Final Fantasy VII Walkthrough

1.36: The Cries of the Planet

Death Sentence

Death Sentence

Once you've found two people, head back up to the tower. Go up and talk to Bugenhagen. Once you're done with the machine, talk to Bugenhagen, then leave and look for Red XIII (campfire area) where you can have a conversation with your friends. When Bugenhagen arrives, follow him up to the sealed door area (you'll want to save first, and check equipment).

Talk to Bugenhagen, and then you can enter the cave. You go down a fair distance, and the environment begins to give off an eerie, green glow.

There are small caves within the cavern, the first is maybe 10 paces after stepping in. You can break a rock in it when you go in, but you don't have to until the third cavern. The first two cause you to be attacked, and you can head up the path between them to the third.

You can go straight up through the opening where Bugenhagen talks, or you can go to the right first into another cavern with a dummy switch.

When you go through and run to the left, you'll see there's a spill of something slick there. Walk on it, don't run, and head down. When you go down (far left) and out that entry, you can get an Added Effect materia to the left. Head back up, turn right at the slick, then up again. You can go right then down some stairs to get a chest with a Black M-phone in it, then, before going up the stairs, head up through that other opening to get an Ether.

Go back up the stairs and keep heading forward. As you may have noticed, this is a great place to level up, so stick around if you have the items to do so.

Go up, and you'll be confronted with 5 caves and a tempting chest that you can't get from just there. The far right one just takes you to the far left, and vice versa, and the middle one has nothing, so really you just have two. Second from the right takes you to an annoying battle with a Stinger, which is harder than the other enemies so far. However, if you happen to have the Frog Song enemy skill, give it a try; it works, and this enemy doesn't have enough exp, ap, or gil to be worth fighting normally. Keep going up to get the X-Potion, then head back down and try the second from the left cave.

Go up and fight Stinger again, then up to another spider's web. There's a chest here that you need to go through the wall to the left to get to, where you can obtain a Turbo Ether. For another chest in this area, go all the way to the left and down, then through the hidden hole in the wall, but wait! Stop halfway through and find the passage that branches right. Go through that for a Fairy Ring. When you head back up, get ready, because after you go through that entry you fight:

Gi Nattak	Level	HP	MP	Attacks
	29	5500	200	Take Over, Aspil, Hit
	Absorbs	Blocks	Strong Against	Weak Against
	Steal	Morph	Win Item	Enemy Skill
			Wizer Staff
	EXP	AP	Gil	Location
	1400	150	3000	Cave of the GI/Cosmo Canyon Caves
	Immune to Status		Notes
	Return, Confusion, Silence, Transform, Stop, Berserk, Paralysis, Stone, Slowly Stone, Manipulate, Death
	Strategy
	Use Ice spells and Shiva; avoid your Fire spells. Don't bother with Titan, either. Deathblow also works on the main boss, especially when equipped on Cloud. If you're looking for a faster way, hit it with curative items and spells; an Elixir can kill it immediately, as can a Phoenix Down if it hits.

Soul Fire	Level	HP	MP	Attacks
	21	13000	220	Fire2
	Absorbs	Blocks	Strong Against	Weak Against
	Steal	Morph	Win Item	Enemy Skill
	EXP	AP	Gil	Location
	200	10	100	Cave of the GI/Cosmo Canyon Caves
	Immune to Status		Notes
	Sleep, Return, Confusion, Silence, Transform, Berserk, Poison, Paralysis, Stone, Slowly Stone, Manipulate, Death

When you're done, pick up the green Gravity materia before following up for a sequence. Afterwards, get what you need from the village and leave. You're heading north, beyond the canyons.