So, the
ing demon god things break out of the stone -- from looking at that FAQ, I also knew that it was coming and had a basic strategy formulated. The guy in the FAQ says, "The only way you'll lose is if you get extremely unlucky and one of the beasts does Heat Breath on the front row twice in a row, and then a third time on the back row. It has happened, but it's rare."
Arthro
er does heat breath. Kaim and Seth barely live. Jansen, Cooke, Ming all drop Winda on his ass. Next round, I get heat breath'ed again. Kaim and Seth go down. Now only the mages are left with no GC.
er does heat breath a third time. Everyone except Ming drops -- I somehow had her equipped with persistence... she's alive with 1hp. Round 4? Heat breath.
So I shrug it off. No big deal. I'll click retry and the shithead won't use heatbreath 4 times in a row. Fine. Click retry. It loads me up before the boss of the ancient ruins again.
SONOFA
INGGODDAMNCOLDTITTYSUCKLINGWHOREBAGBITCH.
Of course there were no real opportunities to save (I don't think there was a save point on the nautilus, as far as I saw... when I was inside) and I didn't think it would throw me back that far as every other time I died fighting a boss, retry put me right back at the fight or the cutscenes leading up to.