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Hello and welcome, everyone! Welcome back to SideQuest.
We have a very large crystal dragon that we are trying to contend with.
And it's time to get back to that.
Something tells me there's probably another bonfire down there...
in the crystal caves, but um... or crystal caverns.
I think "crystal caves" is a Donkey Kong Country level.
Maybe it is called "crystal caves," I don't know.
But yeah, I feel like there's gotta be a...
a bonfire down there somewhere. I may be wrong.
Sure would make things easier for me, though!
"Crystal cave," okay, I was right.
Oh! It just occurred to me what this means. I can walk here.
[laughs]
That was the initial clue, that you can get this item...
and that it is possible to walk...
where the little snowflake drops fall.
Now I'm trapped here, though, so uh...
mixed blessing.
Is there a bonfire down here anywhere? No? No. Okay.
In here? No? Okay.
[footsteps]
This will be the episode where we keep fighting and losing to Seath the Scaleless...
and every time... continue lamenting that I don't know where a bonfire is.
Boy, whoever's been leaving these messages on Xbox...
you guys... are the best.
Upvote!
And these guys are all back.
Ugh. This'll take a while.
Oh, geez.
He's got help. That's not good.
Ow!
[laughs]
Ooh, I can tell this is gonna be a little bit obnoxious.
Yes, I can.
Man, it is such a long hike.
Alright, it's not super long, I guess. It's just really perilous.
Alright, this time we're gonna see if we can run past these guys, 'cause...
I do not feel like using all my healing items...
and health...
clearing this room out.
I mean, look at this. It's ridiculous.
It's too many.
Eh...
Okay.
Alright, that works! That works! That is a...
valid "Wow, that is so cool looking!"
Look at that!
It's amazing!
Alright.
Let's start by...
breaking this.
Now let's start having a fight.
Oh, his tail's acting weird.
I need to start reading his signals for when he starts doing that big...
...AOE...
...uh...
Ah! Whoa!
Wow, that tail lash is brutal!
I don't know how I never ran into that before.
Or like, how I didn't run into it last time until like...
way into the fight!
This episode's gonna take me like...
an hour to record and end up being...
less than fifteen minutes long...
given how much of it is just pure, boring travel time.
Round three!
May the one with the most scythes win!
And I'm causing some great damage to 'em when I hit, so that's encouraging.
I'd love to be able to cut the tail, though.
If you guys have just been like...
drilling that into my head, then it's important.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope! Look out, look out, look out!
This is probably a... dangerous place to be.
Yeah, I'm starting to think I'm just not gonna worry about this tail thing anymore, you guys.
I mean, I've already missed so many. What's one more?
Okay, here we go!
Once more!
But a pretty thing sure would be a shame if somebody--oops!
Okay, well...
Let us do battle!
Oh, no.
Yeah, they just really don't let you sit back there and beat up on this tail.
All right, once more!
First I break your things...
and then you break me.
Maybe if I can keep luring him to come in this direction and then I kind of like run past him, maybe that will give me a chance to like get some cracks in his tail before he turns around and starts doing those attacks.
All right, let's get out of here.
Cheese it!
All right, four good hits on the tail.
So far, so good.
[laughs]
You strike an imposing figure, Mr. Crystal Dragon.
Well, turned around too fast that time.
That's okay. I am patient.
I have to say, like when I first started playing Dark Souls,
looking at the early areas and zones and stuff like that,
and the level of like graphical fidelity and stuff that I was seeing and the art style and all that business,
I never would have expected...
to see...
a site like this...
later in the game.
Their boss design is just...
top notch.
Good shot at the tail! Got one!
There's another one!
And... nope!
And one more, come on!
I got one more shot in... get out of there, though.
I have almost exclusively been hitting his tail.
He is down two-thirds health and no tail breakage.
I'm starting to think this doesn't actually work.
He didn't even look this good in the opening cutscene.
In the pre-rendered opening crazy cutscene.
He looked just kind of gross in that.
Oh wait, that's not his tail.
Agh!
He turned around too fast for me.
Come on.
Break.
It's not a tail.
All right, all right, get out of town, get out of town, leave, leave, leave!
Whew!
Do not take those tail swipes lightly.
'scuse me.
All right, here we go. Come on! Break... the tail!
Break the tail! Just break it!
Are you serious?
You know what?
That's fine
Bequeathed lord's soul shard
Point is, he's gone
Oh, and there's a bonfire. Sweet!
Awesome
Is there anything else over here that I need to...
loot or get or anything?
I wonder what this object was that was keeping him...
alive and healthy
I suspect it's the only thing...
it's the only reason that this dragon's still around. No, that doesn't make sense. There's...
I just ran into a crazy big elder dragon thing down in Ash Lake
That has obviously been around for a long time
Well...
I don't see any reason to stick around here
Nothing I can think of
So...
let's warp out of here
Where shall we go? Where shall we go?
You know, let's head back to Firelink. Haven't been up there in a while
Oh, hey! Hello!
Which one are you?
Ah!
You're adorable
Really? Then I must be off. I'm sorry he's caused you trouble. He has a knack for that. If he'd just stay put...
I like these folks
Is anything else different around here?
Birdfriend is still here
Pyromancy friend is still here
Weird guy is still here
You're still here?
If his lady is who I'm thinking it is...
