Problem w/Key to King's Passage

[An Irate Walrus]

Right, I've climbed up the ladder just beyond the inactive elevator (nearest the door to the King's Passage/Central Drangleic bonfire). The room at the top is, as it was in DS II, full of stone soldiers, and one golem with a ewer that needs to be turned in order to activate the elevator (and grant access to the room containing the Key to the King's Passage).

My problem here is this: I can't get any of the stone soldiers to activate and fight me, and therefore I cannot send souls into the golem's ewer. I've killed the wall ghost, the headless assassins, the Chariot Boss, and the Old Knights beyond the room, but the stone soldiers just sit there like--well--statues.

Is this a major change in SotFS? Is there something I'm doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated, as this is a progression-ending problem, and I'm really hoping it's not a bug.

[Sir Crashalot]

There are a couple of rogues who drop down in the next room, lure one near the statue and kill. Job done happy days etc.

[An Irate Walrus]

Excellent! Thank you.

[Hunubul]

Originally posted by Sir Crashalot:

There are a couple of rogues who drop down in the next room, lure one near the statue and kill. Job done happy days etc.

It should be the first thing someone does.

[An Irate Walrus]

Originally posted by Ponion:

Originally posted by Sir Crashalot:

There are a couple of rogues who drop down in the next room, lure one near the statue and kill. Job done happy days etc.

It should be the first thing someone does.

Regrettably, I got stuck in a bit of a learned experience loop, and didn't even think of luring those critters beyond the portal.

I shall retire now to the room of penance and lash myself with an awl; it's all I can do, given that my intellectual acumen in no way approaches yours. Mistakes, thought patterns--these things do not happen in Dark Souls--there are only the erudite, and the ever-drooling masses who depend upon the former.

TL;DR: Durrr, thanks, I already felt stupid enough as it was, but your insistence upon driving the point home to salve your personal egotism has had the effect of relieving me of any sense of shame I might have felt. So long as there are living representations of Comic Book Shop Guy in the world, I shall find solace in knowing that I am not, at least, you.

[jrubz]

Originally posted by An Irate Walrus:

Originally posted by Ponion:

It should be the first thing someone does.

Regrettably, I got stuck in a bit of a learned experience loop, and didn't even think of luring those critters beyond the portal.

I shall retire now to the room of penance and lash myself with an awl; it's all I can do, given that my intellectual acumen in no way approaches yours. Mistakes, thought patterns--these things do not happen in Dark Souls--there are only the erudite, and the ever-drooling masses who depend upon the former.

TL;DR: Durrr, thanks, I already felt stupid enough as it was, but your insistence upon driving the point home to salve your personal egotism has had the effect of relieving me of any sense of shame I might have felt. So long as there are living representations of Comic Book Shop Guy in the world, I shall find solace in knowing that I am not, at least, you.

that roast though