Side Quests

Run throughout Macalania woods and find all five missing musicians. Look for rings of butterflies, when you find one, run through it and they will appear! Don't forget to talk to them. Return to the band leader and the Hypello to clear this mission.

A Deathproof Accessory would be invaluable here with Queen Coeurl. Not all fiends are real; some fiends are only an illusion. Touching an illusionary fiend will cause it to vanish. Only one real fiend appears at a time. Any other fiends you see are illusions. The illusionary fiends will mostly face the direction of the real fiend, however, sometimes they won't seem to. There are six fiends within the Arena, so hunt them down and help Clasko start up his Chocobo Ranch!

Destroy more Machina than a rival group of hunters. The green blocks on the mini-map are the malfunctioning Machina, hunt them down quickly!

This is the way the battles will go:
1st and 4th battle VS Rhyos & Vertigo;
2nd and 5th battle VS 3x Barbuta;
3rd and 6th battle VS Barbuta & Flan Blanco.
It's rough without any sort of healing in between, but if you're prepared, and have paid off O'aka's Debt, the rewards are good.

Find all 15 tourists inside the Cavern of the Fayth while beating on the fiends that reside there.

For this mission, you'll have to climb Mt. Gagazet since Garik froze the Warp Pads. Depending on whether you answered the Ronso' questions or not (and if the answers were correct), then this battle may be easy or hard. If you answered correctly, then it's an easier Garik and one Ronso Youth, if not, then it's a harder Garik and two Ronso Youth that you'll have to take out.

This mission will be a cinch. You'll start in the square, catch it and when it leaves, go to the bridge and talk to it again. Follow it again to the 2nd dock where it's hiding in front of the ship that's there. That's all!

Throughout Chapters 3 - 5 if you've been helping Rin find out who made the Machina go crazy, you will find out in Chapter 5. Depending on who you capture, you may get to ride Chocobos or not. There's a hidden cave on Mi'ihen Highroad that you can find with a level 5 Chocobo from the Chocobo Ranch

The first four battles are broken up, so after the fourth battle, healing is recommended since the next three fights are consecutive. Beating Lucil is the end of the battles and you earn an Episode Complete!

After victory you receive AL BHED PRIMER KEY ITEM. You will learn that you can fight Experiment again, but you need to find the repair manuals. There's five of them in total:

1. Cloister of Trials: in the room with five pedestals you needed to push back in CH3 there's a man standing silently; input password MARNELA to get first manual, THE SPIRIT OF RECYCLING KEY ITEM
2. Living Quarters 1: simply talk to seated Al Bhed to obtain HOW TO REPAIR WITH SOUL KEY ITEM
3. Temple: in the north east end of the screen you'll see three monkeys; stand between them and patiently wait until the three of them start jumping at the same time; as soon as they do, punch X to receive REPAIRING FOR DUMMIES KEY ITEM
4. Open up the passage to the Calm Lands Ruin Depths, which is located in the Chocobo ranch. One of the chests inside holds THE ABC'S OF REPAIRS KEY ITEM
5. Mi'ihen area: examine all of the machinas running around in the entire area of Mi'ihen; one holds EVERYMAN'S REPAIR MANUAL KEY ITEM

Guess what? There's more digging too. Getting the Experiment's Attack, Defense and Special to level five is the key. Here's a table of the points needed.

Assembly Type & Points	Point Range
ASSEMBLY TYPE Z = 5 Points	0 - 3 Points = Level 1
ASSEMBLY TYPE S = 3 Points	4 - 9 Points = Level 2
ASSEMBLY TYPE A = 1 Point	10 - 19 Points = Level 3
	20 - 37 Points = Level 4
	38+ Points = Level 5

Once you've done that, head for the Antechamber and talk to the Al Bhed and let the fight commence!

The white triangles on the mini-map are the location of the fiends causing trouble with the lightning towers. Thankfully, you can stop in at the Rin's Travel Agency while destroying the 9 Rhyos'. When that is over with, save your progress and fight Humbaba. Once that's done, there's a hidden dungeon you can enter to find Cid. There is plenty of treasure down here so keep coming back and looking around. Be careful, though, since getting lost is easier than you think.

Angra Mainyu and it's minions, Tawrich and Zawrich are the toughest fiends you will ever face. Make sure you heal and save when you're allowed to return to the Celcius before you take them on since this will be one really nasty fight.