Well silly me forgot to save after beating the Sky Dragon, so I had to fight him again but this time he was a bit easier and I made sure to bring an UltraNova Trap with me for the fight.

Decided that since I was going to need to bring Riddel for the Dario fight and I only had one Black Plate, I should probably fight him as Lynx. Dario is still one of the nastier bosses in this game with his high defense and attack power combined with his nasty counters and Tech skills. I do find it amusing that Dario's Techs are basically Dash and Gash, which I believe is Glenn's Lv. 7 Tech, Shockwave, which is from Crono, and then Conducta Rod which is eerily similar to a Dual Tech between Crono and Frog in CT.

Despite getting killed from Dario's combo attack midway in the fight, Riddel with the Black Plate turned out to be the MVP of the fight since she could tank all of his nasty magic/Tech skills and her high magic combined with innate white allowed her to do far more consistent damage than poor Serge and Karsh.

Killed Dark Serge faster than I meant to and got the next major "Btw, this is a CT sequel" spiel from the Dragons. Became Serge again and got all of my old party members back, which is pretty anti-climatic for me since all the good members on this file were already on my team. After that, I spent the rest of my evening collecting the Master Hammer for Prism gear, and various Lv. 7 techs for some of my party. I still need to drop by Another World's Guldove to collect Mel and Orlha, though I did remember to pick up Turnip. I think Funguy was the only character I missed on this file that I could have recruited but that's largely due to me never bothering with his quest and a certain action that is easy to do in Nikki's quest to enter Viper Manor removes the easy way to recruit him.