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So then I pressed on and found the elevator back to Quelaag's Domain. A question though - is there really no use for the
obvious looking shortcut area by the Chaos Covenant stuff? I mean the long hallway ending in a wall down there? I thought for sure that would open up - in fact I thought that's where the elevator would be after Firesage Demon. But it makes sense it is the round plate (with button) just outside the chaos covenant as that had no use before either. So does that other wall ever open up or what?
About half way down the hall there is a comment on the side with like 20 positive reviews that says "try attacking" like there is a hidden path or something. But I get nothing when I try that.
There is a form of invasion where you don't get an announcement about it, right? Because I certainly got no warning. In any case, I was tired and didn't want to deal with that crap plus I wanted to save my human form and not have to waste another humanity so I just quit. But before turning off the PS3 I checked my "Players Met" list and sure enough I had a player met via Dark Souls on there at the time this all happened.
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That door never opens, but if you have beat Kirk in all 3 invasion places then his armor will appear there. Also, there seems to be a bug where the rating that shows up for a message is the total number of ratings, rather than positive minus negative, so people were probably rating it down. Try rating down a message and notice that the number goes up.
The only invasion that doesn't warn you is Darkmoon Blades in dark Anor Londo. When you get invaded anywhere, though, it sets bonfires and other items like white soapstone to unusable and puts up the fog walls immediately. You only get the notice once the phantom actually spawns in your world, which can take several seconds.
I wouldn't necessarily go offline for that fight, because there's often helper phantom signs near the bonfire there. Also, dark phantoms spawn right before the boss door, so you can easily stay at the top and force them to try to run up the root to you while you summon helpers (which would be suicide for them).