LogFAQs > #936458026

Tons of runaround. I pay visits of course to the main new place, which tells me that I need a Lunar Drop or something to pass the forest to the North, but which also tells me I need a Keystone to enter the Temple of the Ancients, owned by a "rich man."

I sail freaking everywhere I can, including all the way back to Midgar, Nibelheim, Cosmo Canyon, the rocket launch pad, and that siege defense tower (what a bizarre minigame!) I also stop by same random islands, and man, the random encounters there seriously up their game. They don't do a ton of damage, but they do have a lot more HP. One of the enemies, in particular, is a dinosaur on which I can't use Sense, but which has endless HP. For kicks, I also return and KO the Midgar Zolom.

Eventually, mainly by luck/experimentation, I reach this unmarked shack, where a guy says he had the Keystone but was forced to sell it... to Dio, the head of the Golden Saucer. I knew that there was unfinished business there. I sail back there and attempt to walk in, but I encounter quicksand all around it, with the hint that "even a Chocobo couldn't cross it," along with a suggestion of a more powerful vehicle. I wind up retreating to the land cruiser, boarding it, and taking it to the Golden Saucer. 3x speed was absolutely killer here, by the way.

Can't believe I managed to figure out what to do in only one session! Next time we play we're starting up the plot again!
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yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness