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Chapter 2: Moonflow, Guadosalam, Thunder Plains and Macalania

Story mode. Written for a first playthrough and kept free of spoilers — it will not tell you what happens here, only what the game is asking of you.

15 things here are lost permanently, and 2 more you can get another of later. Everything below is worth taking as you pass it. The completionist tab lists every one of them with the exact moment it stops being obtainable.

Chapter 2 hands you the whole map and a list of hotspots. This stretch of it runs north from the river to the woods, and every stop has a small job. None of them are long. Do them all on this pass, because the game does not hold them open for you.

The Moonflow: sell the tickets

There is nothing to open on the riverbank this time. Find Tobli on the south bank and agree to help him. He gives you ten concert tickets to sell to people along both banks and the road up to Guadosalam.

You get one pitch per person, and anyone who thinks you are asking too much walks off. Save at the Save Sphere before you start, and reload if a sale goes wrong. Six sales finish the job, but sell all ten. The people who pay best are the ones standing around the docks and on the road ends; the man on the bench and the sleepy guard are bad customers.

Go back to Tobli when you are done. He pays you in gil and a garment grid, plus an accessory if his job last chapter went well.

Guadosalam

Walk up to the big house at the top of town and let the guards turn you away. That short scene is worth having now.

The man behind the inn counter will sell you “data” for 10,000 gil if you ask. Someone in town will buy it back for a lot more. Who changes each time, so save first and reload if you get a poor price. It is easy money.

Thunder Plains: tune the towers

Talk to the Al Bhed standing by the first tower and offer to help. Each of the ten towers is a short button game: Rikku’s show you what to press, Paine’s drop buttons you hit as they land, and Yuna’s make you repeat a pattern from memory. The last one wants it backwards.

Save before each tower and aim for a perfect run every time. It is worth the reloads. When all ten are done, the technician inside the Travel Agency has a garment grid for you.

There are six chests out here, three in each half of the plains, all in plain sight near the towers. If you see Cid sitting by himself, talk to him.

Macalania Woods: find the band

A Hypello at the entrance is waving for help. Say yes. The band’s leader is at the spring, and the other two are hidden inside rings of blue butterflies along the shimmering path. Walk into the rings.

Look for three more butterfly rings near the spring before you finish — they hide tiny extra band members, and the full set pays off later. When the band is back together, the leader gives you an accessory, and the Hypello at the entrance has a garment grid if you go back and talk to him.

Two chests sit along the shimmering path north of the entrance, and a third is by the Travel Agency down at the lake. If the game asks whether you want to leave the woods while you are still busy, say no.

