Golden Sun - Strategy Guide (Page 03)

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On the next screen you will find Tret and his lady counterpart.  Head over to
the east to find Tret, and climb the vine on the front of him to enter in the
door above his head.  The main objective of the Tret "Dungeon" is to get to the
top floor where you will then proceed to fall down on a leaf in the middle, and
continue to fall through those open holes in the middle of each screen to reach
the basement where Tret is.  So, when you first enter the tree give it a nice
save incase you die later on.  Now, head to the right, then proceed north and
then to the left.  Climb the vine to reach the next floor.  On this floor, head
all the way to the bottom most part of the ledge.  Now, jump across the three
leaves on the bottom to reach the other side.  Note: jumping back over a leaf
you've already jumped on means falling down at least 1 floor.  Head out the
door on the right to end up in one of Tret's branches.  Head east without
deviating from the main branch to find a vine to climb up to.  Do so, and then
start heading back west.  Once you're back in the tree, head around the tree
clockwise, until you can reach an inner ledge.  Note: You can jump for the Psy
Crystal at the north part of the screen, but you really shouldn't need it. 
Jump to the leaf and continue north, as you don't especially need the treasure
chest (it contains a healing ring that will restore 70 HP (thanks to Josh Moore
for that correction) when equipped, although it gets worn out reasonably
quickly.)

On the next floor, head out the bottom door and go east until you get to a
branch which you should climb up.  Follow the branch until you get to the main
one, and here head left just a little and then up the first branch to the
north.  Here you'll find a Djinn that you're going to have to battle, so save
and heal before you fight him.  This guy is a little harder than usual, so make
sure that you keep your health up using herbs and Isaac's Cure Psynergy.  When
you're in the battle, use Flint to his best abilities, also try to summon any
elements that you have.  This Djinn doesn't like to be captured, so unless you
beat him substantially he will run.  If he does run, head back to another
screen and then back to where he was.  He should show up again and you can give
another shot at him.  Once you defeat him you'll get the Jupiter Djinni Breeze.
 Head back into the tree using the main branch to get a treasure chest that has
a nut in it.  Then you'll want to intentionally drop down to the previous
level.  Now that you're on the previous floor, head counter clockwise and out
the door on the left.  Go off the first deviant to the south and up the vine. 
From here, go back east until you get back in the room.  Here, go to the
southern most part of the room and hop to the middle leaf.  Once there, hop one
to the right and then back to the middle leaf to fall down the center and into
the basement.

Now that you're in the basement, it's time to fight Tret.  Save before you do
this and inactivate all your Djinn.  Make sure you have full health, as well. 
Tret has about 350-450 HP, so it's going to take you a few rounds to get him. 
Your best bet is using Summons, then Flint with Isaac, and using Psynergy with
the others.  Tret's attacks aren't too great, so you shouldn't have too much of
a health problem.  Once he's dead Tret will come to, realizing that he
shouldn't have turned people into trees.  However, he no long has the strength
to cure Kolima, so you need to begin a trek to get an item to heal him (more on
that later.)  Once Tret is done talking the talk, use retreat to get to the
entrance of the tree, then use retreat again to end up back at the start of the
forest.

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Heading North
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The next village that you'll have to go to is the plague infected Imil.  Head
back west to Bilbin Barricade.  Here you will find several trees scattered. 
Hop up on the stepping stone and use Move to move the trees back to the land. 
You'll get a "Hard Nut" (let's not make any bad jokes about that one ;) which
boosts defense after you complete your tasks in Imil.  Thanks to Thomas Kim
[tdkim@umich.edu] for that information.  First you'll want to head back west to
Bilibin to stop at the inn and heal all of your party members.  Once you're
done, head out of Bilibin and start heading northwest.  You'll cross over a
bridge and have to go due west for a while, fighting a few easy monsters on the
way.  Cross the other bridge and continue along the white dirt path.  Finally
you'll reach the Bilibin Cave entrance.  Hop the waterfall and enter in the
open cave door there.  Head right at the first fork and continue that way until
you can go down the stairs.  Do so and head east through a room with lots of
ice cylinders around (it's getting colder.)  Follow that straight through to
get to the exit door and arrive very close to Imil.  Start traveling north and
then to the west and gradually you'll end up in the town of...

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Imil
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Imil is being plagued by a terrible cold, and the only one who can save them is
Mia.  The first house you want to enter is the first one directly ahead of you
when you first enter town.  First, go to the treasure chest and get the empty
bottle.  This is very important for later on!  Now, talk with the old man and
he suddenly becomes very ill (what did you do to him? ;-] )  You're told to go
find Mia right away, so head out and take a rest at the inn.  Hey, Mia can wait
for you to regain health.  Once you're done sleeping, head to the northwest
part of town, go up the stairs and then head south.  Proceed to the church and
talk to the girl near the entrance inside the building.  She'll say that Mia
had just gone back to the old people's home and you must have missed her.  So,
go back to their home to find Mia curing the old man in bed.  Suddenly there's
a flash at the lighthouse and Mia runs off.  Before following her to the
lighthouse, let's get another Djinn!  Go up the bridge in the north part of
town, and go to the stairs on the right.  Right before going down the stairs,
go up and on the snow face the snowman there and move him to the left using
your Psynergy.  Now, go across the bridge to the left, and head down until you
get to the first opening of ice.  Here's the exact movement that you have to do
now: Right, Up, Left, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up, Left, Up, Right, Up and you'll
now find yourself in an ice cave.  You'll automatically slide right up to the
Mars Djinn Fever, and without a battle you've obtained another Djinn!  Now,
head to the east part of town and leave that way.  Proceed the few steps to the
large lighthouse on the coast.

