AISubs v3.7
And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to SideQuest!
We got things to do!
So you may recall that last time...
we got absolutely shut down...
by a mean fellow named Dennis.
Meanest Dennis I ever met.
Don't know if I'll be running into Dennis again.
I don't exactly know the criteria for being invaded...
in Dark Souls 2, but um...
Might happen.
It might just happen.
And if it does...
we need to be ready.
Come on over, y'all.
Yep! Got you!
Got you!
There we go. It really is nice having those invulnerability frames on the dodge roll.
I am glad I put some points - probably too many points - for this level, but I am glad -
very glad - to have that skill leveled up, that adaptability.
All right, moment of truth - do we get invaded again?
I have a feeling we do!
There it is! There it is.
So, let's get healed up first. Grab those souls.
And let's make this happen!
All right. Can I...
Nah, I should've kept pushing it.
All right, let's try again.
He's quicker on the draw than I am, so I need to be careful!
Ooh-hoo-hoo, boy. Careful.
Be careful. Ah, crap.
Okay. Heal fast.
Yikes.
I do not care for that one bit.
Aaah! Dennis!
I'm gonna get you!
Yeah, getting closed in in that little room where he can just...
attack me with magic like fish in a barrel...
probably not a great strategy.
Eh, let's light a few of these things.
Hello, skeleton.
I am grateful that these skeletons are pushovers, at least.
There we go.
I really want to beat up this Dennis, you guys.
I really do.
Yeah! That's...
...really unfriendly, Dennis.
Unsporting.
Whoa!
I don't know what that is you did, but I don't like it.
Gah! Stop it!
I'm going in here.
You can't stop me.
That was a mistake.
I'm making several mistakes in close succession.
There we go. Let's drink that.
I'm gonna come back out here.
Ha!
Get outta here.
With your business.
Yeesh!
That is dangerous.
Ah!
Okay, watch it.
That was close.
To an edge.
Puhuhuh.
Dennis!
Has someone made a "Dennis the Menace" joke?
I'm sure they must've.
Ow.
Gettin' outta here.
Healing.
Got 'em pretty far down.
I think I can do it.
As long as I don't do anything terribly reckless or stupid!
Ha!
Take that, Dennis!
Your name is stupid.
I'm sorry, any Dennises who might be watching.
I wasn't talking about you.
I was talking about the mean Dennis who kept killing me.
So okay, here's another one of these...
...giants, kind of wrapped up in trees.
Do they become trees, or is this how they were sort of stopped, or...
I don't know, it's neat.
Quite something ahead, but boss required ahead.
Hm.
Well, I'm glad to have that "Dennis" problem taken care of...
...at the very least.
Won't miss him.
Ah! And a bonfire, right here!
That is nice!
Don't think I'll rest yet. Eh, no, I've only got one estus, I should...
Maybe spend these souls before I lose them again.
Wonder if this guy has a better shield for me.
It does!
Hmm...
Silver Eagle Kite Shield seems kinda nice, but...
Well, sure, let's grab it.
Which will be mine.
Ooh, we could also buy a non...
crappy version of the Royal Soldier Helm.
Yeah, let's do that.
That it looks...
even cooler.
The Fashioned Souls is strong!
What other item stuff should I be buying?
Elite Knight stuff, ooh!
That's tempting.
Start--tempting to start collecting that Elite Knight stuff again...
for the nostalgia, but maybe I won't. Maybe I'll hold off for something...
a little more unique to Dark Souls 2.
I don't know, is the Elite Knight set as crazy good as it was...
in the day?
Y'all let me know.
Let's see here...
I'm gonna need to figure out--I guess I should just discard a bunch of these...
stray items I've been gathering and collecting.
This multitude of foot soldier shields.
Is there a place that I can, like, sell stuff for souls?
Like, does that come up as a thing again, or should I just trash stuff?
Hm.
Anyway, shield and...
helm.
How's it look?
Yeah! Looking a little nicer.
If you can see past the...
crazy glow effect thing I got going on from this ring...
Looks nice. I clean up nice.
Anyway, let's head back. No wait, that's right, we're gonna level.
I feel like I read somewhere, and correct me if I'm wrong, but...
boosting vitality doesn't just, like, increase your equip load, doesn't it also...
like, there's that weird stat that certain armor has, that like is kind of your armor...
haram bonus or whatever, that...
