Final Fantasy VI Walkthrough

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2.39: Gau and His Father

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Party: Sabin, Gau, Optional: Terra, Locke, Cyan, Shadow, Edgar, Celes, Relm, Strago, Setzer, Mog, Gogo, Umaro

This sidequest is just to see a cutscene. You won't get anything out of it, but the event helps develop Gau's character and strengthens the relationship of Gau and Sabin, making it worth watching. It's kinda funny too. Relatively speaking. You'll want to bring, ideally, Locke and Edgar to accompany Sabin and Gau, as that'll net you the most individual cutscenes.

You can see the first part of the cutscene by bringing Sabin to the shack any time, with or without Gau. Sabin will question who the old man could be, but the scene will continue only if you have Gau as well. At that point, a further conversation will take place and the scene will switch to Jidoor. A few sub-scenes can take place at this point, one for each of the following party conditions:

Terra has been recruited
Celes has been recruited (in other words, this part will always happen)
If Cyan has been recruited but is not in the active party
If Setzer is not in the active party
If Locke and Edgar are both in the active party

When returning to Gau's father, there is also another check made. This dialogue can also be accessed outside the Gau-centric cutscene, but there's no other logical time to visit this guy so I wanted to include it here.

Additionally, there's another odd cutscene with the old man available when you have obtained the Emperor's Letter after talking twice to the portrait in Owzer's Mansion in Jidoor, but before you have recruited Locke. This happens independently of the rest of the Gau-centric scene, and the party will ask the old man about the Emperor's map. For the record, this 'map' is never mentioned outside of this cutscene, and neither is there any information about why our characters apparantly decide this guy should know something about Gestahl's possessions. And that he somehow actually does. It's just weird.

Back to Gau's scene, though - the rest of the cutscene both always occurs and is quite sad, so I won't be giving the information away here. You can't even get it with our spoiler settings, so there!

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