The last one is a happy "cursed."
After spending a lot of time in the Catacombs, and eventually dying twice in the Tomb of the Giants (the kind of twice that cost me 26,000 souls) I decided to leave and see where I else I could go. Dan had pointed out that the other bell wasn't in the catacombs but rather through the depths. So off to the Depths I went. I had done a little bit of clearing house here earlier, but I wasn't sure what was going to come back to life. After running through some hollows and some dogs I was relieved that some sort of strange butcher didn't come back to life. Then, behind his table of meats, I noticed an exit. I decided to follow it and it led me to an balcony over looking a giant rat. I remember Dan talking about the gigantic rat, so I decided to lay back and shoot it to death with arrows. After that I wandered the balcony and decided to kills some rats before dropping down. I found a small corridor leaving that room off to the side, and again after killing some rats I made the mistake of falling down a hole. The game was struggling with the hole, because I was standing right on top of it and was fine (I ended up on top of it because the camera in the small hallway was shitty). As soon as I stepped off of it I fell again and was immediately set upon by some sort of giant eyed, thin legged monster.
Here let me take an aside to point out that I am long time arachnophobe. I remember distinctly the part of Resident Evil 1 where you first fought a bunch of small spiders that crawled on the ceiling, then fought a giant spider in a room. My tactic for the small spiders was to use rockets as soon as they saw them. I used fire rockets for the big one. What is lost in this retelling is after the first spider dropped on top of me I immediately threw the controller and stopped playing the game for a few hours. I don't like spiders.
So when I thought this was a spider (I think it is a kind of frog) I dropped the controller and had no ability to fight the curse I was getting. I died, and as a result was cursed.
Being cursed means having half life, accruing no humanity, and other stuff. I read online how to get rid of my curse and realized I could buy a cleansing. I was just about to head to get that done in the Undead Parrish when I read that I could now attack ghosts. I had previously ran from the ghosts I found in the New Londo Ruins, but now that I was cursed I figured why not. So have been running through the ruins, trying to figure out how to deal with the ghosts and managing the closest thing this game has to platforming. Having only half life certainly makes things difficult, but I have been able to make some progress. Aside from the ghosts moving and attacking through walls this fight hasn't been too tough. One type of ghost tries to stab me if I am close and shoots lightning if I am far away. The tightness of the corridors has eliminated my usual strafing tactic, so I am using a spear and just stabbing away. I don't know what is at the end of this road, but for now it is worth exploring.
Did you get the Fire Keeper Soul near the first pair of ghosts? It looks like there's no way to get to that tower with the lit item, but there's actually a narrow walkway just under the surface that leads you out to it. Worth grabbing now to upgrade your estus flask.
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I did get the Fire Keeper Soul, which is why my Estus is up to +2. The ghosts really aren't that bad when you are cursed. I can hit them with arrows and finding their trigger plates is easy since it is such a linear path. I certainly died a few times, but I made it through all of New Londo Ruins, found Ingward and some other loot. I declined Ingward's curse removal, but after I cleared everything out I decided to get uncursed again. Using my winged spear was really key with the Ghosts. It's thrusting motion was capable of stabbing two ghosts at a time and I could get three strikes off (which was enough to kill them) before they could react. So as long as I didn't have a group of them surrounding me (which was easy to avoid once I figured out their locations) I was fine.
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