Final Fantasy IX Disc 2

Conde Petie and Madain Sari

Conde Petie

When you first enter, watch a few ATEs then wander around. Just past Harold Pathknower (the guy who wouldn’t let you pass until you said “Rally-Ho”) you’ll find a chest off to the left with 2700 Gil. At the top left corner of the screen you’ll find what looks like a treasure. Heh heh. Head up and left through the doorway; you’ll end up in the hallway where Vivi had his ATE. Head in the doorway on your upper left to enter the Inn. There are four beds here.

Search along the top (headboard) left edge of the bottom left bed for 1800 gil. Go back out into the hallway and up the stairs at the far end of the screen. At the bottom of the next screen you’ll find Vivi talkting to some people. Talk to him, then head right out the bottom right of the screen. When you have control again, head back to the right and through the doorway into the store. Talk to Mogmatt and mognet/ /save then start up the stairs.

On the first landing, at the bottom edge of the screen, you’ll find a hidden . Head to the far upper-right of this screen to get to the weapon shop. After shopping, leave Conde Petie and head southeast. You’ll see a forest on then other side of a cliff, with a big lump in the middle. That’s where you’re going. Basically, just follow the right edge of the cliff (if you are facing AWAY from Conde Petie) near you as you leave the town. You’ll end up going east, and you’ll come out in a ravine that’s filled with forest. Go all the way to the end of that ravine, and you’ll end up at…

Black Mage Village

Area Enemies & Blue Magic: Dead Forest

Enemy	Eat to learn

See Blue Magic for the full reference.

Remember, the guy at Conde Petie said that the mages live so far back in the forest that the owls don’t even live there. When you first show up, follow the black mage guy. After that, follow the signs at each fork (Go “where the owls are not”). I don’t know if this is random, so I’ll just tell you that, for this game, it was:

Right
Right
Left
Right

You’ll watch a little cut scene, then walk around and watch ATEs. When you first get control, walk up to the left most house and examine the right edge of the door jamb for an , then head inside to visit the weapons shop. Leave that shop and head to the far right and talk to Mogryo. Mognet/ /save, then head inside. At the bottom right of the screen is . Try to have a conversation, then leave and go left back to the village entrance.

Head up the stairway and off to the left. Go left until Vivi runs by, then head where he came from to visit the cemetery. Head back to the right and enter the first hut you come to (the synthesis shop). Have a conversation with Dagger, then examine the far left corner, by the tower for 2000 Gil. Synth stuff if you want, then head up the ladder. Head right across the boards there and up to the top left corner. There’s no exclamation mark, but if you root around you’ll find 843 Gil. Go back down and leave the shop.

Head to the next shop over (to the right). On the left side (by the bookcase) you’ll find an . You can get items here. This is the first place you can buy a , so stock up if you need.

Head out the back door and go into the next building over (inn). Go into the room to the right and talk with Vivi. When Dagger shows up, call it a day and rest. Eventually, your whole group will be ready to leave. Before you leave, head back to the Guest Room of the Inn and pick up the Stellazio Coin on the ground by the ladder.

Return to the Synth shop and climb the ladder. Outside you can hear some Black Mages talking below. One of them will say he heard someone ask the shop keeper for “the usual.” Now head down and go to the shop. You should have a new option to ask the shop keep for the usual. He’ll start looking for it. While he’s doing that, head up the ladder he just cleared a path to, and examine the bed. You should get a for your trouble.

Equip the stuff you bought/synthed and head back to Conde Petie. Just follow the left edge of the cliff (if you are facing AWAY from the village) and you’ll get there.

Return to Conde Petie

When you first return to Conde Petie, unequip everything from Quina. Next, head right to where the item shop is, then head up and right past the weapons shop and talk to the dwarf there. You’ll be told to talk to “His Holiness.” Go left a few screens to where the kid and dog were, and you’ll find Father David wandering in the halls.

Watch the cut scenes, get hitched and head out. Recommend that Vivi and Quina get married too, then watch more cut scenes. When you have control of all your guys again, head down the vine to the right (you did unequip anything from Quina that you might want to use for a while, right?) and onto…

Mountain Path

Area Enemies & Blue Magic: Mountain Path

Enemy	Eat to learn

See Blue Magic for the full reference.

When you first show up, you’ll lose Quina (conveniently) and gain Eiko. Be sure to equip her, then let’s start the fun (now you know why you unequiped everything from Quina). You need to find four stones here, Blue, Red, Green and Yellow.

If you run across a , you can win a from them. If you do, be sure to equip it to Dagger so she can learn High Tide, then see if anyone else in your party can learn anything from it. Also, Zidane’s Protect Girls skill is twice as effective if he’s between two female characters.

: Go left and up onto the ledge there. Climb up the vine and open the chest for a , then head right until you arive at a weird stone. Examine it to get the .

: Back track to the beginning of this area, the head right one screen. There’s a vine here which will allow you to go up one level (the brown vine on the right, not the big green one in the middle). Go Up, then head left. There’s a chest here with a in it, and a stone with the in it. Get them both.

