C11: Clearing Central Yharnam Pt 2.
date: 11/15/25
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Walking down the possible former river bed, I find nothing special around on this floor so I use the ladder to return back up.
Im quickly bombarded by 2 gunmen but I quickly evade into the entrance of the warehouse I just came out of. Good choice too as a Large Huntsman (half mutated huntsman with the werewolf styled hair) charging at me.
It wields a similar staff as the one mutated large huntsman who was blocking my clothes, but lacks the fishy mutations. I back step a few times to create distance before using at least one molotov to soften it up with the fire before dashing in while it was stunned to begin wailing on it with my saw cleaver. Flesh torn, fur ripped and after guts spilling soon enough.
But Im tired, I look at my stamina and find it wiped out, Even with the cocktail, it took me another 4 or five attacks to finally take it down. I get another small wisp of a measly 73 echoes.
"That rats are worth more at this point" I scratch an itch on my back that popped up in the middle of the fight but I couldn't focus on it but now I can. It's only a difference of 10 or so echoes but the rats are at least in packs so it feels more satisfying to kill them.
After taking care of that beast, I then bumrushed the two gunmen outside, collecting 1 bloodstone shard from the huntsman and a collective 6 bullets from the 2 gunmen.
I then find another shining item on the left side of the entrance/exit to the warehouse and learn it's a cold blood dew (1). Nice
After collecting the cold blood dew, I went down the other path and found a few carrion crows. The first two only net me a bit of echoes and two pebbles (1 each). Another crow then jumps up at me from in between a few boxes but I luckily side step instead of backstep which prevents me from just dropping down into the canal again. I take care of this bird with my cleaver.
I then head across a small stone bridge and kill another two crows and accidentally break a box that was hiding a set of oil urns. The second was accidental as my wide swing just clipped its head and it flinched which had me wail on it a bit more to kill it.
"Delicious" I comment as the oil urn is from its description, an item that automatically boosts the damage of cocktails if it hits first.
I soon spot a glowing item on a thin board connecting both sides I am or was on. I line myself up and simply let myself fall down onto the pillar.
Due to it's slickness, I actually fall off but I luckily grab on as my gear is automatically stored away. I struggle my way onto the board and collect the item, another bloodstone shard.
I let myself hang on the board before dropping down to the lower level and after another round of exploring and not finding anything else. I progress forward.
Which leads me to a wooden scaffolding with two ladders. Up and Down. Down leads me to another lower level and I remember that's where you face your first pig. Not interested in that creature yet, I choose to head upwards.
The ladder climb is long, taking me far higher than where I even met the bird girl hunter. It's honestly a lovely view but I don't stop climbing as I could appreciate it more when I'm not hanging onto a ladder at an extreme height.
'Thank goodness Gehrman got rid of my fear of heights. Almost thankful of how many times he nearly threw me off cliffs whilst claiming it's training.' I finally arrive at the top and hear a strange sound.
"Oooohhh, Ooooohhhhhhhhh" I nervously look around and find another brute on the other side of a bridge that is just standing besides a house and I even spot a ladder leading a bit further up.
I step forward towards the bridge but find an opening on the right which has a multitude of crows.
I get three of them down when the last one is able to jump up and claw me a bit, I quickly retaliate with my own swing as it flies by me.
I spot a blood red energy flow into me that lessens the dull ache that rose in my chest when I got hit followed by wisps from all 4 crows.
I pick up the madmans knowledge x 1 and then turn around to the bridge. Heading across it, I turn to the brute with his back turned to me.
I slowly walk up behind it when I nearly shit my pants at a system notification popping up.
[Minor Stealth Steps has been learned: User makes 30% less sound when slow walking]
'Fock off with ye' I wave the screen away but perhaps the movement of my arms or something causes the brute to turn around. I quickly lash out once with my cleaver before I get a glimpse of waist sized piece of rock or whatever it is in the brutes arm.
I back step in time before the brute would smack me with it's offhand. It quickly gives chase, rearing it's boulder up high before i finally take up my gun and fire.
BANG Doong
The brute falls to his knees and I dash in to plunge my fist into his heart. Ripping out a chunk but it remains alive but only enough for me to swing once and then a second time more before it just collapses.
"Hooh" I huff out a breath as i examine the stone but it quickly begins to fade away along with the dead body of the brute.
I do get two more vials that are stored away before I turn around and find a door with light seeping underneath the crack. A faded lamp beside it. I approach the door.
I knock on the large wooden door that is adorned with dozens of bolts. Honestly the building itself gives the impression of a crypt with a feline looking imps standing on each side of the door itself.
"Lousy outsider, Trying to make me open the door, begone with ye" A harsh feminine voice echoes from within the house, seemingly just beside the door.
"Not an outsider, if you asked your mother then you would know that. And why would I want to come in anyways?" I retort as I certainly don't see any sort of keyhole or anything that would tell them I'm an outsider, so I decide to troll them.
"What? What did you say about my mother, she is bedridden since two weeks ago" the voice asks in confusion as they couldn't trace the sarcasm in my voice.
Seeing the perfect opportunity, I pull out something i've been meaning to say for over a year in my past life.
"I do apologize, my dick game was pretty strong back then, I'm sorry your mother couldn't handle it, but it's alright now, I'm here now with medicine. So why not let daddy in" I say my bit and I hear something rustling inside.
