SD ch. 23: Dark Pontifix

In the words of Tormod... I botched this one.

Here, we have at least three guys posing as Gharnef, who can only be defeated used Starlight, a special C-level magic. Which would be all great & good... if I had a mage that could use C-level magic. I hadn't been using Merric because he kind of rocked from the start, so I didn't think I had to work on leveling him up. But he's the only one close enough to use Starlight, and he can't right now. So I'm trying to work myself around this level without getting in Gharnef's path, which is pretty much impossible. As there are three (four?) of him.

There are a few people that can be attacked by him and not get killed (Marth is at least dodging shots), but when I lose more than one person in a turn I simply cannot go on. If I can just get past Gharnef and toward the top of the palace, then everything will be much easier. At the same time, there's a door up there, and I only have Rickard to open it, since I killed Julian (I don't know when or why I didn't reset).

In short, I kind of screwed up, and now I'm getting frustrated.