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3.22: Interdimensional Rift; the Dimension Castle

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Enemies: Mythril Dragon, Mini Magician, Galajelly, Mammon, Blind Wolf, Hellraiser, Magic Dragon, Red Dragon, Yellow Dragon, Sword Dancer, Death Claw, Fury, Yojimbo, Iron Giant, Ramuh, Azulmagia, Alte Roite, Jura Aevis, Catastrophe, Halicarnassus, Twintania

Treasures: Hammer Thor's Hammer, Accessory Hermes Sandals, Knife Man-Eater, Armor Rainbow Dress, Red Slippers

Blue Magic: Death Claw, Level 3 Flare, Dark Spark, Off-Guard, Goblin Punch, Mind Blast, Aeroga, Doom, Roulette, Aero, Level 2 Old, 1000 Needles, Level 5 Death, Level 4 Graviga, Mighty Guard, Vampire, Lilliputian Lyric, Flash, ????, Aqua Breath, Aera, Flame Thrower, Pond's Chorus, Missile, Magic Hammer, Time Slip, White Wind, Self-Destruct

That's a lot of stuff, isn't it? This is the final area of the Interdimensional Rift before we dive into the very Void itself. Halicarnassus rules the Dimension Castle, and four of the Eleven of the Rift are still alive. Throw open those heavy doors and meet your destiny.

Sword Dancers are the graceful foot soldiers of whatever civilization was imprisoned together with the Dimension Castle. They can attack physically, use !High Kick (which is more powerful) and Danse Macabre, which sets Zombie to a single character. Accessory

Angel Rings help protect against this move (but Helmet

Ribbons won't), and note that any status ailment can work on them (including Toad, which just prevents the possibility of the enemy using Danse Macabre). Sword Dancers are Humanoids, not Heavy. You can nab some Sword

Enhancers from them, which are both sweet swords for your Blue Mages (if you don't plan on using !Attack at all) and the best enchantable blades for Mystic Knights.

Death Claws use

Death Claw all the freaking time. They're notable since they can't be Controlled, I guess. They are weak to Water and not Heavy, so those with Leviathan and Odin will have no trouble killing them. They have a rare Axe

Thor's Hammer for you; you'll be able to find one in a chest here as well.

Iron Giants are the worst Giants. They attack with powerful physical swings from that grand blade, and they use Rocket Punch to deal 50% of a character's current HP in damage and set the

Confuse status. When struck with an !Attack, a Iron Giant will counter with a powerful !Takedown. It goes without saying that this should be avoided: !Takedown is unblockable and ignores Defense, making it quite potent. They look very intimidating, but these Giants are vulnerable to Death and Petrify and are not Heavy, so take advantage of that fact rather than trying to plow through their 18000 HP.

Throw open the heavy doors and meet your destiny. Here, in the main hall, are seven exits. You appeared out of one. Another one is a staircase in the middle of the room going up, but the doors there are closed. Going around the staircase will lead you to the stairs going down to the basement, but we'll get there later. To the left, the visible the door leads to an otherwise featureless little room packed with spears you can't pick up. The other one takes you outside to a small tower. Here, in a chest, you can pick up a Axe

Thor's Hammer, which is a bit less powerful than the Axe

Titan's Axe but Back Row OK and therefore better against random monster formations. It is also an Aerial weapon; you actually throw this thing around, much like the weapon of the comic book hero Thor. Or so I've been told, comics are for total geeks.

Go back to the main hall. The visible door to the right will get you nowhere like the other one, so go outside. Another small tower houses a chest containing Accessory

Hermes Sandals. Now go back to the main hall and circle around the staircase to find the stairs going down to the basement.

There are no random encounters in the basement. There are quite a few NPCs running around here, though. To the left is Azulmagia, one of the Eleven of the Rift. To the right, Catastrophe the beholder is holding a girl captive; Catastrophe is another one of the Eleven, though apparently it loathes working together with Azulmagia (or the other way around). A total of six old men are locked away in their cells as well. What a mess.

You can engage the old men through the bars if you must. This way, you don't have to open the door and can nicely pick them off at your leisure.

Alte Roite Bestiary #302	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	Humanoid	58	6000	1000	0	0	45
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	45	20	5	70	45	60	5
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Potion Rare: Holy Water			Common: Healing Staff
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None			None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	You can add Berserk to avoid the Encircle attack, but this will stop the transition into Jura Aevis. Bio, Flare and Holy work best to get through the formidable defenses.

Oh... my aching back!

Just because there's six of them doesn't mean they're not serious business. They'll attack physically, which isn't too bad, or use Encircle 33% of the time to remove a character from the fight. That's an issue, and you can't really stop it.

Berserk works, but you don't want to set it due to the fact that, after defeating the old man, he transforms into the creature you're probably here for: the Jura Aevis! If you set

Berserk, kill him with a counterattack or use Chaos Cannon to kill him, he won't transform. If you use a Gold Needle on Alte Roite, it seems he is cursed with a petrified spine; he'll return the favor by healing himself completely, then go on attacking. Craziness! His Evasion and Magic Evasion is through the roof, as is his Magic Defense and, to a slightly lesser extent, his Defense.

Bio and

Flare bunch through nicely, as does

Holy. After 6000 HP...

Alte Roite reveals his true form!

Jura Aevis Bestiary #303	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	Aevis	61	15000	1000	0	0	40
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	65	10	45	20	35	30	45
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Dragon Fang Rare: Dragon Lance			Common: Dragon Fang
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	Unlike Alte Roite, Jura Aevis is not Heavy, so the fight could end as quickly as you want it to. Otherwise, keep it paralyzed and slowed as much as possible.

Blast, he became a lot harder. On the upside, he lost his Heavy nature, which is absolutely the path to his destruction. You want this thing to appear because it has a rare Spear

Dragon Lance for you. The Spear

Dragon Lance is the strongest Lance in the game (outside of the added GBA content), and is the key to the defeat of some very nasty critters. You can also get them later in a random encounter, but this thing is here now! His many HP-based attacks are a pain, but you can keep him busy with Paralyze: Whips and the Remora summon help out there, as well as

Mind Blast.

Slow also helps. Since his level is 61, the

Dark Spark/

Level 5 Death combo works; but, since he isn't Heavy anyway, you might want to forego this bothersome technique and just cast

Banish or summon Odin instead.

Obtaining a Spear

Dragon Lance is very nice, especially if you plan on defeating the Magic Pot and that Famed Mimic Gogo fella later. However, with every Reset spell you cast, you'll have to plow through another old man; waiting for the Crystal Dragon later may provide for quicker farming.

The three old men in the bottom jail cell were running around a chest containing a Armor

Rainbow Dress; the three old men in the other one guarded some Accessory

Red Slippers.

Now that you have all the Spear

Dragon Lances you'll ever need (or not), walk to the left. There's a chest there you can't reach yet, but there's also Azulmagia waiting for you. The towering fiend is optional, but nets you a new item and a Save Point, so why not? He's a righteous detective, this one, inquiring into your business like a noisy no-good. Good boys don't lie, but good guys also get punished in the Dimension Castle. Proclaim your heroism and face Azulmagia, monstrous mage of the Eleven of the Rift.

Azulmagia Bestiary #301	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	57	27900	50000	0	0	45
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	65	21	50	10	30	70	50
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Elixir Rare: Titan's Gloves			Common: Black Cowl
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	Doom, Roulette, Aqua Breath, Level 5 Death Level 4 Graviga, Level 2 Old, Level 3 Flare, Pond's Chorus Lilliputian Lyric, Flash, Time Slip, Death Claw Aero, Aera, Aeroga, Flame Thrower Goblin Punch, Dark Spark, Off-Guard, Mind Blast Vampire, Magic Hammer, Mighty Guard, Self-Destruct ????, 1000 Needles, White Wind, Missile
	Strategy
	This guy does nothing but cast blue magic, and he knows virtually all of it. There are a few spells you can teach him, though, and if you do, he will then use them back on you. This works the best with Level 3 Flare assuming that you have a party who can not be hit by it. Use Mighty Guard, Hastega, and Shell for defense.

