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2.3: Escape to the Big Bridge

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Enemies: Devilfish, Treant, Strapparer, Merrow, Flying Killer, Little Chariot, Neo Garula, Gilgamesh (2)

Blue Magic: Dark Spark, Death Claw, Transfusion, Goblin Punch, Aera

Devilfish are weird fish-like creatures which reside in swamps. They absorb Water-elemental attacks and are weak to Lightning-elemental ones, like most aquatic creatures. When

Confused or Controlled they can use

Transfusion, so you can learn it from them if you haven't learned it earlier. They can attack physically or by using Digestive Acid (remember, that annoying non-elemental attack which sets Slow and Sap?).

Treants cast

Berserk on themselves and allies to make their physical attacks stronger. For your Blue Mages this is a shame, as every second turn they can use

Death Claw. If you never learned it from Iron Claw, now's your chance. They're weak to Fire-elemental attacks. You cannot use !Control for it, sadly.

Strapparer are bizarre creatures entering our world through a rift in reality. This, however, doesn't make them very powerful. They randomly use

Dark Spark, so you can pick that up if you haven't earlier. They randomly drop Elixirs (rarely) and are weak to Lightning-elemental attacks but absorb Fire-elemental attacks.

Whatever you do, there's nothing to really to do but to get to the Big Bridge to the west of Exdeath's Castle.

Welcome to the Big Bridge! That theme you're hearing is world-famous for being kick-ass, so try not to find it too awesome. You might get 'mainstream'. The Big Bridge houses monsters you'll only find when touching a certain tile on the bridge. All tiles except for the introductionary one (the one that causes Galuf to give his warning) are randomly turned 'on' and 'off' so you could cross a tile which could get you monsters without getting any monsters.

Little Chariot x3
Neo Garula
Merrow x3
Neo Garula, Merrow x2
Little Chariot x2, Flying Killer x2, Little Chariot x3
Flying Killer x3

I'd hate to sound less then interested in the monsters here, but the thing is they're rather boring. All of them attack physically only with the exception of Little Chariot, which randomly uses Mustard Bomb, which does about 300 damage and sets Sap. Neo Garula rarely drops Water Scrolls, but no other items of real interest appear. You can Catch none of them, which would be a point of interest if you're interested in those kinds of points of interest. Ninja Scrolls and Summon monsters are both able to clean house quickly and efficiently.

Gilgamesh (2) Bestiary #268	Type	Level	HP	MP	Gil	EXP	Speed
	Humanoid	28	6500	1000	0	0	45
	Strength	Attack Mult.	Magic Atk.	Evasion	Defense	Mag. Def.	Mag. Evade
	49	7	0	10	14	10	0
	Stolen Items			Dropped Items
	Common: Hero Cocktail Rare: Trident			Common: Wizard's Hat
	Command Immunities			Elemental Immunities
	Catch, Control, Scan			None
	Elemental Absorb			Elemental Weakness
	None			None
	Blue Magic			Status Immunities
	Aera, Goblin Punch
	Strategy
	This version casts a lot of blue and protective magic, so spamming with Mute helps. There are no real weaknesses to exploit, so a number of classes are equally useful. A Blue Mage with 1000 Needles is good because of the known quantity of damage you'll get each turn.

Gilgamesh certainly buffed up this time. Contrary to popular legends, you can not Steal a piece of Genji equipment from Gilgamesh this time; you'll have to do with the normal Hero Cocktail or the rare Spear

Trident. The latter is kinda special, but you could've stolen Spear

Tridents from Dhorme Chimeras long ago.

Gilgamesh will normally attack with physical attacks,

Goblin Punch,

Aera and Wind Slash. When he's gotten enough of a beatdown and has but 2500 HP left, the next hit he absorbs will cause a counter consisting of a demented little speech and the casting of

Protect,

Shell and

Haste: all nasty enough in their own right. He'll start using Jump after that. On enemies, Jump is a physical magic attack; it deals physical damage insomuch that it targets the enemy's Defense, but its treated as magical damage in that it is based on the caster's Magic Power. It's unblockable, by the way.

When you kill him, he'll use Flee, robbing you of the Helmet

Wizard's Hat you otherwise would have obtained. You can't set

Berserk yet and he's immune to both Paralyze and Stop, so there's no avoiding it this time.

The strategy to follow is easy. Put together a damaging team and make sure you have Gilgamesh Silenced at every turn; it's definitely his support magic that makes him a pain to take down. In the Advance version, however, Gilgamesh is suddenly immune to the Silence status. In all versions, however, the

Mute spell is able to stop Gilgamesh's spells. You can turn your Mages into Blue Mages so you can still attack, heal and possibly set Haste on one or more characters before you cast

Mute, but you'll definitely want to set the ailment one way or another.

Heavy Armor characters are either best off being a Mystic Knight; with Silence spellblade and the Sword

Ancient Sword's 33% chance of inflicting Old, you'll be setting quite the status ailments. When playing FFVA, the Berserker is the more powerful one. Mages should stick to

1000 Needles or boosted Gaia's Wrath, support all allies with

Haste and possible cast

Mute before Gilgamesh increases his potential. Light Armor Jobs are best off either being Blue Mages or being a Monk or Ninja.

Gilgamesh doesn't have any weakness to exploit, so damaging him at this stage of the game where everything but !Zeninage is more or less balanced out is kinda difficult. His attacks aren't that dangerous though, so you'll win the fight for sure.

When you're done, there's the second part of the Big Bridge. When you're almost to the other side, the forces within Exdeath's Castle and its four Barrier Towers put up the barrier, a destructive force which surrounds Exdeath's Castle and forcefully blows away anything that hits it. The Light Warriors just aren't quick enough.

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