As promised, let’s talk about Maria. Once, long ago now, the scholars of Byrgenworth heard a very interesting rumour of a fishing hamlet whose inhabitants had somehow become transformed. There were also whisperings that the corpse of a Great One had washed up on the shore there. A group was dispatched to investigate, probably made up of Gehrman, Maria, Laurence, possibly Willem himself and maybe also Micolash. They found the villagers had indeed been transformed and sure enough on the beach was the washed up corpse of Kos. It seems that this Great One had been floating out at sea and providing the villagers with phantasms to harvest (the slugs that you can see everywhere in the hamlet) and at some point the villagers started worshipping her. When the group from Byrgenworth arrived they massacred the entire hamlet, forcibly searching their skulls for eyes on the inside and inserting tools to scrape out any that they found - the villagers were not necessarily dead during this. They also found the infested body of Kos, “When the carcass of Kos washed up on the coast, its insides were teeming with tiny parasites.” It is unclear what killed her. Some think the hunters killed her, although the item description claims she washed up dead. Another explanation is that the villagers mistook her for a whale and harpooned her or maybe it was the parasites. Personally, I think she died trying to defy that truth that Great Ones cannot bear a child, for when her the Brygenworth hunters found her corpse they also discovered her unborn child still within her womb. The poor citizens of the hamlet could only watch in horror as the child of their beloved god, the Mother Kos, was slaughtered and/or dissected. But, as they witnessed the horrific crimes of Brygenworth they cried out for a curse, for though Kos’ body had died her mind still existed somewhere in another plane of existence. “Curse the fiends, their children too, and their children, forever true.” And thus the Hunter’s Nightmare was born - a hell where those who committed the atrocities were sent and doom for all those future hunters who followed in their footsteps. It is also where the consciousness of the child went, clinging to the memory of his mother’s corpse (and also its placenta which it wields as a weapon). Nevertheless Willem got what he wanted - a One Third of Umbilical Cord. This was all too much for one of the party, a young woman by the name of Maria. Maria was distantly related to Analise, Queen of castle Cainhurst, and likely grew up there. As we know, the members of Cainhurst had an interesting fighting technique where they would stab themselves with their weapons, using their blood to activate them and cause more damage. Maria disapproved of this method and preferred to fight using her own skill and speed. It is perhaps because of this this that she became Gerhman’s apprentice. She was one of his first and finest pupils. She mastered the since lost art of quickening and it is certainly possible that the old hunter’s bone that grants us this ability is hers (English translation claims the bone belongs to a he but no gender is mentioned in the Japanese) as we find it on the real world version of the grave the doll can sometimes be seen praying at which is likely Maria’s. But we shall come back to the doll. Maria was so appalled by the events that happened at the fishing hamlet that she discarded her beloved weapon. She couldn’t stand what she had been a part of and threw her instruments of death down the well. Sometime after this Laurence split from Brygenworth and when he did Maria went with him. She was put in charge of caring for the patients/test subjects in the research hall. Maria did genuinely care for them, bringing them flowers, holding their hands and giving a key to the gardens to Saint Adeline in the hopes that “Adeline would find comfort in the faint breeze that carried the scent of flowers from the outside, but Adeline couldn't fathom her intentions.” It seems that eventually Maria could take the weight of her sins no longer and she slit her own throat. This sent her to the Nightmare where she took up her post of guarding the secret of the fishing hamlet. For she knew that “a corpse… should be left well alone” no matter how much the “secrets beckon so sweetly.” Although we didn’t see it in Luke’s gameplay (because he is too good at this game) she has a unique animation where she can parry and then visceral you, embracing you as she does so and gently holding you close. Maybe she guards the path to the hamlet so that those horrors won’t have to be visited again, but I think that perhaps she prevents anyone going there so that the Nightmare cannot be ended, for she believes they all deserve this hell. Gehrman was distraught at the news of Maria’s passing. He had always had a strange obsession with Maria. She had admired him, but had been “unaware of his curious mania”. Her death seems to have driven him over the edge. He retired from hunting, closed off his workshop and created a lifeless doll in Maria’s image. It was carefully and expertly made and cared for, and “her attire was made with great love that borderlines on mania and exudes a slight warmth”. What happened next is unclear but I believe that Laurence took advantage of Gehrman’s desperation to have Maria back and roped him into his plan. A One Third of Umbilical Cord was used to beckon the moon presence and a deal was struck. The Hunter’s Dream was created and Gehrman made its host and captive. In return his doll was brought to life but to his great disappointment, she was not Maria. The only time he mentions the doll is to tell you that you are welcome to use whatever you find “Even the doll, should it please you.” Gehrman himself has not managed to completely escape the curse of the Nightmare for he tosses and turns in his sleep, distressed. This changes once the orphan of Kos is defeated and the doll remarks that “On any other night, he'd be restless. But on this night, he sounds so very calm. ...perhaps something has eased his suffering". Behind the chair where we encounter Maria there is a coffin, presumably hers, and on that coffin are flowers that can be found growing in the Hunter's Dream. The doll is a mysterious entity. You require at least one insight to be able to see her as alive which means she is in her way an eldritch secret. If you present her with the small hair ornament that belonged to the real-world doll it triggers never before experienced feelings. Perhaps she vaguely remembers a time when Gehrman thought of her as a friend. Although she is not Maria she is definitely linked to her for when we defeat Maria’s consciousness in the Nightmare she feels something in her change “Moments ago, from some place, perhaps deep within, I sensed a liberation from heavy shackles. Not that I would know... How passing strange...” The doll has a hard time understanding emotions, but she does love you and is the only one who truly cares for you. She questions you about the concept of love, asking "do the gods love their creations? I am a doll, created by you humans. Would you ever think to love me? Of course... I do love you. Isn't that how you've made me?" She is specifically in the dream to help you and in rare dialogue can be seen kneeling at a grave (likely Maria’s as it exists in the real workshop and also takes us to the DLC) and praying for your protection “O Flora, of the moon, of the dream. O little ones, O fleeting will of the ancients... Let the hunter be safe, let him(her) find comfort. And let this dream, his(her) captor... foretell a pleasant awakening... be, one day, a fond, distant memory...” This shows that she is aware of the entity known as the Moon Presence which, depending on Luke’s choices, we may or may not see. Interestingly she only adds the last line “be, one day, a fond distant memory” if you have given her the hair ornament for unless you have done so she has no concept of nostalgia. She uses the blood echoes you gather to “embolden your sickly spirit” and once you kill Rom she tells you that “Your presence somehow soothes... I sense the ancient echoes, they course your veins..." Blood echoes are said to be the last will/wishes/memories of those who are slain. Somehow, the doll can sense them and utilise them. She is also unique in that she is the only thing in the game that bleeds pure white blood if you attack her. She will respond to several of your gestures, bowing in return to your own. If you use the “make contact” gesture, after you switch arms she will applaud. Some believe the doll to be merely an automated creation, others believe her to be one of the most powerful beings in the entire game. Whatever the truth, she is all that remains of Maria and the only one that loves us, even if she had no choice in doing so.