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Mercury Lighthouse
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Go up the stairs and talk to Mia.  Once she's done talking, go up the ledge to
the right of the statue and use Move to move the statue out of the way
revealing a portal.  We now learn that Mia is an adept and part of the Mercury
clan.  Using Ply Mia opens the door and you're now free to follow her.  Go up
to the large lizard blocking Mia's way, press A and get ready for a battle. 
The Lizard Man isn't anything to worry about, he's just a little stronger than
your standard enemy.  Head the either door in the next room, and then the door
in the center in the following room.  Now, jump across the stone directly in
front of you and go up the staircase.  Down the hallway in this room you'll
find Mia who once again has had her path stuck.  Move the statue towards you to
clear the boundary and have Mia join your party!  Here's an interesting note
about Mia: In this lighthouse she has infinite PP so feel free to use her
Psynergy to the fullest extent.  Hop over the statue and proceed to the next
room to find several waterfalls.  Unlike later waterfalls, you can't go through
any of these so just move east and go through the door there.  In this room you
will find a series of pipes that roll just like logs, only this time you'll
want to connect pipes to make water flow.  Move the first vertical pipe that's
in your way right to connect it and start the water flow.  Now move down and
then go down and then up the stair case.  Go down again, and the around
clockwise to another down-and-up staircase.  Go all the way up the right wall
to find yet another down-and-up staircase.  Here you will find a discolored
pipe on your left, so push that to your left.  Go down and then through another
staircase until you can finally go south to a door.  Go directly down, jump the
gap and then stay on the ledge (read: don't go down the ladder.)  Go all the
way around until you get to a statue.  You'll notice a LONG dotted line path
and a square on the other end.  Taking about 57 seconds, push the statue all
the way from where it originally was to the square on the western side.  Once
that's been dong, head back all the way from whence you came (6 I think) and
head down the ladder.  Travel back west once you're down the ladder, through
door, up the ladder and into the next room.  In the next room slide down into
the hole to land in the middle of the room with water surrounding a plank and a
goddess on the wall.  Hop over the goddess and use Mia's Ply Psynergy on her. 
Now, jump back on the square.

Now that you're on this square you have a special power to jump 3 times over
water, and then one last time to a safe place.  So, jump to your right and then
head up the door.  From here go to the right, and using the water hopping
ability you just got, jump over to a ledge and then down into the door.  In
this room there will be three waterfalls.  In this room there will be a
treasure chest in the right corner.  Watch out!  It contains a powerful Mimic! 
If you did get this chest, though, use your powerful one person attacks,
Psynergies and your summons.  While Mimic doesn't attack very hard, he has a
ton of health and has the ability to drain PP from a character.  When you beat
him you'll get a handy Water of Life which will revive fallen characters.  Any
ways, head through the third waterfall by pressing up on it and across the
water to get Psynergy Armor, which you should equip on a character.  Head back
out from whence you came (7) and into the center door.  Hop onto the only
square you can get onto, then move east making sure to end up on another
square.  Head east again, then go north.  Continue along the side wall,
remembering that you have exactly four hops to get where you want to go.  Head
counterclockwise around the corner, and then keep heading south until you reach
a door.  You'll end up to the left of the door where you entered the large room
with all of the hopping.  Head through the door and then through the center
waterfall.  Head straight the next door and into the door to the north.  In
this room go to the northern most horizontal pipe and push that up.  Now, push
the other horizontal pipe up, and then push the vertical pipe to the left. 
This will fill the water up in the other room, allowing you to now hop over the
water using your water hopping ability.  So, go back and hop over and go up the
stairs.  Head up the stairs twice, ignoring the switch.  Head all of the way
along the left wall, and go through the down-then-up staircase.  The objective
of this room is to push the statue with flowing water in the hole below.  Push
the discolored vertical pipe all the way to the left, then move the horizontal
pipe so that the vertical pipe can only move back to the right once.  Do so and
get the water moving the statue in the first out of three directions.  Now,
move the horizontal pipe out of the way and push the vertical pipe all the way
to the right.  Finally, move the pipe back to the left and the statue will be
dropped below onto the floor below.  Head back from whence you came (8) all the
way down the stairs and then push the statue onto the switch.  Now, head
through the open door.  This room will have a series of statues that,
surprise!, have hidden doors behind them.  Head all the way to the right, then
go down the ladder and up the ladder all the way to the right.  Use Move
Psynergy to move the statue here.  Now, jump through the door and push the pipe
into connection to reveal a door in this room.  Head through this door to enter
*another* waterfall room.  Go through the 4th waterfall in this room to find
another Djinn.  This time you're going to have to battle, so save before you
fight it.  Watch out for this Djinn, because he has a very powerful Water of
Life.  Your best strategy is to throw everything you have at him as fast as you
can before he can attack you very much.  Once you beat him you'll get Sleet, a
Wind Djinn.

