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Getting Alena and party outfitted at the very beginning of the chapter was somewhat painful. It took long enough for Ragnar too, but here you've got Alena, Borya and Kiryl, and none of them has even a passable weapon or piece of armor at the start. I finally got them all maxed out with equipment and made the short trip over to Taborov.

This is where you take the place of the sacrifice and fight some monsters. An easy battle since I was well prepared. The boss did seem very resistant to magic. I was able to cast "Sap" once, but it never worked again, and neither did my attack spell (Crack). It kept healing, so I thought there might be a stalemate, but then it ran out of magic. It apparently wasn't healing all it's damage, either, because it only took one additional hit after that.

I've moved on and reached the town of Vrenor, where the fake princess gets kidnapped. I've ventured into the cave to the south a little bit to test the waters, but I'm not really ready to progress any further until I can buy the new armor which for some reason is being sold at the item shop. Fortunately, there's not as much to buy now, and nothing at all for Borya, so it shouldn't take long at all. The weapon shop is also vacant, so nothing to worry about on that end right now.

In terms of Star Wars novels, I had finished Heir to the Empire last time I posted about it, I think. I've since finished Dark Force Rising, and I'm now working on The Last Command, the final part of the Thrawn trilogy. I apparently have something like 20 or 30 books by various authors to read if I wanted to catch up completely with the current stuff and have an unhealthy level of knowledge about the Star Wars expanded universe.

DQ4. I got the transmutation armlet or whatever from that cave with little trouble and traded it for the release of the fake princess, which got me the Thief Key. I soon found out that the king has lost his voice and that I have to go to a tower to get some random thing to fix it. Aren't there professional soldiers that should be doing this? I was making some progress in the tower but almost got wiped out during one encounter. I warped out and retreated back to town. I might try gaining one level before I make another attempt. Currently at level 11 with the best equipment.

I played up to somewhere in Chapter 5 on the NES version but I've forgotten most of the game.

In DQIV, I found the silver statue and sold it for 25,000. Sold some other stuff and had enough to purchas the weapon shop in Endor for 35,000. Now I just have to raise enough for the dude in the tunnel.

Update: In trying to keep busy with a variety of games, I dug out my Guitar Hero III guitar and started a new game of that. My ultimate goal would be to finish it on easy and normal. From what I hear, higher than that requires kind of an obsessive amount of practice.

I also wanted even more Dragon Quest, so I started up the SNES remake of the original. It's super easy, but I'm not really up for the long NES era level grinds anymore. I was just thinking, since the hero's a bit of a loner here, it's sure a good thing for that the monsters hadn't thought of working together, either. Imagine you're walking through the Dragonlord's castle and "3 Red Dragons draw near!".