@@someguyshere6968 yup fair, I did know that about the weapon but stupidly forgot it after reading a lore post by someone else. My bad. I have seen a fair bit of cut content but never come across anything that says she was murdered. Do you know where I can find that? Unless you mean the cut content where Simon can kill her? But that happens in the nightmare once she's already dead.
I think that one of the big assumptions that alot of people seem to have made is that byrgenworth existed before the healing church, and then sort of came to an end with the healing church's founding. I would argue that they may have coexisted for quite some time, and the expedition to the fishing hamlet was a joint venture between the two institutions. Byrgenworth took the orphans umbilical cord, which would eventually be used by master Willem to create Rom. The healing church got the orphan, which they took to the research hall and experimented on. The orphan eventually died there and was laid to rest in the coffin in the Astral clocktower. I believe that the hunters actually killed Kos. One piece of evidence to support this is if you listen to the background voices in the fishing hamlet, they say "mother is dead, her baby taken." It doesn't really make sense for them to mourne her death unless she was murdered. It's possible that the hunters were able to kill her at sea with the help of the ships that probably transported them their, after which she drifted ashore. Lastly, I suspect that the Great One that created the curse was actually Lord Amygdala. The villager's also chant "a call to the bloodless, wherever they be," indicating that they are reaching out for any other Great Ones to answer. This would explain the connection between the hunter's nightmare and the lesser Amygdala. After all, we know that the Great Ones "are sympathetic in nature, and often answer when called upon."
I wish Luke would realise that nobody (that matters) is going to get bored if he wails on a boss for two hours and gets nowhere. Progress =/= enjoyment of the stream. We like spending time with Luke, that he plays at all is almost secondary. The net is full of LPs if you just want a slick walkthrough.
^^ THIS ^^ - Bloodborne/Dark Souls/etc. are not my kind of game at all, but I've really been enjoying these streams because of *Luke*. He makes it fun to watch and is so endearing.
Gerard Lumban: VERY true, it’s been quite a journey! I never get to watch live (because time zones), but have been using the VOD versions as “background noise” while I work (so I’m generally listening, not watching, and wouldn’t necessarily know whether he’s on the same enemy for two hours LOL). Over the weekend, I went back to the very first one and was enjoying seeing/hearing the difference between “what’s this? how’s this work? not even sure I’m going to continue this game” Luke and today’s far more experienced Luke. :-D His learning process has also helped me improve in some other games as I watch how he figures things out and adapt some of his strategies to my own playing. It’s also just so refreshing seeing someone play a game like this and take deaths and setbacks in stride, not raging or shouting.
yeah I actually really wanted to watch him beat the orphan of kos live. I like the excitement of not knowing with each attempt whether or not it's going to be the successful one, whereas when you're watching a replay the suspense is gone because you know you're watching the successful run of it
I prefer watching live too but, to be fair, boss fights can go on for hours and these videos are being uploaded to Outside Xtra which is (obviously) a shared channel that usually does prerecorded content. So I can understand why he wants to guarantee some progress each 2hr stream.
Hang in there Luke, this is something to put on your resume: 'I played Bloodborne on a channel where I can't curse!' So impressed with this playthrough, I just wish I had your patience and attitude.
Welp this was one to watch. Had ray getting eaten whole by a whale shark giant. Avoided getting pumped full of slime from the snail women. Then got crushed by a placenta wielding old man baby. That was born from a giant worm slug thing. Bloodborne! (Also respect to our lore commenter love to read them nice and easy to read rather than normal stuff on the wikis)
The twin-Shark Bros killed me more times than any boss. Also, people saying use items (like Bolt Paper and Shaman Bones) are putting way too much emphasis on it. I never use that stuff, and I've platinumed the game on 2 accounts. And I use the Saw Cleaver all the way through (or Saw Spear, which is almost identical). There are no best weapons, there are no items that are absolutely game-changing. Just keep doing what you're doing, Luke. You're a natural at this game. :D
Curious as a non-player, did you put much emphasis on the Arcane stat either time you played? It seemed to me on the rewatch that Bolt Paper had such measly benefit for Luke because he had no buffs to that damage type, something the chat seemed to have been overlooking in their recommendations.
@@abydosianchulac2 Very rarely in any FromSoft game have I put anything into the "Magic" stats. I'm not sure how much the items base off of stats; some weapons come with an inherent "element" and certain bosses would be weak to that element, taking a higher percentage of your base damage regardless of what stat was behind that damage. I think the bolt paper just gave your weapon a temporary element and was unaffected by the arcane stat - BUT I honestly don't know for sure and you could be 100% correct. Either way, a build like Luke's (like you said) would not benefit greatly from its use. As an aside, it's really cool to get a reply to a two-year old comment. This is a great series and it's awesome that people are still watching it. :D
@@michaelschmidt1696 Yeah, I watched it live and had a craving to come back for a rewatch. It's amazing how much the last two years have had an effect on the team's online personas; I'd forgotten just how innocently they presented themselves as, or maybe that's my own projections onto them. And you're right, the items may not be doing much more than temporarily adjusting the element type the damage is categorized as. I've just been trying to figure out why some people were advocating for Bolt Paper et al _so forcefully_ when it had so little effect for Luke, and my only conclusion has been that those items actually *had* more benefit for those commenters than for Luke.
@@michaelschmidt1696 Glad to see I'm not the only one. I'm going through DS3 without using pyro/sorcery/miracles/etc. Just me, a Hollowslayer Greatsword, and the occasional Dragonslayer Greatbow sniping. As for Bloodborne, I've dumped nothing in arcane. Lady Maria took me a while, but she also taught me to parry given I'd gone through nearly the whole game with barely any parrying (maxed out my bullet storage repeatedly). Those Shark Bros in the well, which I was terrified of having to kill for the Rakuyo, weren't nearly as bad as I expected. 5 or 6 attempts, I think. It helped that I got off a couple of parries on the first one. It took me two tries, but I also managed to shank the first one with a shaman bone blade as he walked away. The 2nd one kill the first one and then the second one had just half his health. As for other items, I honestly just switch to the tonitrus if I want something deal bolt damage for a fight. It helped me absolutely rinse Amygdala on my first attempt. I do use bolt and fire paper some, but I also use insight if I want to buy some. Given how many echoes are required to buy just one bolt or fire paper and that it increases as you level up (I think), I'd rather just use insight since that price doesn't change.
Orphan of Kos is one of the hardest boss fights in the whole soulsborne series. He wrecked me so many times. Felt great to finally beat him, though. You'll get him next time.
Hi Luke hope you read this: Every weapon has an arcane stat but it doesn't make them arcane. Only a handful of weapons carry a need for arcane and it's usually not a lot. This is all because any weapon can be changed to an element via blood gems. It removes their physical damage and replaces it with somewhat equivalent elemental or arcane damage. This makes the weapon work with your arcane stat. So no need to worry about arcane scaling unless you're using the wheel, the arm, blades of mercy or the moonlight sword.