Now, head to the west and through the door.  Go down the hallway and go to the
next room.  Go down this hallway, and hop the gaps present.  The next room has
still more waterfalls, jeez.  Go in the very last waterfall and go
counterclockwise along the bottom and right walls in the new room you just got
in.  Move the statue using Psynergy, hop across and go up the staircase.  Head
down the hallway, and you'll end up a room or two later in front of a waterfall
with a statue there.  Use Ply on that statue to float up the waterfall and end
up on the top of the statue.  Note: Before going up this waterfall you may want
to level up to around Level 9 or 10 as the upcoming boss is very difficult.

As soon as you can here, save.  You'll also get a handy Psynergy Crystal, so
heal up before you use that.  Jump across the ledges and head up the stairs to
find none other than Saturos, Jenna, Felix, Kraden and the rest.  After some
rambling back and forth Saturos will finally challenge you to a battle. 
Saturos is not going to be a pushover, so you're going to need to work out a
good strategy to beat them.  One good one that I used was to pummel Saturos
with Flint/Summons with Isaac, use regular attacks and occasionally fire
psynergy with Garret, use plasma and occasionally impact with Ivan, and keep
using Ply with Mia.  After a long time, you should be able to "fell" Saturos. 
Remember, his AI is pretty bad and you'll have some luck in keeping characters
alive.

Once you finally defeat Saturos, it's revealed that no, it wasn't a fair battle
and his powers were weekend by the Mercury Tower's strength.  Don't worry, you
don't have to fight him again (yet ;-])  After a particularly long and
repetitive conversation, you'll finally be able to hitch a ride back down the
light house.  Also, Mia will permanently join your party!  So, when you finally
get command of your character again, head west and watch as the elevator comes
back up.  Hop across the stepping stones and onto the elevator that will take
you down to the now overflowing fountain.  This fountain water has the power to
heal whomever it's used on, so the town no longer needs Mia.  The water also
has the power to heal Tret, so go up to the fountain and use your Empty Bottle
item on it to fill it up.  If you do not yet have the empty bottle, exit the
Lighthouse and go to the house with the two sick old people in the southern
part of Imil.  The bottle is located in a chest in the northwest part of that
house.  If you for some reason dropped the empty bottle, I believe you can pick
it up in the "Artifacts" menu in the Item Shop in Imil.  Now that you have
Herme's Water, save your game and head down and out of the Mercury Lighthouse. 
Congratulations, you've now beat this dungeon of sorts!

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Back To Kolima Forest
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Head out of the light house and go to Imil.  Heal all of your characters at the
Inn, and if you want to see a little optional story head to the monasteries to
say your good byes to the two children there. Next, head back to Bilibin cave. 
Backtrack your way in the Bilibin cave and head back to Bilibin.  Next, keep
heading east through the barricade and into Kolima forest.  You'll want to head
back to Tret, and if you need help with that refer to the Kolima forest walk
through earlier in this FAQ.  Once you get to Tret talk to him then give him
Hermes' Water that you got from Imil.  Suddenly the forest will light up and
Tret will realize what he's doing.  He will now revive the people of Kolima to
their original state.  The other lady tree will also use her powers to deduce
that the monsters that you fight now were once monsters and that they exist in
more horrible forms elsewhere (who would have figured?)  Once you're back in
command, retreat out of the forest and head to Kolima.  Here you can buy the
latest upgraded weapons and armor, but there's not much else to do in the town.

Now head all the way back west to Bilibin and give Lord McCoy a visit.  The
guards will actually call you "Sir" before arresting you.  Don't worry, though,
you'll just be taken to Lord McCoy.  He'll tell you how he's gracious of you
restoring Kolima to its original state and lets you pick from one of four of
his treasure chests.  Thanks to altrongundamcustom of the GameFAQ's message
boards for this information: The chests contain, from left to right, Vail,
Potion, Psy Crystal, Water of Life.  I for one would take Water of Life because
you'll find it to be a little more useful than a Psy Crystal later in the game.
 Now, exit the city and start heading east once again towards Kolima.  This
time you won't go to Kolima, but instead go well past it.  Follow the dirt path
around until you get to a bridge.  A guard will now open it (he wouldn't open
it if you had gone before).  On the opposite side of the bridge you still want
to continue along the dirt path.

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Fuschin Temple
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You'll see Fuschin Temple wedged between two mountains to the north of a dirt
path.  Once you get in, head up the stairs and go into the lone building in
Fuschin Temple.  Use Ivan's Mind Read Psynergy on the main monk there and he'll
talk about you taking a test.  In order to mind read him you have to either set
Mind Read as a hot key (hold L or R when you have it highlighted in the
psynergy menu) or press Select to bring up the in-game menu.  Talk with him
afterwards and he'll tell you to go talk to the monk down in the waterfalls. 
Before, doing that, check around the barrels behind the monk to find a Unicorn
Ring that un dues poison (thanks to Thomas Kim [tdkim@umich.edu] for this
information.)  Do as he says, go down the stairs and hop the stones to talk
with the monk at the waterfalls.  He'll step aside and you'll be able to pass
through the waterfall into the Fuschin Temple Cave.

