So I need to buy summons to get the Shiny Materials? Hm...that's not too much of a problem. Thank you.

And my money woes are (temporarily) cured. Somebody else played the mod besides me and they said there are two of this otherwise worthless accessory named Golden Tiara. You find one and another is a rare drop from one of the Vita bosses you fight before going into Chronopolis. I actually looked that up, too whilst playing the game. I wanted to see if the different Vitas were harder and what they gave as rewards. I ended up going with Unus because it dropped Vigora which, judging from how Grobyc and Dark Serge annihilated me with it, seemed very useful.

So I missed out on one Tiara but I got the other one you find in Home Isle of the Damned by having a Wisp blow up near a suit of armor. Very interesting, I never would have thought of that on my own. Anyway, Golden Tiara sells for for 75,000, at least in this! So that's one set of Rainbow armor taken care of once I have the materials. And Serge gets the Mastermune so there's really no point even buying him a Rainbow weapon so that saves me some cash.

And I've never used Grobyc but I think if you find it the game will just say "this looks likeit's for Grobyc" so I just didn't even find it this time around.

Anyway, with my gameplay woes solved, back to the plot. In both my playtrhoughs I don't think I ever found the Lavos stuff in the Dead Sea. That's interesting but sucks I missed it.