thanks muki. i just figured it out after lunch.....i didn't think about throwing them out of the forest....dumb.
it's weird though, that one of the few things that actually follows the DQ series is one of the things i dislike the most: saving at the church. ugh.
well, i'll give this game a try until SD G Generation comes out....
edit: pretty far along now. i guess for an action game, i can accept the saving system. however, it's getting a bit monotonous.....of all the things a slime can do, the only useful one is charging and ramming things/ppl.
not a bad game though