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Give me an entire spin-off game with Shalquoir
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For all of Dark Souls 2's sins, having the cat be the most talkative NPC in the whole game besides the Emerald Herald is not one of them.
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May 15, 2017 05:58
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^ yeah shalquoir is also ok and does a decent amount of lore dispensing Straid is basically the only DS2 NPC who is at all interesting lol well, except maybe for Navlaan. His voice acting is fantastic, although maybe laying it on just a little too thick ooooo i'm so sinister and plain and simply eeeevilllll wooo
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May 15, 2017 05:59
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Straid's room was the first and only time I had enemies permanently despawn from killing them enough times. I didn't know about that mechanic though so I figured that he had finally cleared them off on his own
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May 15, 2017 05:59
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Sapozhnik posted:Yeah but he's also so desperate for somebody to talk to that it is literally impossible to be too stupid for him to acknowledge you (he has lines for this but it's impossible to get your INT low enough to actually hear them) Bandit has the 1 INT required to hear this.
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May 15, 2017 06:00
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What weapon is Gael using when you summon him as a phantom?
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May 15, 2017 06:25
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Node posted:What weapon is Gael using when you summon him as a phantom? Executioner's Greatsword, you can get it by hanging a left at the start of the graveyard area in the Cathedral of the Deep.
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May 15, 2017 06:32
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Node posted:What weapon is Gael using when you summon him as a phantom? Can't check right now but presumably the Executioner's Greatsword. His boss soul weapon (and the one he uses in the boss fight) is just an old, damaged and broken version of that weapon.
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May 15, 2017 06:33
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Sapozhnik posted:
Ummmmmm I think you meant Gavlan??  Gavlan wheel.... Gavlan deal
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May 15, 2017 10:09
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Ummmmmm I think you meant Gavlan?? The Gyrm don't seem very.....well thought out, do they?? They're dwarves, and they hang out with the rat people, and humans are racist to them. And they never show up before or since. What's their relationship to the Flame? Giants sort of work because they're tree people, and trees are an important cosmological element.
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May 15, 2017 10:31
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CJacobs posted:I wish 99% of the Dark Souls 2 NPCs had quests! Why won't Chloanne acknowledge the existence of her father even though she's sitting 10 feet away from him! She does acknowledge him, she just doesn't think it's him. And he doesn't want her to know he went hollow so he's just satisfied to see that she's safe.
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May 15, 2017 12:29
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:The Gyrm don't seem very.....well thought out, do they?? They're dwarves, and they hang out with the rat people, and humans are racist to them. And they never show up before or since. What's their relationship to the Flame? Giants sort of work because they're tree people, and trees are an important cosmological element. They're just dwarves  . DS2's story has no kind of focus and a big aspect of its world building is "uhhh people have lived here forever, there's a lot of stuff here, check it out I guess?" with a big focus on "humans = bad". I think of them as a reference to KF4's Earth Folk, in particular the regular non-warrior Gyrm look really similar to the blacksmith in that game.
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May 15, 2017 12:32
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In a series that has had dragons mutate in all kinds of weird descendants, Gyrm don't seem weird to me.
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May 15, 2017 13:05
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quote:Straid is basically the only DS2 NPC who is at all interesting lol You little rat
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May 15, 2017 13:18
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Just convinced a couple of friends to pick up SOTFS during the PS4 EU sale. If I have a very high level character, will they be able to summon me using the Small White Soapstone if we use passwords or does Soul Memory effect that as well?
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May 15, 2017 13:24
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since when does Scholars have a password system? anything non password is subject to summoning ranges (SL or SM, with SM being the way more forgiving one). The god-name rings extend the range considerably (as does the small soapstone), but you should look up a summon range calculator anyway, both for being the host AND being the summon. If they're rolling a fresh char chances are very very slim. I think Scholars got rid of the NG/NG+ and up divide at least.
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May 15, 2017 13:30
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Just convinced a couple of friends to pick up SOTFS during the PS4 EU sale. If I have a very high level character, will they be able to summon me using the Small White Soapstone if we use passwords or does Soul Memory effect that as well? Soul memory will kill that until they get to a certain range. There's a calculator on the wiki that shows the ranges. Better off rolling new.
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May 15, 2017 13:30
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Just convinced a couple of friends to pick up SOTFS during the PS4 EU sale. If I have a very high level character, will they be able to summon me using the Small White Soapstone if we use passwords or does Soul Memory effect that as well? Soul Memory affects it. Name Engraved Ring widens the range of suitable soul memories for matchmaking by a couple tiers, but you still need to be at least somewhat close. In particular with an endgame character who probably has a few million SM, you won't be able to coop with anyone who isn't a good ways into the game.
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May 15, 2017 13:36
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Cool, I'll just roll a new duder. Any excuse  RoadCrewWorker posted:since when does Scholars have a password system? Oh it might not, I never checked.
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May 15, 2017 13:42
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Cool, I'll just roll a new duder. Any excuse It doesn't. Just the ring.
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May 15, 2017 16:15
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CJacobs posted:I wish 99% of the Dark Souls 2 NPCs had quests! Why won't Chloanne acknowledge the existence of her father even though she's sitting 10 feet away from him! Oh I didn't even realize that was his daughter
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May 15, 2017 16:38
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Ummmmmm I think you meant Gavlan?? I don't sell ladders, only miniatures
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May 15, 2017 16:41
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I also like Chloanne because she's basically wearing a cocktail dress as she's selling raw ores and other blacksmithing supplies, and going on expeditions to poisonous quarries.
