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). 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". now, go down the stairs to where lisa's was. head over to the right, and 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 g's to forge a copper swallow and copper mail for serge, just go back to lizard rock, fight the
beach bum and the opah fish in the first part, then head up the path to the opah fish ring. fight all four of them, and you should have enough $$$ to forge
whatever you want, + maybe to buy some extra elements, if you didn't have enough before (tip: forge the weapons first, will ya???)).
go behind the counter and to your left. you'll end up in zappa's back room. talk to pierre and he tells you he wants to replace dario as the fourth dragoon
deva, but he can't show up in viper manor without his medal. go out the door at the bottom of the screen, and stop the kid runnin around in the yard. he'll
give you pierre's hero's medal. go back into the back room, and give the medal to pierre. talk to him again, and he insults you but... pierre gracefully
joined your partie! head back to the main street of termina, 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?)
Viper Manor Gates
how bout not forgettin to equip your new weapons and armor??? (hey, don't feel bad... i always do ^~_~^ )
remember how pierre said follow his lead to viper manor??? well, why don't you let him??? (just press select until he's in front).
when you reach the gates, walk up to the guards and try talking to them. pierre takes over and acts all gay. the guards dismiss him. now what? heheh... storm the gates!
acacia guards: innate yellow, tech: stormblow
yeh-heah... a fight insues, your first viper manor boss fight. shouldn't be too difficult. okae, now the gate's open. take note of that chest
behind the gate for later, mate. (...) solt and peppor (oh no) return... but this time they've brought help.
solt: innate yellow, tech: crosscut (red) (with peppor)
peppor: innate yellow, tech: crosscut (red) (with solt)
ketchop: innate yellow, tech: flameknock (red)
have you seen the *size* of this guy?!?!?! man... he
lays out your leading party member flat in no time. oh well, like there aren't *other* boss battles,
right??? ha! better hope pierre and kid (or whoever else is in your party) can take this guy down. (here's why you should've put pierre in the lead: pierre is
now the one who gets killed, then solt revives him (haha, what a dumbass)... now you just power him up to lv.3 (just 3 weak hits *only*), and have him cast
medalsome (his lv.3 tech), which gives himself 31HP! (or somethin to that extent)). strategy, man, just strategy... don't worry too much about solt and peppor, tho. as usual,
they mess everything up, what with solt curing you, etc. then ketchop (tomato-boy over there) gets pissed at them, and goes off and plays baseball... with the shaker
brothers serving as ball and bat! (watch it, tho, he knocks peppor into one of your party members, plus knocks both the dumb idiots unconcious). hopefully,
you have some semblance of cure elements allocated??? (in other words, hopefully you're not like me??? but don't worry, i still beat them without healing
myself...).
as soon as that fight's over, pierre suggests you wait there until nightfall...
