We finally turn the fight around, though we still have a Bewitched party member.

Faced with Bewitched party members, I move back to cheats.

The monsters close with the party, and unleash status effects.

This time (among the various critters), we face a Dagon-class monster.

We finish off our next fight, opening the path to the next dungeon level.

The fight swings in our favor, but not without some real difficulty with these status effects.

Not only do they have enemies that can use AOE poison attacks, but we also are introduced to the Bewitched status effect.

We face off with a few dragons, and forgot to bring any of our Dragoons.

We finally conclude this battle so we can move on to the next area.

Things start going better, as we turn the fight around.

We try to get Azelstan to some tarot cards for the stat buffs.

Since our goal is, ultimately, to level up Azelstan, I break out the Forbidden Technique.

We finally make contact with the enemy monsters.

We continue to a more perilous map.

We clear out the next group of undead and have another conversation with Azelstan.

We finally start to push the enemy back.

Things start going very badly.

This time we have golems, liches, and undead that can cause petrification.

We clear out this fight and prepare to move on.

We end up with the cleric being stuck on an island in the middle of the map.

We continue to struggle with the map layout.

We end up running into another group of undead, with a tricky map layout.

We finish the battle, and Azelstan formally joins the party.

The archers are finally cleared out, leaving us with their last spellcaster.