DINGLEBERRY!

What a fun title.

The last tablet gave us access to the Fork Tower, a dungeon where we need to split the party. The game won't tell you this, but the left tower is magical, and the right is physical. The opposite damage type is nerfed. I went two and two, but you might be able to solo one. Regardless, white mage Reina and spellblade Krille went left, while monk Bartz and hunter Faris went right. I ran into one random encounter across both sides, so I have no clue what's here. Both parties have to take the sealed magic at the top at the same time, which the game will do for you. First up is the Minotaur!

He only does physical attacks. That's the only strategy he's got. I made liberal use of potions and elixirs while spamming the attack command. Maybe I should have brought in a blue mage to blind or a way to up evasion and defense? But I didn't. Despite that, I didn't have too many problems. As Minos dies, he'll try to use Holy, but he doesn't have enough MP.

On the otherside is Omniscient. Reflect totally removes the challenge of this guy. It only uses magic, all of which is reflectable. Omni starts with debuffs, so you have time to cast Haste 2. I used Carbuncle, but the effect wears off after a while, so be on the lookout. Even their Flate gets bounced. Both teams automatically return to the world map with the Fork Tower gone. Under it is the catapult and M/Cid.

We'll find Cid being eaten by a machine, but he's fine when we save him. Mid runs in to tell us he's found a way to make an airship into a submarine. This makes no sense, but maybe they just turned the ship into a floating dock? When they're done, Krille and Mid will bond over being raised by grandparents. Why is the sad music playing? Cid blames himself for the state of the world, but all he can do is tinker with machines. They wish us luck on our journey. I feel like I should see them again before leaving.

To the east, under the ocean, is a hole in the planet's crust. It takes us to a place filled with lava, dwarfs, and monsters that aren't worth fighting. Everything down here is called "Unknown," and they suck. Especially the ones vomiting green goop. They'll kill a character as they die. The dwarfs are set pieces, and the button to press is the farthest right. We'll be attacked by more X Death minions, and I'm sick of this challenge. To win, you need to kill all three of them at the same time. Otherwise, one will revive the others and hit you with Magus Sisters' Delta Attack. FFV uses this tactic a lot.

Afterwards, take the sub south of Istory Falls. The cave now takes us towards the waterfall, an easy dungeon and a decent ABP farming place. Nothing is scary, but there is one guy to be wary of. Final Fantasy V doesn't have tonberries, but it does have someone called a dingleberry. They look and function the same, but I killed the one I saw before it reached me. Easy seven ABP! At the bottom is the last lithograph. As we leave, a minion attacks, but we don't fight it. From behind the waterfall comes Leviathan. He kills the lackey, and we can challenge him to get another summon. But he's also optional. Summon Golem and spam lightning spells. Apparently, Levi is supposed to counter, but I don't think I saw it often enough to notice.

But there's another dot on my underwater map. Is that Walz Tower? It is! We have six minutes of breath in us to find whatever is here. Wasn't there a crystal shard we couldn't get! The enemies are shadow versions of random nonsense, but the prize is at the bottom. There's a chest halfway down to refill your timer. At what was once the entrance is the crystal shard, but it's guarded by a mine. Gogo tells us how to defeat it, but can you figure it out? Enjoy the free 50 ABP. Some people swear by the mine job, but I don't.

Lastly tonight, I got the last blue magic spell I care about, Big Guard. All that's left is Bahamut and that strange tower southwest of it. But I'll climb them...

... tomorrow!

I've finished the jobs for everyone but Reina. I opted to make her a monk because she had no HP as a freelancer. I'm hoping to be finished in two days.