In this cave there will be logs that you can move to cross water gaps.  Right
as you get in you'll notice a relatively easy treasure chest to get.  However,
this treasure chest is really a trap!  Yes, if you try to open that chest
you'll be attacked by a Mimic.  Where you want to go is on the log to the left
and then advance up to the next screen.  Here you'll have to hop across
different wooden stumps in water.  You'll want to make your way to the western
part of the screen, as you don't really need to go in the doors to the east and
north.  Once you've hopped the hop to the western door, enter it and proceed
north through the hallway until you get to another door.  In this room there's
a "secret path" that you'll need to cross to get force (note: you're supposed
to do this later but it's a lot simpler just to do it now.)  The path you want
to take is, from one square from the top of the ledge: Right until you can go
right no longer, up until you can't go up anymore, right until you can't go
right again, then up to the door on the right hand side.  Continue forward
until you get to a ledge where you can slide down.  Do so and enter the door in
the middle.  Here you want to jump across the water and get the treasure chest.
 Held within it is force!  Now, you have the option to go find and put the
dragon's eye in that dragon statue in the room with the hidden path.  You
really don't need to do this, but since I haven't tested whether or not you
have to do this I'll mention how to do it any ways.

Start heading back from whence you came all the way into the room with lots of
stepping stones.  Once again you'll want to go to the door on the west side of
the room.  Go up the stairs and continue to the dark room.  Instead of taking
the secret path, head to the staircase on the left hand side of the room that's
also near the bottom.  Go down this staircase and you'll arrive in a room with
two logs.  Head across the vertical log to the south to find a treasure chest
with an Arctic Blade which can be very useful.  Now, head back across that log
and roll down on the horizontal log that was near the door.  Go through the
door in here.  In this room hug the left wall and go down until you reach a
vertical log.  Take this log across, go north and then east and down the door. 
You'll now find yourself in the starting room, but this time you'll be all the
way to the west.  Take the vertical log east and enter the door on the other
side.  Hug the wall here going down to avoid taking damage in the spiky rocks. 
Here you'll want to take the horizontal log down, then take the vertical log to
the left.  Head down on the ledge below and take the horizontal log back up. 
Hop over the stone from one log to the next and head east.  Now take the
horizontal log that you can now get to all the way north to get to a new door. 
In this room you'll see two horizontal logs in a row a little north of the
door.  Ride this log all the way up to the northern part of the screen, then
take the vertical log there west.  Hop on the horizontal log and bring that one
up, then head all the way around clockwise hugging the wall and take the
horizontal log up.  Head across the stone and down the stairs to get the
dragons eye.  Now, hop north along all of the logs and then quickly into the
next room to the north.  Now you can use your dragon's eye item you just go on
this dragon to light the room.

Along this path you'll find a Djinn that's not very hard to fight and beat. 
It's a Mercury Djinn called Zephyr.  Here's one of the descriptions I got from
macserv@home.com: Hop over the stone from one log to the next and head east. 
To the north you'll find a Mercury djinn, and he wants a fight.  He has some
speed and power, but it's not a very difficult fight.  Once you've beaten
Zephyr, head due south and take the horizontal log all the way north to get to
a new door.  I'll revise this when I have a chance.

Once you've put the dragon's eye in the dragon, start heading back from whence
you came into the room with the three logs.  Head all the way down and across
the small log at the southern part of the screen to get near the entrance.  Or
you could have just used retreat ;-].    From here just backtrack, go out of
the waterfall and up to the temple.  Here the monk will talk to you about the
powers of Force you just got.  It turns out that it will show all of the
monsters in the upcoming forest, and they'll run away from you if they're seen.
 So, Force is basically just a monster repellent.

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Mogall Forest
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Note: It is not possible to go back through Mogall Forest.  However, it still
is possible to make your way through Mogall Forest without Force (just follow
the directions to go in this walkthrough.)

No, not Muggles from Harry Pottery but Mogall.  Here you'll see a green monster
climb into a tree.  Use force on this tree to see the Djinn run out to the
south.  On this screen you'll see another big stump, but you don't want to use
force on this or you'll have to fight an Ape.  Push the vertical log to your
right, the horizontal log down, the vertical log back to the left, and then the
horizontal log up.  This will land the horizontal log in the water and you
should jump across it.  Use Force on the stump you're now next to in order to
see the monster escape the east.  Follow him!  Use Force on the western most
stump to see that pesky monster run south, so yet again follow him.  On this
screen head east to arrive at a horizontal log that's being constricted from
moving due to a rock.  Use your Move Psynergy on this rock to push it in a hole
and move the horizontal rock down.  Roll the next horizontal log in your way
down, then move the vertical log to the right.  Move the horizontal log all the
way up, then once again move the vertical log west into the water.  Before you
hop over to the next part, go to the southwest part of the grass section you're
currently on to find a Djinn!  Save before you fight this guy, because you'll
need to battle him.  He's not very tough to beat, so you don't need to worry
too much as long as you have your Djinn inactive before hand to hit him with
summons.  Now, hop across the log and use Force on the stump there.  The
monster will jump across the island gap, but you won't be able to jump across
that.  So, head back from whence you came (9 I think) to the northern part of
the screen.  Walk across the log path that was already there, and go through
some trees to arrive at the big stump.  Force on the stump to have the monster
run off to the west.  Follow him and go through the screen going west.  You'll
now arrive at a place with three stumps.  Here you'll want to use Force on the
middle screen to have the monster run south.  Head west and then down the log
over water path there.  You'll see a vertical log blocked by a rock here, so
use Move to move the rock into the hole.  Once you've done this, push the
vertical log right and jump across the water to the island in the middle.  Use
force on this stump to have the monster jump across to the water to the south. 
Jump back across to the west and head around the mini-stumps counter clockwise.
 Push the vertical log east, then the horizontal log south.  Head around
counter clockwise again and push the vertical log east into the water.  Save
before you hop across this log, because you're about to get a boss battle.  Use
your Force Psynergy once again to force the monster out of the stump and to the
south.  Follow him and make your way towards the stump in the middle on the
next screen.  When you walk towards the log in the center you'll see the
monster jump to the south.  Follow him, but get ready for his BIG counterpart
to ambush you.

