Well there goes the plot...

Got a lot done in the game today.

Since the gang knows that the person stealing the magic orbs is the leader of a particular guild, they go to the guild city to talk to the head of all the guilds. Before they can do that though the protective field around the city breaks and monsters swarm in, then after the monsters are defeated and the barrier is restored the head of all the guilds leaves to stop the monster at their nest. The party then goes to a near by over grown forest and meats up again with Raven, the guy who helped them a few time, and he joins the party. In the forest they come across a spring of magical energy that's going out of control, but after a boss battle some guy shows up and some how fixes the magical spring with his sword. The group gets back and finally has a chance to talk to talk to the head of all the guilds, but Flynn is there first to deliver a letter from the prince for the leader. The letter was actually switched out though by the bad guys and replaced with a declaration of war, the leader gets furious and imprisons Flynn.

Yuri Then trades laces with Flynn so Flynn can warn the knights about the fake letter and the leader lets Yuri out explaining that it was a trick to lure out who was plotting against him and the knights. The party then catches the orb thief and the corrupt governor talking about their plan to get rid of both the knights and the guilds. Before they can be stopped though the governor escapes and the thief flies away on a magic flying chainsaw sword thing... but the dragon rider shows up and gives Yuri a lift to the bad guy's tower. The two of them get captured though and it's revealed that the rider is actual a female elf type person named Judith and she joins the party. The rest of the team catch up and they scale the tower until they finally fight against the orb thief, who after a sound beating throws himself off the tower to avoid arrest. When they return to the guild city they find out that the evil governor has used all his political power to get nearly all charges dropped (everything from feeding children to monster to attempting to destabilize the government), so Yuri takes the law into his own hands and kills the governor while he tries to slip out of the city at night.

With the magic orb finally recovered and all the bad guys taken care of the team is about to go their separate ways, but suddenly a giant fire bird shows up and tries to talk to Estelle. Before he can say much though the knights deploy their giant mobile tank castle to shoot it down and the bird takes off. Estelle is curious about what the bird wanted with her so she teams up again with Yuri, Karol, Repede, and Judith (who just formed their own guild) to track it down.

Things are at an interesting point in the game, all the plot points that have been driving it forwards so far have been resolved and a completely new plot is starting that I don't know where it will go. It's like the past 20 hours was just one huge prologue and the actual story is just starting off now, it should be interesting to see where it goes from here.