> You'll never quite get past the stage where you die or get paralyzed. There's always the occasional critical hit, and there are times when you run into a group of monsters that's just surprisingly powerful, like six groups of nine dragons on level 10, or, say, Murkon. I had one party that could hack their way through level 10 and Murkon at will, but they were all around level 130 and beyond, with over 2500 HP each and thousands upon thousands of SP. For good measure, all six could cast RESURRECT.

Thank you very much for your advice, all of you! This is to let you know that I just this moment won the game and I can't resist telling everyone about it. I moved into Teralt and everything was fine - we never needed to use the clinic there. Murkon and his hordes were really tough, but with enough castings of QUAKE and HEALTH we defeated him with only Ekaterin the Druid dead, and resurrected her before teleporting ourselves back to Teralt. (If we hadn't resurrected her, would she be permanently dead or magically resurrected as part of the endgame effects?)

Ekaterin.