It seems to me that one of the issues with the chat is that people are trying to relay complex instructions using the very few words allowed during a livestream, which can end up being worse than no advice at all. The shaman boneblade is a decent strategy against those whales, but without knowing that they have an incredibly long windup animation, you'll end up wasting them/leaving yourself wide open. Bloodborne, even in comparison to other From games, has a ton of misinformation and disagreement surrounding it, largely because without a PC version, data-mining to get conclusive answers is significantly more challenging. That, combined with Miyazaki's trademark unexplained mechanics (serrated/righteous damage etc), and so many people all sending out their advice simultaneously, is a recipe for Ray being munched by whale. The chat can be super helpful, but mostly in situations where instructions only need a few words to be clear, and the issue in question is not a matter of opinion. My point being, Luke, you're doing incredibly well, shockingly so for a first blind play-through. May the good blood (rather than the chat) guide your way.
That and people not knowing how Luke's minmaxed his character. Molotovs can be a good strat but Luke hasnt put a single point into arcane which also explains his lack of success with bolt paper :/
Yeah, chat's been a mixed bag! Great at knowing where to go, rubbish at knowing what to do. Still, I think it's great that Luke's willing to entertain new ideas & try out new strats this far into the game. It's really fun to watch - provided you're not invested in him getting anywhere fast.
Also, last stream, chats memory seemed to be worse than Luke's, they remembered him saying "oh look, a door" but didnt remember him going up to it, and saying "nope, thats not a door" at the top of the tower, where the rafters and the thing to rotate the stairs is lol. I say last stream, as in the stream before this one.
nonono, the problem with chat is the constant back-seat gaming. Luke's made remarks about it himself a few times, it's really, really annoying when you have people constantly telling you and DEMANDING IN ALL CAPS how he should be playing the game when in reality, he's the one that paid for the game and is choosing to stream it for our sake. he can play how he wants, chat doesn't like that very much.
Luke, pal, buddy, friendo- Remember what you said about needing to find your own strategy? Well Your “items will backfire” mindset makes you reluctant to use them. Which makes you slower. Which gives enemies time to punish. So don’t . It takes some time to adapt to using items in battle, and if you hesitate, you die. The same way, Even if Ludwigs sword did double the damage of your Saw cleaver, it wouldn’t help you, because you work better with your own weapon. So you do you, hope you Keep enjoying my favorite game !
“This week, Luke has an absolute whale of a time...” Sorry dude lol Edit: got to say that i agree with some of the chat and comments. If any boss deserves to get spanked live, its shrimp boi.
I just lured the first giant with throwing knives from the cave and whittled down his health with the beast cleaver’s transformed heavy attack, then did the same with the other one, then rakuyo helped me a crazy amount with the orphan
quick tip for anyone struggling with this fight: he can be staggered and visceral attacked if you hit him with a charge attack from behind. the way i've beaten him is to wait for his long recovery attacks and then visceral from behind, it keeps him on the floor and does a good bit of damage pretty easily.
I'm sad that I've missed this live but I had some runs in with Genichiro Way of Tomoe and Isshin Sword Saint. Needless to say, Isshin clears the floor with me. Darn it. Anyway, keep it up in Bloodborne Luke!
You have to keep pressing forward and be extremely close to do viscerals. when you see your character sort of sliding off enemy or feet still moving forward then your good for a visceral
My favourite thing about Luke. Someone types in all caps (compensating I guess?) and he generally ignores whatever they have said after acknowledging that he's seen the message. The man with OCD (I think that's what you said in a previous stream, apologies if I'm wrong) basically does small things to irritate someone beyond belief, I love it! PS I know OCD isn't irritation, it's the thought that counts though.
I don’t blame Luke for not wanting to do something when someone basically yells it at him in all CAPS. I don’t know many people who are more inclined to do a task when someone raises their voice vs a simple suggestion.
Watching Luke play through and get better and better every time he dies makes me wonder how amazing he'd be at fighting games...hmmm, do I issue a CHALLOUNGE? Also, I admire how restrained you are during this. F-Bombs a plenty when I played this... (Quick Edit) I forgot about Placenta weapon...If ever there was a phrase I hated while playing this, and after seeing my child born, it's placenta weapon...
at some point you should revisit the prison cells after the place where you fought ludwig! and also go back to the beast that was relaxing on the altar early on in the dlc
Again I'd argue the reason the orphan is scary/gross has little to do with the fact it crawled out of something and has more to do with the fact that it crawled out as something a fully grown giant sized naked old white guy
Back to add that I just killed the whale/shark dudes and somehow remembered that fight being a lot worse than it turned out to be. It somehow took me maybe 5 or 6 attempts. It helped that I managed to land a hit with a shaman bone blade, so the second guy killed the first guy for me and then the second guy was already down to half health when he came at me. I did notice both for me and on here where it confirmed for me that the second shark/whale thing has a lot less HP than the first one. I did get my Rakuyo though and it's to +9. That'll be my main weapon the rest of the game, I think.
Luke: successfully parries and enemy I didn't even know could be parried after playing this game upwards of 300 hours. Also Luke: can't use consumable item
I kind of wish this game would say your batteries are low or you get weird achievements (ex:“Used BoltPaper”) if your insight is high, during Bossfights. Like Amnesia
He really did do a lot better against the orphan than most of us were expecting, but considering that he one-shotted Maria and the Living failures in the previous stream, I'm still very impressed. Ebrietas has been the only boss, I think, to really give him a lot of trouble to the point of having to hand it to Let's Play Luke. I'm still not over his reflexes for dodging and I'm glad he didn't give up on the two whale dudes. I hate that I'll have to go right them to get Maria's weapon since I really want it. I hate that I favor lighter, faster builds but end up being utter garbage at dodging and dodging is a bit important for a build like that (in most games anyway).
There's a easy and cheap way to beat them with the Beast Cleaver once you unlocked the lift from the entrance to the boss arena. Equip Beast Cleaver and transform it, start at the entrance lamp, run towards the well, go in and aggro the big dude. Now go up again and run past everything and towards where that unreachable item is. The Aggroed Dude will now try to hit you up there and you can safely use the transformed R2 attacks. It will slowly but easily kill them.
@@jvdach4652 Nice advice, but I'm pretty sure that by the time I get around to playing Bloodborne I won't remember to do that, lol. Particularly since it'll be a while before I get into the DLC.
@@jvdach4652 Been 2 years, but I finally not only killed Lady Maria last night, but I just killed the 2 well sharks. I had nowhere near the amount of trouble against them that Luke did. I died probably 4 or 5 times to the first one, but was regularly getting him to under half health. I missed the first time I tried the shaman bone blade trick, but I landed it the second time I tried (after dying again). The first one died to the second one and then left me fighting the second shark who was down to half health already for me. It helps that the second shark has notably less health than the first one. Thankfully Lady Maria taught me how to properly parry, so I actually landed a couple of parries on the first shark dude.
