Condensed Lore Guide 3.7 By Skoobouy Compiled and useful for Final Fantasy III for the Super the Super Nintendo or Final Fantasy VI for the Sony Playstation. *** Introduction Strago comes within a hair's breadth of not being cool. Thankfully, he has a few saving graces, like Pearl Wind, L.? Pearl, Aero, Big Guard, Aqua Rake, Quasar and GrandTrain. However, the quest to collect all of Strago's Lores is an end in itself, rather than actually being useful. This guide should help you get all of the Lores in the fastest time, and save you a lot of paper to boot ('cuz I'm just efficient like that, yo). *** Revision History 3.7, October 10th, '06 - Reformatted Section I into a step-by-step list, and incorporated Assassin17's and Ebmid2's advice. Also, reformatted Section II for readability. 3.6, July 17th, '06 - Section II now indicates when monsters are immune to Muddle, and other small corrections and notes. 3.5, March 5th, '05 - Added the Chart of Lores by Skill (kick ass, IMO), as well as a dozen of Assassin's "ninja-star" corrections (as in, small but deadly) 3.4, March 3rd, '05 - Various corrections and additions. (Thanks to Assassin's super-human editting skills). 3.3, March 1st, '05 - Revived Lore material as a separate guide (hence the new version number). Made several corrections based on Assassin's advice. 3.2, February 1st, '05 - Removed all Lore material. Cleaner, nicer guide to Rage. 3.1, January 31st, '05 - Added information on some Rages and modified formatting and rewrote some paragraphs. 3.0, January 30th, '05 - It returns! I FINALLY filled in the status effects of Rages, and redid the tables. Also, modified formatting, and other minor changes. 2.5.5, May 5th, '03 - I skipped a number. Rewrote the Lores guide and chart. Made lots of minor corrections. 2.3, April 25th, '03 - More niceties, rearranged the order of the guide. 2.2, April 24th, '03 - Added to Rage skill descriptions, and a brief explanation of column titles, and changed Gau's "Minimum of Fuss" guide. 2.1, April 22nd, '03 - Filled in gaps, corrected some mistakes. 2.0, April 20th, '03 - Complete rewrite, added Strago section. 1.0, April 9th, '03 - Added to "Important Rages" section, updated Introduction, and modified Strategy section. 0.9, April 8th, '03 – Microsoft Word version. 0.8, April 7th, '03 - The first draft! Lists Rages in a few ways; not easy to read and not convenient to print. *** Other Lore Resources (and their specific contributions) Lores Acquisition Guide 1.4 by Assassin: Assassin (Assassin17 to yous thugs) has shown a huge enthusiasm for this guide, and has provided lots of data and filled many potholes. So remember kids: Assassin = free labor. Good. (In)Complete List of Monsters 3.0 by Garry Dobson: A very thorough Monster by Order of Apppearance list. Helpful! FF3us Monster Stats Guide 1.1 and FF3us Attack Guide v1.1 by Master ZED (cytekzed at aol dot com): Correct spellings of monster names, accurate locations, filled in nasty gaps of information and immense help for the Lore Locations Chart. Also special thanks for suggestions for improvement. Algorithms FAQ by Terii Senshi (teriisenshi at aol dot com): Accurate information on the effects of Lores. Lord J's FF3usME v. 6.2 (lord_j at hotmail dot com): Accurate information about enemy scripts, which I scanned for hours looking for Lores. *** Table of Contents CHAPTER I: All of the Lores with a Minimum of Fuss A. WORLD OF BALANCE B. WORLD OF RUIN CHAPTER II: Chart of Lores by Monster Order of Appearance A. WORLD OF BALANCE B. WORLD OF RUIN CHAPTER III: Chart of Lores by Skill APPENDIX: On Dark Force CONCLUSION /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I. All of the Lores with a Minimum of Fuss Walkthrough Once you have control of Strago, you're already at the end of the World of Balance. That means that you can get gobs of Lores right away. The following guide is a barebones step-by-step guide that should allow you to have collect each of the Lores in each "World" within just a few minutes. How's that for efficiency? Just be sure to have Strago (a) in your party and (b) alive at all times. A. WORLD OF BALANCE Lores to Collect: Aqua Rake Stone Revenge Exploder Pearl Wind Condemned Pep Up Step Mine Dischord L.3 Muddle L.4 Flare L.5 Doom Roulette Blow Fish 1. Strago begins with Aqua Rake, Stone, and Revenge. 