
Beowulf claimed to have been on the trail of the Holy Dragon and offered to help us. Ramza decided to visit the mine, and was met by a man named Beowulf after talking about the job in a pub. Hearing a Rumour of a monster-infested mine near Gollund (the town where we first met Orran), and of a rare, Holy Dragon living there. These special, side-quest-triggering Rumours only show up in certain towns, well after you’ve long stopped checking any town for Rumours, both because there haven’t been any, and considering that the Rumours were never different from town-to-town in the first 70% of the game, so why should they start now? You might recall that I said there are almost no Rumours left in the game, which is part of the problem. Nice of everyone to wait for us! To find this and later sidequests, you have to basically trip over the right Rumours. Kyle and I, of course, futzed off to do Errands instead, and were soon wrapped up in a whole side-quest after we were pointed there by a walkthrough (we didn’t want to miss any narrative content of this size, after all, thus the walkthrough). More relevantly for Ramza, this is where Cid Orlandeau is stationed.

If you’ll recall, the fort is about to be the site of a major battle. At this point, the game wordlessly adds a new path to the map, leading to Fort Besselet.
