Final Fantasy VI Walkthrough
Written by Djibriel
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1.45: Airship Exploitation II: More Airship, More Exploitation
Treasures: Elixir, Ether, Potion, Fenix Down, 
Beads, X-Potion
Lore: 
Condemned, Dischord, L. 3 Muddle, L. 4 Flare, L. 5 Doom, Pep Up, Roulette, Step Mine
Change to a party without Strago in it, and head back into Thamasa. You can find Gungho, an old acquaintance of Strago, near the Inn. The man does little but call Strago a 'monumental coward'. Ouch. The dialogue expands if you go back in with Strago. Anyhow, you're back airborne now and I'm sure you're simply dying to stop the Emperor from doing nasty things with the Warring Triad, but there's no rush (he'll wait!), and there are quite a few things to do first.
The world is now barren of Imperial activity. Vector and the Imperial Palace are completely deserted, and there are no soldiers in Albrook anymore. Albrook is rather overshadowed at the moment, as the Floating Continent is right above it. I don't see why they would want to linger there; if I had a floating landmass the size of Belgium floating over my head, I think I'd high-tail it to Germany before long.
Lores!
For now, how about a few Lores? I'll explain how to get as many Lores as you can at this point of the game:- Condemned
- Rummage around on the Veldt until Gau encounters and Leaps a Zombone. When you get Gau back, have him Rage Zombone. His special attack is Condemned, and Strago will learn it if he's paying attention.
Condemned sets a timer over the target's head and uses an automatic unblockable 
Doom spell if the timer runs out. Monsters can be immune to both Condemned and (Instant) Death, mind. Rather useless. - Dischord
- Meet either a Chaser or a Telstar on the Veldt. Telstar will *always* use Dischord after he's taken nine turns, Chaser will use it randomly.
Dischord is an attack that halves the target's level. If the target is immune to one-hit KO, Dischord will fail. The best use of Dischord lies in stealing; lowering an opponent's level increases your chances of stealing. - L. 3 Muddle
- Try to meet up with a Trapper (the hanging robots from the IMRF, remember). They will randomly and happily use L. 3 Muddle. If Gau already learned the Trapper Rage, Strago can learn it from the feisty kid.
- L. 4 Flare
- It's like with L. 3 Muddle, only you need to make sure that L. 4 Flare doesn't kill your entire party.
- L. 5 Doom
- Trappers, Trappers, Trappers, Trappers. And waiting.
- Pep Up
- Make sure you have encountered at least one Intangir, and go Rage-hunting on the Veldt. When Gau learns the Intangir Rage, he can execute it to use Pep Up. Strago will learn it, although I can't see a use for it whatsoever.
- Roulette
- Make sure you have Relm in your party for this one. Try to find Pipsqueak enemies on the Veldt. If you Sketch one, there's a 75% chance it will cast Roulette. Strago can watch and learn.
Roulette's animation causes the cursor to spin around. You know, as if you had a broken controller. If you hit the action button, it'll slow down and deliver an unblockable Doom spell (though targets immune to one-hit KO still survive the attack). I'm sure you could get Roulette targeting down to a science, but it's not really worth it. - Step Mine
- Fly over to South Figaro. You can take a walk there and enjoy the freedom of the town for a moment, but the real treat lies just outside of its borders. GreaseMonk, when confused, will somehow while drooling and flailing their arms around and being generally amusing to look at use the Step Mine attack. Step Mine is a brilliant attack with fixed damage. It's non-elemental, barrier-piercing, and the direct output of a simple mathematical formula. The damage you deal is created by the number of steps your party has taken divided by 32; the MP it costs is calculated by the number of minutes you've played divided by 30.
In case you were wondering, whenever monsters use this attack they use your party's amount of steps for it. That's hardly fair. It's like tax money, only they use it to spy on you rather than help your poor family members through the winter. Er, wait, I suppose tax money does both of those things now. Rewrite: It's like tax money!
New Rages!
New monsters you'll want to Leap include Coelecite and Ing. Below is the old list of monsters you're still interested in.Enemy | Attack | Status Changes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Break | Inherent Float | ||
| Bio | Absorbs Water | !Numb (Stop) | |
Blaze | Absorbs Lightning, Inherent Float, Undead | ||
Will o' the Wisp | Absorbs Poison, Undead | ||
!Cat Scratch | |||
Wind Slash | |||
Fireball | Inherent Float | ||
Snare | |||
Inherent Protect | |||
One-Hit KO protection | |||
Sonic Boom | Inherent Float, One-Hit KO Protection | ||
Blaze | Absorbs Fire, Inherent Float | ||
| Aqua Rake | Inherent Darkness | ||
Giga Volt | Inherent Float | !Sleep Stinger | Inherent Float |
| Ice 2 | |||
Magnitude 8 | |||
| Quake | |||
| Aqua Rake | lots of status immunities, one-hit KO protection | ||
 Cure 2 | Inherent Protect | ||
Inherent Haste | |||
Reraise | Inherent Protect, one-hit KO protection | ||
Cyclonic | |||
Transfusion | Inherent Invisible, Protect, Shell, Haste, Regen and Float* | ||
Magnitude 8 | Absorbs Fire | ||
Lifeshaver | Absorbs Fire and Poison, Inherent Float, Undead |
Vanish*You'll have to prevent the casting of the self-destructive Transfusion attack with Silence before Gau initializes the Rage.
Doma!
Off to Doma Castle! Doma Castle was occupied all this time, but Gestahl opened it up to you back when he was pretending to play nicely. Doma Castle has generally little and valueless treasure for you. You can find an Ether, an Elixir in the alarm clock in a bedroom, an X-Potion in the room Cyan found his dead wife and son in, and, when you go outside on one of the walls, you can find a little room with a Fenix Down and someBeads. Beads are broken in all versions but the Advance one, so allow me to talk about them a bit.Beads give the character +20% Evasion, which is a nice effect by itself. However, it goes on. When a physical attack is performed on a character with Beads, the hit rate of that attack is halved. Attacks which always hit due to a perfect hit rate or another circumstance will still always hit. Not too shabby – so long as you're playing the Advance version, which is the only one in which the Beads work.That'll do for now. Back to our regularly-scheduled heroism.
Caves of Narshe: Final Fantasy VI
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©1997–2024 Josh Alvies (Rangers51)
All fanfiction and fanart (including original artwork in forum avatars) is property of the original authors. Some graphics property of Square Enix.