Worth doing on a first run

No chests on the Moonflow this chapterreferenceThe riverbank has nothing to open in Chapter 2. Everything here comes from Tobli's job.
Scene: Tobli's ticket problemsceneTobli is on the south bank. Talk to him and agree to help. His opening line changes depending on how his Chapter 1 job went. Counts toward Story Completion.
Mission: YRP, the Scalpers Three!sidequestSell ten concert tickets to people along both banks and the road to Guadosalam. You get one pitch per buyer and a buyer who thinks your price is too high walks away, so save first. Six sales finish the mission; sell all ten. Tickets cost you 500 gil each if you spoke to Tobli before his Hypello in Chapter 1, 1,000 if you did not. The best ten buyers pay 1,000–2,000 each, about 11,500–12,500 gil profit at the cheaper cost.
Seething Cauldrongarment-gridTobli's prize for six or more sales. With fewer than ten sales you only get it if you turned a profit; with all ten you get it either way.
Muscle BeltaccessoryExtra prize for selling all ten, if you finished "Shave the Hypello?" in Chapter 1.
Gun Mage (catch-up)dressphereOnly if you never finished "Shave the Hypello?" in Chapter 1. Tobli hands it over with your ticket prize instead of the Muscle Belt. If you already have Gun Mage, ignore this.
Scene: turned away at the mansionsceneWalk up to the big house at the top of town. The guards at the door turn you away and a short scene plays. Counts toward Story Completion. Trigger it now, on the first visit.
"Got any data?"sidequestAsk the man behind the inn counter and he sells you "valuable data" for 10,000 gil. One person in town will buy it back for 25,000–100,000. Who it is changes each time, and asking the wrong people lowers the price. Save first, then reload until the payout is worth it. Pure profit: put it toward O'aka's debt.
Echo Screen x4itemSouth section, behind the first Cactuar stone.
Potion x3itemSouth section, northwest of Tower 3.
Pearl NecklaceaccessorySouth section, near the exit to the Travel Agency.
Calibrate the ten lightning towerssidequestTalk to the Al Bhed by the first tower in the south section and offer to help. Each tower is a 30-press button game with three mistakes allowed. Rikku's towers (1, 4, 7) show the button to press; Paine's (2, 5, 8) drop buttons you hit as they land; Yuna's (3, 6, 9, 10) make you repeat a pattern, and Tower 10 asks for it backwards. The south towers are easier. Aim for 30 out of 30 on every one.
Samurai's Honorgarment-gridTalk to the Al Bhed technician inside the Travel Agency once the towers are done.
Silence Grenade x2itemNorth section, west of Tower 6.
Ether x2itemNorth section, along the east edge between Towers 7 and 8.
Phoenix Down x2itemNorth section, southeast of Tower 9.
Mission: Track Down the Troupe!sidequestTalk to the waving Hypello at the Thunder Plains entrance and say yes. Bayra, the musician in blue, waits at the spring. The other two are hidden in rings of blue butterflies: Donga at the split on the shimmering path, Pukutak down the lower path past the Guado who points toward Bevelle. Step into each ring. Say "No" if the game asks whether you want to leave the woods.
Three hidden mini musicianssidequestOptional butterfly rings: two near Bayra's spring (upper left and lower left) and one up the branch path off the lower left. Each reveals a tiny band member. Finding all three is said to earn a garment grid in Chapter 3. Do them before you find Donga and Pukutak, since that warps you back to Bayra.
Haste BangleaccessoryBayra's reward once Donga and Pukutak are found.
Bitter Farewellgarment-gridGo back to the Hypello at the Thunder Plains entrance after Bayra pays you. Easy to forget.
Scene: the band reunitedscenePlays when the troupe is complete. Counts toward Story Completion, along with the woods' automatic scenes.
Silver BraceraccessoryOn the shimmering path north of the entrance: at the split in its second stretch, take the left branch to the dead end.
Icy GleamaccessoryPast the Silver Bracer, on the main tree path near the top curve of the figure-eight.
Hi-Potion x2itemIn front of the Travel Agency by the lake.

How this page was made

Researched across 8 community walkthroughs and written from scratch — no source’s wording appears here.

How we decide what to print

Completionist mode. Full spoilers, in play order, with every permanent loss called out before you reach it. 5 entries below are marked where our sources disagree with each other — we have not picked a winner for you.

15 things here are lost permanently, and 2 more you can get another of later. Point of no return: Every job, scene and reward on this page closes when Chapter 2 ends with the Bevelle mission. That includes YRP's ticket sales (which decide the Chapter 5 Moonflow episode), the tower calibrations (whose scores decide the Chapter 5 tower chests, Ribbon included; whether they stay open into Chapter 3 is disputed, so treat this chapter as the only chance), Track Down the Troupe and the last chance to clear O'aka's debt. Unopened chests carry forward until a later chapter replaces them. Everything is listed on the missables page.

Spoilers from here.

Everything on this page is Chapter 2 only. The chapter ends at Bevelle with Bahamut, and when it does, these close for good:

YRP’s ticket sales. All ten sold is what unlocks the Moonflow episode in Chapter 5.
The tower calibrations. Each tower’s score sets what its Chapter 5 chest holds, and a perfect 30 on Tower 10 is the Ribbon.
O’aka’s debt. Clear it now; a Chapter 5 Macalania scene depends on it.
Track Down the Troupe, its two rewards and the three hidden musicians.
Full Throttle from Tromell, if you missed it in Chapter 1.
The Story Completion scenes listed below.

Chests are different. An unopened chest carries forward until a later chapter replaces it, so a missed Ether is not a crisis. Still, take them now.

The Moonflow: YRP, the Scalpers Three!

No chests on the river this chapter. Tobli is on the south bank; talking to him and agreeing to help is the Story Completion line.

Your cost per ticket depends on Chapter 1: 500 gil if you spoke to Tobli before his Hypello in “Shave the Hypello?”, 1,000 if you did not. You get one pitch per buyer. Ask more than they will pay and they walk, so save first.

