go down the stairs and buy some elements in lisa's element shop. she's got some stuff you probably won't have yet (or at least, don't have enough of).
okae, if you recieved the heavy skull (i.e., skelly)
in fossil valley, go up the stairs and enter the house on the right. talk to the old lady (skelly's grandma), + skelly's cousin to awaken skelly... who doesn't
really say anything, but still... leave the house, + head over to the left. standing out of sight in the shadows is some guy. if you agree with him, he'll give
you the "tea for three frame". go down the stairs to where lisa's was. go to the house all the way in the back. if your bored, you can talk to the three
people in the house, but what your really after is the profiteer's purse behind the staircase. van and his father gogh don't have much of interest to say, so
leave. in the building next to the yard is zappa's smithy.
you can upgrade your weapons here (if you don't have enough money to forge serge a copper swallow and copper mail, just go back to lizard rock, fight
the beach bum and the opah fish in the first part, then head along the top path to the ring of opah fish. kill all four of them, and you should now have enough
$$$ to forge whatever you want, + mayb even some xtra left over 4 more elements!!! (do me a favor, will ya, and forge the stuff first???). now, return to the
main street in termina and head all the way over to the left. see the purple staircase leading up? go there, and you end up aboard the magical dreamers'
ship. go into the room on the lower deck. talk to the guy in the back, and he tells you nikki is missing. miki walks in, and recruits you to help her find him.
she tells you that he's somewhere in the shadow forest. head back to the main street of termina, and enter lisa's shop again. go into her back room,
and talk to the guy there. he tells you about his frickin mushroom. just say you envy him, and he finally tells you something of
interest: there's a big tree deep in the shadow forest with a huge hole in it that leads into viper manor. cool. continue right, and talk to the fat guy in
yellow, just because. (you can talk to him later on in the adventure, and he restores your party's hp! continue onwards, and witness the guy with the "mermaid" showing it
off to a bunch of kids. korcha appears and scares the kids off. head on farther left, and down the staircase. ignore the weird lady who stops you.
enter the house, and find out grecco's not in right now (you can come back for him later). leave the house, and continue across the bridge. go around the
shell-shaped island, and witness riddel and glenn talking about dario, the manor, and the guest from porre. they need a bellflower, but remember glenn
couldn't get any? he notices you have one. you *can* get up to 70g for it, i guess, but do you really need it? they thank you, and leave. now you can
leave termina. (lost yet?)
Shadow Forest
how bout not forgettin to equip your new weapons and armor??? (hey, don't feel bad... i always do ^~_~^ )
skip the first part of the shadow forest... there's nothin in there anyway. (watch out for that bulb jumping around, tho). go up the little ledge on the right,
fight the bulb, and get the aerosaucer out of the chest (don't pick fights with too many bulbs, tho... one time, there were three of them, and they brought a
dodo along!!! (what??? a dodo in the shadow forest??? (don't ask... if this happens, target the dodo first and foremost, then take down the three bulbs clustered
at its feet))). nikki is serenading the green monster (uh, attempting to, at least...). he gives up, sees you, and runs off. get the chest in the bottom-left
corner containing an uplift, then follow nikki. when you get to the next part, nikki's being attacked by a bunch of cassowaries (stupid bunny-eagle-people).
cassowaries: innate yellow
run into the cassowaries, and they attack nikki for awhile, who attacks back. then it's finally your turn (if you're nethin like me, you'v just been itchin for a
fight w/ these thingies, after watchin them harrass poor nikki). kill them, and the dumb bast. runs away under the waterfall...
you're gonna have to follow him,
cuz a stupid sleeping quaffid is blocking the path. follow nikki into the cave. talk to him, and kid yells at him. he ignores her, reads a notebook, then nikki
joined your band. he offers to sing you a song (haha, eh... no). you leave the cave... now go back inside, open the chest to get the aroma pouch, re-read
the notebook, then pick up skelly's angry scapula! okae, now for the annoying part: wakin up that stupid quaffid. it's actually not as hard as the notebook
(and nikki) makes it out to be. just choose a monster (the blue one in the cave, the light-green one nikki was serenading, or the red one at the entrance
to the forest). (tip: the blue one's the easiest, altho i do think i've gotten the light-green one before... altho rumor has it that if you get the red one, the quaffid'll
shrink, or dissappear, or somethin, + you won't have to fight it...???) now, here are the plants for the respecting monsters: the bumpy tree right outside
cave is for the light-green monster, the bumpy tree on the ledge over the cave is for the blue monster (go between the two arms of the stone semi-circle to
get to it), and the bumpy tree near where you came in to this part of the shadow forest is for the red monster. just x the tree, and a respective-monster-
colored pollen-thingy'll follow you around. go x the monster you want, and he'll follow the pollen... here's the tricky part, tho: don't let him get too close, or
he'll eat the pollen and run off, and don't go too fast, or you'll lose him (this is why i never bother with the red monster... you usually have to do at least two
tries before the whole process works, even after playing the game five times i have to do two tries!!!). now, go up to the back of the quaffid, x it, + he'll eat
the monster (awww...!!! :o( ). now fight him. this isn't a hard fight, so don't worry bout it too much (what, all that trouble to move his fat, lazy quaffid-ass,
+ it's not even a boss battle?!?!?! AUGH!!!). (hey, i share your annoyance...) k... take note of the chest all the way in the back on the right. now get ready
for the second boss battle:
zoah: innate yellow, tech: dragonrider
solt: innate yellow, tech: summersolt (blue)
peppor: innate yellow, tech: pepporbox (red)
as usual, target the middle guy, a.k.a. zoah (second Deva you've fought, huh...). those nifty new green elem.'s you just bought should come in handy
right about now, plus everyone's lv.3 techs. the chest in the back contains a heal element. now go inside the tree. there's a chest with a magmabomb
under a root. watch out for the gloops bouncing around the ceiling (dodge and weave, sir, dodge and weave!). stick to the left in the next section to avoid
that stream of gerridae. go up onto the ledge and defeat the wraith (black innate... yay! dashandslash should go over quite nicely...). now roll the boulder
over to stop up the hole. now you can continue up the channel without having to fight a gerridae every two seconds. fight the current (weave diagonally
back and forth, and it should be no problem). don't worry about that chest with the damn bug-gerridae sitting on it, you can't get it now anyway. watch it,
a gloop'll more than likely attack you right before you leave. any red element kid uses should kick its gloopy gelatin butt easily. go inside, and you'll find
yourself in a dried up well. kid suggests you wait til nightfall...
