Wow - Elfland is expensive!
I grind to upgrade my equipment and get the level 3 spells but I haven't got the patience to get the level 4 ones yet. I get the Pure spell for my white mage though. Lots of poisonous creatures live by Elves apparently.

I reach a new low on HP again after not being cautious enough healing. It's my blackbelt again who gets as low as 8HP before my white mage saves him.
He is dealing a bit more damage now, and after it dawning on me I should swap him with the more durable red mage, I have no scary moments.
I'm quite impressed with the red mage. He hits hard. I remember the black mage really sucked when attacking physically.

The trip through the marsh cave isn't troublesome.
I'm up to level 11 now, and it's time to fight Astos, the first big danger to my challenge!

Anyone else playing FF1 at the moment?