Chapter 5: Coral Cascades, the Port Town of Brisk and Lavish Lake

Checklist

Coral Cascades: the top

1. This whole area is about working your way down. Waterfalls drop you to the next level and water spouts throw you back up, so nothing is ever out of reach for long.
2. Explore the top level first: the chest behind the waterfall by the save point holds Pirate Garb, better than any armour you have, and there are two Grain plants.
3. The first waterfall leads to the first fight. Croubes look harmless and break easily, but their charged Thunder hits for 50–60. Mangler Fish have a charge that’s very hard to break, leading to Bubble Drop: block as the bubble hits the ground.

Coral Cascades: the three waterfalls

1. Next you come to a row of waterfalls on the right. Only the right one is really needed, but the left one has a couple of pickups.
2. Down the left fall, go left and hug the northern edge, or the current pulls you south. Climb the vines for a Mooncradle Fish Pie, ride the spout up, take the Grain and ride the next spout back to the start.
3. Now take the right waterfall. A turbine sits at the cliff edge: blow wind into it and it shoots a chest over to you with a Rainbow Conch.

4. Go down again. There’s another fight on this level; then walk under the middle waterfall, push north into it and then left to slip behind the scenery. A strip of land there has a chest with 50 gold.
5. Next, ride the fall on the level’s left edge down to the third fight. Afterwards climb the cliff on the right, where grain, berries, a potato and a wind turbine wait; spinning the turbine pops out a chest with Obsidian Ore x2.

Coral Cascades: the beach

1. On the far left there’s a middle area with a thin patch of ground: that’s the way on. Go left to a water spout and ride it up. The ledge to the right overlooks the thin ground; the path to the left only loops back to the start.
2. Leap from the right-hand ledge and the ground caves in, dropping you beside some potatoes and a chest holding another Rainbow Conch.
3. Climb back and take the next waterfall down to the sandy bottom. One of the falls has a picnic basket underneath with a Chaudree.
4. Go left past some potatoes to a save point and a campfire inside a ruined building. Four enemies stand to the north; beat them all.
5. Then solve the light puzzle: light the right symbol first and the left one second, quickly. The big door opens on the combo skill Bash Drop.

6. Back on the beach, go right. The fight ahead is the largest so far, and the exit is just past it.

7. Once you’re done, follow the world map road to the port town of Brisk.

Brisk: the south side

1. A pirate crew is trying to lure someone in as you arrive. Before dealing with them, look around: climb the building near the entrance for a picnic basket with a Mushroom Scramble.
2. Going south, the road forks. The left branch is a dead end with a chest: an easy Rainbow Conch.
3. When you meet the pirates, Yolande and her crew propose a deal, to be settled at the town’s inn, the Humble Boast: a ship in the southeast. The story can wait while you explore.
4. There’s a save point here, and open-air stalls to the right. Buy the recipe from the item merchant without hesitating; you can also sell gems to him.

5. The weapon merchant next to him has nothing new: Rock Lid (44G), Teal Amber Staff (48G), Silver Sword (52G), Guardian Aura (15G), plus the Adamant Shard, Sixth Sense and Truestrike Pendant.

Brisk: the upper town

1. Climb the stairs to the north. They lead to an open area with wooden walkways on both sides, a good place to get your bearings.
2. From the top of those stairs, go left, step onto the wall’s ledge and jump down to a chest with Pirate Garb.
3. Go back to the stairs and head north. The ladder on your left is reached by walking through the house; from it, go south to a chest with a Shiny Pearl.
4. Keep left from there and jump down to a chest with 30 gold.
5. Walk into the house to the north, out on its right side, and north again to the Chump’s Chests house.
6. Chump’s Chests:
   1. Each try costs 5G and lets you open one chest. The contents are random: 10G (the top prize), 2G or nothing.
   2. Five wins in total earn a Rainbow Conch. Save first in case luck is against you.
7. Outside, on the left of his house, a chest holds 50 gold: enough for a few rounds.
8. In the northwest corner is The Golden Pelican, a restaurant that needs a reservation you don’t have yet.

9. From the restaurant, go right, land on the roof below and walk right along the beam to the next house. Drop through its hole for a chest with Sapphire Ore.
10. The hidden room:
    1. From the fountain, take the left-hand staircase to its very top, walk over the wooden bridge and slip into the building through its side.
    2. Walk through it to the far side, where there’s a wooden crate you can move.
    3. Push it south off the ledge, then to the right. Stand on it, go north and follow the back wall of the house to a secret room with a chest: Rainbow Conch.
11. Back at the fountain, take the right staircase up, head southeast and drop to a chest with a Power Belt.
12. Take the rope running southeast across the street, then go south and climb over the rooftops to a chest with an Arcane Amulet (+10 magic defence).

Brisk: roulette, beach and the hidden merchant

1. The house on the main street there runs Bonus Spin Roulette: 10G a guess. After you’ve lost once, a man appears outside who sells you the winning number for 90G. Winning gives Question Pack #2.

2. On a rooftop southeast of the roulette house is a picnic basket with Grains x9.
3. Swim round to the far right of the southeastern beach for Seafood x6, and talk to the children to the south: they give you a Rainbow Conch.
4. The hidden merchant:
   1. Swim to the southern docks, where you met the pirates, and dive under the pier where a man is standing.
   2. Keep swimming north to a hidden cave with a merchant and a chest holding a Rainbow Conch.
   3. He only trades with you if you carry the Trader’s Signet from the Wind Tunnel Mines (Chapter 4).

5. In the southwest, a boy and his father are fishing. The boy asks for 40 Filets; bring them and he gives you a Rainbow Conch. The quickest way to collect that many is the lake just outside town.

Lavish Lake

1. Another fishing spot, with nothing new: Hardshell, Man o’War and Grass Haddock.

2. If you’re working on the 40 Filets, go after the Grass Haddock. Expect to empty the lake at least twice; leaving and coming back restocks it.

The Humble Boast

1. With the town explored, go to the inn, the ship in the southeast. Collect Garl from the back, where he’s swapping tips with the cook, and continue northwest into the scene.
2. It doesn’t go as planned, and the party ends up owing the pirates a favour: recover the Coin of Undeath Accord from a dungeon nearby; it sounds connected to the first story you heard at camp.
3. As you leave, the pirates feel bad about the trick and point you to the Wheels table. They give you the Copper Wheel, the Warrior Figurine and the Mage Figurine, so you can play straight away. Winning the championship match here earns the Archer Figurine. Rules and tips are on the Wheels page.
4. On the world map, head north to the place marked “???”: Chapter 6.