To find Jolly Roger, head south and around the mountains, past the Fallen Sanctuary. From there, head east a bit, then when you reach the vast open plain, travel southeast past the train tracks and across a land bridge.

Jolly Roger is due west from here, near a shore. But keep going south anyway; there's a little something out there for you! Keep going south until you reach a huge stretch of plains to the east, then head a little east and search at co-ordinates X: 17420 Y: 4338. Lookit that! Someone dropped 1500 Gella out in the wasteland! Now it's yours, you lucky devil.

Anyways, grab the Gella and go back up north. Check around X: 16916 and Y: 5351 for a signpost, then run directly west from that until you hit a shoreline. Search around X: 15415 Y: 5399, and Jolly Roger appears! Arr! Shiver me timbers and all that pirate crap!

This USED to be a naval yard, but there isn't exactly enough water left on the planet for ordinary boats, so the town is pretty much derelict these days. Sad, huh?

Anyways, upon entering town, watch a short scene, then look north and you should see a large metal shed. Use Clive to bomb the southern side of the metal shed, then walk inside as far as you can and press X. Migrant Seal Get! Cool, huh? Now we can avoid enemy battles with less MTC cost! I hope you know what that means; if you don't, then you should read over the instructions a little more. 8)

We're supposed to stop by the Saloon, but let's get to know the people of Jolly Roger first. Head into the house closest to the entrance of town and talk with the little boy there; his name is Sterling, and he's quite intelligent. Check out the bookshelf for a bit of Filgaian history (I suggest you read EVERY book in the game, to get as much story as you can out of this game), then head outside and talk to the guy in yellow, the guy with the crutch in the northern part of town near the shore (he gives you a clue about the Migrant Seal we found earlier), and the pirate guy near the saloon itself.

Head to the saloon; that's the building marked "Bell Starr" in the southern reaches of town. Before knocking back a few, check the barrel in the corner for a Gimel Coin, then head up the stairs and into the next room. Go west past the downwards staircase and check the barrel next to the steel crate for a Heal Berry, then head out the door onto the balcony. Check the barrels on the balcony for a Mini Carrot, then head back into the other room and down the staircase and into another room to reach the back of the ARMsmith's place. Check the barrel at the back of the ARMsmith's place for a Dragon Fossil.

Head back to the Saloon now, and choose Chat with Hannah at the counter. Make sure you choose "Chat", not "Stay". It'll cost 150 Gella for a meal, but it's required to move on with the game, and it's free healing anyway! Your team will chat for a bit about a lead on a magnificent treasure, and after some arguing between your team, head outside the Saloon to meet up with some familiar faces, tormenting an "innocent" girl. Rather than fight you, they inform you of where the treasure may be hidden; a ruin called the Ruins of Memory.

ASK about the Ruin when it comes up to learn more (it's actually more of a museum, hence the name). When your "friends" are done talking, prepare for the next dungeon.

First of all, stop by the ARMsmith just next to the Saloon. Here you can upgrade your ARMs, so do a bit of upgrading if you want, but be sure to save some money; Roykman is also in town, and it's a very good idea to buy some Antidotes, because there is a particular enemy around this area that can poison your team members. Also, talk to Sterling before you leave for some backstory regarding the Ruins, if you desire. Seems like most of the good treasures have been stolen from the display cases... for shame.

From the start of the dungeon, head north until you reach a familiar trio. After a short chat, head north up the small staircase and into the next room, which is full of smashed display cases. Thieves have been here, no doubt. Ignore the doorway to the north here, and head south past the cases to a glass booth with a switch behind the glass and a door. Either bomb the glass or run into it (it's not my responsiblity if you require skin grafts), then hit the switch and enter the door.

In the next room, climb the small staircase and toss Jet's Boomerang over the railing to hit the crystal switch and open the door and go in. The next room has 4 lit torches and a locked door; use the Freezer Doll to put the torches out, and then keep moving (nice view!) In the next room, smash the glass booths to find a chest with a Heal Berry, a block, and a switch. Push the block on the switch. The next room has a chest containing 1500 Gella behind a glass booth; grab it and head north through the doorway. Another easy to spot chest containing a Gella Card awaits you!