Also, did Luke ever go back and fight Laurence (the first boss you encounter in the first area who is initially not hostile) after getting his skull? I’ve mostly been keeping up, but can’t remember if he did that fight or mentioned doing it off stream or something. Not saying he should or anything, he’s not a particularly memorable boss unless you’re deep into the lore... I just can’t remember if it happened during another stream.
AudOldEnds He’s pretty much THE main cause, in the sense that he’s responsible for the plague that turned everyone into beasts. He was a student at Byrgenwerth, but left because he wanted to inject some weird juice he found inside a Cthulhu living in a cave, and Provost Willem was like “that seems like a bad idea, bro”. So he took the Cthulhu juice (aka the “Old Blood”) and founded the Healing Church, which became hella popular because the Cthulhu juice cures any illness and heals any wound. It also has the teeny-tiny side effect of turning you into a variety of different horrible beasts (it’s also likely that the Church poisoned the water supply so people would get sick and need the Cthulhu juice, but that’s implied rather than stated outright). The Church he founded is also responsible for a number of other atrocities, including starting the hunt and all the bad shit that happened as a result (e.g. everything experienced by the player). Even in cases where the bad shit is being caused by a Great One, like Gehrman being trapped in the dream, he’s only there because Laurence broke his promise and never came back for him (technically that’s only implied, but if you listen to Gehrman talking in his sleep that’s basically what he says). He was also part of the group that did some seriously fucked up shit in the fishing hamlet that led to the curse/the Hunter’s Nightmare the DLC is based around (though the expedition itself was likely ordered by Willem, so he shares blame for that one). One of the only exceptions is the start of Cainhurst’s own beast plague, which started because an unnamed associate of Laurence stole a DIFFERENT strain of Cthulhu juice (maybe from a different Cthulhu?) and took it to Cainhurst to basically do the same thing there. That being said, the Healing Church still showed up in Cainhurst afterwards and massacred pretty much everyone. All of this is why it’s such a shame that his boss fight is just Cleric Beast 2.0: now with fire and crazy health and damage. Either make a boss fight as epic as his role in the story, or just leave it out.
Matt Nachbar ....well damn. I guess in a kind of oddly poetic way it’s ironic. For all he’s responsible for and for all he tried to become he eventually ended up nothing more than unremarkable beast
I think he's done some of them. At some earlier stream I noticed he had the bone ash armor set available to buy at the insight bath, and you only get that through chalices.
It's beginning to look a lot like fishmeeeeen, Eeeeverywhere I go! From the minute I got to towwn, And started to look arouuuund, I thought these ill-bred people's gills-slits shoooowed!
I mean it’s only right for an orphan to beat Luke up for a bit :3 dont like telling you what you do :) personally i find parrying in soulsbourne boss fights really ruin the fights and make them quite boring. Once i figured out my own strategy OoK became my favourite fight in Bloodborne (except trying to rush them at low level arcane build for the tentacles, yikes), hope you find yours 🌈
No, armor has no effect on damage in either game. In dark souls, the weight of the armor determines your roll speed but that's it. In bloodborne armor has little to no effect at all, it's all fashion.
Tip: There are more than 1 slot for ur weapons. Check each slot as while it may not increase in 1 slot they may increase in another Also reminder: Don't forget about the fire guy back at the beginning of the nightmare past fire ball
Because you can only select from a word bank when leaving them, you can't just write them to say whatever you want. Your options are very limited, so players have to get creative in order to get their message across.
@@motherofvermin Ohhhhh! Despite playing some of Souls 1 and 2 and a bit more of Bloodborne I've never really attempted to send a message, thanks for the clarification!
"It's orphans, Kos."
the comment section is over, this is the best
genius.
This comment is on top and it’s still underrated
i'm a year late but yeah gotta agree with the others, this comment wins youtube
As promised, let’s talk about Maria.
Once, long ago now, the scholars of Byrgenworth heard a very interesting rumour of a fishing hamlet whose inhabitants had somehow become transformed. There were also whisperings that the corpse of a Great One had washed up on the shore there. A group was dispatched to investigate, probably made up of Gehrman, Maria, Laurence, possibly Willem himself and maybe also Micolash. They found the villagers had indeed been transformed and sure enough on the beach was the washed up corpse of Kos. It seems that this Great One had been floating out at sea and providing the villagers with phantasms to harvest (the slugs that you can see everywhere in the hamlet) and at some point the villagers started worshipping her. When the group from Byrgenworth arrived they massacred the entire hamlet, forcibly searching their skulls for eyes on the inside and inserting tools to scrape out any that they found - the villagers were not necessarily dead during this. They also found the infested body of Kos, “When the carcass of Kos washed up on the coast, its insides were teeming with tiny parasites.” It is unclear what killed her. Some think the hunters killed her, although the item description claims she washed up dead. Another explanation is that the villagers mistook her for a whale and harpooned her or maybe it was the parasites. Personally, I think she died trying to defy that truth that Great Ones cannot bear a child, for when her the Brygenworth hunters found her corpse they also discovered her unborn child still within her womb. The poor citizens of the hamlet could only watch in horror as the child of their beloved god, the Mother Kos, was slaughtered and/or dissected. But, as they witnessed the horrific crimes of Brygenworth they cried out for a curse, for though Kos’ body had died her mind still existed somewhere in another plane of existence. “Curse the fiends, their children too, and their children, forever true.” And thus the Hunter’s Nightmare was born - a hell where those who committed the atrocities were sent and doom for all those future hunters who followed in their footsteps. It is also where the consciousness of the child went, clinging to the memory of his mother’s corpse (and also its placenta which it wields as a weapon). Nevertheless Willem got what he wanted - a One Third of Umbilical Cord.
This was all too much for one of the party, a young woman by the name of Maria. Maria was distantly related to Analise, Queen of castle Cainhurst, and likely grew up there. As we know, the members of Cainhurst had an interesting fighting technique where they would stab themselves with their weapons, using their blood to activate them and cause more damage. Maria disapproved of this method and preferred to fight using her own skill and speed. It is perhaps because of this this that she became Gerhman’s apprentice. She was one of his first and finest pupils. She mastered the since lost art of quickening and it is certainly possible that the old hunter’s bone that grants us this ability is hers (English translation claims the bone belongs to a he but no gender is mentioned in the Japanese) as we find it on the real world version of the grave the doll can sometimes be seen praying at which is likely Maria’s. But we shall come back to the doll.
