Ogre Battle 64 Neutral Encounter Guide
Version 0.5    Last updated 12/21/00
Created by Ryan "Rumo" Hill (nayrllih@hotmail.com)
You can always- find the most updated version of this guide at www.gamefaqs.com

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|Table of Contents |
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I. Revision History
II. About this Guide
III. What's a Neutral Encounter?
IV. Neutral Encounters
A. Prologue
       a) Tenne Plains
       b) Volmus Mine
B. Chapter 1
       c) Crenel Canyon
       d) Zenobian Border
       e) Mylesia
       f) Volmus Mine* 
       g) Gunther Pidemont
       h) Dardunnelles
       i) Alba
       j) Crenel Canyon*
       k) Mylesia*
       l) Soathon Highlands
       m) Sable Lowlands
       n) Audvera Heights
       o) Mount Ithaca
       p) Azure Plains
       q) Mount Keryoleth
       r) Dardunnelles*
       s) Gules Hills
       t) Fair Heights
       u) Vert Plateau
       v) Tremos Mountains
       w) Capitrium
       x) Celesis
       y) Tremos Mountains*
       z) Berthe Temple
V. Quotes
VI. Items
VII. Thanks
VIII. Legal Stuffing

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|Revision History |
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Ver. 0.5
  Yay! Finally an update *watches all
  three of his fans cheer*
  -Updated encounters section to Celesis
  -Added and organized quotes
Ver. 0.4
  -Updated items section
  -Updated quotes section
  -Updated encounters section
Ver. 0.3
  -Added items section
  -Updated quotes section
  -Updated encounters to Mount Keryoleth
Ver. 0.2
  -Added quotes section
  -Updated Encounters to Audvera Heights
  -Added Note and Note2
Ver. 0.1
  -Created guide
  -List of neutral encounters
   from Prologue and Chapter 1

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|About this Guide |
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 This is (obviously) a guide to the neutral encounters in Ogre Battle 64. If 
you're reading this, you probably know what Ogre Battle 64 is, and how to play 
it, so I won't explain that (unless otherwise convinced). The purpose of this 
guide is to inform people all about neutral encounters. I'll try to complete it 
as soon as possible, and I'd appreciate if no one e-mails me about areas I 
haven't already explored. I'll try to keep it as spoiler-free as possible, which 
shouldn't be too hard. But I'm warning you now.

What should be in the next update? Well...
 Organize the items and encounters sections
 Add more encounters and items

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|What's a Neutral Encounter? |
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A neutral encounter is an encounter with a character you can possibly recruit. 
While wandering around on the Mission Map, occasionally one of your moving 
characters exclaims something to the effect of "A [insert character 
encountered]!?" The screen then changes to battle mode, where the neutral 
character appears. You can then interrupt the battle by pushing the interrupt 
button (X), and select 'Talk'. Now, one of three things can happen. One, the 
character will join your group. Two, the character will not be persuaded and get 
a free hit. Or three, the character will flee. As David brought to my attention, 
to have the greatest chance of recruiting a large character, let your unit hit 
it a few times. To have the greatest chance of recruiting a small character, try 
to persuade it without hitting it at all. But be warned, if you kill the neutral 
character, or all your characters use all their moves, you won't recruit the 
character. But you will get an item.

Neutral encounters are randomly initiated while on the map, although the chances 
of them happening are greater when you are revisiting the area. Neutral 
encounters don't happen to units that are at strongholds, camping, or aren't 
moving. Your unit has to be heading towards a destination for them to occur. You 
can only get in neutral encounters with non-human classes (demi-human, beast, 
golem, etc). Remember, you CAN'T use your Elem-Pedras in neutral encounters.

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|Neutral Encounters |
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 Note: Mature Dragon means any one of the six second stage dragons (Blue, Black, 
Earth, Thunder, Platinum, Red). Undead means Skeletons and Ghosts.
 Note2: Hawkmen, Ravens, and Vultans can be found on the highways of every 
level. Their level is based on the level of the other encounters there.
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--PROLOGUE--
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        -Tenne Plains-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               2     Young Dragon   Forest
               2     Wyrm           Barrens
               2     Golem          Highlands
     
        -Volmus Mine-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               2     Young Dragon   Forest
               2     Golem          Highlands
  _________
--CHAPTER 1--
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        -Crenel Canyon- 
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               3     Hellhound      Barrens
               3     Griffin        Highlands

        -Zenobian Border-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              ??     Hellhound      ??
              ??     Griffin        ??
              ??     Young Dragon   ??

        -Mylesia-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               5     Fairie         Plains
               5     Gremlin        Forest
               5     Wyrm           Highlands
               5     Golem          Barrens
 
        -Volmus Mine*-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               6     Gremlin        Plain
               6     Wyrm           ??
               6     Undead         ??
        