Grab the Gella Card, then head north and take the north doorway. 3 chests in here contain a Dragon Fossil, a Lucky Card, and a Gimel Coin. Yoink them from their chests, then leave the room and take the east doorway. The door closes shut behind us! What to do? Well, look around the room, and you'll notice 4 statues of robed men. One of them is in pretty sorry shape; it's missing an arm! Blow up the statue with the missing arm with a Bomb, then hit the floor panel where the statue once was to open the door on the east side. Enter.

Now, go a bit south and look for another glass booth with a lever type switch; hit it to lower the nearby wall. This is a shortcut for later! After moving the lever, head north to a room with lots and lots of books. If you feel like reading, go ahead and check the shelves. Take note that one of the books is locked by a Duplicator, but don't bother opening it until you've opened all of the chests and doors in the game; they're more important to open first. When you're done reading, check the western part of the room for a shoddy looking wall underneath a bull head hanging from high above. Bomb this wall open, and grab the chests in the next room (a Memo Pen and a Growth Egg). The third chest is Duplicator locked. We'll get to that later.

Now see the torch in this room? Behind that pillar is a crystal switch, so stand on the edge near the Duplicator chest and toss your Boomerang around the pillar to hit it and open the next door. Now, in the next room, put out the blue flame with the Freezer Doll to lower part of the floor, then stand on the lowered part and relight the candle with the Tindercrest. In the next room is a boss fight, so use a Gimel Coin to save your game, and heal up. When you're ready, go through...

Janus must be defeated first; if you attack anyone but him, he instantly heals his cronies for 200 HP. So use the first few turns attacking Janus only to get your FP up, and sooner or later, he'll split. That's the end of the Trinity attack!

Now it's time for the other two. Use a Gella Card on Dario to get some extra cash (Romero has no money), and have Virginia Mystic a Lucky Card for more EXP at the end of the fight (do this BEFORE killing Janus if you can). Don't worry about using Lucky Cards and Gella Cards; you get plenty, so use one Lucky Card per boss battle, and one Gella Card per boss per battle. Romero and Dario are ridiculously easy on their own, despite what their little speech leads you to believe. So have some fun with them.

Again, the first thing our team wants to do is visit the Saloon like a bunch of crazy drunks, but this IS the Wild West, right? Well, the boozing can wait. First, head inside the ARM shop (that's the first building) and check the barrel by the door for a Revive Fruit.

Next, go outside and toss the crates beside the old house near for another Revive Fruit. Head inside the old house and check the barrel next to the bookcase for a Pinwheel.

Now, go BEHIND the Saloon (not to sneak in), and check the barrels for a Heal Berry, then head to the big building to the north.

Speak with the cute girl in the cowboy hat named Becky to learn about little Martina and her aunt, who is a bitch. Talking to Martina in the right spots at the right times will earn you a very special item, and by following this here walkthrough, you'll never miss a step!

Now, head inside the house. Here you'll find a man named Dessinsey, who's has 4 perfectly good horses he's willing to sell for 2000 Gella. If you have the money, by all means invest in them. You will actually NEED to buy the horses in a while, so it's better to get them now. Riding horses is MUCH faster than running across the overworld, and you can call horses to any spot on the World Map if you use a Call Whistle!

After splurging on the horsies (please don't misread that as something gross), head upstairs and read an interesting book about gigantic turtles and how to crack their shells (Leon Uris does the trick too, I hear), then check the barrel for a Gimel Coin.

Head back downstairs and through the not too easy to find east door, and into the manger-esque room. Search the hay bale for a Duplicator, and wonder how in holy hell it got there. Finally, leave the barn and search under the stairs leading to the top floor; a barrel here contains a Mini Carrot.