It's now time for a boss battle against Killer Ape.  This guy has a lot of
health, and his attacks aren't too shabby.  The first thing you want to do is
cast all of your summons against him to do a good deal of damage (by now you
should have at least one 3-Summon) to him.  Now, Isaac should also have a nice
new attack called Ragnarok that packs a huge wallop (it's my favorite looking
attack in the game.)  Have Garret use his normal attack (I equipped that Arctic
Blade on him that I liked pretty much for this point in the game), use Ivan's
Plasma and occasionally Impact on Isaac, and keep using Ply with Mia to keep
your other party members alive.  When you beat this Ape you'll get 1500 coins
and Douse Drop that's required much later in the game.  Head south once more to
find yourself out of Mogall forest.  Note: You can't go back through Mogall
forest no matter how hard your try.

Head east and go north over a bridge to reach Xian.

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Xian
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Note: If you do not have Force, do not bother about knocking over the log in
Master Feizhi's temple, as you can't do it.  Simply continue along on your
quest, it will not affect your game in the long run.

It may not look like it, but the building just north of you when you enter town
is an inn.  Stop there and heal up all of your characters.  Right away you
should notice a Djinn on a cliff in the eastern part of town.  In order to get
this, you're going to need Freeze.  Mia should have this if you equip two
Mercury Djinn on her.  Now, you want to talk to the girl walking back and forth
between the docks and near the cliff.  Where you want her is 1 from the top and
1 from the right in order to be able to jump on the pillar once you freeze it
from one side of the garbage blocking your way to the other.  So freeze it, go
up the stairs and hop over to the eastern cliff.  You won't need to battle this
Mercury Djinn, Mist.  Now, head back across the ice and into the building right
there on the cliff.  Here you'll see a tree stump surrounded by a white line. 
Get *right* up next to that white line without physically touching it and use
force to knock it down.  If you didn't hit the white line the door will open
and out come Feizhi and her father, Master Feizhi, discussing her visions. 
They also mention that Hsu is late and Feizhi will run out to find him.  Now,
Master Feizhi will come over and make you use Force on the log again.  When you
do this Master Feizhi goes into a long conversation about how you use Chi from
your mind (aka Psynergy) instead of Chi from you hand like him.  All of this
doesn't really do anything for you, as you don't get any items or anything
important, but you do get a little more feel for the plot.  Now, head to the
weapons shop in the northwestern part of the town and buy the latest and
greatest weapons.  You're now done in Xian, so head out of town.

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On The Road Again...
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The first thing you want to do is to go due north of Xian.  Continue going past
a forest and over a few bridges until you get to a small island.  On just about
all islands like this you'll find Djinn, and this is no exception.  Here you'll
find a Djinn in a random battle, so get ready for a fight.  When you defeat him
you'll get the Mars Djinn, Corona!  Head back south until you get past the
forest area and then head northwest over a bridge to arrive at Alpine Crossing.
 Here Feizhi will meet up with you and will start moaning about how Silk Road
is blocked due to a boulder.  Head north at Altin Crossing and you'll see the
town of Altin.

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Altin
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You arrive in Altin and things are a mess.  The water is overflowing and
flooding most of the homes in the village.  Head west a little and you'll see a
statue that you can move.  Use Move on it to enter a small cave with a treasure
chest in it.  This chest will give you a useful Psy Crystal that you'll want to
hold onto for later.  Head to the inn to rest up, then go down the ladder right
in front of the inn.  Head south to find a Water Monster who's spitting water
into the lake that was once a town.  He'll flee into the cave and you should
follow him.  Go a little north in the cave to find the monster hopping very
slowly up a ledge and to the other part of the cave.  You'll probably want to
save this point and inactivate all of your Djinn.  Hop across the ice and then
slide down the cliff and press A to battle the Living Statue.  These guys are
hard core water, so fire attacks are simply devastating against them.  Like
most of the earlier bosses, he has a lot of health but his attacks aren't all
that powerful.  As always, cast all of your summons against him off the bat,
then hit him with Ragnarok with Isaac, Heat Wave with Garret, Plasma with Ivan
and either attack or Ply with Mia.  Once he's been defeated, you'll obtain a
frost jewel that lets you use Frost when equipped (note: Mia should already
know Frost.)  Go down the ladder and frost the puddle.  Now, jump across the
ice pillar and go out of the cave.

