Excerion
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        Equip of any of Dekar's items that are worth using, then head
south from Karlloon to the small shrine.  Cross and go north-east to
Treadool.  In Treadool, get new stuff and then talk to the guy that asks
if you want to buy a ship.  Say "yes" and he will send you to meet Lexis
Shaia to the north.
        Leave town and go north to the cave.  Enter and read the sign to
open the door.  Take the door on the right, then the one on the left.
Cut the vines to reveal a door and descend.  Talk to Lexis and he will
tell you to see Jyad and have him make a ship.  Warp back to Aleyn and
talk to Jyad in his house.  He will agree to make a ship.  Go to
Treadool and talk to the woman standing at the entrance (she wasn't
there before).  After some dialogue, you will be sent to find flowers at
the mountain to the south.
        Leave Treadool and head south-east to the mountain.  Bomb open
the door and get the Hammer, the final skill.  With the Hammer, you can
go back to the cave north of Alunze and get an Eron Hat and Tuff Buckler
by smashing rocks.  Back at Flower Mountain, follow the path from where
you got the Hammer to some rocks.  Smash them with the Hammer and go
outside.  Kill Crow Kelps by using Fireball.  Enter the next door and
push the pillar onto the switch by hitting it with the Hammer.
        Head north and up the stairs.  Go outside and jump down at the
arrows.  Walk to the left side of the ledge and jump down again.  Enter
the cave and head upstairs.  Cut the vines and enter the room.  From the
entrance, go LLLLLLUULUUULLLDDDD to a chest with a Life Potion.  Go back
to the entrance and go UULLUULLLUUR.  Face north and hit the wall with
the Hammer to open a cave.  Now leave the room and enter it again from
the top door.  From the middle row, go LLLLLUURRRUULLLUULL to the cave
with the Snake Rock.  Go back to the entrance and go
LLLLLDDLLLLUULLULLUURRU to the stairs.  Go up the stairs again and smash
and cut your way to the bottom, where you'll find a pit.  Fall down and
get the Burn Sword.  Go outside and get the Flower Key, then jump down
outside on the right.
        Enter the top cave and head back to where you jumped down.  This
time, smash the rock inside the cave with the Hammer and head right.  Go
in the first door.  Starting from the left switch, go ULLUUUUURRRRRRD.
Start at the middle switch and go ULULLUUURRRU.  Go ULULULL from the
right switch, then go through the door.  Head up and outside, swing
across the gap, and get Sully, the Earth Capsule.  Go back to the spike
room and bomb open the wall on the right for a Dragon Egg, Flying Ax,
and Power Ring.
        Leave the spike maze room and take the door to the right (the
locked one).  Follow the path outside and back in until you get to the
boss, the Rogue Flower.  Use Fire attack on the Rogue Flower, such as
the Burn Sword's Firestorm, which damage it heavily.  The Flying Ax's
Deadly Smash also works well.  If it puts you to sleep, just ignore it,
because you'll wake up quickly.  After the fight, head east and get the
flower.
        Return to Treadool and give the flower to Leefa.  Lexis will
conviently just happen to finish with the engine then.  Go talk to him
and he will join the party, and you'll get the Excerion.
        With the Excerion, sail southwest to the very cool Forfeit
Island.  Here you can buy anything you've ever sold or fed to a Capsule
Monster.  You can get your Capsule Monsters up quickly by feeding them
Lion Fangs, then  buying them back again and repeating the process.
Also, if the Capsule Monsters want War Rapiers, be sure to feed them
the Rapiers as it will boost them quickly.  Then you can just feed
them cheapy items until the want more Rapiers.  The monsters don't
want Rapiers until they reach a certain level, however.  Don't buy any
equipment in the regular equipment shops; there's better stuff soon.
There is a very nice item shop, however.
        Downstairs in the Tavern you'll find the casino.  The best way
to get the stuff here is just to have enough money to convert into
coins and just buy the items.  If you insist on playing the games,
I recommend Action Bingo.  Rotate the balls to form lines.  9 and 13
give you extra coins if you get them in a line.  Don't try to make
lines going through the middle, as it's hard to get the center ball.
The only item really worth getting is the Jewel Sonar, which isn't
that expensive anyway.  The Dragon Blade is great, but good luck
affording it unless you're playing in Retry mode (more on that
later).
        One way to get a lot of chips is to the slot machine titled
"Adventure 7".  It can be operated by simply pushing the control
pad up.  Get a lot of chips and save your game.  Then go to the slot
machine and tape down the control pad pointing up.  Turn off the
TV and come back a few hours later, and you will have gotten a lot
of chips.  If you do this for about a week (!), you can get the Dragon
Blade in the regular game.
        Head east from Forfeit Island to Auralio.  Buy new stuff and go
north to Dankirk.  The stores in Dankirk are the same as in Auralio.
Don't buy any spells; they're all pretty useless (except for Mirror,
which is way too expensive).  Talk to the the messengers, Prince Leon,
and the King.  Head downstairs and the messengers will show up.  Go back
and talk to Leon and the King.  The Ruby Icon is missing.  Warp to
Clamento and have Jaffy make you a copy of the Icon.  Take it to Leon
and the signing ceremony will start.  The King will recognize the fake
and you will be sent to the North Dungeon to find James.
        Head north-east from Auralio to the North Dungeon.  Put the pot
on the switch under the bushes and enter.  Watch out for the Ramias
(they look like Medusas when you're walking around).