Maria was so appalled by the events that happened at the fishing hamlet that she discarded her beloved weapon. She couldn’t stand what she had been a part of and threw her instruments of death down the well. Sometime after this Laurence split from Brygenworth and when he did Maria went with him. She was put in charge of caring for the patients/test subjects in the research hall. Maria did genuinely care for them, bringing them flowers, holding their hands and giving a key to the gardens to Saint Adeline in the hopes that “Adeline would find comfort in the faint breeze that carried the scent of flowers from the outside, but Adeline couldn't fathom her intentions.” It seems that eventually Maria could take the weight of her sins no longer and she slit her own throat. This sent her to the Nightmare where she took up her post of guarding the secret of the fishing hamlet. For she knew that “a corpse… should be left well alone” no matter how much the “secrets beckon so sweetly.” Although we didn’t see it in Luke’s gameplay (because he is too good at this game) she has a unique animation where she can parry and then visceral you, embracing you as she does so and gently holding you close. Maybe she guards the path to the hamlet so that those horrors won’t have to be visited again, but I think that perhaps she prevents anyone going there so that the Nightmare cannot be ended, for she believes they all deserve this hell.
Gehrman was distraught at the news of Maria’s passing. He had always had a strange obsession with Maria. She had admired him, but had been “unaware of his curious mania”. Her death seems to have driven him over the edge. He retired from hunting, closed off his workshop and created a lifeless doll in Maria’s image. It was carefully and expertly made and cared for, and “her attire was made with great love that borderlines on mania and exudes a slight warmth”. What happened next is unclear but I believe that Laurence took advantage of Gehrman’s desperation to have Maria back and roped him into his plan. A One Third of Umbilical Cord was used to beckon the moon presence and a deal was struck. The Hunter’s Dream was created and Gehrman made its host and captive. In return his doll was brought to life but to his great disappointment, she was not Maria. The only time he mentions the doll is to tell you that you are welcome to use whatever you find “Even the doll, should it please you.” Gehrman himself has not managed to completely escape the curse of the Nightmare for he tosses and turns in his sleep, distressed. This changes once the orphan of Kos is defeated and the doll remarks that “On any other night, he'd be restless. But on this night, he sounds so very calm. ...perhaps something has eased his suffering". Behind the chair where we encounter Maria there is a coffin, presumably hers, and on that coffin are flowers that can be found growing in the Hunter's Dream.
The doll is a mysterious entity. You require at least one insight to be able to see her as alive which means she is in her way an eldritch secret. If you present her with the small hair ornament that belonged to the real-world doll it triggers never before experienced feelings. Perhaps she vaguely remembers a time when Gehrman thought of her as a friend. Although she is not Maria she is definitely linked to her for when we defeat Maria’s consciousness in the Nightmare she feels something in her change “Moments ago, from some place, perhaps deep within, I sensed a liberation from heavy shackles. Not that I would know... How passing strange...” The doll has a hard time understanding emotions, but she does love you and is the only one who truly cares for you. She questions you about the concept of love, asking "do the gods love their creations? I am a doll, created by you humans. Would you ever think to love me? Of course... I do love you. Isn't that how you've made me?" She is specifically in the dream to help you and in rare dialogue can be seen kneeling at a grave (likely Maria’s as it exists in the real workshop and also takes us to the DLC) and praying for your protection “O Flora, of the moon, of the dream. O little ones, O fleeting will of the ancients... Let the hunter be safe, let him(her) find comfort. And let this dream, his(her) captor... foretell a pleasant awakening... be, one day, a fond, distant memory...” This shows that she is aware of the entity known as the Moon Presence which, depending on Luke’s choices, we may or may not see. Interestingly she only adds the last line “be, one day, a fond distant memory” if you have given her the hair ornament for unless you have done so she has no concept of nostalgia. She uses the blood echoes you gather to “embolden your sickly spirit” and once you kill Rom she tells you that “Your presence somehow soothes... I sense the ancient echoes, they course your veins..." Blood echoes are said to be the last will/wishes/memories of those who are slain. Somehow, the doll can sense them and utilise them. She is also unique in that she is the only thing in the game that bleeds pure white blood if you attack her. She will respond to several of your gestures, bowing in return to your own. If you use the “make contact” gesture, after you switch arms she will applaud. Some believe the doll to be merely an automated creation, others believe her to be one of the most powerful beings in the entire game. Whatever the truth, she is all that remains of Maria and the only one that loves us, even if she had no choice in doing so.
More paragraphs please. Otherwise good.
@@someguyshere6968 yup fair, I did know that about the weapon but stupidly forgot it after reading a lore post by someone else. My bad.
I have seen a fair bit of cut content but never come across anything that says she was murdered. Do you know where I can find that?
Unless you mean the cut content where Simon can kill her? But that happens in the nightmare once she's already dead.
Oof a tragedy. Thank you!!! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I think that one of the big assumptions that alot of people seem to have made is that byrgenworth existed before the healing church, and then sort of came to an end with the healing church's founding. I would argue that they may have coexisted for quite some time, and the expedition to the fishing hamlet was a joint venture between the two institutions. Byrgenworth took the orphans umbilical cord, which would eventually be used by master Willem to create Rom. The healing church got the orphan, which they took to the research hall and experimented on. The orphan eventually died there and was laid to rest in the coffin in the Astral clocktower.
I believe that the hunters actually killed Kos. One piece of evidence to support this is if you listen to the background voices in the fishing hamlet, they say "mother is dead, her baby taken." It doesn't really make sense for them to mourne her death unless she was murdered. It's possible that the hunters were able to kill her at sea with the help of the ships that probably transported them their, after which she drifted ashore.
Lastly, I suspect that the Great One that created the curse was actually Lord Amygdala. The villager's also chant "a call to the bloodless, wherever they be," indicating that they are reaching out for any other Great Ones to answer. This would explain the connection between the hunter's nightmare and the lesser Amygdala. After all, we know that the Great Ones "are sympathetic in nature, and often answer when called upon."
I do love these things thanks for doing them!
3:25 start
Thank you very much, good sir
I wish Luke would realise that nobody (that matters) is going to get bored if he wails on a boss for two hours and gets nowhere. Progress =/= enjoyment of the stream.
We like spending time with Luke, that he plays at all is almost secondary. The net is full of LPs if you just want a slick walkthrough.
^^ THIS ^^ - Bloodborne/Dark Souls/etc. are not my kind of game at all, but I've really been enjoying these streams because of *Luke*. He makes it fun to watch and is so endearing.
it’s also been really interesting to see Luke’s learning process throughout the whole sequence too
Gerard Lumban: VERY true, it’s been quite a journey! I never get to watch live (because time zones), but have been using the VOD versions as “background noise” while I work (so I’m generally listening, not watching, and wouldn’t necessarily know whether he’s on the same enemy for two hours LOL). Over the weekend, I went back to the very first one and was enjoying seeing/hearing the difference between “what’s this? how’s this work? not even sure I’m going to continue this game” Luke and today’s far more experienced Luke. :-D
His learning process has also helped me improve in some other games as I watch how he figures things out and adapt some of his strategies to my own playing. It’s also just so refreshing seeing someone play a game like this and take deaths and setbacks in stride, not raging or shouting.
yeah I actually really wanted to watch him beat the orphan of kos live. I like the excitement of not knowing with each attempt whether or not it's going to be the successful one, whereas when you're watching a replay the suspense is gone because you know you're watching the successful run of it
I prefer watching live too but, to be fair, boss fights can go on for hours and these videos are being uploaded to Outside Xtra which is (obviously) a shared channel that usually does prerecorded content. So I can understand why he wants to guarantee some progress each 2hr stream.
