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Chapter 3: The Undead Burg part 1
The two of us left the Shrine heading to the entrance of the waterway that will lead us to the Burg. has we heading there we come upon four hollows at the stair case. "Alright then Oscar. The hollow up there uses fire bombs so be careful and keep an eye on him so not to get hit by him, till I deal with him. The other three as you can see are just swords and bucklers so they'll be quick to beat as long as they don't manage to get you caught off guard." I told him as we got ready to fight. We went in with me killing one quickly by a heavy soul dart (will be call heavy darts.). After which I started shooting more darts at the fire bomb thrower killing him with my 5th shot landing on his head. Oscar had killed the other two hollows a couple of seconds later cutting both of there heads off in one move. I checked and collected two firebombs from the body of the fire bomb thrower adding them to the five I found earlier as well as getting two the souls of lost undead (will be called lost soul/s after this.) and a ring of sacrifice that I put on from the bodies nearby. We entered the walkways killing the six rats in it and getting two humanities from doing so and another lost soul. "I'm confused in which how the rats had humanities on them?" He said to me as he pondered the question. "One word my friend. Corpses. That's where they get the humanities they had on themselves." I explained to him. "When they feed on the corpses they have a chance of eating the humanity that's on it before it fades away." I told him "I see then it would be wise to kill any we encounter to see of they have any and collect it if they do." Oscar said as we reached the exit of the water way. "I was planing on doing the same thing as well." I replied to him.
When our eyes adjusted to the sunlight and killed a pair of Hollows near us, we had our first look at the Undead Burg. The place was the same as in the game aside from looking more realistic and slightly more damage on the roofs of the buildings that we could see. "Well here starts our attempt to get to the first Bell of Awakening here. Now before we go I must tell you a couple of things. We will make a couple of stops two to see if we can get two people to come and help us get to the bells and deal with other things and another to head to Firelink Shrine to help defend Anastacia if needed to do so." I told him as I thought about getting the three of them to help. 'The merchant will be the hardest one in trying to get him to head to Firelink and help due to him being a merchant he will undoubtedly want something for doing so.' "There will be another stop after we ring the Bell. I will explain more to you later after along with telling the other two if they joined us. We then headed into the Burg.
As we move through the Burg we went and collected items, souls, and humanities along the way from both corpses, Hollows, and chests in buildings. The number of hollows here is high and more just keep on coming as we fought brought in by the sounds from to fighting with the ones we run into as we moved through the place. We also saw the Drake which Oscar thought was a dragon. I told him this. " That's a Drake not a dragon. A dragon is much larger and majestic, but it's apart of the family. It's also did the fly by like that to try to scare chosen undead away" It took us two hours to reach the first Bonfire of the several Bonfires in the Burg. "Damnation now many Hollows are there." Oscar complained. "At least an large town's to an city's worth if not more from those who didn't make it when going for the Bell here." I told him. "I can't tell you the total number of Hollows here, but I can tell you the least amount of some areas plus some of the more dangerous ones of the group or individual ones that are so dangerous that any others nearby must be killed quickly to deal with that one. You do you understand all of that?" I explained to Oscar for I knew things will get more difficult the deeper we go into the Burg. "I understand so if you point out an enemy or another deal with it unless it's an ally that needs help." He confirmed.
We continued our way and till we reached our first stop after we killed off the four spear/shield Hollows I had us destroy the crates blocking our way. "Wait here I don't want him to feel like we are pressuring him when I ask him." I told Oscar. "And don't look at or speak of his sword." I warned before going to the merchant. "Well look at this you got your wits about you. Then you're a welcome customer. I sell for souls, and everything here's for sell." He said to me. I looked about and got a bottomless box,the residents key needed to get in some locked buildings, an reinforced set of Sorcerer armor with leather armor added to parts of it protecting the vital parts of me placed on the inside of it, and some normal firebombs. I looked at him and spoke. "I would like to speak with you about something." I said. "Well then, go on?" He told me. "What if I were to ask you to move your wares to Firelink Shrine? And it's not for just your wares." I asked him. "Well it would depend on what is this other thing and why would I move my wares when I'm good here with easy assesses to new goods." He replied to me. "You moving your wares so not only it would be less likely to end up killed here, which there is a low chance of happening there anyway and more likely to have more customers for many people go through there when they first arrived and as they go back and forth as they try to reach the Bells of Awakening and anything else that needs to be done. And the other thing is a job I would to like you to do, even if I have to hire you to do so by souls, humanities, or both. However before I try to hire you by just souls and humanities I could show you something that would be of use to you." I explained to him. "And what would this thing be? He asked me. 'Hook, line, and sinker.' I thought to myself. "All I would say that it needs one humanity and the product would be noticeable. And it's not done simply by crushing a humanity by hand for it would need another thing." I said to him. He thought to himself for a couple of minutes before he said. "500 souls, five humanities plus one more for thing you speak of along with it and you have deal." "Agreed. Now before I show you I will tell you who you will protect and who you must be ready to fight alongside with me and a few others for he's not one to fight alone and may have help." I told him of who he has to help protect, the man we will fight's name and what his armor looks like. "Before we go I will tell you that I have a friend in the next room. You can guess why he's in there and not here." He did from the look on his face. We went to the Bonfire nearby and I showed him using a humanity to bring me back to my human looks and able to think a bit more clearly. my appearance was slightly tanned skin with some defined muscles from marital arts like Kong Won Doe, and my hair which was brown. The merchant did the same looking like an average person. "Thank you for showing me this. I'll do as you asked and now I think about what you said about moving my wares you did rise a good point. I was a little to Hollowed to think of doing so." He then left to prepare to head to Firelink Shrine. Oscar and I followed him to let Oscar buy a bow and some arrows.
