Final Fantasy World Tour: Final Fantasy Part 13: Adventures of the Deep

The Underwater Shrine

Well, since you said please!

Since I have the Oxyale now, I hop into the submarine and begin my adventures under the sea. I am greeted with a level that looks like the Chaos Temple with the same music, but everything is blue.

I move forward and to the top left to find a solitary chest that gives me 9900G. All the way to the top left I find a staircase, but before going down, I continue looking around for more treasure. When I reach the top right of the area I find a staircase going up! On the opposite side of the room with the first chest, I find a chest with 2000G. I decide to move to the staircase going down before moving up.

These monsters don't stand a CHANCE!

On my way to the staircase, I battle a pair of sea trolls and some (poisonous) lobsters. The sea trolls die quickly, but the lobsters gang up on Lee and kill him with poison and a critical hit! Once I get downstairs, a group of ghosts takes out my party (They are way too strong! Next time, they get the HRM2/FIR2 treatment!)

The Underwater Shrine, Take Two!

On my second try, I go upstairs first instead. I find a network of rooms. In a battle against several sahags, I try out my wizard staff, and I confuse the entire screen of enemies! Excited about my new toy, I hand it to Vic so he can use it while Jule heals with the heal staff during easier fights. After making my way around the series of rooms, I find 20G, opal armor, light axe, mage staff (not as exciting, just a staff that appears to cast a weak FIRE or FIR2), and 12350G. Once I find a set of stairs going up, I cast EXIT to heal and save before continuing.

I return for my third visit and try going down the stairs again. After moving to the north side of the screen, I find a set of stairs going up. This leads to another set going up, where I find an empty room and a set of stairs going down. Now I’ve officially confused myself. This may require more visits to finish all of the rooms. At least the only real difficult battles are with the ghosts. I have a chance of hitting many of these enemies with confuse when I use the wizard staff. Meanwhile, Jule sits in the back on regular heal duty with my guys in the front laying waste to everything they touch.

On the floor below, I find two chests with 110G and 450G in them, and yet another set of stairs going downward. I hope that these two paths connect at a point. In the floor below I find chests that contain 8135G, 7690G, 5450G, power gauntlets, 385G, light axe (Boo! I already found one of those!), 2750G, 7340G, 9900G, and ribbon (wonder what is so good about this? It doesn’t do more than the cap). On the way to another down staircase, I run into two ghosts, who Arek and Lee lay out before they can do any real damage!

Lee bravely fights the water.

On the next floor down, I find even more rooms to explore and pathways (meaning I can’t just cross over, meaning even more random encounters!).

Don't you just hate empty rooms?

Vic has had enough of the sea snakes and lobsters, so he shows them how to truly poison an enemy.

Poison to DEATH! Talk about crowd control!

On this floor, I find several rooms that take me across to other pathways, and it becomes even more mazelike. Once I reach the end of the maze, I come across an odd, pink orb. Boss time!

Whether or not I could have made it easier by having Jule cast INV2 and FOG2 on the party, Vic was doomed before he had a chance to blink! Nevertheless, Arek and Lee were tough and ripped the Kraken apart tentacle from tentacle (At least I imagine so. If only the enemies were not just static images!)! Before stopping for the night, I heal up and bring my characters back to see what I missed going the other way.

So What Was Upstairs?

When I return, I head up the first staircase going up again. This time, I actually continue the path, and I encounter mermaids! I do what I do best--mingle with the mermaids and then rob them of 900G, 1760G, opal bracelet, opal helmet, opal gauntlets, 2750G, 4150G, 5000G, and an opal shield.

Oh, is that why that woman is obsessed with her legs? Is this a Little Mermaid thing?

Why yes, I CAN breathe underwater! Thank you, Oxyale ™!

In a treasure box far up to the northwest (though I’m convinced there’s some Mario Bros going on here where I walk off one side of the screen and land on the other side), I find the slab that I can give to Dr. Unne. I know where I’m going next! As I’m about to leave, I speak with a mermaid who tells me that to unlock the Mirage Tower (desert tower?), I have to know a Lefeinish musical tone. I put two and two together and know that I need to unlock the language to learn the tone! Satisfied with my haul and having spoken to all the mermaids, I cast EXIT and save.