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Thanks for all the tips! I'm trying to focus on defence and uh, patience. Good life skill too >_>

I took my time today and started taking more notice of how the world maps out, it's clear that everything fits together neatly so I was hoping to use that to figure out where to go next. I was half tempted to start actually drawing out a map myself lol. I was feeling pretty proud of myself, not rushing ahead and not getting too frustrated when things went south, until my controller's battery died and the lack of pause screen meant I had to sit and watch my dude die with a full stock of 10 potions unused :( How cruel. I don't get why there's no pause button tbh, I'm not even playing online!

But I persevered and stole a fire blessing from a black knight, and later managed to go back and actually kill the thing (I wound up leading it down the staircase and it seemed to not want to go past the castle gates, so that made things easy). Down the elevator we wound up back at Firelink Shrine, yay! No more Undead Burg shrine for us! I took a proper look around this time and found a mute woman behind a gate (who powered up my potion), and another elevator at the bottom which led to a strange area with many ghosts and not so many frames per second. I don't know why I expected hitting the ghosts with a sword to work. Something to note for another time.

Back up top, I beat an intimidating looking summoner thing and freed a knight from a cell. He promised me a reward then started talking about going back to work and chuckled maniacally. What a nice man! Through some more white mist we found ourselves on the roof in a fight against a Bell Gargoyle. Unlike the previous boss fights I played this one defensively, dodging whenever possible and trying to learn its attack patterns. Again I was feeling pretty proud of myself and even considered the notion that I might beat it first try. Ha ha ha. Then another gargoyle joined the fray and I panicked and died. I don't know if that was time based or health based, but there's like six other gargoyles around the roof and I now assume/dread that I will have to face them all D: Not today!

I'm trying not to worry too much about the lost souls and tbh it is pretty freeing, it's allowing me to experiment with different combat strats and explore more when I feel like it. But it is still annoying to lose several thousand souls due to a silly mistake. I'm a bit worried about this boss fight, partially because the path up there is already a bit annoying (the parry/counter enemies still trip me up). But I'll see what tomorrow brings! I definitely felt a bit more comfortable with the world today, but I definitely feel like I still haven't 'cracked' the combat.