I shall call him Jonah, for he was repeatedly eaten by whales.
Hang in there Luke, this is something to put on your resume: 'I played Bloodborne on a channel where I can't curse!'
So impressed with this playthrough, I just wish I had your patience and attitude.
"That's neat, doesn't really work for my build"
Wait, hang on, Ray Sunshine has a build? One that's not just "That's neat"?
Welp this was one to watch. Had ray getting eaten whole by a whale shark giant. Avoided getting pumped full of slime from the snail women. Then got crushed by a placenta wielding old man baby. That was born from a giant worm slug thing. Bloodborne! (Also respect to our lore commenter love to read them nice and easy to read rather than normal stuff on the wikis)
Luke took out 12 orphans first try, one should be no problem
15 orphans actually 😂😂😂
I feel sorry for Orphan of Kos in a weird way. Dude just wants his mum :(
Ah, the Orphan of Kos. Don't get complacenta.
Very underappreciated comment here
The twin-Shark Bros killed me more times than any boss. Also, people saying use items (like Bolt Paper and Shaman Bones) are putting way too much emphasis on it. I never use that stuff, and I've platinumed the game on 2 accounts. And I use the Saw Cleaver all the way through (or Saw Spear, which is almost identical). There are no best weapons, there are no items that are absolutely game-changing. Just keep doing what you're doing, Luke. You're a natural at this game. :D
The best weapon in the game is the one that suits your playstyle and is most comfortable for you to use.
Curious as a non-player, did you put much emphasis on the Arcane stat either time you played? It seemed to me on the rewatch that Bolt Paper had such measly benefit for Luke because he had no buffs to that damage type, something the chat seemed to have been overlooking in their recommendations.
@@abydosianchulac2 Very rarely in any FromSoft game have I put anything into the "Magic" stats. I'm not sure how much the items base off of stats; some weapons come with an inherent "element" and certain bosses would be weak to that element, taking a higher percentage of your base damage regardless of what stat was behind that damage. I think the bolt paper just gave your weapon a temporary element and was unaffected by the arcane stat - BUT I honestly don't know for sure and you could be 100% correct. Either way, a build like Luke's (like you said) would not benefit greatly from its use.
As an aside, it's really cool to get a reply to a two-year old comment. This is a great series and it's awesome that people are still watching it. :D
@@michaelschmidt1696 Yeah, I watched it live and had a craving to come back for a rewatch. It's amazing how much the last two years have had an effect on the team's online personas; I'd forgotten just how innocently they presented themselves as, or maybe that's my own projections onto them.
And you're right, the items may not be doing much more than temporarily adjusting the element type the damage is categorized as. I've just been trying to figure out why some people were advocating for Bolt Paper et al _so forcefully_ when it had so little effect for Luke, and my only conclusion has been that those items actually *had* more benefit for those commenters than for Luke.
@@michaelschmidt1696 Glad to see I'm not the only one. I'm going through DS3 without using pyro/sorcery/miracles/etc. Just me, a Hollowslayer Greatsword, and the occasional Dragonslayer Greatbow sniping. As for Bloodborne, I've dumped nothing in arcane. Lady Maria took me a while, but she also taught me to parry given I'd gone through nearly the whole game with barely any parrying (maxed out my bullet storage repeatedly). Those Shark Bros in the well, which I was terrified of having to kill for the Rakuyo, weren't nearly as bad as I expected. 5 or 6 attempts, I think. It helped that I got off a couple of parries on the first one. It took me two tries, but I also managed to shank the first one with a shaman bone blade as he walked away. The 2nd one kill the first one and then the second one had just half his health.
As for other items, I honestly just switch to the tonitrus if I want something deal bolt damage for a fight. It helped me absolutely rinse Amygdala on my first attempt. I do use bolt and fire paper some, but I also use insight if I want to buy some. Given how many echoes are required to buy just one bolt or fire paper and that it increases as you level up (I think), I'd rather just use insight since that price doesn't change.
Orphan of Kos has a coconut shrimp and just didn't want to share
Orphan of Kos is one of the hardest boss fights in the whole soulsborne series. He wrecked me so many times. Felt great to finally beat him, though. You'll get him next time.
well, he beat the whale sharks and got the rakuyo so that's an achievement
1:51:50 "I'm not your mama, i'm not here to tell you how to play" I feel like chat could learn a whole lot just by listening to him talk to the bosses
The backpack is where he keeps the applesauce, jaa'm has that applesauce that you crave, everybody join this juicy jaa'm rave
Hi Luke hope you read this:
Every weapon has an arcane stat but it doesn't make them arcane. Only a handful of weapons carry a need for arcane and it's usually not a lot.
This is all because any weapon can be changed to an element via blood gems. It removes their physical damage and replaces it with somewhat equivalent elemental or arcane damage. This makes the weapon work with your arcane stat.
So no need to worry about arcane scaling unless you're using the wheel, the arm, blades of mercy or the moonlight sword.
That 3rd bone blade attempt! LOL
It seems to me that one of the issues with the chat is that people are trying to relay complex instructions using the very few words allowed during a livestream, which can end up being worse than no advice at all. The shaman boneblade is a decent strategy against those whales, but without knowing that they have an incredibly long windup animation, you'll end up wasting them/leaving yourself wide open. Bloodborne, even in comparison to other From games, has a ton of misinformation and disagreement surrounding it, largely because without a PC version, data-mining to get conclusive answers is significantly more challenging. That, combined with Miyazaki's trademark unexplained mechanics (serrated/righteous damage etc), and so many people all sending out their advice simultaneously, is a recipe for Ray being munched by whale. The chat can be super helpful, but mostly in situations where instructions only need a few words to be clear, and the issue in question is not a matter of opinion. My point being, Luke, you're doing incredibly well, shockingly so for a first blind play-through. May the good blood (rather than the chat) guide your way.
That and people not knowing how Luke's minmaxed his character. Molotovs can be a good strat but Luke hasnt put a single point into arcane which also explains his lack of success with bolt paper :/
Yeah, chat's been a mixed bag! Great at knowing where to go, rubbish at knowing what to do. Still, I think it's great that Luke's willing to entertain new ideas & try out new strats this far into the game. It's really fun to watch - provided you're not invested in him getting anywhere fast.
Also, last stream, chats memory seemed to be worse than Luke's, they remembered him saying "oh look, a door" but didnt remember him going up to it, and saying "nope, thats not a door" at the top of the tower, where the rafters and the thing to rotate the stairs is lol.
I say last stream, as in the stream before this one.
nonono, the problem with chat is the constant back-seat gaming. Luke's made remarks about it himself a few times, it's really, really annoying when you have people constantly telling you and DEMANDING IN ALL CAPS how he should be playing the game when in reality, he's the one that paid for the game and is choosing to stream it for our sake. he can play how he wants, chat doesn't like that very much.
