Lands of Lore - Challenge Pt 4: Things Start Low Then Go Up

We do our best to blindly explore Lower and Upper Opinwood before sadly having to leave Crossbow Valkyrie behind... unused but not unloved.
Rules:
- Ferocious Difficulty
- Only allowed to save at the start of areas (Gladstone, Southlands, Draracle's Cave, Opinwood, Swamp, Mines, White Tower, Yvel, Caverns, Dungeons, Castle Cimmeria)
- No using the Magic Atlas
- No optional party members
- No collecting the Free Compass
- No using the Valean's Cube against ghosts
- No using Green Skull against the Larkon
- No using Ra'Tol (stone face in the swamp) to get extra money
- No buying Fireball Wands
- Attack all NPCs/choose all "bad options"
- Cannot use Crossbow Valkyrie
- Fight Scotia's first two forms before using the Whole Truth

[@strikezilla01]

Wow... That gray pentrog should be considered a mini-boss after that encounter. Two-tapped your party neigh instantly. The gold one was equally punishing. Haha

[@darkwolf2859]

The Cave Dwellers, the Pentrogs, and the Manthas can all be so brutal with their one hit kills, but man the deaths here were so painful...