Now it's time for boozing. Head to the Horse Theft Saloon (nice name), and chat with the cute little girl (Martina), and be sure to ask about her mom. Next, talk to the ugly girl over the counter and chat with her, asking about Martina. Take a rest if you need it, then head outside and talk to Becky again for directions to another ruin.

• From the beginning, go north one room, then east one room. Descend the stairs, and go into the next room. You'll see a switch; flip it, then enter the newly opened door. Inside, grab the Gella Card and the 2000 Gella. Flip the switch to turn on the navigation system, then exit the room.

   

• Head through the northwest door, and walk under the bridge, then up the small flight of stairs and through the south door. From there, take the door to the west, and open all the chests. They are empty, but they are required for a side quest later in the game. Trust me; open them up.

   

• Now head out of the room with 3 chests, and take the room to the east this time. Next to the door is a small part where you can drop down to hit a switch; do so. At this point, you'll meet up with another Drifter party (and in my opinion, the most creative RPG team in history). You'll be chewed out, but press on anyway. Drop down another level and head through the east door.

   

• Now, go north through a familiar looking room, then west again. Under the bridge one more time, and south through the door up the tiny staircase. Now, head east one room, and you'll be back to the room where you confronted the Drifter party mentioned earlier. Now, you can go through the northern door. Go on in, then cross the bridge, and walk into the next room.

   

• Go north in this room and flip the switch, then go north some more. Open the chests for a Gimel Coin and 3 Lucky Cards (make SURE you get these chests), then head west through the doorway. Go west one more room from there, and descend the stairs. Inside this room are 3 chests; open one and two for a Clear Chime and a Migrant Seal, then use a Duplicator on the third for a Nectar.

   

• Leave the room and ascend the stairs to the next room, then head south and flip the switch. Don't go through this door; it's just a shortcut back to the beginning. Instead, stay on the higher part of the floor and go through the east doorway. A funny scene will occur (she's so damn CUTE, isn't she?), and you'll have to head through the western door again, then back up the higher part of the floor and in the east door. When you get back, carefully cross the raised part of the floor and enter the east door.

   

• Descend the stairs, and enter the next room. See the frozen switch? The rival Drifters are just trying to cheese you off again, so Tindercrest it to restore it to normal working order, then hit it. THEN, freeze it again with the Freezer Doll, and a REALLY funny scene will occur. Serves them right! Head through the newly opened door down the stairs, but SAVE YOUR GAME FIRST!

When Afro is down, the fight becomes easier. Next, focus your physical attacks on Timid Boy, and cast Pressure on Cat? to exploit its water weakness. Heal with Gallows when needed, and these guys will go down in no time. Finally, go after Blonde. Beware of Blonde when she has low HP, as she will use her AW-RSTN87 attack, which is quite powerful. She shouldn't last long enough for this to be a threat, however. FYI, if you defeat Blonde, the fight ends, so take down the other guys first for extra EXP!

This is the last dungeon in Chapter 1, and at the top lies an action packed story scene. Doesn't that make you want to get up there faster? Aren't you so glad my walkthrough is here to help you ascend the tower as fast as possible? 8P

Begin by walking north through the first room. In the second is a block pushing puzzle; you have to use two blocks in the "low" part of the room to build a bridge. Take the first two blocks that are in the lower section of the floor and push and pull them (go up to them and press and hold X, then push and pull with the directional buttons), and use them to form a 2 block bridge that connects the raised floor where you entered the room from to a raised floor with another block. Cross this bridge, then push the third block to the top right part of the raised floor, then north one space to make another bridge. Cross and grab the Lucky Card X 2 in the chest, then drop down and push the block west to build another bridge to the end of the room. Cross the two block bridges and go through the exit.

Ascend the staircases, and move on to a room with more valve turning. Yay! First, step on the switch to lower the first "valve platform", then walk onto it and grab the valve, then start turning clockwise. After the platform is fully raised, you'll be up on the higher levels.