: Go back down and head right TWO more screens. Talk to Stiltzkin and by a , and for 666 Gil. Next talk to Suzana and mognet/ /save (give her a letter from Mogmatt in exchange for a ). Next, head left and use the ladder to climb up and then head kinda down and right, making a bit of a circle around the ladder. You’ll get a cut scene with the all-seeing eye, no wait, I mean the Iifa tree.

Boss Fight Prep

Make sure Eiko can cast Float, and make sure Zidane can steal if you want to try for the .

Boss Fight: Hilgigars

Steal	, ,
Weak / Absorbs	No elemental weaknesses or absorbs
Reward	9 AP, 2136 Gil
Drops	,
Strategy	Float the party to neutralize Earthquake, then keep pressure on it; it may cast Curaga when low on HP.

Head right one screen and you’ll get pulled into a battle with a . He’s got a nasty earthquake spell, cast Float if you can. If you’re patient, you can steal a , a , and . He guards against Blind, Sleep, Confuse, Scan, and apparently Demi, but NOT against Slow or Silence. Of course, Silence doesn’t stop any of his attacks, as far as I can tell. If you can reflect mid-level or high-level magic off your party, it shouldn’t take long to take him out. After your guys finish yaking, grab the out of the stone there.

: Head right, and on the next screen take the small vine path to the lower right. Grab the from the stone there, and open the chest for an .

Stone Exchange: Time to back track a little. Go all the way back across the vine (past the Iifa tree), down the ladder, past the Moogles and to the right. There’s a statue here. Put the Red, Blue, Yellow and in it to get a prize (a ; Eiko can learn Shell from this, if you don’t already have a that she can learn from).

Finally, go back past the Moogles ( if you need to get your magic refreshed for your mages), up the ladder, across the big vine to the fork in the road. Head over to the right, and this time take the large vine path leading up instead of the small one that lead to the . Go to the end of the vine and you’ll end up back on the .

Quick note: there are chocobo tracks here, but you don’t have any chocographs (yet) to make use of calling him; save your . A short distance away are two forests. Head East toward the end of the peninsula. At the very end is a forest somewhat hidden behind a mountain range. Wander around either forest, and you’ll eventully run into the (see friendly monsters section). When you are done with that, back track along the coastline and you’ll eventually arive at a spot labeled with a question mark (?) that leads to…

Madain Sari

Welcome to Madain Sari - Village of the Lost Summoners. Watch a few cut scenes, then an ATE. When you have control again, go and search the top right edge of the fountain for the Stellazio (See the Stellazio Side Quest Section for more information). Right behind Dagger, there’s a chest with a . Head down one screen (to the screen you were just on) then come back. You’ll start an ATE. Choose who you think should serve do what for the meal. From the dialog with the Moogles, you can figure out who should do what:

Fishing: Momatose
Dig up Potatoes: Mocha
Help in the kitchen: Chimomo

When you have control of Zidane again, head up to the next screen and watch another ATE. Talk to the Moogle there, then head back to the fountain and turn left. Talk to Vivi then try to enter the house. When you are told to wait, you’ll head right and watch another kitchen ATE. This time, you have to count people and Moogles to figure out how many to cook for. I counted 6 Moogles and 4 people for a total of 10, but you should always cook for more people, so choose 11 (really.) Then you have to decide if you should put in an oglop. Don’t be tempted. Don’t do it.

Doesn’t it seem like it would be great if you had someone around who knew how to cook? Yeah, I think so too. Eventually you’ll have to decide if you want to help catch a heavy fish, or if you want to stay and cook. Since Eiko does a bad job cooking and Chimomo seems to know a bit more, I decided to go help. Oh, hello someone-who-knows-how-to-cook.

You’ll have control of Zidane again, so head down one screen and go talk to Dagger. Then go back up and up past the fountain, back to the Eidolon Wall. (You see those chests across the river? Don’t worry about them. You can’t get to them now, but You will get their contents later.) Watch and talk, then leave and watch another kitchen ATE. Since Quina actually knows how to cook, I’d recommend asking for advice. Head back to the house and you’ll eat dinner and learn a little about Summoners.

When Eiko asks you to, help. Go around the table and talk to Dagger, then open the chest near her for a . Run around to the other chest near the exit and get an , the reach over and grab the pot and take it to the kitchen. Keep talking to Eiko for a while, then head to the lower left corner of the kitchen (not down the stairs, though). There is on the ground. See Mordid’s Coffee Section for more information.

Leave the kitchen and head back to the dining room. Between where Dagger is standing and the door leading to the kitchen is a ledge you can look under. There’s writing there indicating that Mog and Eiko are the same age. Try to leave, then sleep. Watch a few cut scenes, then head out to the .

As soon as you do, though, go back into the village. You can buy stuff from Morrison at the entrance to the village, including a (removes status). You’ll want a few dozen of these. After that leave and head for…