The best ten buyers, roughly south to north:

Al Bhed woman in pink at the Djose end of the south road — 1,500
Woman in the red headband before Tobli — 1,500
Woman in yellow and orange across from the Save Sphere — 1,500
Person sitting on the southern dock steps — 1,500
Man in green in the southwest corner of the southern dock — 2,000
Child beside the Hypello on the northern dock — 2,000
Woman (yellow dress) at the top of the northern dock ramp — 2,000
Woman in green across from the bench on the north wharf — 2,000
Man in blue and yellow on the left of the road to Guadosalam — 1,500
Woman standing beside a child, north of Tobli — 1,000

That is about 11,500 gil profit at the 500-gil cost. Avoid the man in yellow and brown on the south road (200), the man on the Save Sphere bench (1,000) and the sleeping guard on the north wharf (500). The man talking to an older woman by the Guadosalam entrance is the one buyer the guides cannot agree on — one prices him at 2,000, another at 500. Save, try him at 2,000 before the woman with the child, and reload if he walks; if he pays, profit is about 12,500.

Sell all ten. Six closes the mission; only ten unlocks the Chapter 5 episode. Selling at a loss does not matter.

Tobli’s prizes:

Seething Cauldron for six or more sales — with fewer than ten only if you made a profit, with ten either way.
Muscle Belt as well for ten sales, if you finished “Shave the Hypello?”.
Gun Mage in place of the Muscle Belt if you never finished his Chapter 1 job. That is the catch-up copy.

Guadosalam

Walk to the mansion at the top of town. The guards turn you away: that scene is a Story Completion line, and you will not get another first visit.

The data broker is the best gil in Chapter 2. Ask the man behind the inn counter “Got any data?” and pay 10,000 gil. One person in town will buy it for 25,000–100,000, and who that is is random each time; every wrong person you pitch to knocks the price down. Save before you ask him, try his hints, and reload until you land the 100,000 buyer. Put the profit straight into O’aka.

O’aka’s debt (the Celsius)

If you hid O’aka on the Celsius in Chapter 1, he is in the cabin with a 100,000 gil debt, and every gil you spend at his counter pays it down. The quick route is to buy 99 Phoenix Downs, sell them to the Barkeep and repeat; you lose roughly three quarters each round, so the data broker’s money is what makes this painless.

Clear it in Chapter 2. One source says Chapter 3 still works; the rest say it must be done before the chapter ends, and nothing is lost by doing it now. Once it is paid, his prices fall to about a tenth for the rest of the game.

Thunder Plains

Cid

If Cid sulks here, he is east of the Save Sphere in the south section. Talk to him; it is a Story Completion line. Most sources tie this to answering “You bet I do!” at Zanarkand in Chapter 1 — if you said otherwise he turns up in Chapter 3 to apologise instead, and that counts in its place. One guide has the answers the other way round.

The towers

Talk to the Al Bhed by the first tower and offer to help. Each tower is 30 button presses with three mistakes allowed:

Rikku (Towers 1, 4, 7): press the button shown.
Paine (Towers 2, 5, 8): hit the buttons as they fall.
Yuna (Towers 3, 6, 9, 10): repeat the sequence from memory. Tower 10 wants it in reverse.

The south five are easier than the north five. Save before every tower and reload anything short of 30. In Chapter 5 you fight a fiend at each tower and it leaves a chest whose contents follow your score here, in brackets of 0–5, 6–14, 15–24, 25–29 and 30. Tower 10 at 30 is the Ribbon; anything less is a Tetra accessory. Your best run at each tower is what counts. Accounts differ on whether the towers stay open into Chapter 3 for another try or close when this chapter ends — get your 30s now and the question never matters.

When you are done, the technician in the Travel Agency gives you Samurai’s Honor. Guides disagree on the condition — every tower once, five finished plus all ten attempted, or five perfects — and ten perfects meets all of them.

Chests, three per half:

South: Echo Screen x4 behind the first Cactuar stone, Potion x3 northwest of Tower 3, Pearl Necklace by the exit to the Travel Agency.
North: Silence Grenade x2 west of Tower 6, Ether x2 on the east edge between Towers 7 and 8, Phoenix Down x2 southeast of Tower 9.

Macalania Woods: Track Down the Troupe!

Talk to the waving Hypello at the Thunder Plains entrance and agree. Bayra is at the spring at the top of the woods.