2. In the burning house in Thamasa, cast any fire-elemental spells on Balloons until one of them uses Exploder. 3. Go to Esper Mountain (northwest of the Thamasa peninsula, past the forest) and fight an Abolisher. After fighting for three turns, it will use Pearl Wind. 4. When you regain control of the airship, switch Gau into your party along with Strago. Have Gau perform the Zombone|Condemned and Intangir|Pep Up Rages, and Stago will learn them. Also, if Gau happens to have the Trapper|L.3 Muddle Rage, he can 'teach' it to Strago, too (but not dreadfully necessary, since we will need to find real Trappers again soon). 5. Fly in the airship to the plains outside of South Figaro, and fight Greasemonks. Use Muddle, Cait Sith (sorry, "Stray"), or Edgar's NoiseBlaster until the Greasemonks use Step Mine. 6. Now, fly to the Veldt and walk around until you find either Telstar or Chaser (they are both flying saucers with arms). Do not kill Telstar for ten turns, and it will use Dischord. Chaser may use it sooner. Also, Trappers on the Veldt will eventually use all of L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, and L.5 Doom if you wait long enough--just make sure you can survive them! Finally, with Relm in your party, scour the Veldt for Pipsqueaks. Sketch a Pipsqueak for Roulette. 7. Now, go to the Floating Continent. When you see Brainpan, kill all the monsters except for the Brainpan. It will use Blow Fish. B. WORLD OF RUIN Lores to Collect: Big Guard Rippler Aero Sour Mouth CleanSweep L.? Pearl GrandTrain Quasar Reflect??? ForceField 1. After you use Relm to rescue Strago, fly all the way back to the Solitary Island (where you began the World of Ruin) and Sketch an EarthGuard for Big Guard. 2. Zip over to the land outside Maranda and fight a Reach Frog until you learn Rippler. 3. Fly to the plains outside Kohlingen and fight a Harpiai until you learn Aero. 4. Run into Daryl's Tomb, just south of Kohlingen, and fight Mad Oscar until you learn Sour Mouth. 5. Fly to Figaro Castle, and use it to burrow down to the Ancient Castle. In the underground pathway, an Enuo will use CleanSweep when you kill its buddies. 6. L.? Pearl gives you a couple of options. If you haven't done the Phoenix Cave, I recommend going there and letting Relm Sketch the Red Dragon. Otherwise, take Strago into Cyan's Dream and fight some Critics until you learn it. If both events are gone, you can look for Critics in the Veldt, or fight Innoc in Kefka's Tower. Finding Critics will probably be easier, depending on your party's strength. 7. For GrandTrain, go complete Strago's side quest by talking to his friend in Thamasa. When you reach Hidon, make sure to kill all the little Hidonites first, and Hidon will use it. 8. On Kefka's Tower, Dark Force has a one-in-three chance, every seven turns of casting Quasar and Reflect??? (along with several other Lores you might have missed--see below), so be patient. As an alternative for Reflect???, Didalos will cast it if any of your characters have the Rflect status (e.g., wearing Wall Rings). 9. Sadly, the only way to learn ForceField is to fight (and win against--duh) Doom - the first statue. Make sure Strago is in Team #1 when you enter Kefka's tower. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// II. Chart of Lores by Monster Order of Appearance This chart is very simple. It is organized in rough chronological order by monster. However, there are many variables which I will describe in the 'Situation' column for each monster's Lore skill. They are as follows: KEY: Rg - Obtain Lore by performing the Rage of this monster. Sk - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Sketch. Ct - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Control (or the "Nightshade|Charm" Rage). Md - Obtain Lore by targetting this monster with Muddle. Bt - Obtain Lore by Battle--no special strategy necessary. Nt - See note below for a special strategy needed to obtain Lore. Vd - One-time-only monster; look for it on the Veldt. ! - Best/earliest monster to learn from. A. THE WORLD OF BALANCE Locale Monster Lore Obtain With ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Narshe Repo Man Exploder Rg Outside S. Figaro Greasemonk Step Mine Ct Md ! Imperial Camp Telstar Dischord Nt Vd ! Phantom Forest Bomb Exploder Sk Ct Md Nt Vector/MagitechRF Chaser Dischord Ct Md Bt Vd Trapper L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct Md Bt Vd ! L.4 Flare Ct Md Bt Vd ! L.5 Doom Sk Ct Md Bt Vd ! Pipsqueak Roulette Sk Vd ! Exploder Nt Vd Forest w/of Veldt Grenade Exploder Nt Sealed Gate Zombone Condemned Rg Vd ! Burning House Balloon Exploder Rg Sk Ct Md Nt Vd ! Esper Mountain Abolisher Pearl Wind Nt ! Triangle Island Intangir Pep Up Rg Ct* ! Step Mine Sk Floating Contnt Brainpan Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Md Nt ! Apokryphos L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct* Nt L.4 Flare Rg Sk Ct* Nt L.5 Doom Nt Nerapa Condemned Bt Roulette Nt * These skills can technically be acquired using Control/Charm/Muddle; but since their monsters are immune to Muddle, and there is no way to Control or Charm in the WoB, it is a moot point. Strategy for Obtaining Lore (alphabetical by monster name): -Abolisher casts Pearl Wind on its third turn. -Apokryphos may cast L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, or L.5 Doom, only when attacked, when alone. -Balloon may cast Exploder every third turn, or when attacked with Fire Magic. -Bomb may cast Exploder after any attack. -Brainpan may cast Blow Fish only when alone. -Grenade may cast Exploder when hit with 'Fight'. -Nerapa casts Roulette when hit with 'Fight' six times. -Phase may cast Blow Fish when attacked or when alone. -Pipsqueak may cast Exploder when hit with 'Fight'. -Telstar casts Dischord on its tenth turn. B. THE WORLD OF RUIN Locale Monster Lore Obtain With ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solitary Island EarthGuard Big Guard Rg Sk ! Peepers Pearl Wind Rg Sk Southern Contint Mesosaur Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md Serpent Trench Lizard Dischord Ct Md Figaro Cave Dante L.3 Muddle Rg Sk Ct Md Nt Outside Kohlingen Harpiai Aero Rg Sk Ct Bt ! Pearl Wind Bt Muus Pep Up Rg Sk Ct Bt Daryl's Tomb Mad Oscar Sour Mouth Rg Sk Ct Md Bt ! Presenter Blow Fish Bt Airship Doom Gaze L.5 Doom Bt Aero Bt Outside Maranda Cactrot Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Bt Reach Frog Rippler Bt ! Mt. Zozo Storm Drgn Aero Sk Bt Pearl Wind Sk Cave in Veldt Rhyos Aero Ct Allo Ver Condemned Bt Outside Thamasa Harpy Aero Ct Md Bt Owzer's House Still Life Condemned Ct Nt Phoenix Cave Phase Blow Fish Rg Sk Ct Md Red Dragon L.? Pearl Sk ! L.4 Flare Bt Narshe Mag Roader L.4 Flare Rg Umaro's Cave Tomb Thumb Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md Pug Step Mine Bt Triangle Island Wart Puck Exploder Rg Sk Ct Ogor Pearl Wind Ct Md Mobliz Phunbaba Blow Fish Bt Outside Doma Sprinter Aero Rg Sk Pearl Wind Bt Crawler Step Mine Rg Sk Ct Md Dischord Nt Cyan's Dream Critic Condemned Rg Sk Ct Md Bt Vd Roulette Bt Vd L.? Pearl Bt Vd ! Curley Pearl Wind Bt Ancient Castle Enuo CleanSweep Rg Sk Ct Nt ! Figaliz Dischord Rg Sk Ct Md Nt Goblin L.3 Muddle Nt L.4 Flare Nt L.5 Doom Nt Master Pug Step Mine Nt CleanSweep Nt Blue Drgn CleanSweep Bt Rippler Bt KatanaSoul Blow Fish Nt Ebot's Rock Hidon GrandTrain Nt ! 