Final Fantasy VI Walkthrough
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2.12: Airship Exploration: Visiting Maranda
Party: Edgar, Celes, Setzer, Optional: Sabin
Welcome to Maranda. The last time you visited Maranda, it was one of the occupied towns and generally featureless. For all intents and purposes, it's pretty much the same - featureless, save for Lola, the girlfriend of the wounded lad in Mobliz. A lot of random information is blurted out by the townspeople here. A thief mentions he visited the tower of the Cult of Kefka, and one of them used to mumble 'to the right of the treasure chest' in his sleep. Since none of the thieves ever made it past the first room, we should examine that place should we ever get there.The bird Celes saw turned out to be a carrier pigeon for Lola; according to Aishya, the girl running circles below Lola's house, she's been receiving a lot of letters lately. Once you enter her house, you find dozens of silk flowers here. Also, you'll notice a letter seemingly written by the wounded lad in Mobliz, though we know that to be impossible. Somebody must be posing as him. Accept the 'mission' of sending a carrier pigeon out as a reply so we can track the source of this imposter.
The pigeon flies across the ruined lands of this new world until it reaches a town to the north of Jidoor, and although the world map has changed a lot, this town can be none other than Zozo.
Before leaving, enjoy the shops.
Weapon Shop: You've already found a
Gravity Rod, and since it was entirely uninteresting back then I'm sure you can figure out by yourself that you really don't need another one. The 
Swordbreaker is a new Dirk not suited for any of your characters. The thing does give you quite a bump to Evade, though! The 
Falchion is useless as-is too, but there's one large reason why you should buy Falchions. You see, they can be bet at the Colosseum for 
Flame Shields. And Flame Shields can be bet for Ice Shields. So ideally, you'll just buy four of them and transform all of them into Flame Shields (you don't really need Ice Shields if you have Flame Shields as Flame Shields nullify Ice-elemental attacks). Forget about the Skeans for a moment; you have nobody to Throw them now anyway.Armor Shop: Maranda features Crystal equipment! Excellent! Buy two
Crystal Shields if you don't want to go for Flame Shields at the Colosseum later on, and two pieces of 
Crystal Mail as well. Equip them on those that can use it. The 
Oath Veil is probably supposed to be the ultimate girly helmet, but since it's inferior to both the Circlet and the Mystery Veil, just leave it. A nice set of Black Garb is great for Sabin. The Magus Robe is pretty much the programmer's solution to the fact that Strago and Relm really didn't get any store-bought pieces of armor (monster hides like Chocobo Suits and Tabby Suits are never store-bought). Also, it's the ultimate equipment for a character not yet introduced, but we'll discuss that more once we get there. The Crystal Mail is boring-yet-superior to Diamond Armor, so get that for characters who still carry around that ancient piece of rubbish.
Caves of Narshe: Final Fantasy VI
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