Lines in the Fog

Contents

  1. 1. An Early Start
  2. 2. Under The Waterfall
  3. 3. Taking A Dive
  4. 4. Back to Onrac
  5. 5. Preparing to Dive
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Final Fantasy I - Canoes, Cubes, and Cat Claws

Part of the series: The First Step: Final Fantasy I

An Early Start

This morning we get up and get a start on trying to find the Sunken Shrine. As promised last night, I ended up pretty much going straight to sleep after playing the last section, but it means I'm up in plenty of time to fit in a bit before work, which is nice.

In the time between now and then too, I realised how we'd get to the Sunken Shrine too. Based on the directions and the map markers from L2 + Cancel, it's the only one I have left except for the Mirage Tower.

We hop in the airship and find it, and looking at it confirms my guess - it's canoeing time!

We park up the airship in the same spot as we did when visiting Onrac, because it's about the only place on the continent that we can, and we use our canoe to head up the inland lake/stream that I mentioned.

I called it a stream last time because the point where the shrine is looks like a waterfall, which would imply a flow of water, but it's also possible they didn't think it through that much, because it doesn't really flow into a true lake or anything. I digress though...

We head up the body of water, and I realise in our first battle that I wasted 52,000 or whatever it was on that set of Cat Claws for Kaili - They may have been better than what he had currently equipped when we entered the store, but optimising his equipment as I discussed has using a Flame Sword. The Cat Claws have 100% accuracy though, so there may yet be a time and place for them.

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