Kris - BounceBlade, TwinRibbon, TennaTie.
Susie - ToxicAxe, ShadowMantle, RoyalPin.
Ralsei - FlexScarf, Dealmaker, ChainMail.

This strategy I used focuses on full defense, if you have better then wear it. I have a Jevilstail but chose ChainMail over it. My inventory is this, Spincake, ClubsSandwich, DD-Burger, ExecBuffet, ReviveMint, DeluxeDinner, TensionMax, TensionGem (I recommend replacing tension items with more food but it's not needed), ReviveMint, ReviveMint, and another ReviveMint for good measure. You can get a ReviveMint from the capsule machine, I recommend unlocking the (Dess related?) easter egg with that by inputting 1225 points after you already received all of the items from it. Why? It has nothing to do with the knight but just for completionist sake.

With this set up you should start with a TensionGem or TensionMax and spam Rude Buster with Susie while making sure to hit the confirm button just before it hits the knight, Ralsei should focus on guarding and healing and almost never attack. Kris should be guarding almost the entire fight and using items. This strategy is about defense and surviving, keep your health up at all times, skip any rude busters to do this. And just like that, you've already won.

The Steam version of my guide;

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f...3494427530.

Video version of my guide;

https://youtu.be/8qn1VaQXCLE
https://old.bitchute.com/video/DpRzwzBlDqJP/

I'll be streaming chapter 3 and 4 on release just as I did with the other chapters (I think I streamed chapter 1 a few days after). Stay tuned!

   

Everyone already knows what the pendant is but I wanted to revisit this particular item thirteen years later, by the way this is mostly a script for the video version of this post which I have yet to upload, apologies for any mistakes in this, I wasn't originally going to post the script for the video but here it is.


Video version:

https://youtu.be/Bo4eznvXSb0

https://old.bitchute.com/video/4Qx6FmSvtTqt/

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Among the eight starting gifts you can choose one of those is the pendant, it's item description says it's a trinket with no effect but fond memories will comfort travelers. Oddly enough the item description for the pendant at one point had the text as the sunlight medal, I believe this was when the Prepare to Die Edition of the game was released, I have no idea how or why that was the case. Outside of that little oddity there's a few other things to note about it, the pendant can be obtained indefinitely from the Forest Hunter covenant after successfully defeating a host, this is a random chance and you won't always get a pendant.



Outside of obtaining it as a starting gift and through this covenant there are no other ways to obtain it, it's a fairly uncommon item but nothing like getting a slab from a Darkwraith obviously. When Dark Souls released everyone started searching for the true purpose of the pendant as it appeared to be a rather useless item at first in a game where every other item has a use, it stood out a lot. 



Urban legends started on forums about how the pendant would lead to a third, true ending of the game or would open new areas. Some theories were tested such as hitting many walls in the game with the pendant in the players inventory or going into NG+ with it.


Eventually a use for it was discovered and it's pretty decent, you can get a souvenir of reprisal from Snuggly the crow for the blades of the darkmoon covenant, just one of these will help you rank up a lot easier if you're playing offline and farming the crows in the painted world for the souvenirs. It's not the most amazing discovery but everyone was pretty disappointed by it so we kept searching for another purpose.



When Artorias of the Abyss released there was an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki which I always thought was mistranslated because it makes no sense, I should mention prior to this interview people would ask him what the purpose of the pendant is and he stated he would never tell everyone the purpose of it. Then during said interview he said he just wanted to make a joke or a prank, I'm a little confused by this, by the looks of it when he's saying it's a joke he's talking about the pendant despite it having a purpose in the game, maybe he was just being cryptic.



Speaking of the Artorias of the Abyss DLC it's interesting that to enter the DLC you need a broken pendant that assumedly belongs to him, I heard a theory that the pendant from the main game represents the chosen undead like how Manus' own pendant represents him, he must have a lot of memories with it to pull you back in the past for it. Finally, there's a third pendant from Anor Londo that was given to Artorias, the silver pendant. This pendant is oddly found in a random chest in Oolcile, the odd thing is to get to the room with the chest you need a sunlight maggot, lantern or the cast light spell, it's very unique. 


