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.

We face another Necroprentice, who this time has raised the Dragon defenders of a razed village.

We finish taking down this patrol, leaving us to wonder about the “artifacts” they mentioned at the start of the fight.

Once more, we get stuck in, with the Rune Fencers and Valkyries turning out to be rather squishy.

We encounter a group that hasn’t gotten the “We Didn’t do a Genocide” memo, and end up having to fight them.

We clear the way, and do some fiddling with our main party members’ equipment loadout to use some items we picked up earlier.

Cistina demonstrates the power of the Dragoon class, as we join to battle with the monsters.

We start to open the path to the tomb, and end up fighting a whole bunch of Dragons on the way.

We get these critters out of our way, and move on.

We have another random encounter on our way to a side-quest.

We gear up a little bit, and train some party members on additional spells.

We learn the full story of the Pirate’s Graveyard.

We finally take out this dungeon’s final boss.

We manage to move some of the party up to the middle island.

We continue to contend with tricky map layouts and ranged attackers.

We reach the final guardian of this dungeon.

We finally clear out the undead and open a path to the end of the dungeon.

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.