returning to Great Glacier

[fabriknos]

i returned to Great Glacier towards the end of the game to pick up a few items i had skipped over previously. but now i can't get out of the damn area. every time i run up the mountain paths to the east of the tree where you originally land, i don't get back to the village, just keep getting redirected to either the red X at the base of the cliff, or down towards the cave where you get Alexander. i could have sworn to return to the village you climbed this mountain. when i try to climb Gaea's Cliff, that mountain guy comes out and says "Look we can't climb the cliff! Give it up!" or something like that and I am forced to turn back. how the hell do i get out of here??

[EmperorSteele]

Go south =P

You dont want to head to the red checkmark.. you wanna go to where the sign is.  Walking south of there (or going thru the caves) will spit you out on the word map, and you can walk back to icicle Inn.

[fabriknos]

kablam! that was easy. chalk up another stupid question for me...

[fabriknos]

instead of making a new thread i might as well add another question here... i can't get back into the Underwater Reactor cause the front door is locked, this is way after the first time you go on the Huge Materia missions. the only two items i am lacking are Leviathan Scales and of course Steal As Well materia that goes along with that in Wutai. i am pretty pissed off, after 30hrs or so of playing this game through a second time, i missed such an easy item! how does that happen! anyways, there's no chance of getting back in there to get the item is there? i really want this master support materia

[Srethron Askvelhtnod]

Sorry but I think you're at a dead end. Either replay or edit your save file to get the scales. IIRC, the last time you can enter the Underwater Reactor is right after the submarine mini-game (since you can get the red sub after you've either gotten the blue one or failed the minigame.)

i really want this master support materia

Ey? There is no master Support Materia like there are Master Command/Magic/Summon. A Support Materia that did all of the supporting abilities would just be weird.

Spoiler: show

The Blue Huge Materia you can get will turn into the Bahamut ZERO summon. Just look at it.

If you just mean you want a mastered Steal As Well, sorry to have wasted your time with this tangent.