Ha, you even remembered the Hall Of Giants in the Earth Cave (is it bad that I'm looking for things like this instead of playing the game? Meh)

I, GARLAND, WILL KNOCK YOU ALL DOWN! Got this game when it first came out, always went Fighter/Thief/RedMage/BlackMage

As to C++, the most I can do with that is some very simple text manipulation - I'm a VB guy, heh.

If it's any indication, I kept reaching for my emulator keys (to speed up everything, heh) because I'm used to doing that. I'm not quite sure why the EXP is handed the way it is, but maybe I'm just overlooking something since it's nearly midnight..