So yesterday I FINALLY got my copy of the game and I was excited as all hell. I managed to stay away from wikis and spoilerfests as much as I could for this game, which is quite unique for me. I picked a Thief (mostly because of the cool-looking armor) and went on my grand adventure.

Things were going quite well. I killed a lot of demons and they in turn killed me a lot. It was a weird ying-yang thing going on, but it was all in good fun. Until I met a prisoner in a cage behind a breakable wall inside that church with one of the bells up top. At first I didn't think twice about freeing him; after all I had just joined the Way of White covenant and felt I had to live up to my new vows. But then he just sat there, laughing like a mad villain, promising me of a "future reward after he do some work". I panicked, thinking I've set loose Lucifer, and swiftly hit him with my blade. Unfortunatly he didn't like that one bit, and slaughtered me faster than I could say "oh piss".

After returning back to life I slowly started to ponder what the fuck I was doing. I attacked a NPC, and I was well aware of that once you attack one of those there's no going back. It's his life or yours. Did I fuck up an awesome questreward down the line? Maybe he was just a misunderstood bloke with a creepy laugh? I had to sleep on it, and today I'm sure of it: I'm restarting with a new character where I won't attack him. Bad idea? I'll see eventually, but I at least want to see what this promised reward will bring me down the line...

So what about you? Have you played with only one character, accepting any and all consequences you've brought upon yourself? Or have you, like me, just said "fuck it" and restarted all over again no matter the amount of lost progress?

The ring you get for killing him is awwwwwwesome early on.

I'm sticking with one character. Killed a blacksmith by accident and am going to live with it. Unfortunately about half an hour after that I learned that you could buy their favor back.

Killing him is totally the right thing to do. You could fight him when you did or 20 hours later. If you let him go he will go to Firelink and kill the Firekeeper.

I ended up restarting after killing the first merchant AND the blacksmith. The amount of dumb that it took for me to do that is unbelievable.

I was drinking and started smashing up the stuff around the merchant in the undead burg, and accidentally hit him. So I had to kill him after running for my life and freaking out, but at least I bought the reinforced club way before. Unfortunately, I did not buy any arrows so I might not get the Drake Sword unless there is another place to buy arrows :(

I'm 50 hours in and I just did something that is making me really consider restarting.