Azulmagia uses Blue Magic, and I mean a lot. Like, all the time. He's telling us he can quit whenever he wants, but we can tell he's not too sure himself anymore. Azulmagia lacks a few Blue spells, though! Azulmagia doesn't know and doesn't care about either

Moon Flute or

Transfusion. The attacks

Aeroga,

1000 Needles,

Level 3 Flare,

Aqua Breath,

Magic Hammer and

Self-Destruct, however, are Blue spells Azulmagia never got his ginormous hands on that he'd be more than happy to test out on you should he learn them in the course of the battle.

When you use any of those Blue spells on him, he'll learn them from you and change his AI script accordingly. This is a lot of information, but it's really pretty interesting that he's set up to run this way.

Normal AI Script:

First Set:
- 33% Dark Spark
- 33% Off-Guard
- 33% Mind Blast
Second Set:
- 33% Doom
- 33% Roulette
- 33% Level 2 Old
Third Set:
- 33% Level 5 Death
- 33% Level 4 Graviga
- 33% Mighty Guard
Fourth Set:
- 33% Lilliputian Lyric
- 33% Flash
- 33% ????
Fifth Set:
- 33% Aera
- 33% Flame Thrower
- 33% Missile
Sixth Set:
- 33% Time Slip
- 33% Death Claw
- 33% White Wind

Learned

Level 3 Flare!

First Set:
- 66% Level 3 Flare
- 33% Dark Spark
Second Set:
- 66% Level 3 Flare
- 33% Off-Guard
Third Set:
- 66% Level 3 Flare
- 33% Goblin Punch
Fourth Set:
- 66% Level 3 Flare
- 33% Mind Blast
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

Aeroga!

First Set:
- 66% Aeroga
- 33% Doom
Second Set:
- 66% Aeroga
- 33% Roulette
Third Set:
- 66% Aeroga
- 33% Aero
Fourth Set:
- 66% Aeroga
- 33% Level 2 Old
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

1000 Needles!

First Set:
- 66% 1000 Needles
- 33% Level 5 Death
Second Set:
- 66% 1000 Needles
- 33% Level 4 Graviga
Third Set:
- 66% 1000 Needles
- 33% Mighty Guard
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

Vampire!

First Set:
- 66% Vampire
- 33% Lilliputian Lyric
Second Set:
- 66% Vampire
- 33% Flash
Third Set:
- 66% Vampire
- 33% ???
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

Aqua Breath!

First Set:
- 66% Aqua Breath
- 33% Aera
Second Set:
- 66% Aqua Breath
- 33% Flame Thrower
Third Set:
- 66% Aqua Breath
- 33% Pond's Chorus
Fourth Set:
- 66% Aqua Breath
- 33% Missile
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

Magic Hammer!

First Set:
- 66% Magic Hammer
- 33% Time Slip
Second Set:
- 66% Magic Hammer
- 33% Death Claw
Third Set:
- 66% Magic Hammer
- 33% White Wind
Return to normal AI Script

Learned

Self-Destruct!

Self-Destruct (ashes to ashes, dust to dust)

Phew! I'm not normally a fan of direct AI transcript, but since you may want to learn a Blue spell or two here, the specific circumstances of their appearance may be relevant to you. Azulmagia's quite absent-minded, that much is true; when you teach one Blue spell followed by another Blue spell, you can then teach him the first Blue spell again! He'll regain his enthusiasm for the spell as well.

If your level allows you to dodge

Level 3 Flare, teaching him that spell is the safest option for you. If that is not a possibility, the

Magic Hammer routine is also a great one. Aggravating Azulmagia into using

Aeroga or

Vampire is a bad idea:

Aeroga deals about 1800 damage, and

Vampire and the

???? spell in that list are very dangerous on a creatures with over 20000 HP. Another neat thing to consider is

Reflect +

Level 3 Flare; everything in that potential AI list except for Goblin Punch is Reflectable,

Level 3 Flare hurts Azulmagia and

Dark Spark and

Off-Guard are super-duper when they connect on Azulmagia.

People may tell you to use

Self-Destruct to end the battle! Possible, it does work, but you'll lose out on ABP for a single character as Azulmagia will take a character with him.