Before chasing the two missing musicians, find the three hidden mini musicians: butterfly rings at the upper left and lower left of Bayra’s spring, and a third up the branch path off the lower left. One guide says finding all three unlocks a garment grid in Chapter 3. Do them first, because finding the second required musician warps you back to Bayra.

Then the required two:

Donga — the butterfly ring at the split on the shimmering path.
Pukutak — follow the shimmering path toward the Thunder Plains end, go right past the Guado on the path to Bevelle, and take the lower path at the crossroads.

Bayra pays out the Haste Bangle. Then walk back to the Hypello at the entrance for Bitter Farewell — it is the half of this people forget. If the game asks whether you want to leave Macalania, say no until you are finished.

Chests: Silver Bracer at the left dead end of the shimmering path’s second split, Icy Gleam near the top curve of the figure-eight tree path, and Hi-Potion x2 in front of the Travel Agency at the lake.

Tromell and Full Throttle

If you missed Full Throttle in Chapter 1, talk to Tromell by the spring four times and he still hands it over. Two guides agree on this catch-up; one treats Chapter 1 as the only chance, so do not leave it past Chapter 2. His Chapter 1 Story Completion lines do not come back.

If O’aka went to the Al Bhed

If you handed O’aka over in Chapter 1, the lakeside agency is an Al Bhed shop now, and its Icy Gleam and White Ring stock is worth a look. The Al Bhed woman outside it gives an Al Bhed Primer if you did not collect it in Chapter 1.

Everything in this area

Moonflow

No chests on the Moonflow this chapterreferenceThe riverbank has nothing to open in Chapter 2. Everything here comes from Tobli's job.
Scene: Tobli's ticket problemMissablesceneTobli is on the south bank. Talk to him and agree to help. His opening line changes depending on how his Chapter 1 job went. Counts toward Story Completion.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Mission: YRP, the Scalpers Three!MissablesidequestSell ten concert tickets to people along both banks and the road to Guadosalam. You get one pitch per buyer and a buyer who thinks your price is too high walks away, so save first. Six sales finish the mission; sell all ten. Tickets cost you 500 gil each if you spoke to Tobli before his Hypello in Chapter 1, 1,000 if you did not. The best ten buyers pay 1,000–2,000 each, about 11,500–12,500 gil profit at the cheaper cost.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Sell all ten ticketsMissableprogressionSix sales close the mission but only ten unlock the Chapter 5 Moonflow episode and the Muscle Belt. Selling at a loss still counts; selling fewer than ten does not. Reload if a pitch fails.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Seething CauldronMissablegarment-gridTobli's prize for six or more sales. With fewer than ten sales you only get it if you turned a profit; with all ten you get it either way.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Muscle BeltMissableaccessoryExtra prize for selling all ten, if you finished "Shave the Hypello?" in Chapter 1.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Gun Mage (catch-up)dressphereOnly if you never finished "Shave the Hypello?" in Chapter 1. Tobli hands it over with your ticket prize instead of the Muscle Belt. If you already have Gun Mage, ignore this.
Moonflow completereferenceTicking the location off adds nothing on its own. The ticket job is what counts.

Guadosalam

Scene: turned away at the mansionMissablesceneWalk up to the big house at the top of town. The guards at the door turn you away and a short scene plays. Counts toward Story Completion. Trigger it now, on the first visit.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
"Got any data?"sidequestAsk the man behind the inn counter and he sells you "valuable data" for 10,000 gil. One person in town will buy it back for 25,000–100,000. Who it is changes each time, and asking the wrong people lowers the price. Save first, then reload until the payout is worth it. Pure profit: put it toward O'aka's debt.

Aboard the Celsius

Clear O'aka's debtMissableSources disagreesidequestOnly if O'aka is aboard. Every gil you spend at his shop comes off his 100,000 gil debt. The fast way: buy 99 Phoenix Downs from him, sell them to the Barkeep, repeat. You lose most of each round, so do it with a full purse. Once it is cleared his prices drop to about a tenth for the rest of the game, and a Chapter 5 Macalania scene depends on it.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.Sources disagree: Most sources set the deadline at the end of Chapter 2; one says it can still be paid off in Chapter 3. Clear it in Chapter 2.

