I finished the main game and just have the bonus chapter to play.  It's a much better game when you pay attention to the story.  Learned that when you have no magic of your own, you're not easily affected by eveil magic.

On the BZ forum, I had asked whether BZ could give us a brief account of how they had planned to end the game.  I was really curious to know just who the cloaked stranger was.

This is the reply I got:  
We had planned a series of quests to fight the basilisk, driving him higher into the Dark Tower, and finally defeating him at the top, where Shelsea the mermaid will be rescued. However, the cloaked figure's identity remains to be unknown. As for the egg: it's a new pet helper - a rare pocket dragon.

lilyr wrote:

Thanks Tirama.  That's actually more information than BZ has given for quite some time.

Monica prefixed her reply with "I'll try to answer some of your questions, but these are not finalized nor approved."  What the hell that means is anybody's guess.  Maybe she wasn't supposed t say anything.
 

I've finished playing the main game of Skyward Castle and I'm convinced that Captain Jackdaws is teh father of Sophia's daughter (shows up in bonus chapter of Redleaf Forest.

This is what Sophia writes about him in her journal:Despite his appearance, Captain Jackdaw is a prince in his own right. Third son of the Tidewave Kingdom, he has talents and looks in equal measure. Contrary to his lackadaisical attitude, he personally volunteered to be the navigator of the Skyward Castle, a duty he excels at. He is also good friends with the king and queen.
 

I kinda had that problem,  with the string game.  You needed to finish 3 high level minis for a quest, after a couple days I would get enough from Stone Circle to do one of the games, but when I'd come back the next day I still had to do all three.  I finally had to save enough to do all three at once, I kinda bought my way out of that one.