Rotate the camera a bit to see a doorway that's a slight drop down from the upper area; go on in! Open the chests inside for a Gella Card X 3, Gimel Coin, and a Duplicator, then exit the room. You'll have to drop down a level and do the valve thing AGAIN, but no one said climbing this tower would be easy!

Once you're back up, walk along the higher up section and when you reach the end, drop down. You'll have to do another round of valve turning (oh JOY!) to reach ANOTHER valve (which also has to be turned), and only then will you reach the exit of this room. Hey, you're getting a much needed thumb workout.

Head through the door to exit the room, then ascend another flight of stairs. SAVE YOUR GAME before entering the room; we're going to tangle with a titanium tortoise who is tricky to tackle unless we tarnish his.... carapace. 8P Enter the next room when you are ready, and once you walk about halfway through it, the boss battle begins.

Reading is important. RPGs used to have this thing called "talking to townspeople and examining things" that was used to gather information on how to defeat monsters, how to find important items, etc. Some people still use it today, and hopefully, you have been reading the in-game text and reading the books on the bookshelves that I have been recommending you read. If you haven't... then start now. One of the books in Claiborne tells you how to beat this sucker, and I'm not telling you how here.

Just fooling with you. But please, start reading the books if you haven't already. First of all, to lower Trask's defense to a more fair number, hit him with Fire elemental Arcana (either through Cremate or a Fire Gem). This will heat his huge metal shell up (though it will not toast the turtle inside). Next, freeze his shell with Ice elemental Arcana (Refrigerate or an Ice Gem). Voila! No more high defense! Not as satisfying as the destruction of Neslug's shell in FFX, but pretty good nontheless.

Now finish him off with physical attacks (Arcana is no good), but BE CAREFUL. Trask is a hard hitter, and counterattacks every time you attack him with a powerful Bio Missile attack, so only have Jet and Clive attack him while Gallows keeps the team healthy and happy. For a bit more fun, cast Fragile on Trask to lower his DEF even more. He won't last long. Don't forget the Lucky Card routine; I did! And get into the habit of doing it from now on for bosses!

Climb the ladder up to the top, then walk on over to the hanging cage and grab on. Climb over to the raised part of the floor that's sticking out, and rotate the camera to make sure you're directly under it. Drop down, and walk over to the area where the chest is and drop down again. Open the chest for a Heal Berry, then drop down and climb the ladder back up. Climb back to the raised part again, then walk south to the next cage and hang on.

Climb the cage over to the western part and drop down at the end, then head north to another cage. Climb this one northeast and drop down on the platform, and grab the Revive Fruit X 2 out of the chest. And then..... climb the ladder AGAIN, and do the whole room over one last time (I know it's irritating, but you have to do this to get all the treasure!) until you reach the third cage. From there, flip yourself up to on top of the cage, and you'll be facing two doorways.

Take the northern-most door first; it leads downstairs to more treasures! Go on in, then descend the stairs to reach a room with two chests. Open one to get the Blue Bracer, then open the Duplicator chest with a Duplicator for a Booster Kit. This adds 10 more ECN points to your ECN gauge!

Now mosey on back to the two door room and take the other door. Ascend the stairs (we're ALMOST there!) and enter a room with an interesting torch puzzle. It's not hard to figure out, but I'll tell you how to do it anyway. First, stand north from the second torch, and put both torches out with the Freezer Doll. This will fool around with the floor, raising certain sections and lowering others. Now, stand east from the second torch (EAST, not north) and Tindercrest it. Finally, walk as far north as you can, then turn around, and put out the torch with the Freezer Doll. Now it's a straight walk from the platforms to a staircase leading out. Ascend the stairs, grab the gems, then save your game when you reach the top.

In the next room, empty the chests for a Gimel Coin and a Mini Carrot, then head to the center of the room to trigger a short scene, then keep going to trigger a much larger scene. A familiar adversary attacks, but this time, he's fighting you solo! Believe it or not, he's harder alone!