Soon the door swings open as a typical medieval peasant woman comes out with a knife in hand. "How dare you speak of my ill mother like this, vile hunter. Ill kill you before I let any beast claim my flesh. A worthy trade it is, so die now"
"Im grateful you care so much to protect me but I think im better equipped than you." I respond and promptly slap the shit out of the illbrained woman. She is sent recoiling and hits her head on one of the studs on her door. Knocking her out.[1]
"Ouch, don't worry. I'll patch you up. I might believe in gender equality but even I know that if you die just like this, it would haunt me." I stab the woman with a blood vial which heals her.
I then drag her inside while closing the door behind me.
[Ding. User has entered a restricted area. 99% of all stats sealed. Curious George achievement automatically activates, user regains 5% of original stats.]
[User has gained a new achievement: Believer of True Gender Equality: User automatically deals 1.1x damage to all creatures of the opposite gender, +50 million emotional damage]
I feel a wave of weakness pass over me as I realize my intuition about the title was right and that there was a penalty but I just didn't expect it would be so crazy.
I look up my status and find all my stats at 1 point each with the exception of Vitality and Endurance which still have the +1 skill mod. Yet I still let out a chuckle at the new achievement, granted I don't know too much about any sort of women I would have any reason to fight at the moment.
"Wait, do the witches of hemwick count as actual women and not just some sort of hunch back mole people that teleport?"
Shaking my head of the thought, I turn to look at the woman I accidentally knocked out. Since I can't carry the woman anymore and even a few steps tires me out, I leave her there on the floor. I walk around the house and quickly find a pillow which I return and place under the woman's head so she is a bit more comfortable.
Then I exact my right to pillage as I snoop around every cubby, every corner and actually find a few things.
Alcohol and food.
I take a few portions for myself as I strangely haven't felt hungry in a while, yet the true holy grail is what I found in the upper level.
Spices.
"I never thought these uncultured idiots would even have any in this time period" I say as most of the meals in my current life were very bare bones, granted I don't think my foster father ever had any money" I say as I pocket it all. My system telling me all that I need to know: Salt, pepper, paprika, cloves, and Onion powder,
"Oh yes…I'm eating well tonight boyzzz" I am quite happy as I close my system and look around, not finding anyone. A deathly silence in this building.
"Oh right, im alone….Just gotta make some milkshakes, that'll bring the boyzz to the yard. Haha" I chuckle to myself as I begin to shmoove to the beat of that specific song as I finally leave the building and regain my stats.
"Ah, that feels much better. Now for that other ladder, I should make my way back to spend my echoes" I make a plan as I probably have enough shards to make my saw cleaver +2 as well.
As i get to the top of the next set of ladders, I examine my surroundings to find a lever to open a metal door.
"Ohhh, this was the door I was thinking of rather than the one from over there" I realize where im at as i point to the left side gate that opens back to the lamp.
Pulling the lever the gate rears open and I spot a familiar fountain area just past where the fire pit area is.
"Um excuse me" A child's voice speaks up suddenly which confuses me as I never knew that there was a person here that could talk. Must have walked right by her in my playthrough.
"Ughhhh, yes?" I say as I approach the veiled window which has a hanging incense burner next to it.
"I don't know your voice, but I know that scent. Youre a hunter arent you? Can you please find my mum? She went out to look for my dad after he never returned from the hunt. You will be able to tell who she is right away. She has this big…beautiful brooch. You won't miss it. Take this too. This music box plays one of daddies favorite songs, it helps him remember us again, mum is so funny for forgetting it." The girl speaks up for a while as she seems very excited at my presence but my mood isn't good.
Afterall, this is bloodborne, I know that once I make enough progress, all the residents will turn into beasts.
I find a music box slowly lifted up onto the windowsill. I take it and store it away.
I'm about to ask if she knows what the name of her father is, if it's a hunter when I open the box without winding it and find a note stuck to the top of the box.
The handwriting is faded but two names are at least partially eligible: Viola and Gascoigne.
I chill at the names as I know Father Gascoigne. He was an old friend, a half mentor to him as it was him who taught me how to properly shoot a gun for the first time.
I grit my teeth as I tell her, "I'll find them, and ill do my best to bring them back too"
"Thank you" The child responds and Im about to walk away when
[Ding: The Cleric Beast has found you"]
I freeze and look around, quickly finding the beast itself on the other side of the fountain, it seems the beast was attracted by the sound of the gates opening.
"HIDE NOW" I yell at the girl as I myself dig out the bold hunters mark i got and stuff it in my mouth. The symbol on it which honestly looks like the demon curse from Berserk, resonates with the same sigil engraved within my own head… somehow.
I flop over as the beast cuts the distance to bite into me as I swan dive off where I came from.
The smoke covers my body as I soon find myself at the central Yharnam lamp. I quickly activate the lamp to return to the dream.
"HAH HAH" 'So freaking stressful, dealing with that bitch.' I mentally curse as I organize what I know and where I should go next.
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Word count is 2462: ive been informed that numbers is 'nicer' for yall rather than guessing and all that mystique.
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[1] naturally I do not condone hitting women, but equal rights is equal fights. Not my fault this girl didn't check her privileges.