So today was a pretty eventful day in Altazor's Mage Adventures in Lordran. I pretty much tackled Depths + Blighttown (from Valley of Drakes, heh) + unifnished business at the Asylum (aka STRAY DEMON).
Got my sweet revenge on those damned basilsks by attacking them from afar with Soul Arrow. Also, I remembered why I disliked the place so much. Thankfully, Drake Sword was useful (once again) against the Channeler and I barely had any problems except getting nervous whenever a basilisk appeared on screen.
Anyway, onto the Gaping Dragon. Easy boss, but because LOL ALTAZOR, I died on my first try. Dunno what the fuck happened - I think I misjudged the distance and the dragon came down crashing above me and my mage was left for dead in an instant. Yet I was victorious in the end - after a great number of Great Soul Arrows (and a couple of Heavy ones, too). Feels good to be able to snipe enemies from afar, not necessarily getting to the physical combat side of things. It's, at least, a nice change of pace.
Then, that lovely place with a lovely sounding name and a shitload of mosquitoes. Not too many problems with my descent (again, from the Valley, because FUCK THE OTHER ENTRANCE) and the only time I died was because I got poisoned in the swamp and I was being attacked by leeches and my character decided to die the microsecond before the Estus healed me. Bad timing, bad luck. Onto Kellogg's.
This... spider lady was the first time I felt underpowered in this run. Neither the Drake Sword nor my Great Soul Arrows were doing much damage, but I had no other choice - so I had to be really careful. The Heavies were too slow (so I decided against them) and the normal Soul Arrows did too little damage, but I HAD to use them once I ran out of GSAs. I died on my first try because I got cornered, Kellogg's decided to pour lava all around me and then used her AoE... so yeah, pretty much fucked. Beat her on the second try, after many many Soul Arrows and dodging and circling her and healing and blah blah. Rang the second bell.
After that... back to Firelink. Talking to Toothy, discovering Lautrec is an asshole and deciding to finished what I started earlier in the Asylum. The Stray Demon fight was... well, tough, in a sense - again, my magic wasn't doing much damage but I had NO other choice. Died horribly on my first try (two big ranged slams with its weapon and I was done for); my second try was much more successful and I even managed to bring down its health to its last quarter when I fucked up and was a second too late - AoE just when I was running to circle him and that was it. My third try was THE ONE. Same strategy: circle him, spam arrows. Always behind him. Mid-range in case the fucker decided to do its AoE. Everything was going fine until my GSAs ran out and I had to use my normal Soul Arrows (which did, again, very little damage) and then... the fucker decided to GET AWAY FROM ME AND LEAPT ACROSS THE ROOM TO THE CORNER. Oh shit - how do I even get behind him if he's pretty much in the corner of the room? I dunno what the fuck i did but I managed to circle him in a very tight spot while firing away and then somehow found a small portion of the arena nearby unaffected by the demon's AoE. I managed to get him to his last three hits. Landed two. "This is it," I thought... and the demon starts to raise his weapon to do his AoE again. I'm in front of him, I can't get away in time - and if the attack hits me, I'm dead. So I press RB.
YOU DEFEATED.
Huge sigh of relief. Fuck you, Stray Demon. I managed to defeat you, once again.
And that was, pretty much, it. I dunno if I'll go straight to Sen's now or I'll do the other part of Blighttown I'm missing. Food for thought.
