AISubs v3.7
Hello everybody and welcome back to SideQuest.
We're back here now. I know I said we were going to go through that fog gate last time, but...
I realized in between episodes that there are some things I should probably do.
For example, first off, I should equip the Estus Flask I now have.
That's a pretty silly thing to not have equipped, I'm sure you'll agree.
Uh...
Next thing I should do, since I picked up an Estus Flask Shard here in town and then just walked out of town like an idiot...
It is!
Okay.
...to see hope...
...however faint it might be.
Upgrade Estus Flask.
Neat!
So I guess it has two uses now?
That's an interesting change to the system from Dark Souls 1.
I uh...
I don't know, I kinda like it, it seems cool.
I don't really like it more or less than the previous system, it's just kind of a...
interesting, new, different way to do it.
I also decided I should maybe level up, since I uh...
started out...
deprived, with not many a stat to spend on things.
I think I better start boosting the strength and dex a little bit here.
So that I can equip things.
Let's start with dex, since I'm stuck using a dexterity weapon right now.
All right.
That's better.
All right, let me get myself back there.
Uh-oh.
They appear to be staying dead.
That's interesting.
I thought I rested at the bonfire.
And these guys are all still dead, too.
Well, that does make my life easier.
Getting back to this fog door.
Through the mist!
Okay.
Hmm.
Ambush, eh?
Yep.
Definitely indeed.
Ah!
[laughs]
Kind of more of an ambush over here, I think.
Yeesh.
Yep, okay.
Die, reckless.
Okay, easy does it.
Feels like these guys must not have a whole lot of poise if I can stagger them with a two-handed dagger attack.
I don't know, maybe poise stuff works differently in this.
I'm grateful, though.
Nice.
Hey!
Um...
Okay.
Ah, there we go.
Yeah, wood bolt, twenty of them...
to go in my...
crossbow I don't have.
Hello!
Ow.
Eew, that was...
not good.
Oh, hey!
That's a pretty good achievement.
I did it!
Well, you know what that means.
Oh, and now you're at the bonfire. Hello!
Yep, I remember.
Well, let's see if we can get ourselves back there.
I'm still very puzzled about this Drung Lake area.
The old crones were saying that all undead pass through here...
...at some point, but it was never mentioned...
...back during our time in Lordran.
Hey, cool! Boots!
I do appreciate that these backstabs are so easy to pull off with this dagger.
At least I'm able to get some use out of this thing.
Can I, or should I, equip those boots?
Let us see...
Eh... do not know what all those symbols mean.
Gah... o-o-okay, hold on, bleh, stop.
Okay, okay, okay, so...
So these are the required attributes over here to equip the thing.
There's the attribute bonus.
Okay.
Alright, so physical defense against strikes and slash and thrusts...
magic defense, fire defense, lightning defense, dark defense...
curse resist, petrify resist, bleed, poison...
poise, okay, poise up there.
Down here we got... durability and the weight, okay.
And I'm guessing over there on the far bottom right is my equip load and the percentage number.
So okay.
It is a bit of a defense boost, so... sure, let's...
try them out.
See what we think.
Thank you for watching!
Come on you.
Alright, that takes care of you.
Let's see here...
Yup, okay, okay, okay.
Yeesh, didn't work out how I hoped.
Ah, I ran out of stamina there.
Okay, that's slower than I thought.
Drinking estus is slower than I thought.
That's okay, though.
I am learning.
Learning from my mistakes, hopefully.
(Explosion)
Okay.
Take it easy.
Yep.
I do wish I had a proper shield.
Ah, that's not good.
Ugh, nuts. Nuts!
Don't give me that combo. I do not care for it.
Alright.
Ha! Snuck up on you.
Alright.
Yay, got that back. Okay.
Okay.
Forward!
So, I wonder what the Forest of Fallen Giants is...
as a place.
That looks like an archer and a guy who's going to drop down. Oh dear.
Well...
Not much to do about it but charge.
Oh! Okay.
Ah! Nuts. Nuts!
Okay.
Use that item, please. Thank you. Okay.
Now let's deal with these two.
Ah! There's another archer shooting at me from somewhere.
Don't care for that.
Okay...
Please stop that.
Please stop that. Please stop that.
Ah, I missed. That's not good. That's not good. That's very bad.
Sheesh.
That was not a successful engagement.
To my mind.
Very sloppy.
Okay.
Hey, a shield!
Hooray!
Can I equip it?
That's the question.
Nope.
Need more strength, need more dexterity.
I need to work on that.
Oh, starting out deprived is tricky.
I mean, I'm managing it, but...
it's tricky.
Cool area, though.
Huh.
Items that way leading...
Don't know what's down there, though.
Keep exploring up here first.
Hmm. Ah, hello!
Agh, that didn't go...
as I'd hoped.
In general, this is going...
sub-optimally.
All right, play smart.
Dah!
Got so much better reach...
than I'm expecting.
All right, get 'em! Oh, crap.
Meant to jump. Meant to jump attack, but it decided not to. That is a shame.
That's okay. At least the death counter's getting a workout.
