How to get to Irithyll Kitchen without going through Distant Manor ?

[spaceweezle]

I'm at the part where I want to send Greirat to pillage Irithyll. I was told long ago that going to Distant Manor and/or lighting that bonfire could screw up the quest.

I am now near the distant manor, but I can't see any way to get to the bottom without going through the Manor itself. I can't go through the Irithyll dungeon as it will also screw up the quest.

I did this successfully once but I forget how to get to the kitchen. I just want to make sure Siegward is there before I send Greirat on a pillage.

[Evilcheesewheel]

Lighting the bonfire is fine, you just can't enter the dungeon.

[spaceweezle]

Originally posted by EvilCheeseWheel:

Lighting the bonfire is fine, you just can't enter the dungeon.

Oh really ? Are you doubly sure about that ?

It's just that I had gotten explicit instructions to avoid that area and bonfire before.

[Argstein]

if you are near Distant Manor bonfire, then you just passed the turn through the shallow lake into the sewers that leads up into this Irithyll Kitchen you speak of.... you mean the Kitchen with the Estus Soup in it, right? :)

[ZeroSbr]

You don't even have to pass the Distant Manor bonfire in order to get to the Irithyll Kitchen.

[spaceweezle]

Originally posted by asdfwasdf:

if you are near distant manor bonfire, then you just passed the turn through the shallow lake into the sewers that leads up into this Irithyll Kitchen you speak of.... you mean the Kitchen with the Estus Soup in it, right? :)

Yeah, the one where Siegward is supposed to be once you save him from the Well.

I can't seem to find the passage you speak of. I am right where the 3 knights are in a circular shaped structure and where you find the Lightning Gem.

[Taco Cat]

100s of playthroughs: distant manor has caused me no issues, same with irithyll dungeon. I also skip Siegward when I seem him in the kitchen to make sure he saves Greirat.

[Argstein]

i never find lightning gems on any of my playthroughs so that doesn't help...

here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=takBqoIDrpA
in this video the guy gets from Distant Manor to "Irithyll Kitchen" in the first minute of video

[spaceweezle]

Originally posted by TacoCat:

100s of playthroughs: distant manor has caused me no issues, same with irithyll dungeon. I also skip Siegward when I seem him in the kitchen to make sure he saves Greirat.

Hmm, a lot of people said going through the dungeon breaks the quest. I only want to check the kitchen just to make sure. I don't plan on talking to him.

[Argstein]

wierd i ran seigward's questline way back but i don't remember ever seeing him in that kitchen there... what's he say? "here, have some soup!"???

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by spaceweezle:

Originally posted by TacoCat:

100s of playthroughs: distant manor has caused me no issues, same with irithyll dungeon. I also skip Siegward when I seem him in the kitchen to make sure he saves Greirat.

Hmm, a lot of people said going through the dungeon breaks the quest. I only want to check the kitchen just to make sure. I don't plan on talking to him.

I think it's a common misconception with talking to Siegward. My guess is that if you reload the area and move Siegward after talking to him, there's a chance the game will glitch out and Siegward won't save Greirat because of it. I haven't experimented with it much, but that is what seemed to happen to me before, so I just ignore him until later.

[spaceweezle]

Originally posted by asdfwasdf:

i never find lightning gems on any of my playthroughs so that doesn't help...

here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=takBqoIDrpA
in this video the guy gets from Distant Manor to "Irithyll Kitchen" in the first minute of video

But in that video he starts from the area I am trying to avoid lol.

Is there no way to the Kitchen other than through the Manor ?

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by asdfwasdf:

wierd i ran seigward's questline way back but i don't remember ever seeing him in that kitchen there... what's he say? "here, have some soup!"???

Have you saved him from the well at Cathedral of the Deep?

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by spaceweezle:

Originally posted by asdfwasdf:

i never find lightning gems on any of my playthroughs so that doesn't help...

here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=takBqoIDrpA
in this video the guy gets from Distant Manor to "Irithyll Kitchen" in the first minute of video

But in that video he starts from the area I am trying to avoid lol.

Is there no way to the Kitchen other than through the Manor ?

You don't have to go to the Distant Manor to go to the kitchen, it's just a resting spot close by. However, it doesn't matter.

[Argstein]

the water.... watch the video and he is backtracking to get back to the shallow water. you can get to this water area before ever going to Distant Manor bonfire

[spaceweezle]

Originally posted by TacoCat:

Originally posted by spaceweezle:

Hmm, a lot of people said going through the dungeon breaks the quest. I only want to check the kitchen just to make sure. I don't plan on talking to him.

I think it's a common misconception with talking to Siegward. My guess is that if you reload the area and move Siegward after talking to him, there's a chance the game will glitch out and Siegward won't save Greirat because of it. I haven't experimented with it much, but that is what seemed to happen to me before, so I just ignore him until later.

Interesting. I'm just a little hesitant to go through the Manor. I don't want to risk losing Greirat.