@@Albatross0913 I mostly agree, though I was referring to the situations where Luke straight up asks the chat a question.
that was a great stream to watch, let's play Luke has got this
The fishing hamlet is a fantasy Innsmouth and I love everything about it.
Luke is normally so very very calm, i like seeing a bit of his frustration because he makes even that negative feeling seem very very wholesome
I love this playthrough! Hope luke keep playing more souls-likes!
I mean, mortal shell looks soild and the devs are huge soulsborne fans. We can only hope he plays that next!
Today I watched how the burger king got eaten by whale people in a metaphor for the horror of birth. It's Bloodborne, baby!🖒
The most human looking bosses are always the hardest. Good luck Luke!
"Yikes forever!" -Little Miss Fortune
Murloc dogs are called Cur-locs.
Whenever Luke attempts to be evil or promote murder for hire (against whales), he always looks way too innocent to be taken seriously. Bless him.
I just realized that Luke's favorite enemy at @6:45 is just the Ogres from Sekiro but with more garbled sounds
I missed the end of this earlier, so i'll say it now. Thanks for the great stream Luke! Stay safe & sane!
Stream starts at 3:24
Luke, pal, buddy, friendo- Remember what you said about needing to find your own strategy? Well Your “items will backfire” mindset makes you reluctant to use them. Which makes you slower. Which gives enemies time to punish. So don’t . It takes some time to adapt to using items in battle, and if you hesitate, you die. The same way, Even if Ludwigs sword did double the damage of your Saw cleaver, it wouldn’t help you, because you work better with your own weapon. So you do you, hope you Keep enjoying my favorite game !
Good job you did really well for your first time orphan of Kos is a nightmare
Poetic justice that Dob's final boss is an orphan... Foreshadowing anyone?
Luke telling the Orphan that he's not it's mama with it's mother's corpse right there was pretty harsh.
“This week, Luke has an absolute whale of a time...”
Sorry dude lol
Edit: got to say that i agree with some of the chat and comments. If any boss deserves to get spanked live, its shrimp boi.
I just lured the first giant with throwing knives from the cave and whittled down his health with the beast cleaver’s transformed heavy attack, then did the same with the other one, then rakuyo helped me a crazy amount with the orphan
This is the most trouble Luke has ever had with orphans
To be fair there aren't any skeletons
1:38:00 You wanna dance with Ray in the pale moonlight?
quick tip for anyone struggling with this fight: he can be staggered and visceral attacked if you hit him with a charge attack from behind. the way i've beaten him is to wait for his long recovery attacks and then visceral from behind, it keeps him on the floor and does a good bit of damage pretty easily.
I'm sad that I've missed this live but I had some runs in with Genichiro Way of Tomoe and Isshin Sword Saint. Needless to say, Isshin clears the floor with me. Darn it. Anyway, keep it up in Bloodborne Luke!
You have to keep pressing forward and be extremely close to do viscerals. when you see your character sort of sliding off enemy or feet still moving forward then your good for a visceral
Is it bad that I'm glad he didn't get Orphan in one? Is that fragile of me?
My favourite thing about Luke. Someone types in all caps (compensating I guess?) and he generally ignores whatever they have said after acknowledging that he's seen the message. The man with OCD (I think that's what you said in a previous stream, apologies if I'm wrong) basically does small things to irritate someone beyond belief, I love it!
PS I know OCD isn't irritation, it's the thought that counts though.
I don't see how him having OCD has anything to do with the situation?
“Well Whale, what do we have here?”
They aren't whales tho, they're shark-giants.
I don’t blame Luke for not wanting to do something when someone basically yells it at him in all CAPS. I don’t know many people who are more inclined to do a task when someone raises their voice vs a simple suggestion.
Loved the Well Whales battle. Loved Loved Loved.
The orphan looks like he’s holding a cocktail shrimp, or perhaps a coconut shrimp
that sounds pleasant, too bad it's actually placenta
Watching Luke play through and get better and better every time he dies makes me wonder how amazing he'd be at fighting games...hmmm, do I issue a CHALLOUNGE?
Also, I admire how restrained you are during this. F-Bombs a plenty when I played this...
(Quick Edit) I forgot about Placenta weapon...If ever there was a phrase I hated while playing this, and after seeing my child born, it's placenta weapon...
I'm surprised at Luke, killing Smash Blue Whale's brothers so shamelessly. You think you know a person...
During the Maria boss fight I couldn't stop singing the song Hellfire from Hunchback of Notre Dame
I love how much shade Luke throws on the chat for their item suggestions. lol
at some point you should revisit the prison cells after the place where you fought ludwig! and also go back to the beast that was relaxing on the altar early on in the dlc
Again I'd argue the reason the orphan is scary/gross has little to do with the fact it crawled out of something and has more to do with the fact that it crawled out as something a fully grown giant sized naked old white guy
and sobbing, don't forget the sobbing
Oh god the thumbnail says it alone he going to have a bad time also that flesh weapon is the placenta
Back to add that I just killed the whale/shark dudes and somehow remembered that fight being a lot worse than it turned out to be. It somehow took me maybe 5 or 6 attempts. It helped that I managed to land a hit with a shaman bone blade, so the second guy killed the first guy for me and then the second guy was already down to half health when he came at me. I did notice both for me and on here where it confirmed for me that the second shark/whale thing has a lot less HP than the first one. I did get my Rakuyo though and it's to +9. That'll be my main weapon the rest of the game, I think.
Luke: successfully parries and enemy I didn't even know could be parried after playing this game upwards of 300 hours.
Also Luke: can't use consumable item
I kind of wish this game would say your batteries are low or you get weird achievements (ex:“Used BoltPaper”) if your insight is high, during Bossfights. Like Amnesia
He really did do a lot better against the orphan than most of us were expecting, but considering that he one-shotted Maria and the Living failures in the previous stream, I'm still very impressed. Ebrietas has been the only boss, I think, to really give him a lot of trouble to the point of having to hand it to Let's Play Luke. I'm still not over his reflexes for dodging and I'm glad he didn't give up on the two whale dudes. I hate that I'll have to go right them to get Maria's weapon since I really want it. I hate that I favor lighter, faster builds but end up being utter garbage at dodging and dodging is a bit important for a build like that (in most games anyway).
There's a easy and cheap way to beat them with the Beast Cleaver once you unlocked the lift from the entrance to the boss arena. Equip Beast Cleaver and transform it, start at the entrance lamp, run towards the well, go in and aggro the big dude. Now go up again and run past everything and towards where that unreachable item is. The Aggroed Dude will now try to hit you up there and you can safely use the transformed R2 attacks. It will slowly but easily kill them.
@@jvdach4652 Nice advice, but I'm pretty sure that by the time I get around to playing Bloodborne I won't remember to do that, lol. Particularly since it'll be a while before I get into the DLC.
