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4.1 Tower of Babil (Part Two)
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So, where are these ‘super cannons’? Remember that long flight of stairs on the fifth floor? With the Tower Key, you can unlock the door at the top that was inaccessible before (and why I said to ignore it). That door leads to the Tower of Babil’s cannons. Go back to it, and before you do anything, it would be a good idea to un-equip Yang. Just saying...
Check the door, and an item menu will pop up. Select the Tower Key, and you’ll unlock the door. Go through it, and the team confronts the monsters arming the cannons. You’ll have to fight three Dark Imps, which don’t really need a big text box to tell you how to kill them. After the imps are defeated, they destroy the cannons controls, and then die. Yang then steps away from the party, saying that he’ll take care of the cannons. The party tries stopping him, but he knocks them all back down the steps. Yang thanks Cecil and everyone, and says to tell his wife that he loves her, and then says goodbye. The cannon room then explodes.
And that’s why you had to de-equip Yang! When you get out of here, it would be a good idea to sell all his stuff; it isn’t like anyone else is going to equip it anytime soon (I know, I’m a heartless fiend
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Exit the tower; yes, you’ll have to walk all the way down as neither Exit or Warp will have any effect. When you get all the way back to the huge set of stairs on the first floor entrance, you’ll hear Golbez’s voice again! Yeah, he’s a great guy. He says that Cecil never ceases to amaze him, and then destroys the stairs. The team falls (from a great height? This doesn’t make sense to me, no matter how many times I play the game...), and Cid catches the team at the last second with his mythriled-up airship. Cid asks the team where Yang is, and Cecil explains how he sacrificed himself to save the dwarves. Cid also asks who Rydia is, and Cecil explains how she’s a Summoner of Mist. Suddenly, one of the Red Wings catches up to the Enterprise, in hot pursuit. Cid tries getting away, but it seems the Red Wings have been extremely upgraded.
The chase continues across the underworld, until the Enterprise’s engine can take no longer. Cid tells Cecil to take the wheel. Cid then tells Cecil to fly up to the surface, and says that he’ll seal the entrance to the underworld with a bomb. He tells them to go back to Baron and talk to his men. The crew tries telling Cid not to do it, but I think you understand the martyr agenda by now. Cid then leaps off the airship, detonating the bombs he had attached to himself.
The Enterprise then makes it back up to the overworld, as the explosion seals the entrance to the underworld once more. The crew mourns the losses of Yang and Cid, but Cecil pulls the group together, saying they must hurry to Baron.
You now have control of the Enterprise again, and you’re back up in the overworld. Our next destination is Baron.
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4.2 Pitstop at Baron
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Land back at Baron. It would be a good idea to sell all unecessary equipment (including Yang’s) or make a deposit at the Fat Chocobo ‘bank’. When you’re ready to continue, enter Castle Baron.
Have a chat with some of the soldiers for some interesting info. It seems that people have heard the voice of the late King Baron from below the castle...something we’ll have to check into later. But for now, we have some business to attend to.
From the main hall (where you fought Baigan, the cell with three treasure chests, etc.), take the stairs to the right. Go through the next set of stairs down, until you see a switch in the wall. Check it to open up a door, go up through it, and right through a false wall. Go down to reach six treasure chests. From top to bottom, left to right, they contain: Ether1 (Ether 1), Ether1 (Ether 1), Unihorn (Unicorn Horn), Unihorn (Unicorn Horn), Life, and Life. Now go back to the switch, and continue down.
When you go outside again, you should see two red-haired guys. These are Cid’s students. Talk to one of them for them to start attaching a hook to the Enterprise. They say that Cid ordered them to attach it, so that the airship could carry the Hovercraft (didn’t forget the Hovercraft, did you?). Just fly directly over the Hovercraft and press OKAY to pick it up. Press OKAY again to unload the Hovercraft. You can now go pretty much anywhere, including the Cave of Eblan on the Eblan continent.
Cecil says that there’s something he has to tell them about Cid, but his students interrupt Cecil and say that they know he’s impossible to deal with and to please babysit him for a little longer (hah!).
Well, after that’s taken care of, you’ll be back outside Baron on the Enterprise. Go back to Mt. Hobs (or wherever you last left the Hovercraft), and pick it up with the Enterprise. When you have it loaded up, go back to the Eblan continent. In case you didn’t pick it up from what Dr. Lugae mentioned, the Tower of Babil is actually that huge tower that you see on the Eblan continent. It’s so huge, it extends from the underworld to above the overworld (gotta love Final Fantasy). Unload the Hovercraft, and land on the Eblan continent. If you haven’t gotten all the treasure from the abandoned Eblan Castle, you should be strong enough to do so without problems now. For information on that sidequest, jump to section 3.0.4.
To continue, get into the Hovercraft and go across the shallow rocks by the coast nearby Eblan Castle, and follow them until you reach a previously inaccessible cave. Enter the Cave of Eblan.