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May 15, 2017 18:10
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I did up buying ds3 and boy does it feel different. Enemies seem much faster than previous souls games. I normally don't play with a shield but I had to pick one back up just to make every fight not a heart attack. I made it to the undead town and was rolling with some summoned friends and having some jolly good cooperation when a red and purple invaded and the red guy crushed my skull and one hit me. That kinda sucked.
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May 15, 2017 19:59
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I've been getting double-teamed a lot too. There's a lot of lag wizardry at play as well, some of these assholes are packet-throttling hardcore. They just teleport around and whittle me down and I can't retaliate.
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May 15, 2017 22:43
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CJacobs posted:I wish 99% of the Dark Souls 2 NPCs had quests! Why won't Chloanne acknowledge the existence of her father even though she's sitting 10 feet away from him! She does though. She will mention how that hollow in the smith's shop keeps glaring at her. She finds it weird because he sort of reminds her of her father, but dismisses it because she doesn't think her dad would wander out into Drangleic looking for her. Also because her brain is broken and she only cares about dumb rocks. Her dad not making a bigger deal out of his daughter losing it is the bigger issue, but I guess he's not good with confrontation. There are really only two DS2 NPCs I hate. The stupid map guy is insanely boring and might as well not be in the game. The real rear end in a top hat though is McDuff because he's a complete jerk but you have to keep going back to him because he's the useful blacksmith.
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May 15, 2017 22:53
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Also its totall bullshit that they didn't have Navlaan invade in either of the DLCs. I want his set 
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May 15, 2017 22:56
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Oh my god the co-op in DS2 is so fun.
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May 15, 2017 22:58
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Oh my god the co-op in DS2 is so fun. Hell yeah it is. If it had the password system it would be perfect.
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May 15, 2017 23:01
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Cale loving sucks
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May 15, 2017 23:03
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My favorite DS2 NPC is Laddersmith Gilligan. Because he's actually Pontiff Sulyvahn's dad. It's true. He made it to Ariandel at some point and fell in love with a Birch Woman. Together they had a beautiful baby, but as she was made of wood, his ladder-making passions were frowned upon, and thus he gave it up after one tragic, albeit spectacular, incident. After some years he finally snapped and ran away, and his young son Sulyvahn, still wide-eyed and innocent, went after him. He finally found him as he lay dying in the Profaned Capital, amidst a madness of ladders assembled in blind fervor. This caused Young Sully to experience loss for the first time, and it turned him evil, so he went to Irithyll and took over, and you know the rest of the story. This is why a gigantic ladder appears when you kill the screaming Birch Woman guarding one of Baby Sully's spells.
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May 15, 2017 23:23
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Mazed posted:My favorite DS2 NPC is Laddersmith Gilligan. It all makes sense now. Now I understand why Sulyvahn drops the ladder miniature when you kill him on NG+7.
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May 15, 2017 23:25
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Cannot confirm but everyone should go for it. Additionally there is cut dialogue of that tree lady screaming about her baby before attacking you. Also Sulyvahn's "wings" look like tree branches.
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May 15, 2017 23:35
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i laughed when i saw dead gilligan in ds3.
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May 15, 2017 23:39
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Mazed posted:Also Sulyvahn's "wings" look like tree branches. You seem to be the only other person to notice this. Every other time I've seen someone point out his wings they always leap to the "He's a corvian!" conclusion. Dude's a tree. Clearly, he's an ent. Lordran confirmed for Mordor.
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May 15, 2017 23:40
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Sulyvahn's wings definitely do look like branches, which you could argue is related to overarching theme of DS3 of people turning into trees. But with the cut content in Ariandel, it seems he's always been a baby birch boy.
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May 15, 2017 23:48
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Groovelord Neato posted:i laughed when i saw dead gilligan in ds3. Sulyvan hunted down his dead beat dad. Get me vaati's email
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May 15, 2017 23:48
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So are trees related to chaos or to the abyss?
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May 15, 2017 23:49
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Jay Rust posted:So are trees related to chaos or to the abyss? Neither. They are representative of the Age of Ancients, where neither dark nor light existed and the world was dominated by dragons and arch trees. The fire is fading, and if it goes out completely the world will revert back to this state.
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May 15, 2017 23:54
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Sapozhnik posted:^ yeah shalquoir is also ok and does a decent amount of lore dispensing I really like the guy who's just a head. All the stuff he says is just super melancholy and emotionally charged to me. I like that the cat talks, but it seems like they went out of their way to make her sound vague and pretentious, like, even relative to other souls people. Alot of the rest of them suffer from having all their important poo poo be in the past where you have no input on it. It really made a difference in DS1 that Solaire, Sieg, and Lautrec had meaningful interactions that dovetailed with their personal stories. I like Navlaan (the guy in the magic cage right?) because the game goes so far out of its way to label the lever as "IF YOU PULL THIS YOU WILL GET hosed UP - NO BENEFIT - NOT KIDDING" But you know if you don't you're always gonna wonder...
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