The snow leopard incident

On the Road to  Lazulis City it's clear no-one really likes the mercenaries. We are called on to rescue civilians from an attacking leopard. Chapter 2 gives us our biggest challenge so far. My team is battered by the leopard. Somehow I manage to get the beast's HP down little by little until it runs away. Clearly, this beast is important in the main story because it doesn't just melt away at the end of the fight.

Sure, we're helpful, but everyone's brutally honest that once we've rescued a bunch of schoolchildren - from the jaws of a snow leopard that's probably eaten cold ready brek - that they don't want to be seen associating with us.

So, they discover we're not knights (they're the esteemed bunch), throw money at our feet and leave. That means all we can do is bump into people (one of the more unusual parts of the game) on our way to the city. This is where the title music plays over our entrance and the game finally begins.