You'll now notice that the water level is a little lower than it once was, but
it's still not what it should be.  Head to the east part of the town and go
down the two ladders there.  You'll now be able to go into the Mine Shaft
called...

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Altin Peak
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To find the first Water Monster in Altin Peak you're going to want to follow
the mine track for several screens.  Eventually you'll arrive at a screen that
has a large lake with another one of those Living Statues there.  In order to
get this guy, you're going to have to take the mine cart, so head around the
bottom and Left walls clockwise to find the mine cart.  However, you'll need to
flip the switch a little east of the mine cart first in order to have the track
go the correct direction to reach this water monster.  After a roller coaster
ride of sorts, you'll end up right next to the Living Statue, so save your game
and inactivate all of your Djinn.  Approach the Living Statue and press A when
next to it to challenge it to a battle.  See above for my strategy to beat this
enemy.  When you beat him you'll get a Vial that restores 500 HP and the water
level will drain a little again.  You'll now want to head back from whence you
came (8) on the mine cart, then go east followed by south towards a ladder and
a door.  There is a treasure chest in this door, but it's blocked by a large
rock that you'll need lift to get past (more on that later.)  Head up the other
ladder, and go clockwise until you get back at the door.  Continue back along
the track until you get to the next screen.  On this screen continue going
along the track until you see a door to the north that you haven't gone in yet.
 Proceed through this door and climb down the ladder in this room.  Go through
the door and head west.  You'll see a train track going south when you get to
the western wall, so go down from there.  Here you'll want to change the switch
to go west as opposed to east, then head north along the train track.  When you
reach the mine cart head in and find yourself across the lake next to a door. 
Proceed through this door.  In this room head west until there's a fork where
you'll want to head south.  In the next room, don't go up the ladder until you
freeze the puddle of water in between two ledges.  Now that you've done that,
head up the ladder and jump over the ice pillar to the other side.  Go through
the door to find a room with a mine cart and a Living Statue visible.  Hrmmm, I
wonder if you'll have to use the mine cart to get this living statue? ;-] 
Climb down the ladder from the ledge you were on and head west.  When you see
another ladder going up to a connecting piece of mine track (it's got jumps on
either end) head north just to the west of this and freeze the puddle there. 
Don't go up that ladder just yet, though.  Instead, go west some more and go up
the ladder there.  Flip the switch from left to right, then go down that ladder
and up the ladder in the middle.  Jump across the ice pillar and hop in the
mine cart.  You'll end up on a ledge northwest of the lake.  Here you should
climb down the ladder, save your game and standby all of your Djinn and get
ready for another Living Statue battle.  See above for strategies.  By this
time you may even be able to beat him in one round ;-].  Now, use retreat and
head out of the cave and stop by the inn and weapons shops.

Now, you want to go to the lowest entrance of the mine and follow the mine
tracks.  When you get to a fork near the beginning of the track, head right and
continue until the track ends a few screens later.  When the track ends, go
clockwise in that room and then head south.  In this part, you'll want to head
east then start heading north.  Keep going along the path to eventually end up
a door that you want to go through.  In this room, you'll see a Djinn on a
ledge.  Let's go get another Djinn!  Go to the eastern part of the room where
you'll see a stump and a puddle of water.  Move the stump one square to the
left and freeze the puddle.  Head north and climb up the ladder.  Change the
switch when you get up there and head south along the mine cart.  Hop across
the ice pillar and stump and into the mine cart.  You'll first go in the
apparent wrong direction off to the right, but hop in the cart again to land
just north of the Djinn.  Head south and prepare for a battle.  By this point
Djinn really shouldn't be posing much of a challenge to you, especially if you
use the right attacks against them.  For example, fire attacks wreck havoc on
this Mercury Djinn, Spiritz.  Now, head back in the mine cart and get out. 
Head west to find a water puddle that, surprise, you'll have to freeze.  Don't
climb up the ladder quite yet, as there's another puddle you have to freeze a
little further west.  Now, go back east and head up the ladder.  Ledge hop and
go through the door.  In this new room, take a left and head south for a long
time until you reach a door.  In this room, go north through a rock filled
tunnel until you find a sign and a dead end.  Read the sign that talks about
falling rocks.  If you didn't have Force by now Garret would get angry and kick
the tree causes a boulder to come after you.  If you do have Force, line up
facing the tree stump and use force on it.  A giant rock will fall and you'll
automatically run away.  It will cause a giant hole in the middle of the rail
road tracks.  Climb down the ladder then slide down the mountainside.  Now,
head to the north part of the hole and climb down the broken track as if it was
a ladder.  Head west to find a paved area that apparently was a secret buried
deep beneath the mines.  At this point you'll want to save your game because
it's just about boss time.

It's time to fight the final boss of Altin Peak.  As always put all your Djinn
on standby.  Cast all of your summons against this boss to do a substantial
amount of damage.  Now, use Ragnarok with Isaac, Heat Wave with Garret, Impact
on Garret and Storm Ray with Ivan, and Ply with Mia.  This boss has a really
bad attack and the fear of dieing really shouldn't be there.  On his death you
get 2400 coins and a Lucky Medal.  Plus, you'll get a treasure chest behind the
boss that contains the Lifting Gem that lets you lift large rocks in your way. 
Now, use retreat and heal your wounds in the Inn.  If you haven't done so yet,
get the latest weapons and armor from the shops in town.

