Chapter 20: Sidequests Part 1

ALEXANDRIA

Your first location is Alexandria Harbor. Use the map here and the world map on your screen to find Alexandria. The cliffs below Alexandria on the ocean side should yield a cave which takes you to the docks. It’s at the North-East of the Mist Continent. Entering Alexandria, take the statue up. Exiting, you’ll see we’re back at the castle. Go to the fountain screen. In the rubble blocking the path to the castle proper is a Sapphire. In the rubble blocking the path to the eastern tower you can find a Peridot. And By the gondola on the left side, where one of the bells used to be, is an Opal.

Take the gondola back to the dock and check beside the destroyed platforms for 4832 gil and a Topaz. Head towards the square. Someone dropped 365 gil on the doorstep of the weapon shop. A remedy is hidden in the wall at the bottom of the screen. On the left side of the wall you can find an Amethyst. There is no weapon shop right now but you can find the Synthesis guy in the Theater Alley. Between the church and Ilia’s house you can find a tent. Check Kupo for mail and head to the town square. There is a little girl running around who has an Alexandria Card for you. South of that, near that cook you can find an Ether.

South of the ex-item shop you can lastly find a Sapphire near Ilia’s Grandma’s house, or what’s left of it. Go back to the harbor and leave Alexandria.

CHOCOBO HOT & COLD

Our next stop is the medium sized island directly west of Lindblum. You’ll notice a cave there. However, you will need your chocobo. The small island just north of this bears a set of tracks to call your chocobo. You will see it’s not just a matter of going from island to island. No, you must follow the reef (carefully) north to the Western Continent, then back down to the lagoon. This is Chocobo’s Lagoon. 

Chocobo Lagoon

You can only dig up 4 chocographs here for the moment and each game is only 30 seconds with points doubled. It is also more difficult to dig here, for now. We want to get these four chocographs now. After, return to the the Chocobo Forest and call your chocobo again. 

Activate “Dawn Lagoon.” Follow the shore to the east until you can access the bay south of Treno. Search this area. You’ll know it’s the Treno area by the lighting.

Dawn Lagoon

After retrieving “Dawn Lagoon” head back to the Chocobo’s Forest to dig up 4 more chocographs there. You’ll notice that with Mountain Choco you can climb the two high places in this forest to check for chocographs. However, you should only do this after you’ve checked the first level completely. Getting this upgrade also unlocks Dead Peppers, which unlock Dead Pepper locations (as long as they are on land of course).  You will now dig up dead peppers (after digging up the first) on a regular basis. Save them for now.

Alright, now that we have those, we can now get to the Green Plains. However, there are a few locations between the Chocobo Forest and the Green Plains that we can visit now that we have Mountain Choco. Activate Forbidden Forest, that’s our first Chocograph for this journey. On the way stop at South Gate, both sides and both the ground and mountain levels. At the Bohden Gate Side (where Steiner and Dagger were at in the beginning of disc 2) we can now get the treasure we couldn’t get before. On top of the wagon, open the treasure for a Multina Racket and the Elixir Card (where was that when we were in that stupid tournament).  On the lower elevation, near Evil Forest you can find 2 Elixirs and 3206 gil. Mosco is here as well. You should also head back to Treno to get the Promist Ring and the Thief Gloves from the Auction House. If you need money, Atla in Burmecia sells Steepled Hats and of course Wrists are always at Dali, and now you can anywhere you need to with Mountain Chocobo.

Take Choco to the Forbidden Forest, marked on the Chocobo Game Map included in this chapter. It’s a forest surrounded completely by the mountain.

Forbidden Forest

 After retrieving the treasure here, activate Uncultivated Land, that’s the nearest chocograph now.  This Chocograph can be found in the oddly shaded terrain beneath where Alexandria is, beside the Evil Forest.

Activate now Green Plains, it is the next stop on our hunt. With this chocograph, we gain yet another upgrade, Ocean Choco.

Uncultivated Land

We will now return to Chocobo’s Lagoon, just use Choco for this now. However, on the way, stop by Quan’s Dwelling (Vivi’s home) and go to the broken grandfather clock screen. Look over the cliff to initiate the use of our first Dead Pepper. It’s on the way so it makes more sense to just go ahead. 

Green Plains

Dead Pepper Bubble 4

Back at Chocobo Lagoon, we can now search the rest of the small map and thus the price goes back to 60 gil per game. You can dig up three more Chocographs at this point in time.

NEXT CHAPTER (no more room lol)

Now that we have dug up all the Chocographs we can get at this time, it’s time to do some more digging. Leave the Lagoon and activate Ocean (it’s the closest). Along with the Chocograph Locations, we can also use the Dead Peppers we have now, except for a few on the Forgotten Continent (the continent nearest the Lagoon). Exiting the Lagoon, if you to the tip of the South-Eastern Continent and search the coves, you will find Dead Pepper Bubble 1.

Have Zidane use a Dead Pepper here by hitting the triangle button and selecting Use Dead Pepper. Now you can find the Ocean Chocograph by using the map provided and the picture given below. If you travel North from the Lagoon, on your chocobo, just past an island with a Qu’s Marsh (we’ll get there eventually people, one side quest at a time) is a long, skinny island with a beach, a single forest and a set of tracks. This is where you want to start. Align yourself and your screen just like it is in the picture to locate this chocograph.

 The next stop is Faraway Lagoon. Activate it and let’s mosey. From the Ocean location, go to the West and follow the shoals of the Forgotten Continent north until again. Again, use the map and the picture provided to help out.

Activate the Forgotten Lagoon now and go around north around the Forgotten Continent to a big island just west.

Activate the Cold Lagoon and go north from this location, around an interesting looking island to a continent all covered in snow. Follow the reef north-east, hugging the continent until you reach a “Cold Lagoon” shaped like the lagoon in the Hint Picture the game gives you. Check this area until you find the treasure.

Activate the Cold Field and follow the icy continent until you can get onto dry land. Search the middle part of the island where some of the land does not have snow.

There is also a Dead Pepper Crack here on this island. On the north-eastern most mountain, on the right side. Again refer to the picture I provide.

Activate now, Abandoned Lagoon. Start at the northern most tip of the icy continent. Between it and an island north of the Outer Continent, you find Dead Pepper Bubble 3.

Collect the treasure with the Dead Pepper and continue on to the aforementioned island. There’s a beach almost right away and you should see a mountain. Go the eastern side of the island, in a little corner and you’ll see a set of cracks. Use a Dead Pepper here to unlock Mognet Central. Inside here and up the stairs, sitting in a green chair on right side, is that purple moogle from the beginning of this disc. Talk to him. There is nothing else to do here now, but we will need this location later.

Continuing around the Outer Continent, between the south-eastern cliff and the Mist Continent is Dead Pepper Bubble 2.

Keep hugging the Outer Continent (remaining in the water) to find Abandoned Lagoon. You will find it at cliffs past Conde Petie. See below.

 The last chocograph we can locate is Sea at Dusk. Return to the Forgotten Continent part of the map and this go to the Central Eastern cliffs to find this.

And that is all of the Chocographs you can find for now. When you have gotten all these treasures, go back to the Blue Narciss (which you likely left back at the Chocobo’s Forest). If you did not, just use the flashing blue dot on the map to locate it. We will leave off here and continue with Frog Catching, Blue Magic Hunting, grinding, and even possibly continuing with the plot in the next chapter.