In this episode of FFIV, we rest up at Baron Castle and plot a way to enter the Tower of Babil once more, meeting a new party member along the way.

So when we last left off, we suffered a half-party wipe with both Yang and Cid dying to save the Dwarves and ourselves. At the last, Cid told us to head back to Baron.

Unsure of what to expect, we go speak to Cid's engineers.


This way we'll be able to reach our next destination, which is the Cave of Eblan. It's almost as if the engineers knew where I wanted to go next.

We get the upgrades and use the handy hook to retrieve our hovercraft, which is still right up by Mt. Hobs.



Rydia gets nostalgic about the hovercraft, apparently.


We fly southwest to Eblan. Remember how we ransacked Eblan Castle earlier in an optional jaunt? Well turns out the survivors are holed up in a cave not far from the Castle. It kinda makes you wonder how Golbez's forces haven't already found where they live, seeing how they occupy the one cave system in the entire continent here.



Sure enough, here they are, a five minute walk from the cave's entrance.

Cecil and the others restock and talk to the survivors.



I'm guessing we'll bump into this prince soon enough. He sounds nothing like Edward, that's for sure.



See, Eblan Castle fell because they didn't go into the Samurai job class and learn Shirahadori and become immune to all physical damage.

Elsewhere in this little cave, there's an equipment shop where we sell a lot of stuff we no longer need, like staves, claws and hammers that are no longer in use. And there's even an inn, though I'm not sure how many visitors they'd get.

Rested up, we enter the next section of the cave and open a ton of treasures in just two maps.

Once we reached the end...



Harsh burn.

Being the reckless guy he is, Edge enters into combat.



Not seen is Edge automatically using a fire attack against the Autarch of Flame.

This goes about as well as you'd expect.



Rubicante proceeds to flash us with his vulgar body and wreck Edge. He then leaves us to scold Edge for his stupidity. Edge still isn't happy.



Well Rydia isn't having none of that.


This makes Edge reconsider his stance, and he allows us to join him up the Tower of Babil


Rosa cures him.



With only Cura, even though she has Curaja at this point so that tells us how much Rosa values Edge's safety. Rydia is sceptical of this Edge as well.



Spoken by a child who rapidly aged up to be an adult!




Tune in next time as we scale the Tower of Babil once more!