The continent where Esthar was located is surrounded by high cliffs, so there’s no way to get to it with the Garden. Instead, I had to land at FH again, and then use the railroad to get there on foot, since no trains used the railway since the Sorceress War.
At this point, Squall was being his old self, trying to do everything on his own. He took Rinoa and left without telling everyone. Of course, as predictable as he is, the rest of the group was already waiting for him at the end of the tracks. Selphie and Irvine already scouted the north and south, so the only way left was east.
I entered some sort of salt flats or something and started exploring it. Thanks to Enc-None, random encounters were not an issue, so the area was cleared extremely fast. At the end of it, I got attacked by an undead creature. Sadly, I wasn’t smart enough to junction the item ability on one of my characters, so I had to kill it with Curaga, since Life doesn’t work like Phoenix Down does. Three Curaga’s were enough to deal with it. I could’ve gone the usual route of just hitting it to death, but it’s defenses were insanely high, and I didn’t want to use my small supply of Meltdown spells.
Oh, I will!
At that point, it was obvious Esthar was protected by some sort of force field of invisibility. It was obvious because part of it was broken and I could see an entrance. I got in, walked through a bunch of hallways and stepped on an elevator platform which took us to Esthar.
Esthar looks amazing.
Once I got there, another Laguna flashback happened. He was imprisoned with Ward and Kiros, at an Esthar facility. After a while in there, he made some friends and then managed to escape with everyone and join an anti-Adel resistance group. Oh, by the way, Adel was the sorceress controlling Esthar back then. During all of this, a character in prison kept saying how nice of a guy Laguna is and how he would love to have him as his leader once the resistance gets rid of Adel. Gee, I wonder if the game is hinting at something. Oh, not to forget, Laguna also manages to save Ellone from Esthar researchers somehow.
Squall and the others woke up and were greeted by the president’s aid. Apparently, Adel was overthrown ages ago and Esthar has significantly advanced since then. I mean, they have an invisibility field not powered by magic. A Dr. Odine said he could help Rinoa, but they need to go the Lunar Launch Station first. I did some shopping at the market district and then left the city for the station.
Who needs a rocket ship when you have a giant revolver that can shoot you into space.
Once I got there, I had to pick one extra character to get launched into space with Squall and Rinoa. I picked Irvine. The rest remained on the ground waiting, but something happened soon. A huge structure appeared above Esther and everyone started to panic. While Squall, Irvine and Rinoa were in space, Zell, Quistis and Edea decided to go check out what was going on in Esthar.
