Card Quests
Last Updated: July 24, 2000
by Tegrenath
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There are several card-related side quests in the game. All are optional, but necessary if you want to gain all the cards. So here they are.
The CC Card Group of Balamb Garden
The PuPu Card
The Card Queen
CC Card Group of Balamb Garden
You'll hear a lot about the famed CC card group at Balamb Garden, but you won't know who they are or be able to challenge them until you meet a certain simple requirement. It's not quite certain what this exact requirement is, but it's so simple you'd most likely achieve it by the second or third disc without even knowing it. In case you're interested to know what I believe this requirement to be, it's that you must play (and win) an unspecified amount of card games.
The first member of the group, CC Jack, shows up in the Garden's Lobby. You'll simply have to beat him once, and the remainder of the CC card members will reveal themselves to you one by one. The hard part is finding out who the members are, because quite a few of them are familiar faces (they don't just suddenly pop up in a noticeable way).
You must play all members in this order, after Jack.
Card Knight Club - Seen walking from either Parking Lot or Cafeteria, in the back hallways of the Garden.
Card Princess Diamond - Diamond actually consists of two people. It's the two girls that are usually seen talking in front of the map in the main lobby.
Card Prince Spade - He's found on the bridge right outside the elevator on the second floor, standing next to Member 109.
Card Queen Heart - This is Xu. She'll be standing on the pilot deck, where she always is. Xu is where the computer intelligence shoots up to a very high level. She's also got the Carbuncle card.
Card Master King - The leader of the group, King is very hard to find because you don't find her, she finds you. If you try to play cards with Dr. Kadowaki, she'll reveal that she used to be the King, but passed on the position to someone else, saying only that you'll meet her "soon enough." All you need to do to get the King to challenge you is to go to your dorm room and rest a lot. The King appears randomly, so you may have to do it several times. Be sure to save first, because there's no time once she wakes you up and challenges you to a game. The King also has Gilgamesh.
There is one additional member of the CC group that you do not have to play in order. (He can be played at any time, after Jack.) He is the Card Magician Joker, who is said to have a "mysterious ability." Well, he is none other than the Man from Balamb, the guy who sells you things in the Training Center. If you beat him (and he's not that hard), he'll add the "GF Report" submenu in the Tutorial-Information section, where you'll be able to check how many times each GF killed an enemy and how many times it has been KO'd.
After beating each CC member once, you'll be able to challenge them as regular players in the future. If you're missing any boss cards, you can win them from most of the CC members.
Card Levels of CC Members Player ...has card levels of:
Card Knight Club 3, 5, 6
Card Princess Diamond 3-5, 7
Card Knight Spade 3, 4, 6, 7
Card Queen Heart 3, 5-7, Carbuncle
Card Master King 1-3, 5, 6, Gilgamesh
Card Magician Joker 2, 3, 5, 7, Leviathan
But Wait! There's More!
One of the best rewards for defeating the CC Card Group is that in Disc 4, you will be able to play them and win any rare card you wish from them. If you do not mind the wait, you can actually skip the harder Card Queen Quest and wait until Disc 4 to simply win the new rare cards from the group.
The PuPu Card
The only rare Monster card in the whole pack is the PuPu card, which fills up the 4th slot on the level 5 card page. There's a whole quest involved in the finding of just this one card -- and it's a wacky one at that. Here's how you gotta do it.
There are four locations around the world where you might enter into battle but instead of fighting an enemy, you'll see a UFO fly by. You might've seen one already but not know what it was for. These four locations are:
Outside of Winhill town.
Mandy Beach, just northeast of the town of Timber.
The island of the tip of Heath Peninsula (easternmost side of Trabia continent).
Kashkabald Desert, the large sandy region southeast of Centra continent.