If I recall correctly, one of these stats being higher sometimes makes the armor you wear just straight up better.
Is that a vitality stat, or is that endurance, or is that something else?
Let me know on that. That seems useful and important.
I'll go with endurance this time around, though, just 'cause I could use a bit more of that stamina.
Alright.
Back in action!
So is that archer! Get outta here!
No one likes you!
Get... go away!
Okay...
Well, let's see what's up here, then.
Haven't checked this out yet.
A chest!
What you got for me?
Ooh, leather stuff and...
some other things and...
sneaky sneaky.
Jerk.
Rollin', rollin', rollin'.
All right.
Heading back down this way...
So this is a dead end, it seems.
It's good, I can, uh...
check that off the list.
I guess I've covered this whole little area, then.
'Cause this room was...
the giant tree room?
Yes.
So...this way.
And I'm guessing up there.
That's probably where I need to head next.
Toward the big...big guys like this.
Uh...yep.
Ah! I didn't mean to...
didn't mean to alert you.
That's all right.
That was a bit early. Oh, jeez.
Okay.
That is...all of them.
There's one.
Three to go.
This is ridiculous.
Yeesh.
This is...ridiculous.
Yeah! Yeesh.
Okay.
Take cover.
Take cover and heal.
Heal quick.
Heal quick and hope they can't fit through doors.
They can.
While I'm still killing you.
Okay.
I can deal with you.
You're just one.
One's fine.
Oop!
One...it...don't miss.
But one's fine, though.
Aaaah!
Ah!
Get up.
There we go.
Okay.
Okay! We're fine.
We're fine.
And hey, leggings!
Almost got the full set...
of that ironclad armor.
That could've gone a lot worse.
I feel reasonably okay...
with how that turned out...
considering...
how that turned out.
All right, you, here we go.
Ah! Ah! No!
Oh, boy. Get-- aw, come on!
Blech.
Well, let's try it again.
Mm.
Keep on thinking that second swing is gonna hit, and then it does not.
[thud]
Hey, let's try out this bow.
Mm?
Oh, do I not have any, uh, arrows equipped?
Fire!
Oh.
Thought I did!
Why don't I have arrows equipped?
Ridiculous.
Let's try that again!
Hey, gotcha!
Heh.
Uh...
Well, that was fun.
[fire crackling]
Gotcha!
And you're dead.
So, this time...
This time, let's do better.
[fire crackling]
Not better.
Worse! Much worse!
Jeez!
Worse in every way!
[laughing]
Every... possible way.
[thud]
Alright, maybe I can lure you over here.
Too early.
You know what, I'm calling this one off.
Oh, can't use it. Then, uh, that's a problem.
Well...
This could go better.
Come on!
You guys are jerks.
You dare come into my home?!
Gonna get my own bonfire?
Rude.
Yeah, I really don't love having to deal with all these guys at once.
That's not a good time.
Eesh.
Man.
These are not... easy fights.
Pretty rough... actually.
Well, maybe I can run past 'em.
Maybe I can... aw, gatekeeper.
Gah!
Well, maybe I can still run past you anyway.
Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Ah, geez.
Oh, boy.
Ah, there's more folks in there.
Maybe I can just go straight up, though.
Yee-hee-hee-hee!
Kind of intense out here.
Item...
Maybe they can't climb.
That'd be great.
A whip!
Cool!
And, uh, what else?
Human effigy.
Not bad!
Not. Too. Bad.
Hmm.
Is there anything else out here?
Have I cleaned out this little...
branch?
'Cause that'd be pretty great, if so.
Yeesh.
Not happy.
[fire crackling]
'Cause I've gone in there, gone in there...
don't know of any way to get up there...
bonfire's in there...
dead end over there.
So...
yeah, I mean, I think I've done everything there is to do out in this little area.
Maybe I should look for the other doors that I can open with the soldier's key...
and move on.
Maybe let's do that.
See if I can...
survive the trip.
Anyone out here?
I would rather there wasn't!
Doo-doo-doo-doo, sneaky-sneaky.
All right, here we go!
Leaving!
May come back and get a bunch of souls from those guys later...
for grinding, but, uh...
not now!
Now is a time for progress!
So where, oh where, might those other doors be?
Let us explore!
Wait, I remembered where one of the other doors is.
Here it is!
