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Ice Cavern



Enemies in this area:
Black Waltz No. 1 (boss)
Cave Imp
Fang
Flan
Goblin <Eat: Goblin Punch>
Mu <Eat: Limit Glove>
Python <Eat: Pumpkin Head>
Sealion (boss)
Wyerd



North Gate You are heading for the Ice Cavern, but take a side trip first.  Call the moogle, Moguo, and save the game.  (There is no Mognet option while on the world map.)  Go northwest of the Ice Cavern, which is just to the southwest of the Evil Forest, and you will find yourself on the Melda Plains.  Enter at the ?, and you will be at the North Gate/Melda Arch.  Go through the broken section of fence to the right and get the Eye Drops, then move up a little and get the Potion.  Go to the gate and choose to listen, and then to call out.  You can buy potions from the woman on the other side of the gate. 

When you're ready, you can go to the Ice Cavern.  If you feel you need to level up before taking it on, run around outside the cavern and get into random battles.  When you feel prepared, save the game again and enter the Ice Cavern. 
After a brief discussion about the Ice Cavern, you will regain control.  Open the chest in front of you for a Tent, and then run up the steps.  In the next screen, go right and examine the icy wall.  Zidane determines that the wall is not solid, and asks Vivi to take care of it for him.  Vivi's fire spell makes short work of the wall, and reveals a chest containing an Ether.

Run back down and go left behind the stairs to get the Potion from the chest you see in the foreground.  Head up the stairs and into the next screen.  Go right and up the ice stalactite to reach another chest with a Potion.  Go back down and examine the stalactite.  Vivi will melt it so that it falls down to the next level, so walk down it to get the Mage Masher.  Go to the upper left and have Vivi melt another wall for an Elixir.  Go north into the next screen, and up to the right for a Phoenix Down.  On the left is another icy wall for Vivi to eliminate.  Run down the path that's revealed and get the Leather Wrist.  Go up into the next area, and then left.
Ice Cavern
Teach Me, Mogster Waiting in this area are a frozen moogle named Mois and another ATE. 

ATE: "Teach Me, Mogster!" Lesson 2
The new options are Status Effects, Elemental Properties, and Card Game.

After Vivi thaws Mois out, get a letter for Gumo, use a tent if necessary, and save the game. 
Go back to the fork and take the right path.  The whole party will be put to sleep, but Zidane will awaken when he hears a bell ringing.  Go up to find the source of the sound.  You will encounter the one who put everybody to sleep - Black Waltz No. 1, whom you must fight.  He will immediately summon Sealion to fight by his side.  Take out Black Waltz first, because he can cast Blizzard on Sealion and heal it.  Steal from both of them to get some very nice equipment (Silk Shirt and Mythril Dagger), and when trance occurs, use Tidal Flame on Sealion.
Black Waltz and Sealion
New identity Go back and talk to the others.  After the brief scene, go back up where you fought the boss battle, and proceed to the top of the cavern.  The Ice Cavern's exit is there, and will lead you to an area above the mist.  The party will see a small village a short distance away.  A conversation takes place, and Princess Garnet takes on a new name.  Then the party starts down the hill.