters. You can unequip
Beatrix's CROSSHELM and FULLPLATE after the fight in front of the bar.

-Control Garnet. Go upstairs and head towards the left door all the way
up.

(FMV Skip)x 3

-Control Zidane. Follow the same route that Garnet took previously.

(FMV Skip)x 3

Lindblum
-Zidane wakes up in the castle guestroom. Save your game.
TARGET TIME 07:48:30

-After talking to Blank, go to meet up at the Meeting Room. Then go
upstairs to Cid's Room. After some ATE events, head to the guestroom.

-Cid needs 3 special potions. One is with the Item Shop lady in white,
the other inside the Art Gallery in the Theater Sector (talk to the
artist and search in the extreme left corner), the last one is with the
Tantalus in the Clock Tower of the Theater Sector. Return to Cid once
everything is collected.

-Go down to the Water Dragon Gate to hop on board the ship! Save your
game.

-At this time, if you have a lot of time to spare, you could sail to
the beaches of the southwestern islands to level up. Devour the
ZombieWhale to learn Blue Magic 'Lv5 Doom' and use it on the Grand
Dragons. Each Grand Dragon awards 35000 EXP and defeating 2 or 3 of
them is sufficient. This is entirely optional.

Black Mage Village
-Approach the north continent from the south and park at the beach in
the middle crack of the continent that is closest to the village and
the marsh. Save your game. TARGET TIME 08:13:15
Walk a little northward, call out a Chocobo and ride to the village
with it.

-After the events, sail to the eastern-most of the same continent, park
on the beach where you can see the sandpools. Save your game.
The correct sandpool to enter is the one on the north-north west
direction.

Desert Empress
-Control Zidane. Go to Kuja's Room. You'll get to choose your party
members to follow you to Oeilvert. I suggest taking Steiner, Salamander
and Garnet.

Forgotten Continent
-Once landed, save your game. TARGET TIME 08:29:45

-Walk westward deep beyond the Qu marsh to find a Chocobo Track. Call
out a chocobo and ride southwest toward Oeilvert.

Oeilvert
-Save your game at the entrance and buy a couple of armor from it.
Important equipment to purchase 3 GREEN BERET, DIA GAUNTLET, TRIDENT,
MYTHRILCLAW, KUNGFU SUIT, plus a couple of SOFTs.

-Enemy encounters can be very low here. I got through with at most 1
encounter! The stone statue enemies can be rid of easily by using SOFT
on them.

-Go up the stairs to activate the Red Orb -> Go back down the stairs
and head left -> Take the bottom-left path after viewing the images ->
Turn on the 4 spaceship images starting from top-left pole clockwise to
the bottom-left pole -> Go up to the top-left path -> View the images
in the big hall -> Head leftwards then open the locked blue door ->
Events with the talking masks -> Go to the right-hand path from the
entrance and save your game.

TARGET TIME 08:43:30

-After viewing the images, prepare your party and equip the SORCEROR
BOOTS on Steiner and GREEN BERETS on the rest and enable BESERK GUARD
abilities. Take the elevator down.

(FMV Skip)

-ARK, HP:18182-20044
This is gonna be your first tough battle. Unless you have your BESERK
GUARD up, you'll have a lot of difficulties in this fight. You have to
enable MP Attack + FLY Damage Up for Steiner and Zidane. Salamander can
throw Wingedges and Shurikens for big damage. Heal with Potions using
Garnet's ALCHEMY LISCENCE for higher heal rate.

-Get the Gulgur Stone and return to Desert Empress.


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3-4 Desert Empress ~ Ipsen
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MAX TIME 10:22:00

Desert Empress
-Control Cid. After getting pass the toad mini-game, choose B-C-D and
hop onto the balance.

-Control Eiko. Save your game first at the Room on the right.
TARGET TIME 08:53:00

-The encounter rate in the castle is pretty low. Even with the few
encounters, try to escape. Otherwise use Vivi's magics and Freija's
normal attacks for higher damage. No walkthrough provided for this
dungeon. But be sure to light up all the candlesticks along your way
and be wary of the 9 lights puzzle in the middle.

-After the Library puzzle, save your game. TARGET TIME 08:58:00

-Light up the candles so that the shadows on both sides are pointing
towards the left. Go up the stairway.

-VALIA PILLAR, HP:12000, MP: About 10000
There are 2 methods to defeating it. Either by bringing its HP to 0 or
MP to 0. Quina's Reraise/Limitglobe method should be used for bringing
down its HP. For the MP method, use Quina's MAGIC HAMMER repeatedly.
Eiko should cast Carbunkle's Ruby Light for protection.

-Control Zidane. Head back to Kuja's Room. Joins up with the rest of
the members. Head back to where the HildaGaldy was and climb down the
ladder. Events will ensue towards the Sealed Continent.

Sealed Continent
-After disembarking, Save your game. Best party to take along,
Steiner,Vivi and Salamander. TARGET TIME 09:17:00