...wasn't she down there in the Tomb of Giants with her two...
...with her two companions who had gone hollow and started attacking me
I don't know, she didn't look to be in a good way last I saw
Oh...
You see, Master Logan has left most of his books
With them, I could teach you Logan's sorcery
You have done much to assist me
Before I leave on this journey...
...I will teach you all that Logan has to share
Oh, hello. You made it. Then let us begin. As promised...
...I shall bequeath Master Logan's sorcery to you
I don't know if I'm quite worthy of it, but I... I appreciate it
Yeah, I think all of this would be... quite wasted on me
But in a future playthrough, perhaps, with a different build...
...I'll give this a spin
Master Logan is at the archives.
He is.
Thank the heavens.
Finally, his wish has been granted.
I suppose it has his head buried in those tomes.
That's always what made Master Logan happiest.
I can just imagine him now.
I guess we just won't tell him, then.
Goodbye, then. Do stay safe.
Yep.
Well, I guess now would be a good time to...
spend some souls, get a level or two...
and maybe check out some of these other items...
that I've been picking up...
before we call it an episode here.
This may end up being a rather short episode.
I don't actually... I can't tell the episode length...
given that... all the time I've been recording here...
a large chunk of it has been...
running back to that boss to die again, so...
apologies if this one ends up being a little bit short.
Alright, let's look over some items here.
Blue Eye Orb. I got this, I believe, from the Dark Moon...
uh, Covenant, which...
yeah, oh, I actually have been kicked out of that one...
which stands to reason...
again, I feel like... killing your superior...
is grounds for expulsion.
Anyway, Blue Eye Orb.
Invade world of player in Book of the Guilty.
Subdue player to acquire Souvenir of Reprisal.
These mystical orbs are granted to Blades of the Dark Moon...
knights who serve the dark sun Gwyndolin...
so that they may serve the gods in meting out vengeance.
Hm.
I guess ultimately whether or not...
killing Gwyndolin was a good idea...
sort of depends on...
how we feel about the gods...
out here.
I don't actually know...
if the gods are still meant to be...
revered, or if...
they're a problem to be dealt with.
Hm.
Prism Stone.
A warm pebble emitting a beautiful phasing aura of seven colors...
with a very rare eighth.
The rainbow stone does nothing special, but can serve as a path marker - ahh - and can be dropped off a cliff to judge height by the sound of its descent.
If a loud noise is heard upon its landing, then a fall off the ledge is surely lethal.
That... these would be... uh, something to help out with those invisible paths, even though you don't... really need them... but...
Good to have them.
"Soul of Darkmoon Gwyndolin," "God of the Dark Sun," and "Guardian of Deserted Anor Londo."
Hmm...
"The Firekeeper's Soul of the Darkmoon Knightess," "Firekeeper of Anor Londo."
A firekeeper's soul is a draw for humanity and held within their bosoms. Below, just a thin layer of skin, are swarms of humanity that writhe and squirm.
Her brass armor serves to disguise this ghastly form.
I did not know that about firekeepers.
The lore for this game is getting way more interesting... the deeper you get into it.
Even though I feel like I... understand very little still... uh... the little hints and clues I'm getting... are getting more and more... fascinating, the further I get into the game.
A while ago we got Nito's lord soul, now we've also got Seath's.
"Soul of the Albino," "Seath the Scaleless," a fragment of a lord soul discovered at the dawn of the Age of Fire.
Seath allied with Lord Gwyn and turned upon the dragons, and for this he was awarded dukedom, embraced by the royalty, and given a fragment of a great soul.
Although just a piece, it will still satiate the lord vessel.
Okay.
Uh, the Archive Tower Cell Key.
The Archive Tower, once a trove of precious tomes and letters, became a prison after the onset of Seath's madness.
The serpentmen who guard the prison know not the value of what they hide.
In the basement of the tower are the writhing "mistakes" of the terrifying experiments which were conducted there.
So that's what those were.
Yeesh.
Archive Prison Extra Key.
Perhaps the serpentmen were careless, for there are several keys scattered about which fit Archive Tower Cells.
Archive Tower Giant Cell Key.
They struggle to uphold their sanity as the hoard of mistakes writhe at a fearfully close proximity.
Okay, this is the key to where the big-hatted guy is.
Maybe I should go back there.
I will think about it.
Archive Tower giant door key, which was for the door up high.
The key's design resembles not the key of a prison — indeed, the tower was once no prison at all, but a trove of precious tomes.
Well, I think that'll about do it.
I've read through most of the stuff — kindled this about as far as it'll go.
Next time we have to decide what to do next — 'cause we have a few options — I could go back to the archives and try to free our sorcerer friend.
Seems mean to not go up and do that, 'cause I — I do have the key, so — and, uh, his little buddy apprentice does not.
I should go do that.
Uh, another thing I could do is...
Hmm.
I feel like I have all the stuff required to upgrade the, uh, you know, painting, guardian, scimitar thing up to the cool quillogue weapon version.
So I could maybe look into doing that.
But in terms of actual progression and places to go next...
We have the New Londo ruins...
Which are just downstairs below here.
We have the Demon ruins, which are further away...
But, um...
Also seems like a place that I need to go further into.
And we have the DLC zones...
Which...
I don't know, like, which of these is the more difficult place.
Anyway, I will figure out where to head next...
And see you then!