We start to make our way to the top of the fortress.

We face a bunch of healers entrenched at the top of the fortress.

No propane here, just supporters of the late Heirophant who want Denam dead.

We manage to beat the monster trainer, and end up recruiting him.

We run into one of our old opponents – the skeevy bounty-hunting monster trainer.

We finish off this fight, with a couple more side-quests to go.

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?