'Jurassic Park' Tyranosaur Aero Sk Brachosaur Step Mine Sk Kefka's Tower Mover Big Guard Ct Nt Blow Fish Nt Guardian Big Guard Sk Dark Force CleanSweep Rg Sk Ct L.5 Doom Sk Ct Bt Pearl Wind Ct Bt Condemned Bt Roulette Bt L? Pearl Bt Step Mine Bt Dischord Bt Sour Mouth Bt Aero Bt Blow Fish Bt Exploder Bt Rippler Bt Quasar Bt ! L.4 Flare Bt L.3 Muddle Bt Reflect??? Bt ! Retainer Condemned Ct Veteran Condemned Sk Bt Roulette Rg Sk Ct Md Nt Scullion Dischord Rg Exploder Sk IronHitman Dischord Rg Sk Ct Md Bt Sky Base L.5 Doom Bt Junk Exploder Ct Md Bt Pep Up Rg Ct Md Bt Innoc L.? Pearl Sk Ct Md Bt Vectaur Pearl Wind Rg Sk Ct Evil Oscar Sour Mouth Sk Ct Md Nt Dueller L.4 Flare Bt L.5 Doom Bt Didalos L.5 Doom Bt Reflect??? Nt Atma CleanSweep Bt Skull Drgn Condemned Bt Doom ForceField Bt ! Poltrgeist Aero Bt Goddess Quasar Bt Strategy for Obtaining Lore (alphabetical by monster name): -Crawler may cast Dischord only when alone. -Dante may cast L.3 Muddle when attacked with Magic. -Didalos casts Reflect??? if your character(s) are 'Rflect'ed -Enuo may cast CleanSweep only when alone. -Evil Oscar may cast Sour Mouth only when alone. -Figaliz may cast Dischord only when alone. -Goblin may cast L.3 Muddle, L.4 Flare, or L.5 Doom, only when alone. -KatanaSoul may cast Blow Fish only if not attacked long enough. -Hidon casts GrandTrain when all Hidonites are dead. -Master Pug may cast Step Mine when attacked. -Master Pug may cast CleanSweep if it assigns itself weakness against 'earth'. -Mover casts Big Guard or Blow Fish only when alone. -Still Life casts Condemned when attacked. -Veteran may cast Roulette when attacked with Magic. /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// III. Chart of Lores by Skill What would a Lore guide be without a chart of the Lores themselves? Here they are in all their alphabetical glory. Pay close attention to the KEY if you want to have any idea what the heck's going on. I had to do a lot of funky things to save space, but look ma: no footnotes! This is one of the densest charts I've ever done; I'll tackle anyone who don't appreciate it! KEY: MP - Magic Points necessary to cast the spell. Pwr - Power; Non-damage-dealing spells and spells whose "Pwr" does not reflect their actual strength are n/a. Hit - Hit Rate; unblockable skills are n/a. El - Element of attack, as follows: f - Fire p - Poison e - Earth i - Ice a - Air/Wind w - Water b - Bolt/Lightning h - Holy/Pearl - - Non-elemental or n/a I - Ignores Defense; sometimes means that a skill is very powerful, but sometimes refers to healing or to a special mode of damage calculation. Non-damage-dealing spells are n/a ("/"). U - Unblockable; these skills won't miss except in cases of enemy immunity. Untargetted spells are n/a ("/"). N - No Split Damage; these spells do not become less effective when cast on multiple enemies at once. Single target and non-damage-dealing spells are n/a ("/"). Unless stated otherwise, all Lores target one enemy. Effects Skill MP Pwr Hit El I U N Monster Sources ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aero 41 125 150 a N N N Targets all enemies Harpiai, Doom Gaze, Storm Drgn, Rhyos, Harpy, Sprinter, Tyranosaur, Dark Force, Poltrgeist Aqua Rake 22 71 150 aw N N N Targets all enemies Big Guard 80 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Safe and Shell on all allies Earthguard, Mover, Guardian Blow Fish 50 