Exchord | Baten Kaitos Origins - Mourning Mistral Skip @Exchord | Uploaded December 2015 | Updated October 2024, 13 minutes ago.
This trick allows you to enter the Lava Caves before revealing the Mourning Mistral, and - if combined with the trick to cross Nihal Desert early - before ever going to Greater Mintaka. The cutscene that plays the first time you enter the Lava Caves advances the story, allowing you to skip Olgan's funeral, the speeches in the plaza, meeting Verus, talking to the people in Azha, and the notoriously boring Mourning Mistral investigation.
This would be a dead end if it wasn't for the little sidequest involving eau de mouche. Since you can only get one at a time, you'll have to enter the caves twice.
Store three travel logs on the Alfard map and head to the room before the Lava Caves. Inspect something that triggers exactly two textboxes (like the bed or the red and blue pipes). Then close one travel log. Enter the zone that triggers the guards' text and close another travel log immediately. Open and close the camp screen to trigger the second textbox from the object you inspected, and clear that textbox to gain control. You can now walk through the gate and enter the caves.
After the Lava Caves cutscene ends, the latest entry will change and the section "Older Entries III" will be added.
You can now use the remaining travel log to bypass the steam. Simply inspect the censer, close the log, walk into the steam immediately, and press B to gain control. For some reason, this only works if you have exactly one travel log open. If there are more, you can't get past the steam. You can also use this to get Diamond Drop and Twin Ice Auger without eau de mouche, but only after getting rid of the steam on the first screen.
You can also get past the guards with just one travel log (at the cost of leaving Azha one more time for travel log storage). Inspect something that has a magnus coupon or mix recipe on it, close the log, then walk into the guards' trigger zone and press A immediately.
Depending on how early you enter the Lava Caves, you may not be able to obtain the Machina Communicator (which is the most useless item anyway) and the second set of blank magnus. The last set, which you get after Sadal Suud, will then be in the second row.
Other side effects:
If you go to the plaza in Greater Mintaka and talk to the little boy, he will give you the mysterious "Metal Device", which you can't discard or use for anything. Also, Almarde and Milly will be sitting at the table in Azha for the rest of the game (?), and the guards will keep stopping you from entering the Lava Caves (though they're doing a terrible job at it).
This trick allows you to enter the Lava Caves before revealing the Mourning Mistral, and - if combined with the trick to cross Nihal Desert early - before ever going to Greater Mintaka. The cutscene that plays the first time you enter the Lava Caves advances the story, allowing you to skip Olgan's funeral, the speeches in the plaza, meeting Verus, talking to the people in Azha, and the notoriously boring Mourning Mistral investigation.
This would be a dead end if it wasn't for the little sidequest involving eau de mouche. Since you can only get one at a time, you'll have to enter the caves twice.
Store three travel logs on the Alfard map and head to the room before the Lava Caves. Inspect something that triggers exactly two textboxes (like the bed or the red and blue pipes). Then close one travel log. Enter the zone that triggers the guards' text and close another travel log immediately. Open and close the camp screen to trigger the second textbox from the object you inspected, and clear that textbox to gain control. You can now walk through the gate and enter the caves.
After the Lava Caves cutscene ends, the latest entry will change and the section "Older Entries III" will be added.
You can now use the remaining travel log to bypass the steam. Simply inspect the censer, close the log, walk into the steam immediately, and press B to gain control. For some reason, this only works if you have exactly one travel log open. If there are more, you can't get past the steam. You can also use this to get Diamond Drop and Twin Ice Auger without eau de mouche, but only after getting rid of the steam on the first screen.
You can also get past the guards with just one travel log (at the cost of leaving Azha one more time for travel log storage). Inspect something that has a magnus coupon or mix recipe on it, close the log, then walk into the guards' trigger zone and press A immediately.
Depending on how early you enter the Lava Caves, you may not be able to obtain the Machina Communicator (which is the most useless item anyway) and the second set of blank magnus. The last set, which you get after Sadal Suud, will then be in the second row.
Other side effects:
If you go to the plaza in Greater Mintaka and talk to the little boy, he will give you the mysterious "Metal Device", which you can't discard or use for anything. Also, Almarde and Milly will be sitting at the table in Azha for the rest of the game (?), and the guards will keep stopping you from entering the Lava Caves (though they're doing a terrible job at it).
