Got up through getting Chacha. Capturing the bear monster was a bit of a pain, forgot how annoying captures could be. First time I failed due to underestimating how long the traps took to set up (tried to get it while it was limping away) and then accidentally killed it. Next time the tranq bombs just didn't work (even though I trapped it after it had gone to sleep). And then I FINALLY got it on the third time. Didn't help that the stupid Jaggis decided to be dicks and wake it up.
Oh yeah, and what exactly is the deal with the powered up mode for dual swords? I see it gives me longer (and presumably more powerful) attacks in exchange for constantly decreasing stamina, but I haven't quite figured out what the secondary bar that fills up for attacking in that mode does. This also seems to give you some kind of neat backstep thing instead of a roll though, which is neat.