This pendant is awesome in concept but it's almost never used as it's not that helpful, it reflects dark spells, both from other players and enemies and I wouldn't recommend using it against Manus honestly, I'll be showing some footage of it in action.
I don't know whether to believe these other two DLC pendants have a connection to the main one, as far as unused cut content goes there's nothing to do with any of the pendants and that's really it, my idea with this video is to maybe rekindle discussion about it online, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.



Fast forwarding to March of 2014, Dark Souls 2 is released. And there's no pendant in here, nor in the Scholar of The First Sin version of the game. Fast forwarding again to March of 2016, Dark Souls 3 is released and there may be a reference to the pendant in the Dreamchaser's ashes, the shrine handmaiden says that these ashes are the stuff of a fool, it looks like Miyazaki's joke came full circle. Well anyway, my idea for this post / video was to maybe rekindle discussions about the pendant online and have people theorize on it again, perhaps Miyazaki or other developers will comment on it again someday.

The link to purchase and download Crescent Quest - Episode Sentloer is currently unavailable.


   

To the anon from last year, who posted the mystic reddish-pink flower with the number above mine as the file name, the one who called me there, the one who saw my quads of my spiritual number, you've helped me greatly that day and brightened my path. I was cleaning my room and picked up a game OST off my floor to put it back on my shelf when I sensed a message telling me to visit that board as fast as possible. I don't know why you summoned me and offered your words to help me, a stranger, maybe you received the same kind of message to post there.

I give you my blessings, strengthened by God, Jesus Christ, Angels, Kami-sama. My soul is with me always, purified. I have gained all of the spiritual power I could ever want and I am satisfied with whenever God decides to take me. May we meet again, we have eternity to do so, but maybe we will meet in this world again. You have me and my husbands prayers and respect. You are an Angel and will be given a proper throne when the time comes.

If we meet after this world, I'll be as my true, spiritual self, given form by our creator, keep an eye out for me. I may not be the best at drawing myself but here's what I can do from what I see from my visions, in them I can only really see my snout, hands and feet most of the time! Take care of yourself if you ever read this, and also if you don't. Also be on the lookout for my own flower of my color.

   

And I think that's cool. I'm making a server for me and my friends to play on, it's called InariScape. Here's a picture of me and Honey in Lumbridge (among most of the other portraits in the game). This is not a public RSPS, RuneScape is a property of Jagex, all rights to RuneScape belong to them. Credit to the Lost City 2004Scape team.

       

Messing around with DS1 textures.

   

A virtual cross necklace and egg will be given out to all of those who sign in within the month.

   

Welcome to part three of my Dark Souls mysteries, oddities and secrets blog posts. The video versions of this post can be found here:

https://youtu.be/SX6zYWwpSoI
https://old.bitchute.com/video/SbhicnxtsXzl/

~ Lost Izalith Human Shaped Holes ~

I never looked closely at these until someone else, I forgot who, brought it up. We've all walked past these obviously but I'm sure most didn't think anything of them. Around the Fire Sage area you can find human shaped holes in the wall, it's rather creepy and I have no idea what these would have been used for, they could represent humanity.

If I had to come up with an idea for these it's simply to represent the importance of humans, even though they are a source of survival for the demons I would assume they may also honor them, I'm pretty sure most if not all come from humans anyway, although a lore expert is probably going to prove me wrong on that and I might be missing the obvious as I haven't refreshed myself on the lore in some time.


~ Titanite Demon and Primordial Serpent Connection ~

I saw someone point this out on /v/, if you look closely at titanite demons they actually resemble the primordial serpents. This is especially true when looking at the ones in unlit areas, you can clearly make out all of the features, this could be a coincidence but to me it honestly looks too close to the serpents. I have no theories at all on this, the demon titanite item description says that when a blacksmith deity passed away "beasts arose" from slabs of titanite. I know this is clearly talking about the titanite demons themselves but what if it also means other beasts such as the serpents? Frampt is associated with titanite after all.

