Oh boy oh boy oh Boyd

Got up to chapter 6 in PoR, and the plot initially seems to be that neighboring kingdom (who of course have all black armor) suddenly attacked the capital for no reason and is trying to take over the country (which seems to be the initial plot in a lot of the series). While investigating the invasion the band of mercenaries find and rescue the princess, which leads the big bad army to their door step. So now the group have to make there way to a country of beast men without getting killed.

And speaking of getting killed, so far the only one in the group to die (and causing me to restart the round) is Boyd the low level axe-fighter... twice! I then gave him some throwing axes (taken from pirates) to keep him from danger till he levels up, and to be fair he was dying the the hardest battle so far.

The tricky thing is that this game is rather unforgiving if you mess up. There are potential party members that you may never get if you don't have the right person talk to them before a match ends, all weapons degrade every time you use them and the only new weapons you get are the ones that occasionally drop from enemies, and of course the whole permanent death of any party member.

The odd thing about the death mechanic is that relevantly major character members can die in a battle and aside for a brief bit of death dialogue the game takes no time out really to acknowledge the magnitude of it. So with the death of Boyd the long time friend of all in the group, and brother to tow of them, is killed off with no one getting a reaction as the fight goes on.

Well tomorrow I try to sneak past a army blockade and try to keep Boyd from dying more.