We make some progress in cleaning these scallywags out.

We encounter another group of pirates we have to clear out.

We save our “client” and now have a fusilier.

Oddly enough, the person we’re trying to protect is competent at defending themselves, so it’s not too hard to keep them alive.

We try to save our first fusilier, and end up seeing them rush headlong into an enemy formation.

We clear the beach and take some time to level up our characters’ abilities.

We’re done with most of the Takoyaki, more or less, so it’s time to move on to the rest of the goons.

We end up fighting a bunch of Octopi and Medusae on a Beach.

We clear this random encounter out, and decide to call this session here.

We get a fairly long random encounter this time.

Our third random encounter of the session – now in some ruins.

Another random encounter – this time on a mountain.

We get a random encounter on the way to the next side quest.

We clear out this fight, and now can go to the Palace of the Dead whenever we want.

One dragon down, two to go.

We have one more fight to do in order to clear the path to the Palace of the Dead.

We finally lay into the Necroprentice – but are we too late?

We attempt to push through the undead defenders to aid this new guest character.

We mop up the last few of this fairly small force, so we can get into the castle.

We now have to get through the handful of undead guards.

We take on the mercenary who had been left in command of these undead.

We move out of the lower area of the map, and start fighting the main enemy force.

We not only face the undead, but also a new environmental hazard – toxic mold with a poison effect.