And a metroidvania?

Why aren't all prisons this easy to escape?

In order to free ourselves and prove our innocence, we need to kill another random monster prowling ruins. Talk to Dennis in the south room, which is also where the merchant and beds are, and he'll tell you that there's a dude in the east room who judges your combat power. He'll summon a mid boss type of robot that'll prowl the future floors we'll need to explore. Killing them will grant us access to their floor. This test exists because the prison complex is run by good guys. We'll get the option to explore five floors, but we'll only need to run through floor twenty one.

Besides that, the only mandatory one is the first one. The skill point drops are in the low twenties, and the green machine is easy to kill with Ashton's random combo. The other floors can't be completed yet, but I want the skill points and the miscellaneous items. But they're each gimmicked, and they're unique. It's simple but fun enough. Floor twenty one is a slide type section, and the boss is in the northwest. I accidentally went into the warp home point, and the elevators conveniently broke after we returned. Dennis is amazed we won and lets us leave. I'm glad the farce imprisonment ends with a farce sentence. Aba isn't home, so it's time to leave town.

As we near the exit, we hear a familiar voice. It's Ernest leaving the inn! Precis and he hang out at the restaurant and catch up on this adventure. He and Opera crashed just as Precis did, which they acknowledge as unfortunate... But Ernest joins the group (I replaced Noel because he seems vital to the next point), and our next destination is his ship in the forest to the south. It's beyond Slave Village... Ernest didn't mention it at the time, but he and Opera got split up in the crash.

Rather than going to Grantes Forest, I did some more item creation. Precis made an upgrade that gave Bobbie the ability to hover. This opens so many paths. There were a few things in previous dungeons that were unreachable until now. This includes a giant green dragon that I couldn't do any damage against in Mile. I would have kept exploring, but I had to shovel snow, so I'll finish...

...tomorrow!

The lack of fol might be a damning point for a decently fun game.