~ The Ghost of the Gutter ~

During my no death / no bonfire run of Dark Souls 2 a few days ago (4/6/2025) I've seen something that I have never seen before, it was in the area where you drop down after rolling through the corrosive urns and pick up the fragrant branch, I went to go pick up the branch and after obtaining it I turned around to see something look up and then run off the side of the map which gave me 156 souls, nothing in the game runs this fast nor gives that amount of souls with the silver serpent ring +1 I had equipped. My friend Kaz was in the stream at the time and the thing went so fast we didn't realize it was humanoid until we went back to look at the footage, it clearly looks up in the air as it runs at a ridiculous speed off the cliff.

I will put a gif here and a link to the stream footage. At the time of me writing this I am turning my console back on and going to check the area again. I tried doing everything exactly the same as in my run a few times, I started from Majula and went back to the black gulch multiple times, just once I received some souls, I think it was the same amount but without seeing the ghost, it was when I rested at the bonfire down there and went backwards. I summoned Bashful Ray and he kept taking out binoculars and staring into the fog. I decided to set up my recording software and turn the game audio up, I started at 4,334 souls and as I was away from my console I am now at 4,620, looking at the footage my character gained souls multiple times, 143 each.

Before I received the souls I heard what sounds like splattering. I'm starting to think these are the regular hollow enemies that sometimes use dark buffs just simply walking off from where the corrosive urns are, if this is the case it doesn't explain the "ghost" (whatever it is), it's far faster than any enemy in the game and it was already down there before the urns were rolled through.

~ Dark Souls 2 Screamer ~

Around the time of the games release there was a rumor that pirated versions of the game had a screamer that would show up at random, this was mentioned a few times on the Steam forums for the game. The screamer itself was said to be the female characters death sound effect with no image shown to go along with it, it's also been stated this can happen on non-pirated versions. I would just like to say, we do not condone piracy or any other unlawful behavior here on our site. Anyway, I am not sure if this is something that ever happened or can happen.

~ Vamos' Origins / Royal Helm ~

I never examined Vamos' helm too closely but it's actually more detailed than I thought it was, I thought it was just a pure gold helm but it has gems and other details on it. The helms item description mentions it belonging to an ancient and royal line then says only Vamos would know for sure and that "he'll never speak again". The helm also has high bleed and poison resistance, not like that matters really. Considering there's such little information on this royal line there's not much else I can say or theorize on, at least other armor sets mention the name of another region outside of Lordran but this one has no name or anything to go off of.

Something I and others have noticed is the similarity to the face on the effigy shield, it looks like a skeleton wearing the royal helm but this shield was designed by one of the shield contest winners, specifically Mat Gunn. His own name for the shield was "Xenomorph's Aegis" so I assume the design is a coincidence, it's still interesting to think on though.

~ You Were Taken by The Abyss ~

There is a creepy message that appears if you take off the covenant of Artorias ring while in the Abyss but before you fight the Four Kings, as soon as you take the ring off you are slowly pulled downward into an even deeper Abyss with a unique animation before you are overwhelmed and sent back to the last bonfire rested at to which the message "You were taken by the Abyss" appears across the screen that takes a while to go away.

Welcome to part three of my Dark Souls mysteries, oddities and secrets blog posts. The video versions of this post can be found here:

https://youtu.be/SX6zYWwpSoI
https://old.bitchute.com/video/SbhicnxtsXzl/

~ Lost Izalith Human Shaped Holes ~

I never looked closely at these until someone else, I forgot who, brought it up. We've all walked past these obviously but I'm sure most didn't think anything of them. Around the Fire Sage area you can find human shaped holes in the wall, it's rather creepy and I have no idea what these would have been used for, they could represent humanity.