Thunder Plains

Scene: Cid sulkingCopy missableSources disagreesceneSouth section, east of the Save Sphere, by himself. Talk to him. Counts toward Story Completion.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.Get another: If he is not here, he turns up in Chapter 3 instead to apologise. That version counts in his place.Sources disagree: Two sources say he appears here if you told him "You bet I do!" at Zanarkand in Chapter 1; one says the opposite answer.
Echo Screen x4itemSouth section, behind the first Cactuar stone.
Potion x3itemSouth section, northwest of Tower 3.
Pearl NecklaceaccessorySouth section, near the exit to the Travel Agency.
Calibrate the ten lightning towersMissablesidequestTalk to the Al Bhed by the first tower in the south section and offer to help. Each tower is a 30-press button game with three mistakes allowed. Rikku's towers (1, 4, 7) show the button to press; Paine's (2, 5, 8) drop buttons you hit as they land; Yuna's (3, 6, 9, 10) make you repeat a pattern, and Tower 10 asks for it backwards. The south towers are easier. Aim for 30 out of 30 on every one.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Perfect tower scoresMissableSources disagreereferenceEach tower's score sets the chest a fiend leaves at that tower in Chapter 5. A perfect 30 on Tower 10 is what earns the Ribbon there; lower scores give Tetra accessories. Your best run at each tower is what counts. Do them perfectly now: save before each tower and reload a bad run.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.Sources disagree: Accounts differ on whether the towers can still be calibrated in Chapter 3, with the best score from Chapters 2 and 3 counting, or close for good when Chapter 2 ends.
Samurai's HonorMissableSources disagreegarment-gridTalk to the Al Bhed technician inside the Travel Agency once the towers are done.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.Sources disagree: Sources disagree on the requirement: calibrate every tower once; finish five and attempt all ten; or score at least five perfects. Doing all ten perfectly satisfies all three.
Silence Grenade x2itemNorth section, west of Tower 6.
Ether x2itemNorth section, along the east edge between Towers 7 and 8.
Phoenix Down x2itemNorth section, southeast of Tower 9.

Macalania Woods

Mission: Track Down the Troupe!MissablesidequestTalk to the waving Hypello at the Thunder Plains entrance and say yes. Bayra, the musician in blue, waits at the spring. The other two are hidden in rings of blue butterflies: Donga at the split on the shimmering path, Pukutak down the lower path past the Guado who points toward Bevelle. Step into each ring. Say "No" if the game asks whether you want to leave the woods.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Three hidden mini musiciansMissableUnconfirmedsidequestOptional butterfly rings: two near Bayra's spring (upper left and lower left) and one up the branch path off the lower left. Each reveals a tiny band member. Finding all three is said to earn a garment grid in Chapter 3. Do them before you find Donga and Pukutak, since that warps you back to Bayra.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Haste BangleMissableaccessoryBayra's reward once Donga and Pukutak are found.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Bitter FarewellMissablegarment-gridGo back to the Hypello at the Thunder Plains entrance after Bayra pays you. Easy to forget.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Scene: the band reunitedMissablescenePlays when the troupe is complete. Counts toward Story Completion, along with the woods' automatic scenes.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.
Silver BraceraccessoryOn the shimmering path north of the entrance: at the split in its second stretch, take the left branch to the dead end.
Icy GleamaccessoryPast the Silver Bracer, on the main tree path near the top curve of the figure-eight.
Full Throttle: last chance (Tromell)Sources disagreereferenceOnly if you do not have it yet: talk to Tromell by the spring four times for Full Throttle and the Unerring Path grid. It is checked off on the Chapter 1 Macalania list and is gone after Chapter 2. His Chapter 1 scenes do not come back.Sources disagree: One missables list treats Chapter 1 as the only chance. Several walkthroughs, including that guide's own Chapter 2 page, say four talks at the spring in Chapter 2 still give it.

Lake Macalania

Hi-Potion x2itemIn front of the Travel Agency by the lake.
Al Bhed Primer (Al Bhed shop)Copy missableUnconfirmedcollectibleOnly if you handed O'aka over in Chapter 1, which turns the lakeside agency into an Al Bhed shop. Talk to the Al Bhed woman outside it if you did not take the primer in Chapter 1.Lost after: The end of Chapter 2.Get another: Missed primers can be dug up in the Bikanel Desert, up to the final battle.

How this page was made

Researched across 16 community walkthroughs and written from scratch — no source’s wording appears here. 5 are marked where sources disagree with each other — we have not picked a winner for you.

How we decide what to print