Muus (pronounced like mousse) are World of Ruin flans that act a bit differently. It uses Pep Up. And it uses gunk, as pictured, to set slow. Gunk is called Icky Sticky Goo in Japan. If you want to use spells, use Fire, Ice, Lightning, or non-elemental.

DeepEye uses its eye to put you in Dreamland. Every 2nd turn, they might try to escape, but killing them with Fire 2 or something prevents that. Their rage is Dread. If only you had Gau.

Harpiai is the largest monster you've seen so far, but they're actually kind of pathetic. What they do is fight, Nail every fourth round, Aero, and Pearl Wind. If Strago was around, Aero is blue magic and air elemental.

Bogy is like Ralph except he's blue and he uses Oogyboog, a dumbly named fight command. It's only been a year and a whole bunch of new monsters have evolved.

Huh? We better go check out the colosseum.

But Setzer is around here too. Like Terra, he's going to sit around feeling sorry for himself instead of helping you.

"We're not worried about you. I'm sure you'll be completely useless without your airship."

With that, he joins you.

Someone else says that Narshe has been overrun with monsters. The esper's still there, though. Someone ought to check that out. Other fun stuff: A woman and a little girl planted a tree and are hoping it grows and that they didn't just plant some jellybeans. An old woman shows you Kohlingen as it was back in the World of Balance. I don't know if it's possible to miss it, but if you did you get to see Kohligen in all its generic town glory. Locke isn't around. Rachel's still as dead as leaves. There's another airship in a tomb nearby.

Let's stop by at the coloseeum first. And Ultros is our receptionist? Someone says that he needed to pay off a debt, but I've never seen that bit of dialogue for myself and I'm beginning to doubt it exists. Just this one.

Mr. Chupon sneezes you off the battlefield if you bet some crappy item. You get to keep your item. However, it is possible to beat Chupon. What you're supposed to do is bet specific items so you can fight specific monsters that we'll meet during the course of the game, so don't worry too much now for another specific item. Specifically, you can exchange a flame saber for an Ogre Nix. Sadly, the Ogre Nix has a variable chance of breaking that averages at around 27%. Equip it and a Black Belt on Edgar and don't use the fight command with it on. Maybe you could exchange the tintinnabar for an Exp. Egg, but we'll get one in the next dungeon. A Dragon Horn you get from either a charm bangle or a gold hairpin might be worth it. Just remember: instant death items are your best friend.

The Emperor is even more dead than Rachel. What the hell is he talking about?

In the colosseum, every battle is one on one. To make things worse, the character acts as if confused, except they'll go after the proper target. They'll never use items, revert, throw, control, slot, leap, def. or possess. Some of those are good, some of those are bad, and some of them you shouldn't be using anyway. Possess? I guess it's possible with a game genie. However, given the other possibilities, they will sometimes act as dumb as Mint Adnade. Celes, for instance, did nothing but use runic repeatedly once, possibly because the programmers figured she was overpowered and gave her a really moronic AI script to compensate for that.

Never you mind that. Let's just move on.

They're mostly undead and most things can set zombies, so you're better off with ribbons and anything else that makes you immune to zombie.

Like this guy. This guy is osteosaur, which means bone lizard. He looks a bit like someone dismantled a skeleton model you see in biology classes and a dinosaur skeleton at the museum and put the pieces back together. He'll use fight and fossil (to set Zombie) and ChokeSmoke to bring anyone KOed back to life as the living undead. Cullen Rayburn Narz Trebek! Zabars Kresge Caldor Walmart!

Orog looks sort of like Gilgamesh. They'll use up to three Zombite attacks, which are obvious enough, will counter with fight, and use bio to counter magic. They might drop an amulet. Most things here drop revivify items. Surprise of the dungeon! Revivify is a word.

PowerDemon can cast flare, as seen by sketch, control, and the rage accompanying it. However, it doesn't use it. All it does is Daze Dance to drain HP and rarely uses Soul Out to zombify.

Exoray is that yellow flower. It uses DoomPollen. No prizes for guessing what that does. It also uses virite. And fight.

Mad Oscar is happy because he's mad. He's not undead, he just hangs out here for the trash. They'll use fight, drool (seizure) and Sour Mouth, which inflicts blind, poison, imp, mute, and confuse. All of that at once? That's bad. Very, very bad. If you have an amulet, you will be rendered a sleeping imp who can't use Imp to turn himself back. Note that I said him. Celes has a ribbon.

Here we see Sabin using Seven Flush to make everything psychedelic.

Remember how I said we'd be getting some stuff here. There's some Crystal Mail, a Czarina Gown that you can't use yet, a Genji Helmet. To get the EXP egg, we need to find some inscriptions that read ERAU QSSI DRLO WEHT. What? Those look like the writing in the caps when Pepsi does a giveaway. Through a mirror, it will read THE WORLD IS SQUARE. Actually, it's a torus. In Japan, it read Rest in Peace, reversed as Rot and Wither. It works there, but not here. ecaep ni tser means nothing. Or you can just get the egg and bypass all of that. Um, there's a man eater here.

There's a box with MONSTERS! too, so put float on.

Presenter is a modified whelk. It's not much. What it does is use blow fish, mega volt, giga volt, magnitude 8, petriblast, fight, and el nino. Right! We've see all of those before except for petriblast, which simply turns someone to stone. The shell floats. The head does not. You'll get a dragon claw, which are pearl elemental, but it's possible to obtain two. Damaging the head twice causes the Presenter to retreat into the shell and use Magnitude 8.

Vanish the shell and use X-Zone when the head is out, you cheating bastard. I won't tell if you don't.

Eventually, we come upon the tombstone of Daryl. There's a Dullahan there. Guess what that means, folks! It's a boss battle! Dullahan rarely uses Morn Star, counters with fight, and will use Cure 2, Ice 2, Ice 3, Pearl, L? Pearl, Reflect???, absolute 0, and N. Cross. We've never seen some of those before. L? pearl is his starting attack, which will hit any target with a level divisible by the last digit of your GP. It's possible to avoid it, of course. N. Cross refers to the summer constellation of Cygnus, and will set freeze. It will randomly miss a target up to four times. You probably won't see a frozen party, and there's no way to defend against it. You can unfreeze yourself with any fire-based attack. Rasp away his MP or fight him, it doesn't matter.

You know, Setzer, you'd have a higher Arbitrary Coolness Rating if you would use the airship to strike against our Hunewearl overlords.

Isn't that how Han won the Millenium Falcon?

And that looks like the cliff Celes thought about jumping from when you didn't save Cid.

It ended in tragedy, like that guy who tried to attach a rocket engine to his car.

However, the Falcon is now perfectly serviceable, and we will use it to go on a journey around the world. Um, in the next chapter. Of course.