You are are in luck, I am a total FFVI master and happen to have a wicked apple pie recipe as well if you are interested.

Here's the order of events to get out of South Figaro:
1) Steal the merchant's clothes in the item shop to pass the kid in the basement of the old man's house.
2) Steal the green soldier's clothes on the upper walkway that wraps around town and relieve the soldier of duty that's standing guard south of the mansion.
3) Go to the inn and steal the clothes from the merchant staying in one of the rooms.
4) Go to the basement of the pub and beat the merchant's face in and you will take his cider.
5) Return to the old man and give him his cider and he will tell you about the password to take the secret passage.

And the adventure continues...

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