Chapter 3 : Torneko and the Extravagant Excavation
Lakanaba
Torneko Taloon wishes to be the greatest arms merchant in the world. He has a wife and son in the small village of Lakanaba and works at a nearby weapon shop. As you wake up, Tessie gives you a Lunch, as she does every day.Search your house for a Leather Hat. Outside your house is a Medicinal Herb and the Item Shop has an Antidotal Herb nearby. Go to the weapon shop to begin your day selling stuff. This tends to bore me after not too long but if you are patient you can earn some good money here, not to mention some people will sell back very useful weapons sometimes even a Cautery Sword. That’s only when you are very lucky, usually it is a Chain Sickle.
Before you leave Lakanaba, get the Leather Shield at the top floor of the armor shop. You probably should not even buy a weapon at this point, just go to the cave north of Lakanaba with your new defensive equipment.
Cave North of Lakanaba
As you enter, go west for the stairs down, then follow the path until you reach a gold button holding the water back. Hit the button then take the north stairs. Don’t hit the next button you see though, grab the Chain Sickle just west of it. See, that’s why we didn’t buy a weapon. You have to hit the button to continue though.
Take the stairs down to the northwest, then go west in the next area to see a gigantic boulder. As you head south, it will follow you. Take the first path east that you see, then go south, west when you can, then north. The boulder falls into the hole and you can follow it for the stairs down.
Push one of the rocks to the west and north before you go grab the Steel Strongbox. This way you can push the rock onto the switch that the safe was on, so that the door opens back up. Then leave back to Lakanaba to rest up.
Foxville
Southeast of Lakanaba is a village inhabited by some weird people. Also a guy named Archie O’Tect is here, make note of this. Don’t buy from the item shop guy but steal his Pile of Horse Manure and Medicinal Herb. Take the Pair of Boxers from the chancellors house and rest up, but when you wake up the village is gone?
Ballymoral
The castle south of Foxville is Ballymoral. At the Inn there is another Leather Shield and the Armor Shop has a Seed of Life. Sell any spare armor you have in the southwest part of the castle for a ton of gold. Weapon Shop has 70 Gold, then be sure to buy a Chimaera Wing from the Item Shop.
The king of Ballymoral is wondering where Archie O’Tect is as he intends to take over Endor when the bridges are repaired. Go to the dungeon in the northeast part of the castle to meet Old Man Finn’s son, Finnegan. Hand over the Chimaera Wing, it will help you later. Then take to the Prince of Ballymoral, Prince Regan. He says to meet him outside the castle at night.
Head back to Lakanaba for a minute. Talk to Finnegan in the northeast and ask for Fido the dog. Take the dog to Foxville and he heads straight for the ‘chancellor’s house’. After some hassling from Fido, the chancellor turns into a fox and the town disappears. He offers a Suit of Full Plate Armor if he can retreat. Let him go, and Archie O Tect will be free too.
Back at Ballymoral, sell that Full Plate Armor for a ton of Gold. Talk to the King and the bridges will be repaired. Then come back here at night and look to the east for Prince Regan. He hands you the Prince’s Letter to give to the Princess of Endor.
Endor
Now you can venture to Endor, but some of the tougher enemies in Torneko Taloon’s Chapter are around here (not saying much though). Inside, you should buy an Astraea’s Abacus, Taloon’s best weapon.
Take the Prince’s Letter and read it to the princess in Endor. King Norman overhears and hands you the Royal Scroll. Take this back to Ballymoral and read it – the two have now formed an alliance, so go back to King Norman in Endor and he says that Torneko Taloon can open a shop now! You only need 35000 Gold to buy the shop in the southwest part of Endor from the old guy. Let’s find out about the Silver Goddess Statue.
Cave of Goddess Statuette
The bridge east of Endor is now open, so you can take that east and all the way north for a cave surrounded by poison. Take the raft east as you enter and fall down the hole.
Now you are walking on the ground level going east (look north for a Chimaera Wing). Take the southeast stairs to reach the B1 floor. Travel west and north here for a gold switch on the floor that reduces the water to the 2F floor instead of 1F.
Time to grab all the chests on 1F now that the water is gone. Go down the steps in the center, then head south for a Medicinal Herb. The center chest has 760 Gold. Northeast of here for an Antidotal Herb and Chimaera Wing. Raid the rest of the floor for Holy Lance and Iron Lance. Then take the far west stairs going down. The stairs up allow you to leave.
The stairs down though lead you to the B3 which you can now use the raft to get around on. An Iron Armour and Steel Broadsword await you down here, along with stairs in the north-center part that lead down. Take these for the Silver Goddess Statue.
Now make your way out of this cave and be thankful that there in no inventory limit like in Dragon Warrior IV! Even if you maxed Taloon’s inventory you can still put the rest of the stuff in your bag.
Any defensive equipment go to Ballymoral and sell for massive Gold. Then return to Endor to sell the Silver Goddess Statue to the rich guy in the east part of town (2nd floor). He pays a whopping 25000 Gold for it. We should be getting very close to 35000 Gold especially considering all of the inevitable item drops in Taloon’s journey.
Taloon’s Endor Shop
Now that you have a shop, your wife and kid come to live in Endor. You can buy any item, weapon or armor and sell that back at your shop for 150% the price that it normally is. Quite a deal! Not sure how people buy it, but people do; you just have to spend the night at the Inn or talk to your wife to stay the night. Not all of the inventory at your shop will sell, so it’s a good idea to get as much stuff as you can and then talk to your wife 3 or 4 times to rest for 3 or 4 nights straight to clear inventory and get as much Gold as possible.
Another method is to talk with the king who would like you to outfit his army. He requires a certain amount of weapons and armor and you will then have 60000 Gold if you just want to do it that way though I prefer just selling stuff at your shop to accumulate far more than 60000 Gold. With the extra money you can max out Torneko Taloon’s inventory with many Abaci of Virtue to sell later on in the game.
The idea is to gain 60000 Gold to be able to help the old guy to the east with his excavation project. After you hand him the money, leave the cave and return immediately to see the excavation has begun already. The old guy says he will send you a letter when it is finished, so return to Endor for now.
Speak with your wife. She says the Casino is finally open for the first time in Taloon’s chapter. Things are more expensive here this time around since Torneko Taloon can farm Gold at will. All you have to do is enter the Casino, you don’t have to gamble.
But enter and then head back to your shop – turns out your wife got the letter from the old man – the excavation project has been completed! Of course Taloon tells his wife he wants to travel through the tunnel in search of treasures and in general being the best Arms Merchant in all the land. So fill up your inventory with expensive weapons / armor, then head through the tunnel. Torneko Taloon’s Chapter comes to a close.