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3.9 Dwarven Castle (Part Two)
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Unfortunately, it isn’t time to celebrate just yet. Golbez says that he cannot perish. (This can’t be good...) Golbez’s hand floats from his body and snags the Crystal, and then disappears.
Yes, this really sucks.
Cecil apologizes to King Giott, who replies that there’s still one Crystal left to protect. Rosa asks where they can find the remaining Crystal. Giott says that it’s hidden in the Sealed Cave to the southwest, where Golbez is currently heading. However, he can’t enter without the key to the cave. Giott requests that the team head for the Tower of Babil to retrieve the other seven Crystals. Of course, it won’t be easy to enter, as Golbez’s forces will heavily fortify the area. Giott says that the dwarve’s tanks will distract the enemy, while the team enters the tower. The crew must act quickly, before Golbez returns from the Sealed Cave. The team agrees to go to the Tower of Babil, and retrieve the Crystals. Giott says that the exit to the Tower of Babil is at the bottom of the castle, and that they may leave whenever they are ready.
Of course, it definitely isn’t time to leave just yet. It’s been awhile since we’ve gone on a treasure hunt, right? Now, you can access the entire castle.
Go to the right door in the main hall. This leads to a weapon and armor shop. You may buy a FlameSpr (Flame Spear) for Kain if you wish, or maybe two Dwarf (Dwarf Axes) for Cecil and Kain. At the armor shop, purchase Rune Armlets for Yang, Rydia, and Rosa, another Wizard Robe and Hat for Rydia, and Flame equipment (provided you have enough money) for Cecil and Kain.
When you’re done shopping, take the right set of stairs in the weapon and armor shop room. This is the east tower. Open the chest at the top of this room for a Dwarf (Dwarf Axe). Head up the stairs below the chest. You’ll be in a room filled with pots. Check one of the pots on the left side for a Bacchus (Bacchus’ Wine), you’ll have to go ‘behind’ the southwest wall to go around and reach it. Now go up to the next floor, which should be the fifth floor. You’ll be surrounded by four enclosures with chests. It’s time to go through some false walls. However, you’ll notice you’ll the stairs will be surrounded by passages with just one line. Rather than entering and exiting multiple times, you can actually go down ‘behind’ the wall, and around to the other doors. Either way, get the treasure.
From the entrance, head left through wall to open a chest with an Ether1 (Ether 1). Go down to reach a chest with an Elixir. Go right to open a chest with a HrGlass2 (Hourglass 2). Finally, go up to reach a chest with a Strength (Strength Gloves). Equip these on one of your melee fighters.
Now go back down to the floor above the weapon and armor shop to the right (The first floor of the east tower). Go south in this room to reach a door, go outside. Now go all the way to the left of this area (on top of the castle) to reach the west tower, and enter it. Go up the stairs. You’ll be in another room filled with pots. One of the pots near the bottom of the room contains another Bacchus (Bacchus’ Wine). Now go up the stiars.
Now you’ll be in another area with four enclosures with chests. However, this one is a bit different (well, other than the Namingway). The walls are completely shut off; you’ll need to go through some false walls in this one. From the entrance, go left through a wall to a chest with a HiPotion (Hi-Potion). Two steps left from the stairs, you’ll be inside the wall. Go up through the false wall. Go left, up, right, up, right, up, right, down, and you should be to the right of the upper chest. Go left from there to open it and obtain an Elixir. Now, from that wall to the right of the upper chest, go down. Then go right, and down. You should now be to the right of the right chest; near the Namingway. Open the chest to obtain an Ether1 (Ether 1). Now, from that wall, go down. Then go left, down, and right to reach the bottom chest. It contains a BlkBelt (Black Belt), armor for Yang.
That’s all the treasure for the main part of the castle. Before you continue to the secret passage, you may want to check out another secret room. Go to the weapon and armor shop. In between the two counters (behind a column), you can go up through a false wall. You’ll be in a bar (The ‘Rally-ho Pub’ to be exact). You can talk to the dwarf in the pub for him to do some drunken dance, if you want (I find it boring and it takes too long). The real secret here is another false wall. You should notice the cracked tile on the lower right corner of the room. Go right from that tile through a false wall, and go down the stairs. You’ll now be in the famous ‘Developer’s Room’. In here, you can have conversations with the original 1990 Development Team (Sakaguchi is the Chocobo
). There are also random encounters with some of the developers. You can win these fights, but it’d take a lot of skill and power, and you really don’t win anything anyway. They’re just there for laughs. Go to the up through the door at the right part of the first room to enter the music room; the composer Uematsu is the Namingway look-a-like in this room.
The other funny thing to do here is to go up the stairs. You’ll be in a bedroom. Besides talking to Tokita (the Black Mage look-a-like) for a funny conversation, check the bookcase for a gag item, the ‘Smut’. Using it will give a humorous reaction from Cecil. You can also win it from some of the developers when you fight them.
That’s all for the developer room. On a side note, you can really tell the translation team didn’t put their all in some of the developers’ speech...
Anyway, go back to the Inn. You may want to take a rest here, if you haven’t already. Go down the stairs in the inn and item shop to go down to the first basement. Check the pots on the right side of the room for three Gysahl (Gysahl Greens). The empty space is of course, a Fat Chocobo. Talk to the dwarf on the left side of the room (near the table) to open up the secret passage. Go up through the wall and left to go down to the second basement. Go through the passage until you see a path to the right. Go through the path to three chests, which contain a Cabin in each. Go back to the main passage, and follow it until you reach another set of stairs going up. Go up them to the Dwarven Base. Go to the right side of this room. The upper right corner hosts a recovery pot. The lower right corner is the stairs leading to the underworld’s world map, but this time, you’ll be on the other side of the mountains near the Dwarven Castle. It’s time to head north to the Tower of Babil. This is the end of the third chapter.