If I had to come up with an idea for these it's simply to represent the importance of humans, even though they are a source of survival for the demons I would assume they may also honor them, I'm pretty sure most if not all come from humans anyway, although a lore expert is probably going to prove me wrong on that and I might be missing the obvious as I haven't refreshed myself on the lore in some time.


~ Titanite Demon and Primordial Serpent Connection ~

I saw someone point this out on /v/, if you look closely at titanite demons they actually resemble the primordial serpents. This is especially true when looking at the ones in unlit areas, you can clearly make out all of the features, this could be a coincidence but to me it honestly looks too close to the serpents. I have no theories at all on this, the demon titanite item description says that when a blacksmith deity passed away "beasts arose" from slabs of titanite. I know this is clearly talking about the titanite demons themselves but what if it also means other beasts such as the serpents? Frampt is associated with titanite after all.

~ The Ghost of the Gutter ~

During my no death / no bonfire run of Dark Souls 2 a few days ago (4/6/2025) I've seen something that I have never seen before, it was in the area where you drop down after rolling through the corrosive urns and pick up the fragrant branch, I went to go pick up the branch and after obtaining it I turned around to see something look up and then run off the side of the map which gave me 156 souls, nothing in the game runs this fast nor gives that amount of souls with the silver serpent ring +1 I had equipped. My friend Kaz was in the stream at the time and the thing went so fast we didn't realize it was humanoid until we went back to look at the footage, it clearly looks up in the air as it runs at a ridiculous speed off the cliff.

I will put a gif here and a link to the stream footage. At the time of me writing this I am turning my console back on and going to check the area again. I tried doing everything exactly the same as in my run a few times, I started from Majula and went back to the black gulch multiple times, just once I received some souls, I think it was the same amount but without seeing the ghost, it was when I rested at the bonfire down there and went backwards. I summoned Bashful Ray and he kept taking out binoculars and staring into the fog. I decided to set up my recording software and turn the game audio up, I started at 4,334 souls and as I was away from my console I am now at 4,620, looking at the footage my character gained souls multiple times, 143 each.

Before I received the souls I heard what sounds like splattering. I'm starting to think these are the regular hollow enemies that sometimes use dark buffs just simply walking off from where the corrosive urns are, if this is the case it doesn't explain the "ghost" (whatever it is), it's far faster than any enemy in the game and it was already down there before the urns were rolled through.

~ Dark Souls 2 Screamer ~

Around the time of the games release there was a rumor that pirated versions of the game had a screamer that would show up at random, this was mentioned a few times on the Steam forums for the game. The screamer itself was said to be the female characters death sound effect with no image shown to go along with it, it's also been stated this can happen on non-pirated versions. I would just like to say, we do not condone piracy or any other unlawful behavior here on our site. Anyway, I am not sure if this is something that ever happened or can happen.

~ Vamos' Origins / Royal Helm ~

I never examined Vamos' helm too closely but it's actually more detailed than I thought it was, I thought it was just a pure gold helm but it has gems and other details on it. The helms item description mentions it belonging to an ancient and royal line then says only Vamos would know for sure and that "he'll never speak again". The helm also has high bleed and poison resistance, not like that matters really. Considering there's such little information on this royal line there's not much else I can say or theorize on, at least other armor sets mention the name of another region outside of Lordran but this one has no name or anything to go off of.

Something I and others have noticed is the similarity to the face on the effigy shield, it looks like a skeleton wearing the royal helm but this shield was designed by one of the shield contest winners, specifically Mat Gunn. His own name for the shield was "Xenomorph's Aegis" so I assume the design is a coincidence, it's still interesting to think on though.

~ You Were Taken by The Abyss ~

There is a creepy message that appears if you take off the covenant of Artorias ring while in the Abyss but before you fight the Four Kings, as soon as you take the ring off you are slowly pulled downward into an even deeper Abyss with a unique animation before you are overwhelmed and sent back to the last bonfire rested at to which the message "You were taken by the Abyss" appears across the screen that takes a while to go away.