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is 1000 Brainpan, Presenter, Cactrot, Phase, Phunbaba, KatanaSoul, Mover, Dark Force Cleansweep 30 50 150 w N N Y Targets all enemies Enuo, Master Pug, Blue Drgn, Dark Force, Atma Condemned 20 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Condemned/Countdown Zombone, Nerapa, Allo Ver, Still Life, Critic, Dark Force, Retainer, Veteran, Skull Drgn, Sleep Dischord 68 n/a 100 - / N / Reduces target to 50% its prior level Telstar, Chaser, Lizard, Crawler, Figaliz, Dark Force, Scullion, IronHitMan Exploder 1 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is caster HP; kills caster Repo Man, Bomb, Pipsqueak, Grenade, Balloon, Wart Puck, Dark Force, Scullion, Junk ForceField 24 n/a n/a - / / / Nullifies all spells of a random element Doom GrandTrain 64 66 n/a - Y Y N Targets all enemies Hidon L.? Pearl 50 120 n/a h N Y Y Targets enemies of level divisible by last digit of GP total Red Drgn, Critic, Dark Force, Innoc L.3 Muddle 28 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets enemies of level divisible by 3; causes Muddle Trapper, Apokryphos, Dante, Goblin, Dark Force L.4 Flare 42 n/a 66 - Y Y Y Targets enemies of level divisible by 4 Trapper, Apokryphos, Red Drgn, Mag Roader, Goblin, Dark Force, Dueller L.5 Doom 22 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets enemies of level divisible by 5; causes Death Trapper, Apokryphos, Doom Gaze, Goblin, Dark Force, Sky Base, Dueller, Didalos Pearl Wind 45 n/a n/a - Y Y Y Heals all allies; amount is caster HP Abolisher, Peepers, Harpiai, Storm Drgn, Ogor, Sprinter, Curley, Dark Force, Vectaur, Girl Pep Up 1 n/a n/a - / Y / Heals one ally; amount is caster HP; removes caster from battle Intangir, Muus, Junk Quasar 50 57 n/a - Y Y N Targets all enemies Dark Force, Goddess Reflect??? 0 n/a n/a - / Y / Targets Rflect'd enemies; causes Dark, Mute, Slow Dark Force, Didalos Revenge 31 n/a n/a - Y Y / Damage is caster max HP - current HP Rippler 66 n/a 111 - / N / Trades caster status and target status Reach Frog, Blue Drgn, Dark Force Roulette 10 n/a n/a - / Y / Causes Death to random target Pipsqueak, Nerapa, Critic, Dark Force, Veteran Sour Mouth 32 n/a 100 - / N / Causes Dark, Poison, Imp, Mute, Sleep Mad Oscar, Dark Force, Evil Oscar Step Mine / n/a n/a - Y Y / MP is minutes played divided by 30; Damage is steps divided by 32 Greasemonk, Intangir, Mesosaur, Tomb Thumb, Pug, Crawler, Master Pug, Brachosaur, Dark Force Stone 22 40 75 - N N N Targets one or all enemies; causes Muddle; multiplies damage by 14x if caster and monster at same level /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// APPENDIX: On Dark Force Dark Force is an enemy in Kefka's Tower that uses 19 of Strago's 24 Lores, *excluding* Big Guard, CleanSweep, ForceField, Pep Up, and GrandTrain (but he can still teach CleanSweep using Rage, Sketch, or Control). He has a cycle of seven turns, each of which selects randomly from a pool of three skills. Launcher and Imp Song, sadly, are not Lores. Here is the Dark Force battle script, dumped from Lord J's FF3usME: Turn Chooses from one of these three ------------------------------------------------ First turn: Condemned | Roulette | Aqua Rake Second turn: Revenge | Pearl Wind | L.5 Doom Third turn: L.4 Flare | L.3 Muddle | Reflect??? Fourth turn: L? Pearl | Step Mine | Launcher Fifth turn: Dischord | Sour Mouth | Imp Song Sixth turn: Aero | Blow Fish | Exploder Seventh turn: Rippler | Stone | Quasar Repeat /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONCLUSION If you liked this guide, write me at (skoobouy at hotmail dot com) and let me know--I won't feel like such a yutz for wasting so much time. My thanks again for the hard work of so many FF fans. Bye! Copyright 2006 Jeffrey Zimmerman