Azulmagia's has a lot of attacks, some of which are very dangerous. Throw up

Mighty Guard and

Hastega;

Shell will reduce damage dealt and reduce the hit rate of status ailment spells as well. Cast

Magic Hammer or possible

Level 3 Flare, and the battle is yours. Bio spellblade is very powerful;

Bio is not a very powerful spell, so that Poison-elemental weakness is much better exploited with Mystic Knights. Set

Berserk for added effects; if you have one or two casters to heal and clear bad effects, possibly boost levels or stats through !Sing or !Mix, a Mystic Knight can take Azulmagia down by itself.

Accessory

Titan's Gloves are a bit better than Accessory

Kaiser Knuckles for those not punching Barehanded; they have better Defense, boost Stamina (for Regen) and protect against Mini. Oh, joy. They can only be equipped by Heavy Armor Jobs, and they decrease Agility and Magic Power by 5. They're unique though!

There's a Save Point here now, so that's beneficial. Do your thing with it, then look around to see what's the buzz. If we are to continue, we'll have to get past the beholder, Catastrophe. You can't open the door, but you may gaze into Catastrope's Evil Eye...

Catastrophe Bestiary #304	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	71	19997	19997	0	0	45
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	67	18	20	15	40	20	20
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Elixir Rare: Cottage			Common: Gold Needle
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
				None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	Catastrophe hates things that float and will try to pull them down to earth every turn so it can use an earth-based attack. Even having one floating party member will make him forget anything but pulling that member down, so if you cast Float before battle and then put on a Reflect Ring you'll take absolutely no damage. Do this, as the Earthshaker attack is nasty and you don't want to see it, nor do you want to see its petrifying Evil Eye.

Catastrophe is not intelligent enough to put up a decent fight like, say, Azulmagia; C. packs the punch but doesn't know how to deliver it. He'll attack randomly with physical attacks, stare at you with his Evil Eye to set Petrify to a single target or use Earth Shaker to deal anywhere between 900 and 1100 damage across the board. He won't even counter stuff, but he will get mad at you if you cleverly avoid his Earth-based attacks with

Float. If you elect to do so, he'll stop attacking and use 100 Gs to pull you down to the castle's floors.

So, you know, casting

Float every turn will have him use 100 Gs every turn, which would be useless to you except for the fact that you still have three other characters eligible for the dealing damage department. In addition, you could even set Float outside of battle, then waltz in there with Accessory

Reflect Rings; 100 Gs reflects, so you will have just won the battle right there, as Catastrophe won't ever attack again unless you

Dispel your own Reflect/Float status. It only takes a single character with the Accessory

Reflect Ring/Float thing to make Catastrophe completely fixated on pulling him or her down, so the other three can use all those other Relics you like so much.

Shield

Aegis Shields and Helmet

Ribbons protect against Evil Eye, but if you let Catastrophe attack, Evil Eye really isn't the worst of your problems; Earth Shaker is very powerful and can take you down fast unless you

Curaga or

White Wind it up every single turn following the move. Since Catastrophe doesn't have any elemental weaknesses, crippling status immunities or exploitable properties to take advantage of, just throw out your most powerful attacks. His level is 71, so after a successful

Dark Spark he will become vulnerable to

Level 5 Death. Something to remember!

Look at that. Eye haven't seen such an easy fight in ages, but it's not polite to stare. Enough with the eye puns, it looks more like an evil spud anyway. Receive your reward from the girl. What's a girl like that doing in a place like this? Don't ask her, she'll think you're hitting on her. When you go up, you'll find yourself outside! If you let old man Ramuh wander the forests near Istory all those chapters ago, you can find him here, outside, as the rarest encounter. Otherwise, a Mythril Dragon takes his place.

Find now the Fury; they are supermages that are able to cast two spells every turn; normally, they'll combine either

Death,

Berserk or nothing with

Stop,

Drain or nothing. When alone, they get especially mad at you and combine either two top-tier black elemental spells or

Silence,

Toad or Mini with

Comet,

Slowga or

Bio. That's a lot of spells. They're weak to Water, so Leviathan is quite effective. They're Heavy, however, so there's no other easy way of getting rid of them.

Silence,

Death and

Break do work when Leviathan is not at your disposal, though. If you want more Accessory

Cursed Rings for who knows what, get 'em from these guys.

