South Figaro is actually a pretty big and prosperous town, probably due to
plot selling all of those weapons to enemies of the big nasty Empire. Right now the town isn't very important, so let's just power through most of the boring bits, shall we?
: Welcome to South Figaro!
: You'll find lots of excellent weapons, armour and relics in our shops.
: I can't believe it! The Empire'll smash us!
: Did you hear? Figaro Castle sank into the sand! You couldn't find it even if you knew where to look!
: Mt. Kolts is to the east.
: Beyond Mt. Kolts you'll find the Sabil mountain range.
: The house in the northern part of town belongs to our wealthiest citizen.
: This town'll go down fighting! Even with their Magitek Armor, we'll make it tough on 'em!
Given how easily Leia smashed through Narshe, the town is screwed.
The town also contains lots of loot hidden in barrels and crates, most of which isn't very useful. For instance, the eyedrops cure darkness, the coolest status effect ever. If you ever use an eyedrop to cure darkness, I will come over to your house and slap you for being an idiot. Seriously. Darkness is awesome.
South Figaro contains the world's most redundant chocobo stables, since the area it's in is pretty small and easily navigable. Still, if you want to waste 80 Gil, don't let me stop you.
Besides this cute little chocobo, the stables are uninteresting.
The richest man in the town has a house to the north, so let's visit it to see if he can't... make donation to the crown.
:
He probably owns me taxes anyways.
The place is pretty swanky, don't you think?
The second floor is much more interesting than the first one. Trust me.
See? We have a choice to two rooms! The door on the right is the children's room, and we'll be visiting it first because why not?
: Uh, I, uh, just made that up!
If you're wondering, we've already seen General Leo. He was at Emperor Palpitine's speech, saluted a bit? Let me show you a picture.
Now do you remember him?
...
Well at least Lando isn't promising to marry either of them. Let's check out the parent's room, shall we?
Huh. This place certainly looks better than Lando's bedroom.
: Attack from the east. That way, ... ...?!
: Hey! Whaddaya think you're doin'? Barging in here while I'm trying to write a letter! Harumph!
: Oh, uh, sorry... Even a millionaire can be... startled.
Hmm... Dined with General Leo, his son is obsessed with Magitek armour, writing a letter about attacking from the east...
Nope. Nothing odd going on here at all.
Amusingly enough, the guy turns towards you when he's writing his letter.
Geez, I don't know. How about...
Here?
Oh, hey! It's a secret passage! Now what would a totally not-suspicious millionaire need a secret passageway for?
Why, to hold his library, of course!
Actually, that's wrong.
It's to hold his secret dungeons. This guy is into some really weird stuff, trust me.
Also he has save point for some reason.
The secret passage also contains tons of money, which is why we're here. New equipment isn't cheap, even if it pays for itself.
Unfortuantely the clocks here don't contain Elixirs, only actual clock mechanisms. Lame.
Remember the other exit on the first floor? I almost didn't.
Going around the back leads to a secret junk room, which is pretty much useless.
At least somebody was nice enough to place an Elixir in the clock.
Next on our tour of South Figaro are the docks in the southern part of the city.
: The ship isn't going anywhere.
And that's the tour of the docks in the city.
Let's see how Duncan is getting on. What? You don't know who Duncan is?
...
I don't blame you.
: He's taking his disciples to Mt. Kolts for meditation and training.
Ah, see? He's a world famous martial artist that we've only just heard about from his wife.
For some reason he has a save point in his basement.
Let's visit the house next to Duncan's.
: My grandfather was a servant for the richest man in town.
CURSE YOU WANDERING NPCS!
The boy's grandfather is old and grumpy, and won't talk to us until we get him some
booze sweet, wholesome apple cider.
...
Let me explain as best as I can. During the heady days of the SNES, Japanese Nintendo was all wild and crazy, including things like booze and partial nudity. American Nintendo, being the wet blanket and wanting a family friendly console, did a bit of censoring here and there. For instance, Kefka says "Son of a submariner!" instead of "Son of a bitch!" when the party escapes from Castle Figaro. Some of the sprites also have been... touched up a bit. For instance...
Guess which sprites were in the Japanese release of Final Fantasy
6 3 and which one was in the American version?
However the censors didn't really touch the stories of the SNES games at all, so you can get silly things like someone asking you to dump soda pop over their grave. Because that makes tons of sense.
Oh, and all bars have been turned into cafes for some unknown reason, despite the fact that they're quite obviously bars,
While that would make an amazing segway to visit the bar, instead we'll be taking the other entrance. Why? Because it contains the relic shop.
: These double my walking speed!
Oh, silly merchant.
Huh?
Ah, the talking Moogle is back to tell us about Relics.
: "Sprint Shoes" double your speed. "True Knight" Lets you shield others during battle. "Dragoon Boots" add the "Jump" command to your battle list. "Gauntlet allows you to hold a sword with both hands. Use the Main Menu to equip up to 2 relics per person.
Thanks random Moogle!
With all the Gil we
stole liberated from that millionaire-and-generally-trustworthy-man, we have enough money to buy all the relics we can.
Unfortunately, they're mostly crap. *le sigh* Let me go over how crappy they are:
The Goggles, they do nothing. Well, technically they protect against dark, but you don't want to get slapped, do you? Plus at 500 Gil they're horribly expensive. Yes, you heard me right, 500 Gil is way too much for them. 1 Gil is probably too expensive as well.
The Star Pendant is much more useful than the Goggles, since they protect against the Poison status effect. If you don't know what poison does, you obviously haven't played an RPG before. Locke and Leia will get one of these, though I probably should have just bought 20 antidotes instead.
The Jewel Ring protects against petrification and darkness. I won't slap you if you buy one, but you probably shouldn't have bought some for Leia and Locke like I did. Ah well, I might need it later or something. Maybe petrification will be used more than I remember.
If you remember the moogle's little talk about relics you'll remember that True Knight shields your allies during a battle, which means that if a party member is at critical health then a character with True Knight equipped will try to take the hit instead. Obviously if the person with True Knight is at low health they won't suicidally try to protect anybody. Lando, being the tankiest character we have right now, gets one slapped on him. I might regret it later, but eh.
The Sprint Shoes is, hands down, the most awesome relic in the game. Why? Because it allows you to move twice as fast!
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Alright, so that doesn't sound so awesome, but the normal walking speed on the map is too damn slow, so to preserve my sanity Lando is going to be wearing these things for a while. I'm not kidding about the sanity part. You should have heard my cry of relief once I got these things.
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