Chrono Trigger - Ch. 17 - Unnatural Selection?
0CHAPTER 17 - UNNATURAL SELECTION?
You'll have Ayla in your party no matter what for this chapter, although you can pick the third member if you wish. You can take her to the End of Time to meet Spekkio if you want, but she won't be able to learn magic since she predates its existence on the planet. Stop by the trader hut to pick up the best weapons and armor available if you haven't already, and fly your dactyl into the Tyrano Lair to move on. Since this is your first time when you're able to fly, I think I'll just point out that you can press select to view the world map to get your bearings, and there's a sun keep you reach to the northeast of the map although you can't do anything there yet. The Tyrano Lair is the silver building in the middle of the continent.
I'd recommend equipping the rage band on Ayla, and the Silver Stud on Crono to make lightning attacks more affordable. Frog and Robo probably have some good multi-heal techs at this point, or you could rely on Marle. Anyway, clear out the first room of enemies and enter the right skull to go down some stairs. Fight some reptites in the next room, and you can open the jail cell to free some prisoners or not, Kino will open it later anyway. Fight a couple more sets of reptites, and Ayla will bust Kino out, grab the Mid Ether in his cell then follow him to the entrance and he'll open up the left skull in the entrance hall so you can move on.
Step on the switches on either side to send the monsters tumbling to a lower level so you don't have to fight them. Head down the right path and through a door to find two eggs. The left one has a Full Tonic, and the right one will send you back inside the old jail cell where the monsters who you made fall down earlier will be waiting for you, and you'll have to climb back up. One word on fighting the monsters, shock the Terrasaurs, and attack the volcanoes to make them erupt damage on all the monsters on their own side.
To get the Meso Mail, walk onto the circled teleport. Go down the left path and through a door to find a room full of teleports. Standing on some of the squares will get you into fights with monsters, and some will transport you around the room. The only two items worth having are the CeraTopper helmet and Meso Mail, the other treasures in this room are Tonic and Revive, so once you have those you can move on. Just experiment and try stepping on each square if you're having problems finding them. Go through a room and past a sealed door, to find a room with two switches. The left one will send in some monsters to fight you, and the right one will open the skull so you can flip a switch to open the sealed door.
Head through the sealed door, talk to Nizbel II if you like, and save or use a shelter. If you try to head North, Nizbel the second will challenge you to a fight.
Nizbel II is pretty easy. If you focus Crono and Ayla completely on casting Volt Bites and have your third character heal whenever needed, you'll save MP while taking him down in just a few hits. By the end of the fight, you'll probably see hits of over 1400 damage!
Save and heal once you've beaten him, and head up and through another area with a sealed door. Enter the right passage to find three switches. The center switch will make a save point appear, the right switch will make two terrasaurs appear, and the left switch will make a hole appear where the terrasaurs and the save point would appear. If you fall in either of the holes you'll end up in the previous room next to a sealed door, with possibly the terrasaurs for company.
You can go straight through the skull, grab the Full Ether in the egg and flip the switch in the back to open the sealed door. Head through the center door to meet Azala in her throne room. Pick up the Mid Ether and CeraTopper helmet once she's done talking, and make sure to equip it. Head into the back and prepare to fight Azala and the Black Tyrano.
First of all, make sure you're wearing Ruby Vests on all three characters. Note that the Black Tyrano is mostly fire based, so he won't be dealing much damage to your party if you have the equipment. Second, Azala is weak to lightning, and the Tyrano is weak to physical (once his defense is down).
Concentrate your attacks on Azala to begin with because the Black Tyrano won't have lowered its defense and it has almost four times as much HP. Azala is weak against lightning and most magic. Physical damage doesn't seem to have too much of an effect on her. After you defeat her you can focus on the Black Tyrano.
After you finish off the Black Tyrano, something will crash to Earth and Ayla will name it Lavos (La=Fire, Vos=Big). Azala will stay behind to be wiped out with the reptites, and Crono and company will explore the wreckage to find another time gate, guessing that the intense energy Lavos gives off distorts time and creates time gates. Your party will enter the gate to travel to 12,000 B.C., and wind up in the next chapter.
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