Yojimbo's !Wring sets both Poison and Darkness: an annoying combo. It was supposed to set Paralyze, but it doesn't. These nuisances carry a Katana

Murakumo as a rare steal, which, despite being a stronger Katana than the Katana

Masamune lacks any special features. Set Mini or whatever, who cares how you beat them, anything goes.

Ignore the door you first see and walk over to the left wing of the Dimension Castle. You'll find yourself in an apparently featureless room, but Thieves know better: there's a passage to the right. Go in, follow the trail until you reach the hitherto unreachable chest containing a Knife

Man-Eater. If you didn't use Thieves, these are a total of three Dancer-only pieces of equipment you see for the first time. Trace back your steps, and enter the second floor of the Dimension Castle.

There are no random encounters here in the throne room, but, if you descend in the middle of the room, there will be random encounters in the staircase. Flip the switch to open the doors; these doors will be closed again once you leave this room, so, unless you forgot something on the other side, there's little point in going through the heavy wooden doors.

The throne has but a single seat... a lonely king, this castle has. If you try to go to the exit once, you'll be pulled onto the throne; try twice and Halicarnassus of the Questionable Gender appears to kill you. Well, you know, he/she tries. If you wanna be a smart-ass, cast the

Toad spell on all characters not equipped with a Helmet

Ribbon or

Genji Gloves. You'll understand how this helps out when the battle starts.

Halicarnassus Bestiary #305	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	None	97	33333	5000	0	0	40
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	65	12	250	0	10	20	250
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Staff of Light Rare: Aegis Shield			Common: Elven Mantle
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None			None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	None
	Strategy
	Every offensive summon will result in a counter that will kill one of your party. The damage you will inflict is not worth this, so summon only Carbuncle. Watch out for Dispel, though, because every seventh turn results in a casting of Holy, and this too will kill any un-reflected characters unless you are also Shelled and have insanely high HP.

The King-Queen of the Dimension Castle will start the battle with the Alchymia's Ribbit attack, toggling the Toad status on all party members. Those not protected by the Helmet

Ribbon or

Genji Gloves will find themselves looking small, green and delicious in the eyes of the strange old men in Quelb (also, the French). Those who entered the fight as a frog will find themselves restored. Sweet!

Halicarnassus will muck about for quite a few turns, using physical attacks and the odd buffs (

Haste or

Shell), Reverse Polarity or

Dispel. On every seventh turn, the boss will use a

Holy spell cast at a single party member, which will kill the target if they are not using the Reflect status (it does about 9500 damage, or half that with Shell in place). After the

Holy spell, Ribbit will be used again; Toads not cured from the first attack will now be restored (and vice versa). The last thing to know is that Halicarnassus hates third parties entering into the arena; Summon magic will be punished by Strong Fight, which kills a character.

This is a simple battle.

Dispel can be used to remove Haste and Shell if they give you pain. Don't use Summon Magic. Halicarnassus does have an odd status vulnerability to Mini though, with a level of 97, it is almost impossible to set. !Combine a Mallet with any type of shot and you'll have a straight 75% chance of inflicting the status; nNote that Strong Fight is not affected by Mini's debilitating effects. Another good option is using !Mix to put together an Eye Drops and a Dark Matter; the resulting Dark Gas sets Darkness, which really hinders the physical onslaught. Silence can be set, but it lasts only a short while. Silence spellblade is an option, but not necessarily better than, say, Flare spellblade.

With his/her

Holy spell being the only intimidating factor in the battle, you could summon Carbuncle to help out; since Halicarnassus is not the target of this summon spell, he/she won't counter. Black spells bouncing off four targets are always a sweet deal. Just be careful

Dispel doesn't remove one of the four barriers.

If you never got a Staff

Staff of Light, here's your chance. It's still obtainable if you neglect to pick it up here, but waiting for the rarest encounter to drop a rare drop is not a lot of fun. The Shield

Aegis Shield is a great thing to have!

Behind the throne room, there is a back room containing only some stairs leading to the top of the castle. There's a unique encounter pattern, though! At the top of the Dimension Castle, the last guardian between you and the Void will make itself known; Twintania, the most terrible weapon of mass destruction the Void has ever sealed within.