        Go through the upper-right door and down the steps.  Go south to
a switch and hit it, then return to the main room.  Hit the switch and
jump down.  From the ledge, swing south to the pillar.  Go through the
door and down the stairs.  Head west and cross the bridge.  Jump down
and bomb the skeleton to make a switch appear.  Hit the switch and head
north.  Whack the switch, and then cut the vines to make a black segment
of wall appear.  Bomb the wall until a door appears.  Go through and get
the Hi-Magic and Earth Fruit.  Step on the switch, then push then blocks
out of the way and go up the stairs.
        Go through the upper-left door and down the stairs.  Push the
pillar in front of the eye and walk underneath it.  Hit the switch in
the next room, cross the bridge, and head downstairs.  Shoot the three
switches, then continue east to a chest with the Fury Ribbon.  Bomb the
wall and enter.  Cut the vines to reveal two eyes, then shoot them with
Arrows to make the barricade go down.  Cut the vines there and shoot the
eye to make a switch fall down, then hit it.  Go down the steps.
        Teleport to the room with the switch.  Push the block onto the
left switch, then teleport to the chest room and stand where the switch
was to make a bridge segment appear.  Repeat for the right switch.  Get
the Dankirk Key and teleport to the switch room.  Push the block onto
the center crest, cross, and hit the switch.
        Return to the room where the spikes were, cross, and go down.
Cut the bush along the south wall and walk into the wall where it was to
get to the chests, with a Dragon Egg, Figgoru, and Flame Jewel.  Step on
the weird-looking tile to the right of the door to open it.  Loop around
the room and go down the steps.  Get healed, then come back up and pick
up the grate.  Jump through the hole and hit the switch.  Go back up the
steps and swing across, then go down the steps there.  Cross the bridge,
then shoot the switch to make a new bridge.  Push the far left block out
of the way and move the one above it to the top tile.  Put the left
block back and move the middle-right block out of the way, then push the
bottom right block onto the bottom tile.  Move the two right blocks onto
the tiles and cross the bridge that appears.  Follow the passage to a
room with a bunch of Shadows.
        Stun the Shadows when they're out of the way and cross the
paths. Past that room, head east to a save spot, then continue until you
reach James and the Prince of Grantze.  You will have to fight four
Soldiers.
        The Figgoru is very useful here because of its ability to hit
all of the Soldiers.  Have Selan cast Bolt on all of them, while Maxim
and Guy spread out their attacks.  They're not that difficult.
        You will automatically return to Dankirk.  After the signing
ceremony, go to Auralio and talk to Henpy on the second floor of the
"castle."  He will open the watergate.  Talk to Prince Leon twice and he
will give you a VIP card so you can play Stud Poker at the casino on
Forfeit Island.  I don't recommend it, but if you want to play, watch
what people bid.  If they bid a lot, they have a match.  Look at
their cards and try to figure out what they have.  Also, if somebody
bids only 1, bid 99, and some of them will always drop out (even if
you have bad cards).
        You can now continue south to Ferim, but there's a number of
things you can do before then.  Sail to the circular island west of
Barnan (check the map that came with the game) and enter the tree.
You'll find Darbi, the Dark Capsule, there.
        Visit the towns of Barnan, Durale, Portravia, Treble, and Pico.
Barnan has great stuff from much farther along in the game, but it's
very expensive.  You may just want to get normal equipment, which is a
whole lot cheaper (but I recommend the Barnan stuff).  Durale's shops
are even better, but they're closed to prevent you from cheating.  For
stuff for Lexis and spells, go to Portravia or Ferim.
        Once you're done shopping, head to Ferim.  Explore the castle
and talk to Hans.  Before you go to the Northeast Tower, make sure both
Selan and Lexis each have at least one level 3 attack spell (Firebird,
Ice Valk, Dragon, or Thunder).  You might also want Champion, but it's
not really necessary.  Head northeast from Ferim to the Northeast Tower.
        Head in and bomb the wall.  Upstairs, head south and use the
Hammer to move the pillar, then swing across.  Go outside and take the
left door.  Set both arrows to the right and hit the switch.  Go back
out and take the right door.  Follow the path left for the Stun Gun,
then go through the door and up the stairs.  Take the ladder down and go
in the door.  Starting at the bottom entrance, go
ULUURULURRRDDLDDRRUUUU.  Head downstairs and get the Trial Key.
        Return to the room with the moving bridge and send it back left.
Pass through the left room and go up the stairs.  Set the platform to go
down  and ride it.  Set the next one to go up to get the Samu Jewel.
Ride the platform back up to the entrance.  Set the platform to go right
and ride it.  Set the top arrow and the bottom one right to ride to the
Mysto Jewel.  Ride the platform back to the entrance, then ride it down.
Set the arrow down to go to the door.
        Go outside and ascend to the top.  Unlock the door and enter.
Set the levers to trap the Samurais on opposite sides of the cage (this
can take a while), then wait by the door for them to step on the
switches.  Go through and talk to Hans.  Amon will show up.  After he
leaves (no fight), go through the door and Hans will get the gem.
Return to Ferim and go to the throne room.  You will be sent to Agurio.
        Head north from the Northeast Tower to the shrine.  Pass through
to Agurio, which is destroyed.  Talk to Iris and she will send you to
find Dual Blade.  Now warp to Treble (or sail there, if you haven't been
there yet).  Talk to everyone, then go to Portravia.