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* The quest for the Shield Card in ''[[Saga Frontier]]'' has you going to Mosperiburg for one of these. [[All There in the Manual|According to supplementary materials]], it's because Fuse is in love with the receptionist at IRPO.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' does this twice. With the same species of creature, the same plant required to save its life, and the same girl willingly poisoning herself to save it. Then again, everyone likes Dragon Riders, right?
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'': Ameena, the [[Ill Girl]] you befriend, is making a wishing charm out of a rare flower, which grows only in the wildnernessy area around the town where you meet her. It doesn't appear to be anything more than an inconvenience for most people to find it, but she's in such poor health that it nearly kills her.
** Subverted humorously and combined with the [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] in the [[Star Ocean 1|original]] for the Super NES, where you, having been living on a normal fantasy world, have to obtain the flower to cure a plague which is [[Taken for Granite|turning people into stone/crystals]]; however, as soon as you get there, an exploration team from the starship above beams down, hears your story and takes you back to the ship to get a cure. {{spoiler|It doesn't work, but this does eventually cause you to wind up saving everyone in the world, and the galaxy.}}
** This also happens in the [[Star Ocean the Second Story|second installment]]. There's a sick little girl whom you can get Private Actions with (along with another character-- who it is depends on who you're playing as and who you have in your party), and in some of them you go on a journey to the Lassguss Mountains to get a plant to cure her. The Star Ocean series seems to like this trope...
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* In ''[[Exile III]]'' / ''[[Avernum]] III'', you have to fetch the most beautiful flower in the world for a faerie. It's deep in a mountain valley full of increasingly pretty meadows of flowers, each guarded by even huger hoards of gremlins that use the "[[Charm Person]]" spell.
* In ''[[Seiken Densetsu]] 3'', you go get flowers from a mountaintop... but when you arrive you make it so your wind spirit blows them toward a castle you are about to invade. Said flowers act like a sleeping gas.
* In ''[[Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana]]'', one minor quest has Delsus' grandmother tell you she wants a white flower, which you will, of course, discover can be found on top of a mountain (in highlands on top, actually, not on a peak). It's played fairly straight.
* This happens in ''[[Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals]]'' as part of a [[Continuity Nod]] towards the first game, concerning the origin of the flower called Priphea.
* Potentially happens twice in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'': The Elven Storyteller requires you to get the Mana Leaf Herb from "a difficult place" in order to cure Colette's illness, and there's also a [[Sidequest]] in which Raine falls ill, and everyone splits up to find a way to cure her. Her brother Genis and his friend Mithos find the required flower at the top of the Fooji Mountains.
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