I bet this one opens with the key.
And bam! It does.
Yeah!
Progress!
Oh, hello. You're new.
Quite the sword you have.
Can I have it? Ah, there's two! There's two! There's two!
Reckless! Reckless!
Also reckless.
Bad decisions.
Yeah! Got one of you.
Come on, now.
And I gotcha!
All right, then.
"Try boss and then key." Well, that would have been a useful message... to read.
Some of these messages are certainly more useful than others.
So... okay?
Don't know what's over there.
But let's head further up!
See what we get!
Up seems good!
Try ranged battle
Sniper and then enemy ahead
Hmm
Impossible
Visions of giant
But pole ahead
Hmm
Cryptic
Ahh
Another fog door
Oh and there's uh
Snipers, I see now what the message has meant
Yikes, thought you were dead
You're not, now you are
You there!
Causing me problems
How dare you!
Life gems, that's good. It's always good.
And now here we are. We're up pretty high.
I have a feeling we may be in for another boss fight here.
This feels like a bossy-type place, being all high up.
Well, only one way to know!
Yep.
You again. Why, hello!
We gonna have a proper engagement this time, then?
Terminator?
You do look pretty sweet, though.
All right, well...
Let's give it a try!
Ha!
All right.
So you got that slash...
A slash... with a shield... follow-up...
What else you do?
Double stab...
followed by that, okay.
I'll be sure to hit you next time.
Gotcha! Ha! Tag.
Ohp! And sometimes you follow with a third slash, that's... fair enough. Okay, good to know.
Alright, used it. Too slow, too slow!
And a slash, third... okay! No... tag!
Eeh! Watch it.
Dah! My range! Insufficient.
Bop!
Alright, I'm getting 'em. It's going alright.
Eeh! Okay!
Gee, not a good place to be, not a good place. Let's get out of there.
Come on you... "the pursuer"... I didn't really pay attention to your name before.
Blue sword! The blue sword, someone mentioned that.
The, uh... merchant. I'll think about it later.
Blue sword, though.
I want it. I want to use it myself! Ah!
Scared me.
Dah! I meant to dodge. Didn't.
Eeh!
Use... that... thing... quickly.
Yeah, blue sword!
That probably hurts a lot, doesn't it?
Come on you... give me another opening.
Yah! Too slow!
Yeah, oh, that... hurt a lot, actually.
Hope I can... get some life gem healing before I die!
Blue sword! Watch it!
Hee hee!
I'm nervous now.
Tag!
Ah! Wrong direction to dodge, but I lucked out anyway.
Tag!
Blue sword!
Come on now.
Whup!
Eee! Ow.
But tag anyway.
Life gem...
Tag...
It's goin' okay!
Goin' okay...
Tag...
I love the way this... floaty way this guy moves around.
Ojo!
Don't hit me with the blue sword, please.
That seems really bad...
...on account of the blue.
It's goin' well!
Yeah!
First try! Well, second try, technically, but first try here!
"Soul of the Pursuer" and "Ring of Blades".
That feels good, y'all.
Heh heh heh heh...
Whew!
A little tense, though. A little tense now.
Whew! All right!
This is some cool ruins-lookin' stuff.
Whew! Boy! Okay!
Okay! Okay!
Hmm, should I backtrack?
Stop at the, uh...
...previous bonfire?
Maybe I should.
I'll go a little further, see if, uh...
Praise the sun, indeed!
See if there's a bonfire up here.
Thanks for watching!
Whew! Adrenaline!
I'll leave him to his business.
There's another nest.
Beast ahead, try composure.
Hurrah for liar.
What?
Oh, well...
Guess I'm headed to a place.
Heh heh heh, oh boy.
I hope that wasn't a mistake.
"The Lost Bastille"?
And a bonfire.
That I will take.
That makes me feel a little better about being here.
Excuse me while I go spend this enormous bounty of souls.
What'd I do?
I don't need your sass, Kat.
That Ring of the Evil Eye...
...seems pretty useful.
All these seem really useful. Hmm...
Oh, okay, that one doesn't.
Can hear the voices of foes.
Ring worn by Roy the Explorer.
Hear the inner voices of surrounding foes.
Useful for locating hidden enemies and perhaps a few other things as well.
Interesting...
The name-engraved ring
a special ring that can be engraved with the name of a god
becomes easier to connect to worlds of players who choose the same god.
