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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Dark Souls!
And to SideQuest. Well, it's Dark Souls 2, but you know.
So here we are...
in a...
Yes, so here we are in a new area...
which a crow brought us to, which is familiar.
What's this area called again?
"The Lost Bastille," hmm.
I wonder why the crow brought us here.
And I wonder if I am prepared for it.
That sure looks intimidating.
"Front Ahead." Hmm.
Let's go...
this way?
Some way that lets us get somewhere.
Can I fall down here? Nah, I shouldn't.
Um...
How do I do anything?
Where do I go?
Do I just...
break things or, uh...
break? No?
Um...
Can I roll over? Nope.
Can I...
I probably can't jump over.
I really highly doubt I can...
Ugh, don't like this.
Oh, okay, I can.
That was, uh...
Heh, yeah, I agree.
Oh, hello.
Well, here we go.
Ah! What are you doing?
Yeesh! Okay, watch it.
Watch it, sir.
Hmm.
Visions of Death.
Yep.
Not going down there.
So do I go this way or that-a-way?
Eee, uh...
Oh, a dog, two dogs, and a door, and a ladder, and ah! And a guy!
Let's go this way, shall we?
Mean.
So is the Lost Bastille a completely different castle in a completely different area? Like, how far away am I from where we were?
I'm a little disoriented now.
Yep.
Door opens!
And... hello?
You're a person.
A nice one, I hope.
Hello?
What is it?
I don't know you, and you don't know me.
True.
Things are better that way.
I guess, but...
You are an odd one. Normally, people keep a safe distance when they see this mask. But you... I'm called Lucotine...
Hello.
From the land of Mira to the far east. Across the mountains.
They say Drangleic brims with powerful souls, and so I came to claim my share.
But what a strange place. Even the rumors did not prepare me.
You are an odd one indeed. I've always made a point of avoiding people...
While you've made a point of engaging me.
I can see that you are on a journey. If you require assistance, I will help you.
I come from Myrrah, a land of knights. My sword is always ready.
Don't hesitate to call upon me. Whatever happens, I won't be missed.
Hehe...
You are an odd one indeed. I can see... I can't... don't hesitate...
Only what lock does this key fit? What lock indeed? Hopefully we'll find it!
Going in this direction!
Try right and then be wary of quite something.
Uh... okay.
I mean, there's a ladder up there that I can't quite seem to reach.
Maybe I can...
Maybe I can, uh...
very carefully... do this.
And, uh...
very carefully... do this.
And then...
recklessly... go up here.
And, uh...
Oh.
When they said "quite something" I expected a much meaner surprise.
Large Titanite Shard, though. That's great. Thank you!
And a cool little view, as well.
Neat.
All right, let's go back down.
All right, forward!
Hmm... which direction?
I'm seeing these same kinds of knights as I saw at the end... of the, uh... last castle, so...
seems like there must be some... potential affiliation between... this location and the last one.
Let's see if we can deal with this guy first.
You!
Hey, watch it!
Watch it with your fire.
Yep.
Gotta be careful fighting around here.
Hit 'em! There we go.
All right.
Forward, forward.
Tried jumping. I'd rather not.
Unless...
Nope! I would definitely rather not.
I see another fellow up here.
And an item. Maybe I can sneak. Sneak, sneak, sneak. Don't alert anyone. Item. Gold pine resin. Great!
I'll use it someday, probably. And maybe, sneaky tip- toe, I can sneak up on you and backstab you and that would be great. And ha! That's not what I meant to do, but I'll take it.
Good enough. Good enough.
Can I push this? Yay! Whoa! I didn't expect that to happen! Awesome!
Oop, and a dog. Hello, dog. Ha! Goodbye, dog.
Locked. All right. Need another key, then. Antiquated key not helping me out here.
I'm gonna get really turned around if I--hey! Bonfire! That's great!
I was gonna say, I'm gonna get really turned around if I just kinda keep heading forward without stopping to check out any of these side paths, but...
if it takes me to a bonfire, then...
Hey!
You look like a...
baby-friendly type?
Blacksmith?
Friend?
That's...not what I meant to do, but...
Let's talk to you first.
Watch it where you swing that.
Oh, why can't they all be this easy?
You seem like you might be losing your mind a little bit there.
We've got a wild one here.
Indeed.
Indeed!
I say!
Thanks?
All right, Macduff.
You... got it.
I'm on your side, man.
Fortify your gear.
I'm guessing he needs shards?
I'm guessing he needs shards.
Steady hand, Macduff.
What sort of stuff have you got, buddy?
Bastard sword...
Uchi Katana, cool.
Greataxe...
Wingspear... scythe...
Longbow...
Royal Kite Shield...
Hmm...
Hey, that's got... 100% physical damage reduction.
That may be worth a purchase.
Nothing special about this shield, which is precisely why it's so easy to use and the likely reason for its popularity.
