Dark Souls II: Reaching for too much.

I tried to do another stream, but I flew too close to the sun. I cranked the setting for my local capture, and set my upstream quality rate for 4 Mbps. I had gone to speed test and it told me I was getting around 5.5 up. Well the stream kept hanging so I stopped and started it back up, this seemed to be the thing that messed up my local recording. I'll get this down yet.

Had three major things happen during this time, I'll try to chronicle them here.

Fire Longsword:

During the previous session a Twitch viewer had mentioned the Fire Longsword. I had figured that this hallway full of fire would probably be a good place to look for it. I looked it up online in the time between sessions. This had me running past the fire salamander rather than fighting it. Probably wise at this point. It also warned of two hollows near the chest that held the fire sword. These guys never showed up, so maybe I had cleared them out of the area before I went to grab the sword? I'm not sure.

Super Knight:

Hi there, can we be friends?

So after beating up on some hollows I get to this platform and this bird carrying a guy flies by. Oh, okay that's neat but there is a guy throwing firebombs at me so I go and knock him off the little battlement he is standing on and turn around and this massive knight is standing behind me.

Then he hits me, I can't quite remember if I get time to heal or not, but he's fast. And he can also shoot magic rays out of his sword, I don't have a shield out and I'm trying to heal and then...

Was that fair?

Doing a quick scan of the DS wiki I couldn't find any information about him. He didn't seem to come back when I went to retrieve my souls. Does he come back? Does anyone beat him the first time they meet him?

Finding the Cartographer:

So the next little section involved me doing my best impression of an Assassin's Creed game jumping from dilapidated rooftop to dilapidated rooftop killing guys with my swords. I think I've nicknamed them "Sparky" and "Lefty." I get to a cave and start slowly walking in and a large boulder rushes across the cave in front of me. I think to myself would anyone really be sprinting through here? Then I see this:

I made what I thought was a really funny Courtney Love joke while I thought I was recording.

I touched a couple bloodstains nearby and decided that the trap was trying to explore the hole left by the boulder. That's a little more devious. In any case I rounded the corner and found the Cartographer I've seen so many people talking about. At least I think he's the one. He gave me a key to the mansion in Majula, so that might be the next area I scope out or I might push on to try to find the next bonfire. I'm not sure which I'm more likely to do at this point.

I made a joke about GIS here that probably wasn't as good as the Hole one.

Looking at this after it's done I'm not sure if this works better than the videos or not. Maybe I should do both for a while and see which I like better? I'm also going to give creating a little Piltdown Gaming banner for the top of this a shot, it'll probably take me a while to come up with something I like.