Just wanna update that I found my way down and - I hate this place. Oh my god.
Canāt believe theyād tease me with a big ass root spiraling up a tree, and when I get to the end thereās just a wooden plank shield.
Sure, thereās some better loot underneath that root, butā¦all that effort, fighting leeches and curing poison, for a hunk of junk.
Cruel 
oh man
Almost did a suicide run to grab a few things by a shitload of leeches til I remembered the Homeward Bone exists.
At least now a few of those little blowdart assholes are dead, but I gotta go back up. I need more arrows for these damn bugs
no dude you gotta stay back down
Hmmmmā¦ohhā¦heh heh heh.
Iāll give it a whirl. I just donāt like dealing with these little firefly jerks. Havenāt found a way to melee them so Iām just using my bow, but I used most of my arrows keeping away from leeches.
But! I didnāt think Iād ever get past the club guys, but I did. Or the nasty naked men, but I did. Not gonna let this awful poison swamp and its nightmare bug men beat me 
just use the Run command and explore the entire ground-level swamp
and Iām saying this as someone who has gotten stuck at the mid-level blighttown bonfire with broken equipment before: eventually you just gotta push onward and keep holding the run button and dodge shit until you find the next key location
anyway sorry and good luck
Spoken like a true dark souls character
This is what I do, my friend! This is what I do! Ha ha ha ha!
Ah The Plank Shield, yes, yesā¦
I have no idea what youāre all on about but I still appreciate it
I quit Iām going back to being an Assassinās Creed guy.
Not really, but I completely ate shit in the most embarrassing way - getting pumped full of poison darts by half a dozen little blowdart guys and looking down into this waterway thinking āoh, thereās some messages down there, itās safeā - they werenāt messages. My eyes are failing me, those were fire dogs. A lot of them
I knew this would happen. Itās because the servers are down
grandpa plays on switch
just fuck every enemy in blighttown, ignore the toxic dart guys, find the ladder down to the swamp and thereās a bonfire down there, you need to beat the blighttown boss to progress the story
the ladders are all marked by torches so keep an eye out for light sources
Oh I know. Sorry for sounding difficult! Honestly just cracking myself up when things go awry. Didnāt even mention rounding a corner, seeing two incredibly large angry dudes carrying boulders running at me, and scurrying the other way as quickly as I could.
no what you havenāt done anything wrong, iām trying not to sound like an asshole while being invested in your success lol and not giving like too explicit hints or spoilers
Rudie told me that I absolutely blew past the lower bonfire, so I gotta make my way back there and dig around and find it.
Tried to make a run down there but wound up rolling right off the catwalk in the upper part of Blighttown, so Iām probably gonna call it a night for now.
But no no no, this is too good, Iām not actually gonna quit (unless it does some real absolute bullshit, which Iām sure it will, but even then!).
I didnāt find the lower bonfire either and instead of like turning my camera around more often, I figured out the fastest route from the upper bonfire to the boss and spent 5-10 minutes between each boss attempt.
I just immediately assumed that was how hard it was supposed to be and didnāt suspect I was missing a bonfire. I figured this must be why everyone is complaining about Blighttown
Oh goddamnit.
I let myself get sidetracked, but I was determined. Found the bonfire (what a weird place for it!). Climbed up (a mistake I now realize). Went into the Flaminā Hot Cheeto lair about half a dozen times til I finally got my prize (Fire Keeper Soul, cool, I could use that).
Went back up. And up. And up. Recognized the tunnel I found myself in as a place I stumbled into with the master key. Snatched some gear from a rotten dragon, but only two pieces. Went back into New Londo and went up, ready to reinforce my Estus Flask with some help of the lady at the Firelink Shrine andā¦goddamnit.
Gonna stock up on some moss and head back down.
Edit: oh wait fuck the bonfire fuck
Edit 2: On the plus side, I used the Homeward Bone to go right back to the bottom of Blighttown, and I figured out where to go.
On the downside, I figured out where I need to go and I already donāt like it. Learned my lesson about attacking those pulsating sacks down there.
Edit 3: oh boy