People rarely agree over what constitutes quality, but the broad popularity of these shields proves that there are exceptions.
100% damage reduction... or physical damage reduction seems worth... getting a hold of, so let's go ahead and buy ourselves one of them.
Actually, no, let's check his other things first.
He's got arrows... and he's got...
Repair powder and large titanite shards. Cool, okay. Still buying the shield, though.
I'm having that. Thank you!
Reinforcing weapons and armor seems to be... yeah, same as our pal back home.
I wonder if I should be looking into armor upgrading. I didn't do that 'til a pretty late game in Dark Souls,
which admittedly might have been a little silly of me, but...
is it equally important in this to upgrade your armor?
Or, uh... I don't know. Let me know.
Infuse weapon...
I don't know what "infusion" is...
So if I say...
Here, infuse this one winged spear...
Ahhh...
with... and I use souls to infuse it with an element.
Oh, souls and a stone. Faint stone, firedrake, bold stone, dark knight... okay.
Interesting.
Very interesting, okay.
You seem unstable.
Flame... dear flame...
Yep!
I'm gonna check these chests...
take some stuff, hope you don't mind.
Five titanite shards...
Iron arrows... cool.
I won't take that one you're standing in front of, 'cause I suspect I'd have to pick a fight with you to do it.
Taking the rest of this stuff, though, that's for sure.
Lots of tight night. And that's fine by me.
All right! That was a good find!
Very good find.
Guess we head back up now...
and try one of these little drop-off paths.
Like for example...
Pyromancy! Yee!
That is a thing to be wary of.
Oh wait, let me equip my new shield.
Boop! There we go.
Nice!
All right! I am ready to be wary of pyromancy!
Ah! Ah! Take that!
And that! There you go.
Ooh! Royal swordsman armor! Cool!
Hope I can get some more of that later.
Seems like a cool set.
Is this the pyromancer? It might be.
How pyromancer?
Like a... huge wall of flame, tiny burst of flame, dodgeable, not dodgeable? Despair!
Um...
Now the real fight begins!
Be wary of ambush!
It's a statue! [laughs]
That is some good build up.
Well...
Can't do anything about that right now.
I expect I need to go back and buy...
A really expensive piece of equipment, or uh, not piece of equipment, really expensive item from uh...
the merchant back in town.
A 12,000 soul item to uh...
unfreeze him and get through that door.
So can't do that right now. Guess I'll check this other alternate path I found.
There was another alternate path, right? I think there was.
Yeah, it was this-a-way.
It was the one I got scared of and ran from.
Did I rest at that other bonfire?
I don't think I did, but that's okay. I'm closer to the first one now, so...
Okay.
Plan of attack, plan of attack.
Uh...
I am curious if this...
will work.
Aww.
I had hoped.
Aww, boo.
I had hoped for explosion.
I guess with a fire arrow, I probably would get one.
Hmm.
So instead...
we'll just do it the hard way.
Watch it, dog.
Watch it.
Person.
All of you.
Leave me alone.
I was hoping for a different piece of swordsman armor, but...
I am grateful anyway. Thank you.
All right, we got another door here...
which opens.
Hooray, hooray.
And a ladder.
Hm.
Ah, I bet I could like roll this down or drop it off and I'd get a big explosion...
...if I'd gotten all the way over here...
...without getting killed down there somehow.
Still cool.
I am certainly enjoying this more overall now that I have leveled up a bit, got my gear...
...and I'm just kind of...
...experiencing it like normal Dark Souls again.
This has been pretty great. I'm enjoying it.
Covetous silver serpent ring, human effigy - ahh! Okay, well, hi, pursuer.
Why are - why are you back?
Eeh.
Let's, uh, use a thing. Can you fit through here? If you can, I have a plan.
Can you fit?
That's right, get outta here!
Punk.
Well, that was an event. Does he come back, I wonder?
Well, either way - free stuff!
So where now?
I don't believe you.
Comment.
There's an item. Maybe I can get to that.
Oh, I bet I can, uh... I think I know where to go.
To get that item, at least.
After I get the item, I have no idea where to go, but...
To get the item, I bet I...
No, I can't climb this.
Well, I guess I'd have to warp back to the bonfire and then come around and...
Bah!
If I warp...
Tower apart? Yeah, no, the tower apart.
If I warp back here...
And then...
And then from here...
Go this way...
And, uh...
Carefully walk...
But don't walk up yet. Just keep a-goin'.
There will be items!
Yeah!
And from there...
Then... I can drop in here...
Do a little bit of rolling...
And ow! Hello.
I didn't know you would be up here.
You gotta warn me, man.
Heal...
Push...
Item... Push... Can I not push it?
Eh, I'm scared of breakin' it, but...
Let's see what happens!
Push? Eh, no.
There's gotta be some way to r...
Eh, rolling seems like it would just break it.
Nyerp...
Yeah... Oh, well.
Nyerp...
Well, up we go.
Do do do do do do do do do!