Once more enter the mine entrance at the lowest possible point.  Go along the
mine tracks until you reach the fork.  Here you'll want to go forward at the
fork, and use the Lift Psynergy that you got from that Lifting Gem on the brown
rock there.  The rock will now hover over your head allowing you to pass to the
door.  In this screen head left, but don't go to the far left unless you're
really interested in getting a Vial behind a statue.  When you head up the
middle path there will be another rock there that, surprise, you have to lift. 
Continue along this path, and the next door you go through will put you back on
the world map, this time near...

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Lama Temple
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There's not a lot of things to do in Lama Temple except go up to the main
building in the northwestern part of town.  Before you get there, however,
there's a Psynergy stone that you really don't need but can get if you really
want it.  Walk in the temple to start talking with Master Hama (who is a girl
by the way.)  She apparently has the power of anticipation.  After a lengthy
conversation she'll reveal to you how to make Ivan use reveal (bad pun.) 
Reveal is a very useful tool to find hidden objects, doors and other things in
the game and is required crossing the Lamakan Desert.  During this conversation
Feizhi who was off to find Hsu and the others earlier will pop in and said that
the transfer did work.  Then Master Hama and Feizhi will rush off to Alpine
Crossing where Hsu is trapped.  You'll want to follow them, but before you
leave town jump the small stream to end up on the east part of town.  Use your
new Reveal Psynergy to reveal a chest that contains some Water of Life.

Head directly east of Lama Temple to reach Alpine Crossing and to see the
trapped Hsu.  At first it appears there's no way to get to him besides going
back through Altin, but once again use Reveal to open up a secret door.  Pass
through the small temple to reach the other side.  Go up the rock and use Lift
on it to free Hsu from the boulder.  When you come back later the rocks will
now be cleared and you can freely pass through Alpine Crossing.  Once you save
him you'll end up back in Lama Temple where the characters go on and on and on
about whether or not Master Hama looked at Ivan.  Sheesh, what bad
storytelling.  Leave the Temple Area and head southwest to reach...

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Lamarkan Desert
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When you first enter Lamarkan Desert you'll notice something different.  There
is a heat bar on the left, and if it reaches the top you will lose about 1/4 of
your health on all the characters.  To make the heat bar go down, you must find
Oasases which are pulls of water surrounded by a circle of rocks.  In order to
find these pulls of water you'll need to use reveal.  However, some of the
rocks are traps, so use reveal when you're well away from them or you risk
getting sucked into one and fighting a difficult monster.

Head along the path for a while until you reach the first circle of rocks.  Use
reveal on this to reveal a pool of water that you should jump into.  Continue
along the path and at the first branch off go up it to find another rock circle
that has water in it.  Head northwest up the narrow path, and take the eastern
path over the western one.  Don't go in the rock circle at the beginning of
this path because it contains a crab ready to attack you.  Instead, continue
along in that direction to find a rock circle after the path starts heading
north that contains much needed water.  After cooling down, continue up to
reach the next screen.  This screen is much more open than the other screen, so
you have to know which way to go.  Stay south, finding in the first rock group
a treasure box with a potion in it and in the next one a pool of water.  After
cooling down, head north a little and go around the cliff there.  Shortly after
going around that cliff you'll find another pool, this one containing a water
hole.  Just northwest of there is the entrance to the next zone.  However,
don't go there quite yet, as we have a Djinn to get!  Head all of the way north
and the start heading east.  You're not going to be able to get enough water to
sustain yourself, so be prepared to do some healing.  Once you get to the
eastern wall, head one group of stones south then start heading back West. 
You'll see a rock formation that has a full circle with a semi-circle on its
side (it looks like this: c0)  In the small semi-circle you'll find the Jupiter
Djinn Smog, who you'll get without a battle.  Now, start making your way back
north, then keep heading west until you get to the wall where you'll want to
head south.  Once you can move left to the next screen do so, and you'll find
yourself in an area with several sand waterfalls.  Simply run across these sand
waterfalls to the other side and they won't cause much trouble.  Keep your
bearings along that trail until you reach a "dead end" with a sand waterfall
where you'll want to use Reveal to reveal a hidden door to a cave entrance. 
Head around this cave and come out the other side.  Cross the sand waterfalls
and get ready for a tough boss battle.  Here you'll see another "dead end", but
before using reveal save your game!

Now, use reveal on the sand waterfall to expose Manticore, who will scare you
off.  Approach him, press A and get ready for battle.  As always use all of
your summons against him right off the bat to inflict major damage.  You have
to watch out, though, as Manticore attacks twice every turn.  So, you'll
definitely want to just use Ply and Ply
Well with Mia each turn (if you have Wish or Wish Well you will want to use
that instead of Ply and Ply Well).  As always, use Ragnarok with Isaac, use
regular attacks with Garret, and use Plasma and occasionally impact on Isaac
with Ivan.  Manticore has some pretty lethal attacks that pack a whollop even
after the initial attack has been done.  Watch out for his pesky poison and
curse attacks that will take health away from you each time that character
attacks.  If a character is poisoned, have Mia use Cure Poison on him, and use
a healing item or Isaac's heal on that character to keep him alive.  Manticore
has about 1500-1800 HP, so don't expect to beat him in the second round as you
may done with previous bosses.  As long as all of your party members stay alive
you should be able to squeak past Manticore.  When you beat him you'll get a
load of coins, a Psy crystal and you'll be able to pass through the hidden
passage that he was blocking thanks to Reveal.

