After playing with my new toy for a few days, I got back to Disgaea this evening. Since the good powerlevelling areas aren’t until a couple chapters down the road, I got back to just working through the storyline and finished off chapters 2 and 3. I had to restart one battle because of an accidental ally murder (you cannot directly kill any of your own party members, even accidentally, if you want the ‘good’ ending), but otherwise the only difficult fight was the boss at the end of chapter 3.

I picked up two new unique recruits along the way: Flonne, the kind-but-dumb angel we met earlier and who’s now apparently out to see if Laharl is capable of love, and the ‘rich demon’ defeated at the end of chapter 3. I get the feeling Flonne is going to be difficult to level up, since she’s not exactly a front-line fighter… I also unlocked a few new classes, and created a Rogue and a Scout to add to the party and ran them through the usual newbie levelling.

With the Rogue, I now have a decent chance at stealing items from enemies, and I experimented with it a bit while doing the newbie levelling. Turns out that if the enemy has no actual items to steal, you can steal stats from them instead, called by a variety of different things (e.g., if you steal their ‘age’, you gain exp). I also discovered that you can even steal from geo symbols, and I successfully stole ‘innocence’ from one. Poor thing…

I ended off by fiddling with the Dark Council a bit, managing to get Laharl through his fourth promotion exam despite being up against two level 20 enemies while he was still 12. I also successfully passed a bill that made better items available at the store. Now I just need more money for them…