Peace Time is Boring Time

So, I'll let ya in on a little secret. I didn't do anything today. I tried, but I had no idea where to go.

After finding the rebuilt Temple of Dharma, I got my characters new classes. Rek and Hassan are soldiers, Muriel and Chan are priests, and Barb is a wizard. A very, very fragile wizard. I know it's basic and boring, but it's early on. I'll throw in some diversity when they've mastered class one. After I left the Temple, though, I walked around aimlessly for two and half hours. Everyone kept telling me about the Temple. Even Grandmaz built up some special dinner, twice, to inform me about it. Because of that, I teleported from town to town.

In Lifecod, Tania is happy I'm home for a little bit, as is everyone else.
Shiena is extending the Bazzar to celebrate world peace.
Our Reidlock still has Sheba as the acting King, trying to make sure everything is still peaceful. She also threw Golad in jail despite him not doing anything in this world.
The citizens of Gent are healing people left and right.
San Marino's mayor has left the job, and the town is looking for a new leader. Joe is around but is too preoccupied with Sandy, I guess. Hassan does tell his parents that he's home, but his dad doesn't seem to care.
Gina and Iria are hanging out in the church basement, and I never checked the other Amaru.
Everything else I found tonight seems like it's important, but we won't know for sure until later.
South of other Reidlock is a gate, but the guard is sleeping and hid the key "to the north," The island north in his world is inaccessible.
North of San Marino is a mermaid reef, but they all hide when our ship approaches.
I did find something of interest but messed it all up.

North of Mudo's castle is the town of Monasterio. It's home to Amos, the local hero. Ever since he was bitten, he's turned into a monster every night. The townsfolk try to protect him, but I told him all about his ailment. I went to help him out by finding the Seed of Reasoning, but when I got back, he was gone. Who knows if I'll see him again, but don't tell him he's a monster if you want a sixth party member!

Out of places to go, I went looking for a guide. East of Monasterio is the castle of Arcbolt. They've been having some monster problems in their north cave and are looking for capable soldiers. We see a man pulling a coffin as we enter, so we talk to the guard. They let us in, but the next one challenges us to a fight.

Don't bring Barb in here. She has less than 50 HP, so is likely to just be one shot. Not only that, but Garcia seems to have a high crit chance. He can't handle Rek and Hassan being cured by Muriel, so it's a fairly simple fight.

Walk deeper into the castle and explore if you'd like. The next guards we have to beat up are just before the throne room. Scott and Holidy are a combination of what we just fought and that Biggs and Smok fight from Torukka. Beat up on Holuday, as he can defend Scott and is likely to die first regardless, so we're just gonna push things faster. Once again, poor Barb dies. We can now talk to the King of Arcbolt, who confirms the happenings. There's a monster in the northern cave, which seems to be an important project for the kingdom. The monster is incredibly strong and killed a whole squad who went to defeat it. The only survivor is the blue swordsman and captain of the guard, Brast. Brast will fight us to see if we're worthy of entering.

He can be a bit of a problem. He likes to spam teamwide physical attacks, so leave poor Barb out of this again. Fortunately, unlike the other guards, he is susceptible to Sap. Muri should keep casting Increase if need be, while Rek and Hassan wale on him. Muri didn't survive the battle for me, but Brast didn't do much damage to Hassan outside of his special moves.
After he loses, the King allows us to hunt the monster plaguing his kingdom. He gives us a blue coffin to hold the proof that we won, and we'll do that...

...tomorrow!

Man, I hope this is plot relevant. Most of tonight had me thinking happily-ever-after is a terrible game mechanic. A ray of light in tonight's waste of time was I got my first classes nearly halfway mastered. And I hope Amos didn't have a personality!