Head through the tunnel going through the linear path.  Head out of the door to
get back on the world map.  Head due north for a little, then cross a bridge to
reach a small island.  On this island is a new Djinn that you'll encounter in a
random battle.  Defeat him to get Vine, the Venus Djinn.  Now, head south and
cross the bridge going west.  Continue going west until you reach the town of
Kalay.

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Kalay
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Kalay is just bustling with tourists who are eager to board the ship at Kalay
Docks that's heading towards Collosso.  Head to the inn and buy the latest
weapons and armor as usual.  Once you're done with that, head to the north part
of the town and up the stairs to reach Lord Hammet's castle.  The guards won't
let you in at first, but the Ivan (remember, he was originally Lord Hammet's
servant) will persuade the guards to let you in.  You then go meet with Lady
Lana and engage in an exciting (sarcasm alert) emotiocon conversation with her.
 She talks about how she can't declare war on Lupna or they will kill Lord
Hammet.  Once she's done talking the talk (which, by the way, will take a very
long time) head out of the castle and down the castle stairs.  Head into the
inn, but instead of taking a rest talk with *everyone* in the inn in all of the
floors of it.  Now, head out of the inn and out of town.  But before you can
leave the tour guide summons everyone up and in a very pointless and very long
conversation the tourists will finally make their way to Kalay Docks where the
ship to Tolbi will be.  Once that's all over, head out of town and start
heading north.

You'll reach the bridge that was broken earlier when Lord Hammet tried to cross
it with his caravan before heading to Lupna.  Now that the bridge is fixed,
freely cross over it and the bridge just north of it to find yourself back in
Vault.  In most of these old towns there are now Djinn to get that you couldn't
get before.

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Vault...Again
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Head to the northwestern part of vault and go up the stairs there.  Continue
past the graves and over the bridge.  Keep going counterclockwise until you
reach a large tower where you should climb up.  Ring the bell on this tower to
have the Djinn jump to the ledge to the east.  Now, head clockwise back around
the town until you get to a bunch of graves with a dog near them.  Use reveal
on this area to expose a secret ladder in the middle of the graves that leads
to the Vault caves.  Head down this ladder, and don't fight the treasure chest
that you see immediately because it's actually a Mimic.  Instead, head west and
then north and go through the door.  The next room you'll enter has some water
in it with several underwater doors and ladders.  Head east and then go down
the stairs to find a room with a movable torch.  Move this onto the Flame
square on the ground to open the gate there.  Head through the door to find a
room with a *lot* of water drops in it.  Head north to find a door obstructed
by a group of leaves.  Use Ivan's Whirlwind Psynergy to open up this door.  In
here there's a treasure chest that has an item that will boost your attack when
equipped, which is quite useful.  Head back down and climb down the ladder. 
Freeze all of the water drops here expect for the eastern most drop, then head
back up the ladder.  Hop across all of the ice pillars you just made and enter
the next room.  In this room head down the one ladder and then up the ladder to
the left of it.  Head into the door, then go east a little and up the stairs. 
Flip the switch here to force the water into the room you were just in with the
two ladders.  Head back into the previous room and go down the stairs in the
south part of that room.  Go down the stairs again to find a room with several
torches.  Push the torch that has a flame on it on the flame switch to open the
gate.  Now, go through the gate and through the door.  Take the stairs to the
west and continue south through this room.  You'll now be able to go down the
ladder that once was drowned by water.  Do so and proceed through the door into
the next room.  In here hop over the gap and up the ladder.  Go to the next
room and out the door to find yourself right under the Djinn.  Go up the stairs
to get the Venus Djinn Sap without a battle.  Head back into the cave and use
retreat to go back to the beginning.  Climb up the ladder and then proceed out
of Vault.

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Bilibin Cave...Again
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While there are not any Djinni in Bilibin Cave, there is are some useful items.
 Head northeast of Vault to find this cave.  Here's a description from Thomas
Kim [tdkim@umich.edu] on a good way to get a few items:
"Enter the cave from the normal entrance. In the room with ice pillars, use
douse on the fire that's not on a pillar. An ice column should automatically
form. Exit the cave from the entrance you came in, and then take the alternate
entrance (the one after climbing the vine). Where the open treasure chest is,
use Reveal where the suspicious stone formation is and a door will appear. Use
douse on the fire in the next room. Now you should be back in the ice pillar
room. Go left and jump towards the ledge on the left side of the screen and
proceed to the next door. Inside, you will get a water of life and Psy crystal.
If you decide to head back towards the lighthouse, you can get Herme's Water
again. You can use Herme's Water like a potion or sell it for extra cash."
Once you're done with this task, head back towards your home town of Vale
(located to the west incase you forgot.)