There is a very strange moment in Final Fantasy VI that has always baffled me.

Relatively early in the game, after your party splits into three separate groups to take on their individual branches of the story, you are presented with a section dedicated to the character of Locke.  Locke, your party’s “treasure hunter” extraordinaire, travels back to the now-occupied-by-the-Empire town of South Figaro to cause some mayhem in the hopes of slowing up the Imperial advance. 

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