And... greetings, sir!
And greetings once more! Okay, look out.
And greetings. There we go. Lots of greetings for you.
I need to figure out where to go. I suppose I should go, uh... look that up. Right? I mean...
Welp, I did a little research and I found that...
there's not a whole lot else that I can do in this area... from here.
But there's a different way that this, uh, place can be entered, I think.
From a... zone that I'll be going to sometime later. So let's leave here.
I kinda wanna go back up... to, um...
Yeah, I kinda wanna go back up to where I fought the Pursuer one more time, just in case...
there were some items or something I missed up there. I really didn't mean to get carried off by a crow out of nowhere.
So, let's run back up there right quick.
See what we see.
And after that... I have learned that... where am I going?
No, wait, yeah, no, this is the way.
After that, I have... learned that...
I might as well just head toward the next zone.
Because I don't think the Lost Bastille's really where I'm, uh...
meant to... head to spend a lot of time just yet.
So I'm gonna head to the next zone that you can reach... from Majula.
Or the next zone that is of, uh... relatively manageable difficulty.
Eep. Yep. Lock. There we go.
Yeah!
Starting to get the hang of fighting those, uh... spear wielders.
They were giving me trouble for a while.
Yep. Yeah.
There we go.
All right, now I see what you guys mean about life gems being pretty inexpensive and, uh...
easy to maintain as a healing source.
And I kind of appreciate that. It's nice having the hybrid...
Bloodborne/Dark Souls healing item combo.
[sword unsheathes]
One that's a slow regen that you can, uh, purchase in abundance and one that is your faster heal...
that you get a limited number of.
I can work with that. That's manageable.
Praise the sun, though, right?
I really need that gesture.
So, whatever will we find out here?
If anything. Maybe there's nothing. Oh, there's already something, so...
In a minute, I will drop down there and investigate!
Still a lot of big crows carrying people around it seems.
There we go.
Why big crows carrying stuff around, I wonder.
Alas, nothing happened.
That is very curious. I'm wondering if there's some item that allows me to interact with these in some way.
That would be interesting.
All right, so...
Best approach for dropping down here.
Best approach, best approach...
This seems... best!
Oh, no fall damage.
Does rolling off of a ledge prevent fall damage?
Or, to a certain extent?
That'd be great.
What do you got?
Ooh!
That's a lot of stuff!
Um, well, I mean we seem safe up here, let's check it out.
Drangleic Mail.
Traditional Drangleic armor, belonging to Captain Drummond.
Drummond's ancestors have served Drangleic for generations, principally as defenders of the great fort, but Captain Drummond is the last in this proud line.
Hmm...
Let's try these on.
This seems... cool.
Drangleic Mail, nice!
Drangleic Gauntlets!
Drangleic Leggings, yeah!
I'm liking the look of this, it's a bit heavy, though.
I could see that being a bit of an issue.
Do I have a Drangleic... helmet? Kinda thought I did, but maybe...
Maybe that was not included...
in the big batch of stuff I just found.
No, I guess not.
Yeah, and this stuff does take me over.
The seventy percent, probably by a long margin, so I need to start raising my vitality, then.
Until then, I will just stick with falconer stuff.
Oh, a Drangleic Shield!
Also with a hundred percent physical damage reduction.
Better magic, not quite as good fire, not quite as good of a lot of other things, actually.
I don't know.
Better strength scaling, though, for whatever that counts.
What do you guys say, a Drangleic or Royal Kite?
Cast your votes.
Drangleic Sword...
Ooh, requires parameters much higher than what I have.
And is a better dexterity scaling weapon, but I just kinda wanna see what it looks like.
Drangleic Sword!
Ooh, that's why. It's a large one.
But still primarily dexterity-based. Interesting.
I like the look, though.
Wait a minute, where did I get a fragrant branch of yore?
Fragrant tree branch with a faint sweet smell restores the life of things turned to stone. Extended...
Extended inhalation of the branch's scent can lead to coughing and nausea.
Where'd I get this?
Must've been one of those occasions where I was grabbing things quickly and...
like, under pressure.
So, I guess that leads to the next question. What to use this on?
Do I use this on the petrified thing in the Things Betwixt starter area?
Or at the Bastille?
Cast your second votes, I guess.
Ooh, let's see. How do I get down without hurting myself?
Is it possible?
Someone's angry.
Where are you going?
Are you gonna go all the way around to try to come back here to get me?
You silly thing.
I was just going to drop down and run to the bonfire.
Oh, whatever. Ah, meant to roll. That's okay.
Oh, hello. Welcome back.
Yep, there you go.
There you go.
Well, let's see. Let's get one more level here.
Go ahead and...
start raising that vitality some more.
Gonna need it.
But now that we've done that,
I think this is a fine place to call it an episode.
But when we come back,
we've got a new area to go to.
I believe it's down there.
I believe that is where our next destination awaits.
So, I will see you then!