Whew, boy. Well, got all my souls back, but... not a whole lot of, uh...
Healing items or health to work with here. Yay! Okay, and that's bad. That is... super bad.
Eh.
Ah, great. Watch it.
Nope.
All right, use caution.
Ah, not like that. Haven't learned his moves yet.
There we go, okay. Whew!
Nervous.
I'm gonna get jumped again? No?
Ooh, a witching urn. Wonder what that is.
Uh-huh.
Let's see...
Well, I guess this is my next stop.
In we go!
Ah, thank goodness.
That is the thing I needed.
Oh, wonder who you are.
Yeah, needed that.
So I should probably go back and spend all these souls leveling up some more because I desperately need to become stronger and be able to equip things.
Well, alright.
What do you got?
Hmm...
Weapons I can't equip, weapons I can't equip...
Merchant gear...
Oh, some spells and a miracle, which I don't have anywhere near the faith to use, but...
Hmm...
Maybe I can come back and buy this later
Leningrast's Key...
Oh, okay, well I should definitely buy that, I think
'Cause he was wanting that key
Hm
Several interesting items here
"Feros' Lockstone" activates Feros' Contraption
"Fragrant Branch of Yore" restores living beings for petrification
inflict more damage, receive less
Lots of neat stuff she has here
But I should probably at least buy that key
My name is Malentia.
You're stranger to this land.
Oh, we get as strange as these days. Nobody's pulling rubber off.
Drag lakes been up high. The rubble sits at the borehole of long, long ago.
Out in the jungles, across the sea.
To think like the battles would never end.
Poor folk like myself have nary a place to sleep.
I swear I keep only things right with me.
You may travel night, but me thinks you bear a burden of your own.
They say these trees grow from the remains of the giants. Each flower is special.
Okay. Out of stuff to say. Well, all right, then.
All right, well, I'm here now...
with several directional options to go.
Lovely statue, wonder who that's of.
Let's test out this travel functionality...
and get ourselves back to Majula.
Neat.
I do like that ability.
All right, let's level up again.
Hey, maybe we can do it...twice, probably.
So we can probably get our...
Let's see...
We should probably get both up to...ten, if we can.
Right?
Seems like a lot of stuff requires that much, at least.
We'll get vigor up a little higher.
Keep the decks going since that's the weapon I've got currently.
Okay
Oh, and let's give our blacksmith friend his key!
Right
Alright, alright
Here you go
Leningrast
I have opened the door
to your shop
I'm taking your stuff, though
It was gone when I found it
It was gone when I got here
Hey, a bow!
Cool
Can probably use that eventually
Okay
Sounds good
Alright, anything else to do here? I don't think so, let's head back out!
And explore around a bit more!
All right!
So I can head downward...
I can head up these stairs...
There is also that...drop-off over there.
I need to brush up on my fighting techniques.
There are some subtle...differences...between this and Dark Souls 1 and I have certainly not mastered them yet.
Dodging feels marginally less responsive
Huh.
Locked. Okay.
Can't go in here yet.
That's fine.
So I've noticed that my health maximum is decreasing...
little bit by little bit...
each time I die...
which is troubling...
and I'm guessing means...
that the more times I die...
the lower that maximum's going to get...
and...
the only way to probably reverse that is with...
probably the effigies, right?
You okay there?
Doesn't open from this side? Okay.
Weird that you're not hostile - oh, hello!
That... was not nice.
I do not appreciate it.
Yeesh.
Starting with two Westis flasks is pretty rough.
Makes this all the more challenging - hey! Where'd you come from?
Ugh! Dodge better!
Oh, thank you!
Was there a ladder he climbed up? Where did he - oh, it was the guy who was sitting down. Oh, well, that makes sense.
That's what I get for leaving him be.
My, my.
That's an intense little room down there.
Gonna get this item!
Thought you were gonna sneak up on me!
Too quick for you.
Alright, is it... really this time, though?
I'm starting to think that people dislike leaving that message around.
'Cause I have yet to find one.
"Locked," okay.
So my options are... go down there, which... eh.
Or... head this away.
Should I be trying to light these things... with my torch?
I wonder what... difference it makes.
Can I stab him in the back when he's not up yet?
Eh, more or less.
All right.
Well, I don't feel very prepared for this. Hopefully it's not a boss.
Oh no, it's just a new area.
Full of dudes.
And me without much health.
Yeesh!
Ohp, he looks... big.
Huh, lots of crows up there.
I should probably drop off down there, shouldn't I?
Check out the - oh, hello!
Does look to be a pretty tough fight over there and I don't have a lot of health.
Kinda tempted to drop down and check this out.
I deserve that.
Well, let's do it.
What's the worst that could happen?
Other than getting shot many, many, many, many, many, many times, which is what - I seem to be getting -
"done to" -- words. Okay, I'm dead.
Got a little reckless there. My fault.
Well, I think that we will resume this next time, and I will continue
my desperate struggle to get just a little bit further into this area, while deprived with low
stats and not much for weapons. It's a bit of a tough start, but we can do it. I have faith in us.