It was only a brief dip into Suikoden V tonight as I did some more recruitment before heading off to the ruins. I stopped by Lunas and picked up the Oracle and her elven entourage, and then headed to Port Spinacks to recruit a couple more. This was one of the more annoying recruitments, because in order to get one of them (Hazuki), you can’t have a certain person in your party when you go to the port or you’ll lose the chance forever, but there’s no clue given ahead of time that this will happen. Fortunately I had a save not too far back… Things like that are why you pretty much *need* a walkthrough in order to recruit everybody possible.

After that I popped over to Sauronix Castle, fairly close by, to talk to the Dragon Cavalry. They won’t ally with me since their duty is to be neutral to internal politics, but their commander did assure me that they were ready to handle foreign powers that the Godwins might try to drag into the war.

And next, I’ll finally be off to the ruins. (51 hours in now and still in Chapter 10 of 14.)