Knight's Klub

The name is in the title you know.

I'm going to be documenting my journey into Black Souls here, and this is totally not a secret method for me to artificially bloat my forum post numbers. The descent into madness begins here ..



So far the music is kind of nice, its on that "oo spooky scary carnival" beat, but not overtly so. It's the wind-up music box kind of stuff.

I'll be updating once I've done some stuff that is worthwhile of note.

The game opens with me being greated by the girl that I saw all over the place when getting this game. Apparently she's the main waifu or something like that, how interesting ...

I have evolved!

From a nameless blue sphere to a fully fledged knight named Noose. Truly, only good things can lay ahead for me!

Well. It was bound to happen.

I suppose if I want the full Black Souls experience, I'll be hitting yes ..

Oh No!

The game asked me if I wanted to do the prologue, so I said yes.

It seems our fair knight Noose awake within a cold and damp dungeon guarded by fat pigmen. A cruel fate, but it brings the question of just why he was being held .. Is he a criminal serving his just desserts? A prisoner of war held by these bloated swine fiends? Perhaps one being held for safe-keeping?

The answers to these questions were answered swiftly, a woman with the name Jeanne came to his rescue, slaying the foul blobs of walking pork and granting him a chance of freedom, though before they departed, they left an odd remark ..


It would seem that Noose is not a human, but instead an undead. That brings the question of just what kind of undead he is however .. A skeleton? A zombie? A husk? Oh Jeanee, how you've burnt my mind with questions!



The excursion continues on after she leaves, I do a bit of dungeon searching and -- GASP!!


MY FIRST FOE!!

I approach the foul hog carefully and with tactic and style. If this is going to go well, I'll have to get the jump on him .. Perhaps I can throw a rock and lure him over, assault him from behind, or maybe I need not confront the hog at all, I mean, afterall, I walked right past him earlier to get to the exit and --


Oh okay here we go.










gg ez no re.








After staining my blade with the first drops of blood its seen in .. who knows how long, my course continued onwards and out, departing from the labyrinth that contained me. The outside is blinding, and vaguely misty, but nothing unbearable. To my surprise, and to hers too, me and Jeanne meet again! She has quite the fancy name.

Jeanne tells me of the current situation, it seems this strange smoggy mist turns men into feral uncontrolled demon beasts, a terror upon the land and a threat to the continued progress of civilization. An interesting conundrum ..

Apparently, she was sent here to investigate and locate the source of this madness, however so far, her efforts have resulted in .. less than presentable results. For the time, she wishes to pair up with me as a way to .. "Protect me".

I have little say in the matter as she attaches herself to me like a lost puppy. We continue onwards, investigating the courtyard of the castle, obtaining loot, avoiding enemies. I know not how dangerous this land is, I can't simply throw myself headlong into every fight opportunity that arises. As it stands, I will be practicing caution, fighting only when there is no other choice.


Our journey continues onwards through the courtyard, until we venture forth to a corner of the wall, at which Jeanne seeks to make some small talk ..


The topics aren't anything extravagant, she spokes of her homeland and her duties, and her beliefs and the such, something to that beat, I cannot lie I was more focused on the mountains than what she was saying. She then asks me something directly. A pledge, infact. She wishes to get my support against fighting against this corruption, as she says, "Even an undead can become a hero, I'm sure of it."


... I choose silence, and she backs down immediately.

Oh my fucking god that's a dragon oh my god oh my fuck.

AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHH!!

WHEN DID THE FUCKING PIGS GET SHOOTERS OUT HERE HOLY SHIT! JEAAAANNEEE!!!

JEANNE IS FUCKING DEAD.




AND NOW I HAVE TO FIGHT A DRAGON.

ONE ATTACK FROM ME, ONE ATTACK FROM HIM.


O'MIGHTY GOD(S?) GRANT ME STRENGTH, I CAN'T GET SMOKED LIKE A BRISKET YET.

I'm parrying, I'm evading, and oh god did he just activate a super mode?

WAIT I CAN'T PARRY FIRE --

Well shit.


I guess that's that. Kind of an odd venture but you know, it's whatever. I guess when I load I'll have to be waaay more cautious with my actions, I know I had a healing item or two, and if I properly read the dragon's attacks, I likely could've actually gotten an evade ready instead of a parry. Now this time, this time I'll --


Oh? What's this? It seems I've been sent to the afterlife. ROBBED of the revenge I sought to commit. .. Not the worst change of events I suppose, but I can't help but feel a little .. robbed, if you know what I'm saying. Oh well, I suppose I'll just have to see what's going on here. Hell, for all I know I'm just in a comatose dream state!





After a little bit of investigating, I've talked to the rabbit. It seems this place isn't an afterlife, but at the same time, it very much is. I've been dumped out into this middle of nowhere forest for who knows what reason, by well .. who knows what thing! Apparently more beasts lurk on the outskirts of it, but for now, those are of little to no concern to me. I just have to get my bearings for the time being .. There's loose mention of needing to go find some fairy who can guide me and teach me the ropes, not that I'm really listening, my thoughts are on battle preperation!

But while doing so, this curious little rabbit asks me a question, one I hadn't thought of, but may just be the most important one in the world.


What is my hope? I certainly can't say it's to save or protect everyone, I've already horribly failed on that front. Poor Jeanne, I can still smell the smoke. .. I suppose thoughts like this also make it impossible for me to truly say my goal is something so noble. Hm .. What a wonderful little conundrum you've planted in my head black rabbit, I'll get back to you on it. For now, I want to talk to that silver haired fellow!




Interesting.


Very interesting ..



My explorative journey continues, scoring me some loot here and there, before I run into a very curious thing. A fairy.