Pit of 100 Trials

Beneath the city of Rogueport, there is a devious optional dungeon known as the Pit of 100 Trials. As the name suggests, it is a pit, and there are 100 Trials to overcome (Well, the real number is 91 (less if you consider the Movers), but I digress.
The Pit contains 100 floors... most floors contain a single enemy (many of which are found nowhere else but the Pit) and nothing else. To advance to the next floor, you must win that floor's battle, which will reveal a pipe. Of course, the battles, like battles outside the Pit, contain more than just the enemy you see. There is a different pool of enemies for each group of 9 floors that have enemies (for instance, Floors 1-9 have a different pool of enemies than Floors 11-19, etc.), although, obviously, each battle will consist of at least one of the enemy you engaged outside of battle.
The floors that are multiples of 10 (Floor 10, 20, 30, etc.) do not have enemies, but treasures instead. Occasionally, Charlieton will be found on these floors as well, and will sell you some items, although the deeper you are, the higher his prices will be, as you can see from the table below...
Sometimes, you find funny little Puniesque creatures called Movers instead of enemies on a floor. These guys appear randomly, and will offer to move you down two floors for 10 Coins, down 5 floors for 30 Coins or back to the entrance for 10 Coins. This is useful in making quick progress, or if you need to leave ASAP.
Floor 100 contains also contains a treasure, but something else too... Scroll down to the bottom of the page to see what it is... IF YOU DARE!!! BWA HA HA!!!

If you're planning on making it all the way through the Pit, you need to be at a reasonably high level. I would suggest somewhere around the area of Level 30, give or take a couple levels, if you want to stand a reasonable chance.

Items will quickly become your best friends. It is strongly suggested that you fight your way down to Floor 50, get the Strange Sack, then exit before you plan on tackling the entire Pit... being able to carry 20 items is very, very helpful. Also, don't clog your inventory with chump items like Super Shrooms and stuff. Ultra Shrooms and Jammin' Mushrooms should fill up your inventory, at the very least (Jelly Ultras and stuff like Zess Deluxes are even better). Also, have a few Life Shrooms on hand in case of emergencies.

Your choice of Badges is extremely vital to your success. Some Badges that will make your job easier are Lucky Start, All or Nothing, Power Plus (P), Spike Shield, Quick Change, Jumpman, etc. First Attack and Bump Attack Badges don't work here, so don't even try them.

If you encounter a Mover, take advantage of it. 30 coins is a small price to pay to skip 5 Floors. (Just don't skip a floor that contains one of your prizes!)

If you're on the verge of dying, and you're almost out of supplies, there is no shame in exiting and regrouping before heading back to the Pit. Sure, you'll lose all your progress, but you'll be able to keep the experience and Badges you've won, which is better than if you had died.

Use Star Power to heal instead of items whenever possible. And to keep your Star Power up, use Stylish Moves. The Unsimplifier badge helps too. Also, you can stock up on tons of Super Appeal Badges, equip them all, and appeal to gain ridiculous amounts of Star Power per appeal.

If you want to be cheap, you can employ the notorious "Danger Mario" strategy, which basically involves transferring all of Mario's stats to Badge Points with Chet Rippo, equipping as many Power Rush Badges as possible, then decreasing Mario's HP to 5 (by jumping in water over and over or something. This will allow Mario to do disgustingly large amounts of damage... enough where you should be able to defeat all enemies in a single round. Mario can be in trouble if the enemies get a First Strike, so it might be wise to use a Chill Out Badge with this strategy.

At the very bottom of the Pit lies Bonetail, presumably another relative of Hooktail. By defeating Bonetail, you can get the Return Postage Badge (which damages enemies at a rate of half of what they damaged Mario, if they attack directly), but like most RPGs that reward you with super-powerful stuff after beating the optional super-boss, at this point, Mario probably won't need it.

	Bonetail
	200 HP	Attack: 8	Defense: 2
	Bonetail is the boss at the bottom of the Pit of 100 Trials, and as you would expect, he's rather tough. His stats don't lie... he's a more powerful foe than even the Shadow Queen herself... But he's still not too bad. As you might expect, Bonetail is like a beefed up Gloomtail, so expect lots of stomps, chomps and breath attacks, the difference being this time, instead of Poison Breath, Bonetail has breath that can freeze, confuse, shrink, or put you to sleep. Since most of his attacks only affect the front character, Mario can stay in the back and use another character as a meat shield. Flurrie works well for this, since she can keep recovering HP with Lip Lock. Of course, you can and should switch your partner often to utilize all their HPs, especially if you have the Quick Change Badge equipped. When Bonetail's HP gets to 50, he'll heal 20 HP, and he may do this again throughout the course of the battle, but at this point you should be able to beat Bonetail down. Seriously, the last 10 levels of the Pit were more difficult than Bonetail himself.