In order to get some answers as to how to get back home as well as find out where we are, we have to trek across the desert and enter the town on the other side.
All maps by Grizzly.
Desert of Doom
Just to the left of the entrance to Nobilia is a spot where, if you stand in it, your character will spin around and lose a lot of health. Be sure to heal yourself when your HP runs low. After a while, the boy will say he's getting dizzy. You'll then get "Spin...spin...spin...wheeeeeeeee..." after a couple of minutes if you keep standing there, followed by "Gonna...gonna...hurl!" Keep standing there, and you'll eventually get sucked in the sand, receive 99 Rice and Spice, and then shoot out of the ground. You'll need these for trading in Nobilia.
Nobilia Market
Here's everything that I do here:
- Exchange 3 Spices each for 6 Perfumes
- Exchange 2 Rice & 3 Jewels each for 19 Beads
- Exchange 1 Spice & 2 Rice each for 5 Chickens
- Exchange 3 Beads each for 4 Tapestries
- Receive Atlas alchemy from alchemist at the item shop
- Exchange 1 Spice & 2 Perfumes each for 3 Jeweled Scarabs
- Exchange 4 Spices & 2 Beads each for 2 Limestone Tablets
- Exchange 5 Spices each for 1 Golden Jackal
- Exchange 2 Spices each for 1 Spoon
- Lift the northern rock with Levitate
- Exchange 1 Tapestry to get Tiny to throw the rock
- Exchange a Jeweled Scarab for a Stone Vest
- Receive the Centurion Cape from the prophet
- Exchange 3 Chickens & 3 Beads for the Jade Disk
- Exchange a Tapestry, Jeweled Scarab, Limestone Tablet for the Ruby Heart
- Exchange 10 Spices for the Obsidian Helmet
- Exchange 2 Chicken, Jeweled Scarab, & 12 Spice for the Moxa Stick
- Exchange a Limestone Tablet & 5 Rice for the Sun Stone
- Exchange a Golden Jackal & 10 Spice for the Silver Sheath
- Exchange a Spoon & 2 Tapestries for the Bronze Gauntlet
- Exchange the Silver Sheath & 75 Jewels for the Armor Polish
The Silver Sheath will increase the attack power of all sword weapons. The Armor Polish will increase the defense of all body armor. The Moxa Stick will increase the power of all healing items and spells by 25%. The Jade Disk will increase your hit percentage by 3%. The Ruby Heart decreases enemy accuracy when you have low HP. The Sun Stone increases the attack power of both of your party members.
You have only fifteen in-game minutes before the crowd disappears to see the Sacred Dog statue. Your job here is purchase stuff with your Jewels and try to trade for as much stuff as possible. Also, being in the rings or any status/options screen with the stone background stops the clock until you leave them, which un-pauses the game. That's why I'm able to get everything that I'm able to get
If you talk to the fortune teller enough times, he'll ask the gods to strike him down if they exist. You'll have a choice of three things for the gods to turn him into: a chicken, a goat, and a basket. Press the B button when you reach this part, and he'll thank you for saving him from the wrath of the powers that be and reward you with a Stone Vest. If you've already bought the Bronze Vest and you've gotten the Stone Vest from whoever is selling it before you do this, you'll get the Centurion Cape instead.
You should definitely get the Stone Vest, the Obsidian Helmet and the Bronze Gauntlet before the crowd disappears. There's a reason for that which I will mention a little later on. Don't worry about losing the Silver Sheath; you'll be able to get it again later on in the game. As a matter of fact, due to a glitch, the increased attack boost for all sword attacks is always in effect and actually getting the Silver Sheath changes nothing. (I was not aware of this until making this guide.)
If you buy a bunch of pots, you'll find jewels in them at times. Also, sometimes when you buy a tablet, you'll find a rather strange inscription on them that The Boy will read. Weird...
Do not press B near the chickens over and over again. The game will warn you, and if you keep doing it again...well, you'll find out. You can also "talk" to the goats if you want.
The best way to stock up on trading goods is to buy some rice, spice and beads. Then, you work your way around from there.
If you have a lot of rice, you can get some Amulets of Annihilation from one of the booths. It costs 30 Rice for one Amulet. You can go down to 15 Rice, but if you go any further down in price, he won't sell to you again. If for some reason, you keep turning down his prices, you can get 3 Amulets for 1 Rice at the risk of not being able to get any more if you accept the deal.
If you go to the right at the market, you'll see the city square where the Sacred Dog statue is. If you go south, you'll see a door. Go in.
The first thing you'll see is a spider walking into a pile of boxes to the right. If you walk where the spider goes, you'll see another Rogue. He'll give you the Atlas formula, which gives The Boy super strength.
Atlas
1 Ash, 1 Atlas Medallion
The only place you can get Atlas Medallions from is from this Rogue. He'll sell you one for 100 jewels, but the prices gets higher and you can only carry a few medallions at any given time. It does help at times, though.
If you go to the left in this building, you'll get the store where you can buy Nectar and whatnot. Going south through the door across from him takes you to two store fronts you wouldn't be able to access otherwise, one that gives you Limestone Tablets and another that gives you Jeweled Scarabs.
There is a woman who appraises items at the southern end of the market. If you talk to her, you can sell your trading goods for jewels. You can technically get all the Jewels you need without having to fight enemies just by going to the market.
When you hear nothing but birds chirping in the background, go to the right of the fish seller's booth and press B at the basket. You'll find 500 Jewels.
Coliseum Entrance
To the north of the marketplace is the coliseum entrance. If you get a tapestry from the market and hand it to him, he'll throw it really, really long. Go back to Blimp's Cave and you'll finally see the rock land in that gap between the cliff and the area where those two pots are. The stuff inside those pots is finally yours.
Town Square
If you go east from here, you'll find the fire pit that you won't be able to use until later in the game. You might find some Ash around the fire pit, but that's about it.
If you go north from here, you'll find the entrance to the palace, which is locked to you. One of the statues here talks, by the way. Just get up to it and speak to it like you would a person.
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