You won't be able to get to all four of these locations until Disc Three. Once you do see all four UFO sites, fly the Ragnarok to the rocky cliffs above the huge forest in the northeast. Land; you'll encounter a UFO which you must defeat. After that, head for the crater where Balamb Garden used to be and run around till you encounter PuPu. Use the Item command to feed it five Elixirs and you'll be rewarded with the PuPu card.
The PuPu card can be mod into a Hungry Cookpot, which will teach a GF the Devour command. It's gross. You'll have to see it for yourself. (Heh, heh, heh...)
If you choose to kill the PuPu rather than feed him, you get the Accelerator item, which teaches the a GF the Auto-Haste ability. However, you will miss your chance to get the card.
The Card Queen
The Card Queen, who is in Balamb for most of the game, can be sent around the world creating new rare cards for you to find. In order to initiate this quest, you must first lose a rare card (level 8 or higher) to her. I am unsure of the minimum requirements of making this sidequest available, but I was on Disc 3, beyond the Lunar Cry segment, when I did this. You may be able to enable the quest much earlier.
When you lose a rare card to Queen, she claims being bored of the area, and that she will move on to another. While the new area is fairly random, it is chosen from a list of about two to four other places, depending on her current area. Any rare card you lose to her can be returned to you, but you've got to win it back from her. When you win a rare card back, she will also move to another area. In general, the Queen will inform you of the area she will go to, but won't be very specific about it. Here's a list that may help you out.
Area The Queen's Specific Location
Balamb In front of the train station.
Galbadia In Deling City, at the Hotel.
FH Next to save point.
Trabia In Shumi Village, at the hotel.
Esthar Inside the Presidential Palace.
Centra In Winhill, at the hotel.
"far away" The Lunar Gate. She'll be standing in the back.
Dollet Second floor of the pub.
"a new region" Any of the above. Good luck finding her.
Whenever she ends up in Dollet, you can talk to her and ask about her "artist father." This option is unavailable anywhere else. The Queen will explain to you that her father, who lives in Dollet, is a painter; he frequently paints the pictures used on the cards. She will then ask for a certain card that her father can use to create a new rare card. You'll have to lose it to her like any other rare card (but be careful not win it back before she returns to Dollet, or she wouldn't be able to give the card to her father).
You'll then have to follow her around the world again, until she returns to Dollet. This is a harder task than it seems, for not only will this spread rules around cruelly, but it may be many hours before she returns. I've already mentioned that her new location is chosen randomly from a short list based on her current location. To make this easier on you, I've included the list (currently incomplete) so you can plan her route. You may reset the game as often as you like until she chooses to go somewhere you find favorable. (Because the Queen always appears to go a random location from Lunar, never allow her to go there. Besides, the rules there are horrible.)
Current Area The Queen can choose to go to:
Balamb Galbadia
Galbadia (Deling C.) FH or Centra
FH Esthar or Dollet
Trabia (Shumi) Balamb, Lunar, or Dollet
Esthar Lunar
Centra (Winhill) FH or Galbadia
Lunar "new region"
Dollet Galbadia
When you the Queen finally returns to Dollet once more, talk to her again, and she'll tell you that her son now has your old card, and the new card has been released somewhere into the world. (She will tell you its general area, but not who has it. See below for a guide on their locations.) The Queen will also ask for a new card at this point.
The Queen's son is the little boy who was making trouble for his grandfather, a painter who lives south of the pub. (That's the Queen's dad!) The funny thing is that the son tends to be a better player than his mom.
Here's a list of cards that the Queen will ask for, what card will be created in return, and where you can find it.
You Lose: In Exchange For: Which Can Be Found:
MiniMog Kiros In Deling City, on the man in dark brown outside the shopping arcade.
Sacred Irvine On Flo, wife of the mayor of FH.
Chicobo Chubby Chocobo In Balamb Garden, on the student sitting outside the library.
Alexander Doomtrain In Timber, on the Pub Owner.
Doomtrain Phoenix In Esthar, on the aide in the Presidential Palace.