11G: Dust to Dust

11G: Dust to Dust

Stone Mission 27

Exit the elevator and use the save point, then run counter-clockwise around the ring and grab the Ethersole from the Sphere by the jump point, and then run to the center of the zone to use a lift that will raise you up - and trigger a CS in which you confront the Fal'Cie.  Hope wants to take it on   and kill it!

The easiest method for doing that is to stagger it quickly with Tri-Disaster, then damage it using Relentless Assault.  When you are damaged switch to Solidarity - then rinse and repeat with this combination.  You should easily terminate this troublesome Fal'Cie, and then get the CS that follows.

Now head over to the Cie'th stone that is near the inner ring of the platform and flag the next mission.

Stone Mission 27: Mithridates, the Lone

We get a nice cinematic CS of the old boy dying - which is nice - and then we should hit the nearby save point and then jump on the lift and head back to the Apex Tier.  Once there, run to the wing that juts out from the ring and use the jump spot to get on to it, then head to the end and enter the elevator there - This will take us to the next area - a snow swept mountain pass.

Follow the very long path to the bridge and fight your way across, heading down the partial street on the left - where you will find a Treasure Sphere with a nugget of Perovskite which you should grab.  Now continue to fight your way to the end of the street where a shallow branch goes to the left, in which you will find the next mission stone!

Note: The mission below also contains the details of the robot side-mission that, while unconnected, is initiated during this mission.  The details are duplicated below in case you are not following this walkthrough with respect to the missions.

Stone Mission 28: Faded Glory

--- The Repairing Bhakti Side-Mission Info --

If you are not following the Stone Missions as part of the walkthrough, you need to know to:

Head down the sloping street to trigger a CS - then continue along the path and you will come to a building - enter and go up the stairs and you will find some burlap sacks that you can examine - do that to learn that they are stuffed with tools and some other details. There are other things you can examine here - do that until you get a CS of Van being reunited with her robot.

Sazh declares that he can fix this robot - and that triggers the details for the side-mission 'Repairing Bhakti" that instructs you to locate the 5 parts needed to repair him that are all located here in the village.  Excellent!

There is a Treasure Sphere here with a Heavenly Axis in it - grab that and continue on the path, where you will find a mob near the jump points that you want to kill to obtain the first of the 5 parts for the robot side-mission.  You should get the Trochoid Gear from this mob...

--- End of Robot Notes ---

Right, so we have one of the five parts, and we have finished the Stone Mission 28.

Continue along the path here to fight a Vampire and 3 Seekers, then head into the building on the right and fight the Vetala and Chons.  After you defeat them examine the workbench to obtain the Aspheric Lens, which is the second part of five that we need!  Go up to the roof and grab the Pleiades Hi-Powers from one of the Treasure Spheres here, and a Moogle Puppet from the other, and then head back down to the street.

Head up the long flight of stairs to the street above and use the save point, and then enter the building here and fight the trio of Taxim.  Continue up the stairs and on to the roof, cross over to the next area and grab the Flamebane Brooch from the Treasure Sphere here.  In the center of this area is a red swirl - examine it to obtain the Metal Plate (the 3rd part for the Robot Quest).

Head along the tracks and grab the Taming Pole from the Treasure Sphere here, and then backtrack to the building we flagged the robot quest in and head past it to the tank-shaped building on the right.  Go in and grab the battery pack that is inside, and then exit the building and go to the cart beside the wind turbine outside and get the power cable, which is the 5th and final item for this quest.

In addition to the quest there is a Trophy/Achievement associated with this quest - Pulsian Pioneer - that involves having walked 10,000 steps on the lower surface.  If you talk to the robot and you unlock it that means you have walked 10,000 or more steps - if not, then not.  If you do not unlock it, you can try again later - it does not have to happen when you turn in this quest.

Now that we have all 5 pieces let's go see the robot, shall we?

When you return and click on the robot Sazh will fix it and it will roll away - walk up to it and click it again now that it is fixed and, if you have walked 10,000 steps (and really you should have as it counts all of the steps since we arrived in Gran Pulse) it will unlock the Pulsian Pioneer Trophy/Achievement and reward you with 10 Vials of Deseptisol, 2 Ultracompact Reactors,  a Gold Nugget, 5 Vials of Perfume, and 3 Platinum Ingots.  Whew!