"Well the hardest one of the three done. Now to the other two and the bell." I said to Oscar when we left. We fought through the Burg dealing with the wagon trap and then killing the Black Knight nearby get the blue tear stone ring and Titanite Shard continued to make our way till we reach the battlements. "Alright now we got and another demon to kill here. There's also two or more crossbow on the tower above us. We'll kill the crossbows and have you up there. Use the bow and till he gets close to the tower and then jump off and stab his head. I'll climb up and do the same and if not then shoot heavy darts and till I can. There's a Titanite demon hiding in a barrel we'll kill it and collect any usable Titanite before dealing with the Hollows and Demon." I told Oscar as we went up the stairs. After killing the Titanite demon and getting five Titanite shards and two sparking ones we climbed up the latter and killed three crossbows. After which I went down and with a black-fire bomb in hand got the Bull's attention making him jump down to fight I tossed the bomb hitting it's head and then turning around running back to the tower. I climbed up hearing Oscar's bow being used three times more before seeing out of the side of my eye him jumping down at the demon's head as I was putting myself on the top of the tower. I quickly ran and did the same hitting it's left eye. It went nuts screaming in pain flinging it's axe all over the damn place. I threw another Black-fire bomb which somehow landed in it's mouth and by pure luck it swallowed the damn thing. It's head blew up in a gory display a minute later. We collected the souls, an humanity piece each, and it's Demon's Great-axe from a orb where the body was. "Where the hell do those orbs come from after the body of the demons disappeared?" I questioned Oscar he just give me a shake of his head showing he had no idea as well. After that which we walk to the steps at the other tower.
I turned to Oscar and told him. "Down those steps and to the left is the next person and one of the two who may join us. I believe you may know him for he is from your land as well." "One of my kinsmen! Let us go and meet him." he said in happiness. We went down the steps and found Solaire standing there looking at the sun. he heard us walking to him and turned. When Oscar saw his tunic he said. "Solaire my brother good to see you again!" The two moved close and did the solder handshake before giving each other a hug. "Brothers in arms?" I said with a grin. "More like brothers in all but blood." Solaire answered. "Not that it's good to see you again my brother but what are you doing here?" Oscar asks him. "I'm looking for my own sun, it's what I came to Lordran for when I became an Undead." he replied. "I see. Jack my friend can you tell us anything of his quest?" Oscar asked me. "Why are you asking him?" Solaire asked him. "He knows things about the future. I would be dead and Hollowed if not for him." He replied. Solaire looked at me and give me a bow. "You have my thanks for saving him from that fate." He said to me. "There's no needed for that. If you are wishing to repay me then come along with us. For this way you can find your own sun. a true one." I told them. "What do you mean." Solaire asked me. "There's two paths you can take. One where you will find a false sun in the form of a sunlight maggot if you go on your own, and the other is if you come with us and you can get a true sun from Lady Gwyndolin the dark sun for she give us the one we had now when the one we first had was lost to the Abyss." I said to him not withholding anything from him. "I see. If going with you will give me a true sun to call my own then I will go with you." he said to me. "Then let us go and get you your sun Solaire." I said as we headed to the bridge.
WDIGMI
I couldn't think on how to put in going to Rickert to get the heavy darts.
And a cookie to anyone who can figure out who I'm saying Anastacia needs to be protected from.