There are countless vestiges of long-lost gods in the ruins of Drung Lake
or perhaps they're the very same gods as ours, only known by different names.
A red eye ring
a cursed ring depicted... depicting a demon eye
becomes easier to be detected by enemies.
If it is tranquility you seek, then you should never have left your home.
If you seek strife, then... fair enough, but no need to overdo it.
Silver Cat Ring
Silver ring depicting a leaping feline reduces damage from falling.
Legend has it that when cats grow old, a force brews within them and they are reborn as something new.
And Ring of the Evil Eye
a modest but inexplicably disturbing ring
absorb HP for each enemy defeated
peer too closely at the rare stone that forms the eye of this ring
and things that writhe and stir may come into focus.
I wonder if I should buy any of these...
Are any of these must-haves?
It's possible I could also use some of this Titanite to...
boost the weapon further.
Let's do that.
This mace plus two shall henceforth be...
mace plus three.
and...
you know what?
Why not?
Mace plus four!
Yeah!
Hmm, I wonder if I should...
level up the shield as well.
I guess I should decide what shield I want to use...
in the...
Not the long-term, but for a while, before I start throwing points at it.
Oh, that's right! I got a whole hunters' and leathers' set!
That's neat. I'll have to read those descriptions later.
I have a lot of junk. Wonder if I should just discard it all.
Meh. It's probably a few things from you.
Uh... no... no... no... well...
Good strength scaling, but meh.
I don't know if I really want that stuff. Oh, let's read descriptions.
Traveling Merchant Hat, worn by merchants from Lanafyr, where blue represents knowledge.
Wearing this increases item discovery.
Lanafyr is the farthest land to the south and follows a strict edict of isolationism.
The rare visitor from Lanafyr is always a little odd.
Raises item discovery...
That's interesting. So just the hat does.
Hmm...
That may be worth...
You know what? I'll pick that up.
Just... keep it around.
And I'll buy heal...
even though I don't expect to...
be using it in the near future.
Buy another one of these lockstones, just in case.
Let's talk to the guy who wanted that blue sword.
I didn't really get it for him, but...
Wait a minute, we have that other item we just got from killing this thing. I need to...
remember to read these descriptions.
Uh, there it is.
"Soul of the Pursuer"...
...who lurks in Drangleic.
The Pursuer who seeks the Bearer of the Sign will not rest until his target is slain.
Dark sign or a different one?
"Use the special soul of the Pursuer to require numerous souls." Alright, yeah.
Same as all the boss souls.
Small white signed soapstone.
Leave a summon sign.
What is...
The effect is not as long-lived as that of the white signed soapstone and is used only in particular places.
Huh, interesting.
Did I get anything else...
from that boss? I probably did.
I was too busy...
...being super victorious...
...to pay attention.
Uh, oh!
Ring of Blades, that's right, increases physical attack.
Modeled after the mad knight of Alken's weapon of choice, increases physical attack.
The kingdoms of Alken and Ven long ago flourished on these very grounds.
They were both founded by the same man who... but were reduced to rivalry and spite.
That seems like a worthwhile ring. What will we...
...lose in exchange?
Increases HP slightly versus...
...strength boost...
...physical attack boost seems worthwhile. Let's... let's equip that.
All right, now let's ask this guy a question.
No discussion of blue swords
Very well
In that case, I will spend the remainder of these souls on...
one or two more levels
Because why not?
Yep, yep, yep
Gonna be hearing a lot of that...
over the next few months
Okay, two levels, where to spend?
Well, let's get one more endurance and one more vitality, 'cause we're starting to get closer to that 70%...
equip load...
where my roll would start getting...
a lot slower
Can't have that
Well, all right, let's head back out...
to the Lost Bastille...
where I think we will call it for this episode
This seems like a fine stopping point
Oh, you know what? Let's open some chests first. Just... final celebration for a nice...
meaty episode of progress
Let's see our reward
Two human effigies, always welcome, and...
what do you got?
Gimme...
a dull ember
What is that?
An ember radiating a dull light, this flame seems nearly exhausted, but exhibits an eerie resilience
Perhaps this... is its ordinary state
I'm guessing this... is to be turned in to a certain blacksmith
And we will do that later, perhaps next episode even...
which is when I will see you next
Goodbye!