Twintania Bestiary #306	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	Magic Beast	39	50000	10000	0	0	35
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	90	14	7	0	30	16	7
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Phoenix Down Rare: Flame Shield			Common: Tinklebell
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	Mind Blast
	Strategy
	Twintania is another monster with two forms that are visually identical. The first starts the battle, and the second appears when charging Gigaflare. The second one lacks Heavy, so you can end the battle right there. If you want the steal and drops from it, though, you'll need to survive it either by having massive HP or Shell status, or by turning Twintania into a toad.

Twintania is an outright jerk. He'll attack with several powerful multi-target attacks, so I'll begin with those. Wind Slash and Atomic Ray aren't that powerful, so forget about them.

Mind Blast is a neat trick of Twintania's; unlike any other foe or character in this fine game, he can multi-target the thing, setting Paralyze to all four characters (unless protected by Accessory

Genji Gloves or Accessory

Hermes Sandals). Ice Storm is just powerful stuff in general. He'll start with two turns of either Atomic Ray, Ice Storm or a physical. Then, he'll use multi-target

Mind Blast, followed by two turns of Wind Slash. After this, he will charge Gigaflare, but I want to talk about his counters first.

Twintania may counteract any magical attack (this means anything coming from The !Red, !White, !Black, !Time, !Blue or !Summon classes) with Mega Flare; any other attack can provoke a 33% shot at Tidal Wave, which deals impressive Water-elemental damage. Accessory

Coral Rings, unsurprisingly, help out against this move.

Book of Magic, Volume 14: "The secret of Gigaflare... When storing power for this magic, you become utterly defenseless for a moment... Casters, be wary."

When Twintania starts going for Gigaflare, he'll change into another monster.

First off, note that Twintania became vulnerable to instant death through Holy spellblade, Odin's Zantetsuken,

Death spells,

Banish spells,

Death Claw, the works. In addition, Toad can be set! Since Twintania also changes his drop and steal items, there's something to consider. The normal Twintania may rarely drop a Bell

Tinklebell: it's the only one in the game, so you'll likely salivate all over the idea of getting one even though it's not very good. It's also likely, however, you'll want that second Axe

Titan's Axe, what with it being only the second Axe

Titan's Axe in the game! So, ideally, you'll want to a) have Twintania change form and steal a Axe

Titan's Axe b) survive Gigaflare somehow c) kill the normal Twintania and hope for a Bell

Tinklebell.

So, how to survive Gigaflare? You can set Toad, which causes Gigaflare to do nothing. After another turn, Twintania's normal sprite will suddenly appear in place of the frog; this signals the normal Twintania's return. Kill with the usual violence.

If you can set Shell and take a punch of about 1550 HP on one or more characters, you can survive Gigaflare straight up; Goliath Tonic may help out if it's necessary. Without Shell, Gigaflare deals over 3000 HP damage, which is too much for you (unless, again, Giant Drinks).

When fighting Twintania, keep on the defensive on the first two turns, as Ice Storm is quite powerful and there is no need to swallow a Tidal Wave or Mega Flare. When Twintania begins signaling the Gigaflare attack, Steal! Before either setting Toad or bracing for impact, whichever option you chose. When the normal Twintania is back, pound it for the sake of justice (also, possibly a Bell

Tinklebell).

Since Twintania is weak to both Water and Holy, damaging him needn't be a chore; your best bet is probably summoning Carbuncle and spamming spells. If he counters with Megaflare, he'll just hurt himself (Megaflare is deflectable). Another option is equipping Accessory

Coral Rings across the board and going with anything other than spells; you'll keep yourself healed throughout the fight due to Twintania's torrents.

How about a few notes on the Bell

Tinklebell? The Bell

Gaia's Bell functions like a Back Row OK Hammer, the Bell

Rune Chime like a Rune weapon (such as the Sword

Rune Blade). The Bell

Tinklebell is the only other bell besides the Diamond one that actually functions as a bell; it deals unblockable, non-elemental magical damage from the Back Row and doesn't function when Mute (but not pre-set Mute) is in effect. There you go. Feel happy with it? You're not using Geomancers, it's not powerful and it doesn't aid in spellcasting, so nobody wants to hold it.

When you're done, walk on up and scroll on down to read the final chapter of this long and epic struggle.

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