        -Gunther Piedmont-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               7     Young Dragon   Plain
               7     Griffin        Barrens
               7     Blue Dragon    Marsh
               7     Golem          Highlands

        -Dardunnelles-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      -------- 
               8     Skeleton       Forest
               8     Ghost          Forest
               8     Young Dragon   Barrens
               8     Thunder Dragon Barrens 

        -Alba-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
               8     Hellhound      Barrens
               8     Young Dragon   Highlands
               8     Earth Dragon   Forest

        -Crenel Canyon*-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
9	  Platinum Dragon Barrens
9     Hellhound      Forest, Barrens
9     Griffin        Highlands
 
        -Mylesia*-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              11     Faerie         Plains
              11     Gremlin        Forest
              11     Wyrm           Highlands
              11     Black Dragon   Forest
        
        -Soathon Highlands-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              11     Pumpkinhead    Forest
              11    Platinum Dragon Highlands
              11     Hellhound      Barrens

        -Sable Lowlands-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              12     Faerie         Plain
              12     Blue Dragon    Highlands
              12     Skeleton       Forest
              12     Ghost          Forest

        -Audvera Heights-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              12     Stone Golem    Barrens
              12     Red Dragon     Highlands
              12     Cockatrice     Forest

        -Mount Ithaca-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              13     Faerie         Plain
              13     Gremlin        Forest
              13     Griffin        Highlands
        
        -Azure Plains-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              14     Earth Dragon   Forest
              14     Red Dragon     Highlands
              14     Stone Golem    Barrens

        -Mount Keryoleth-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              15     Earth Dragon   Forest
              15     Thunder Dragon Barrens
              15     Cockatrice     Highlands
              15     Goblin         Forest

        -Wentinus-

        -Dardunnelles*-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              16     Skeleton       Forest
              16     Skeleton       Forest
              16     Black Dragon   Barrens
       
        -Gules Hill-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              16     Cerberus       Highlands
              16     Blue Dragon    Forest

        -Fair Heights-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              17     Red Dragon     Highlands
              17     Earth Dragon   Forest
              17     Gremlin        Forest
              17     Faerie         Plain
        -Vert Plateau-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
19     Earth Dragon   Snowy Forest
19    Platinum Dragon Snowy Highlands
19	Thunder Dragon Snowy Barrens

        -Capitrium-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              18     Black Dragon   Snowy Barrens
18	Platinum Dragon Snowy Highlands
              18     Ghost          Snowy Forest
              18     Skeleton       Snowy Forest
         
        -Celesis-
             Level  Character      Location
             -----  ---------      --------
              20    Platinum Dragon Snowy Highlands
              20     Thunder Dragon Snowy Barrens       

        * Yep, you have to visit this place again. The old encounters will be 
gone, these will be in their place.

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|Quotes |
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 This section shows you what your characters say when they encounter something.
  
  Aisha- "...!! A wild [name]?"  
  Ankiseth- "What a coincidence... A wild [name]."
  Asnabel- "An enemy!? ... No, a wild [name]!"
  Chaotic Unit- "Right on! A wild [name]!" 
  Debonair- "A wild [name]? ... That caught me off-guard."
  Dio- "A wild [name] huh... I can handle this."
  Europea- "A wild [name]... Can we avoid a fight?"
  Katreda- "A wild [name]... Can we avoid the fight?"
  Lawful Unit- "We encountered a wild [name]!"
  Leia- "...!! A wild [name]?"
  Liedel- "A wild [name]? Um... H, How cute..."
  Magnus- "A wild [name]? Here!?"
  Meredia- "How cute! A wild [name]!"
  Neutral Unit- "A wild [name]... What should we do?"
  Paul- "A wild [name]... This is going to be fun."
  Saradin- "A wild [name]... Can we avoid the fight?"
  Sheen- "Cool! A wild [name]!"
  Troi- "Cool... A wild [name]!"
  Vad- "An enemy!? ...No, a wild [name]!"  

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|Items |
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  It seems that if you kill a neutral encounter instead of recruiting it or 
having it run away, you get an item from it. This is a (very small) list of what 
you can get.

  Cockatrice  Scroll of Discipline
  Earth Dragon  Axe of Wyrm (get multiples of these!)
  Red Dragon  Sword of Firedrake
  Thunder Dragon  Sum Mannus
  Faerie  Silver Hourglass
  Ghost  Torn Cloth
  Goblin  Short Short
  Pumpkinhead  Dowsing Rod (worth picking up!)
  Skeleton  Halt Hammer, Torn Cloth
  Stone Golem  Kite Shield
  Vultan  Hachigane
  Raven  Armet
  Cerberus  Flag of Unity, Goblet of Destiny
  Blue Dragon  Cyanic Claw
  Platinum Dragon  Heal Seed, Ytival
  Griffin  Power Fruit
  Hellhound  Heal Seed, Power Fruit 

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|Thanks |
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 Me, for making this guide
 GameFAQs, for putting this guide up
 Atlus, for making this awesome game
 Starmie Knight, for info on Platinum Dragons, Soathon Highlands, Sable 
Lowlands, and Audvera Heights
 DeniseLFarr@aol.com, for info on the first visits to Volmus Mine and Crenel 
Canyon
 "David" Rize_@email.msn.com, for pointing out that you should weaken large 
characters and immediately talk to small characters
 Deranged, for most of the quotes
 "cornelius einstein" hotkid100@hotmail.com, for info on Dardunnelles and 
Mylesia

Want your name here? You can send me quotes or items!
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|Legal Stuffing |
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