captainsnoop:

one of my favorite things you could do in Dark Souls 1 was bank your souls in Dung Pies

for those unfamiliar, souls are used as currency in the Dark Souls games. they’re used to buy things and to level up. When you die and die again before you can make it back to the same spot where you initially died, all of your souls that you were carrying disappeared and were lost forever

except, there was a way around this 

a merchant that specialized in poison items sold dung pies, literal gobs of human excrement that you would throw at enemies to poison them, for 100 souls

another merchant (a giant snake monster) a short walk from the first one would “buy” items from you, in the sense that he ate them and repaid you in souls for the meal. he would buy dung pies for 100 souls. 

meaning if you wanted to keep your souls without spending them and without the risk of losing them, you’d go buy human shit from a woman that lived in a sewer, and if you wanted your souls back to spend them you’d feed the gobs of shit to a giant snake

video games are great