OK. I got to the point of wandering the madio caves and I got sent to Petalburg. After getting all the way back to Famine's desert I realized I had completely forgotten how to get back to the madio caves and spent about 3 hours just walking around aimlessly. This is the kind of thing I'm going to wake up in the middle of the night screaming the long-lost memory of how to do it.
Then the unspeakable happened.
For some unholy reason I decided, 'hey, maybe I'll snoop around the island of calm and maybe that will jog my memory...'
I'm stuck in the dungeon.
I keep going through the doors and getting put back in the cave and I've circled that horrible thing for another couple hours. What am I missing here?
It's probably painfully obvious and right in front of my face but I've overworked my brain and it's just driving me crazy. The worst part is that I can't just give up and forget about it. This is probably one of my favorites, I love the story and the feel, and if it wasn't so good I wouldn't care so much.
Anyone who can pull me out of this hole will be a complete saint
EDIT: made it out of island of calm, still have no idea how to get to fortree or madiocaves
EDIT again: ok so after literally hours of walking every square inch and talking to everyone in the world, I surfed in meteor falls and ended up on the submarine. Now I can't get off until I fix the elevator, which is already fixed. I tried going through the warp panel again but he keeps asking me.