FF7 Riddles From Zero

[leader of mortals]

Somehow, I feel like Merton is the key to this riddle, and I can't think of a Merton in FF7, but it seems familiar to me :I

Now, when you say it's not Da-Chao, do you mean that it has nothing to do with Da-Chao?

My guess is climbing up the wire to go to the headquarters.

High as you can go
It's pretty high up, yo

An expansive vista
That you cannot see
The way the camera is pointed, you can't see behind you, which would show a large expanse of land, or the town, or whatever.

Mertons behind you
Umm, there is someone named Merton in the Wall Market? XD

[Jinx]

Junon Harbor (and especially the lower parts where you save Priscilla)

High as you can go
Is high.

An expansive vista
That you cannot see
You don't get to see Rufus' parade, I guess. OR, how the people in Junon Harbor bitch because the water's all mucked up because of the cannon or whatever.

Mertons behind you
Tons of MERpeople, cos you climb up and leave the oceans (and Mr. Dolphin) down below.

[leader of mortals]

Wait, Merton is a mistranslation of Meltdown from FF6, right? Assuming this, Meltdown could possibly be referring to a reactor being blown up. I happen to remember, in the area after you blow up the first reactor, right before Cloud has to battle the bunch of MPs by himself, there is a railing in the foreground, and the camera is placed in such a way that you can't see beyond the railing. From what I remember, it's pretty high up in the air, and that would mean that there is a big sight beyond the railing, which you can't see?

I say that area which probably has a name that I can't remember, with fire spewing in from the doorway that you got out of the first reactor from.

[Sephex]

Chocobo. Farm.

Okay seriously, I am going to say that the answer is the plate pillar in the Sector 7 slums.

It's high as you can go, and I guess in a way it is an expansive vista that you can not unsee. I also think Merton refers to Meltdown, or explosions. So the explosions behind us refers to the parties daring escape when the pillar started to explode and collapse behind them.

[Jiro]

I just want to say that everybody's "your hints are crap" after lom said "sources are the reward" is stupid. IT MADE IT SO PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THAT I WANTED TO STAB OUT MY EYEBALLS FOR NOT SEEING IT EARLIER. lom you're a champion.

As for the current riddle.. I got nuthin'

[Bubba]

Yeah, I'd like to offer my apologies to Lom for that comment.

It turns out my riddle-solving skills were crap...

Sorry, my friend.

[BG-57]

Its none of these.

Merton is the key to the location. Otherwise you'll just end of guessing through every random high place.

[Carl the Llama]

High as you can go
An expansive vista
That you cannot see
Mertons behind you

The riddle puts me in mind of when Reno destroyed the Pillar, its as high as you can go, you see an expansive vista, which is shortly unseeable due to the plate being blown up and as the plate is blown up you get the merton effect of Shinra destroying something of their own causing damage to both themselves and Avalanche.

Mertons behind you
Tons of MERpeople, cos you climb up and leave the oceans (and Mr. Dolphin) down below.

This amused me.

[Bubba]

The moment just after you defeat Motorball?

Right before you know how big this world is?

[BG-57]

No to both.

[leader of mortals]

Can anyone confirm that Merton is a mistranslation of Meltdown? I don't really know how I knew that, and I'd like to know if I'm just crazy and/or stupid.

[Sephex]

Can anyone confirm that Merton is a mistranslation of Meltdown? I don't really know how I knew that, and I'd like to know if I'm just crazy and/or stupid.

Yes, you are right. It was an FFVI error.

[BG-57]

However, it means something else in the context of this riddle.

[Jinx]

Hmmmmm.

Corel Town? Barret kind of has a "meltdown" and Golden Saucer is high up, and it's kind of a trouthole.

[BG-57]

Not Corel town.