@@jvdach4652 Been 2 years, but I finally not only killed Lady Maria last night, but I just killed the 2 well sharks. I had nowhere near the amount of trouble against them that Luke did. I died probably 4 or 5 times to the first one, but was regularly getting him to under half health. I missed the first time I tried the shaman bone blade trick, but I landed it the second time I tried (after dying again). The first one died to the second one and then left me fighting the second shark who was down to half health already for me. It helps that the second shark has notably less health than the first one. Thankfully Lady Maria taught me how to properly parry, so I actually landed a couple of parries on the first shark dude.
Those shark giants are more like Murlocs than the fishmen, considering they actually run to get help just like the Murlocs in WoW do.
*Blubbery fish sounds*
53:55. Oh gosh, job interview, what to say. I would say.....oh I'm lacking points in skill...
No! Never say that in an interview!
It's an orphan Boss
Ah yes, this is my favourite soulsborne-luke: when you can see the game has utterly crushed his spirit
The fact that he even got the ORPHAN OF KOS down to 30% HP on the first try... dang.🤯🤯🤯
Still waiting for Luke to admit he's good at this game...
41:40 - 42:10 needs to be on a shirt with the last bit being on the opposite side from the rest front or back doesn't matter
It's orphan, boss!
I know it would be a boring livestream but imagine if Luke killed most of the enemies he cheeses past in this game! He would be up to 99 in no time.
The animations of the AOE and the attacks remind me of dual scythes.
Awesome first go at Kos.
Last-attempt-Luke makes all those other Lukes look like amateurs!
This stream doesn’t seem to be in the playlist with the other Bloodborne streams.
Also, did Luke ever go back and fight Laurence (the first boss you encounter in the first area who is initially not hostile) after getting his skull? I’ve mostly been keeping up, but can’t remember if he did that fight or mentioned doing it off stream or something. Not saying he should or anything, he’s not a particularly memorable boss unless you’re deep into the lore... I just can’t remember if it happened during another stream.
Isn’t he like one of main causes of all things horrible in the world?
AudOldEnds He’s pretty much THE main cause, in the sense that he’s responsible for the plague that turned everyone into beasts. He was a student at Byrgenwerth, but left because he wanted to inject some weird juice he found inside a Cthulhu living in a cave, and Provost Willem was like “that seems like a bad idea, bro”. So he took the Cthulhu juice (aka the “Old Blood”) and founded the Healing Church, which became hella popular because the Cthulhu juice cures any illness and heals any wound. It also has the teeny-tiny side effect of turning you into a variety of different horrible beasts (it’s also likely that the Church poisoned the water supply so people would get sick and need the Cthulhu juice, but that’s implied rather than stated outright). The Church he founded is also responsible for a number of other atrocities, including starting the hunt and all the bad shit that happened as a result (e.g. everything experienced by the player). Even in cases where the bad shit is being caused by a Great One, like Gehrman being trapped in the dream, he’s only there because Laurence broke his promise and never came back for him (technically that’s only implied, but if you listen to Gehrman talking in his sleep that’s basically what he says). He was also part of the group that did some seriously fucked up shit in the fishing hamlet that led to the curse/the Hunter’s Nightmare the DLC is based around (though the expedition itself was likely ordered by Willem, so he shares blame for that one). One of the only exceptions is the start of Cainhurst’s own beast plague, which started because an unnamed associate of Laurence stole a DIFFERENT strain of Cthulhu juice (maybe from a different Cthulhu?) and took it to Cainhurst to basically do the same thing there. That being said, the Healing Church still showed up in Cainhurst afterwards and massacred pretty much everyone.
All of this is why it’s such a shame that his boss fight is just Cleric Beast 2.0: now with fire and crazy health and damage. Either make a boss fight as epic as his role in the story, or just leave it out.
Matt Nachbar ....well damn.
I guess in a kind of oddly poetic way it’s ironic. For all he’s responsible for and for all he tried to become he eventually ended up nothing more than unremarkable beast
Telling an orphan "I ain't your mama seems in poor taste, Luke.
Orphans are back for revenge 😬
1:21:18 Luke roasting The Chat 😂
Lukes face in this 😂
The lifts need to be returned. Don't forget the Lifts.
Same thing happened to me trying to use the bone blades, it's bullshit
I had no idea you could parry the shark giants...
20:56 saaame Luke 🤭 shaman bones never worked for me either! 👎🏾☹️
🥳🥳🥳❤️ **like spike** 36:19
LETS GET TASTY!?
needs to go on some merch
anyone else surprised how there is no hype video for kingdoms of amalur re-reckoning yet? i thought ellen would be jumping in circles to do one xD
Luke vs. Asshole Whales. Battle of the century.
Try your hand at the chalices Luke, they are super fun
I think he's done some of them. At some earlier stream I noticed he had the bone ash armor set available to buy at the insight bath, and you only get that through chalices.
He's definitely already done many of them, mentioned in an earlier stream (maybe 6 or 7 ago)
It's beginning to look a lot like fishmeeeeen,
Eeeeverywhere I go!
From the minute I got to towwn,
And started to look arouuuund,
I thought these ill-bred people's gills-slits shoooowed!
Ellen! Kingdoms of amalur Re-reckoning Fate edition?
Has he fought Laurence yet? I can't remember.
Yes
@@austinknight5881 Which video? This one? or did i just forget it completely from the previous ones
i dunno how i forgot the giant flamey boi
I... May have been thinking of Ludwig. Laurence was one he saw and fled, I think.
Ahhh, coolcool, all good. ugh ludwig is so gross but i love him
@@austinknight5881 nah, he was there when Laurence wasn't activated. Don't think he's been back since.
Is it doing that thing where the start isn't loaded.??
I mean it’s only right for an orphan to beat Luke up for a bit :3 dont like telling you what you do :) personally i find parrying in soulsbourne boss fights really ruin the fights and make them quite boring. Once i figured out my own strategy OoK became my favourite fight in Bloodborne (except trying to rush them at low level arcane build for the tentacles, yikes), hope you find yours 🌈
I’m dark souls 3 does less armour mean more dmg and if does it apply to bloodborne
No, armor has no effect on damage in either game. In dark souls, the weight of the armor determines your roll speed but that's it. In bloodborne armor has little to no effect at all, it's all fashion.
Tip: There are more than 1 slot for ur weapons. Check each slot as while it may not increase in 1 slot they may increase in another
Also reminder: Don't forget about the fire guy back at the beginning of the nightmare past fire ball
@33:15 = True tragedy
Also, Orphan of Kos is nothing more than an angsty teen - shrieking all the time flinging what looks like their retainer around.,..
This stream was a whale of a time.
The Orphan? Oh no...
Anyone else hate it when RUclips goes slow as heck and makes a two hour stream take six hours to watch due to all the buffering?
Why are the notes on the ground so cryptic?
Because you can only select from a word bank when leaving them, you can't just write them to say whatever you want. Your options are very limited, so players have to get creative in order to get their message across.
@@motherofvermin Ohhhhh! Despite playing some of Souls 1 and 2 and a bit more of Bloodborne I've never really attempted to send a message, thanks for the clarification!
YEEEOW!!