Weird rare red sphere creature in Darkroot Garden

[Thomas o Kawaiiness]

I was farming Darkroot Garden and trying to get my summon sign down in front of Sif's door. I kept dying on the way there, and then on one attempt to run past, on that stone bridge right after the big cat guy that asks you to join his covenant, there was a red glowing spherical creature on the bridge. It was like a crystal lizard, but it looked nothing like it. I tried stabbing it, which is not easy when you're on the bridge, so I hit it a few times, and then the axe guy with the spider shield ran up and killed me, all of this took place over the span of about 3 seconds.

Has anyone else ever seen this or heard of this before? I'd say it was a bug, but it was behaving just like a crystal lizard, it seemed to burrow away just as I was dropping dead, and then it never showed up there again.

POSSIBLE CRITERIA: I had died in this area several times today alone just clearing out the area. I became hostile with cat guy's covenant, killed his NPCs and the cat guy left, killed the cat guys, killed the hydra, got summoned into a game to kill Sif which we did, then I died and lost my souls and the free humanity I had gotten (it's a sloppy hung over lazy Saturday for me).

[Sasha Mason]

What you saw is a so called Vagrant. They come in different colours but are all usually triggered in other peoples worlds when someone drops a certain item.

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/vagrant

Ya know, just one of the many Dark Souls 1 exclusive online interaction things that never ever appeared in any of the other games.

(Just like things like being able to see where people died through curse, getting an extra estus when someone kindles their bonfire with you being near it, the bells obviously, things like that)

[Thomas o Kawaiiness]

Oh wow, that's weird, but that's definitely what I saw. I had no clue. I actually played all of Dark Souls 1 on PC and never saw these things, but I did that last year (I got into Dark Souls late) so I guess I was a lot less likely for that to happen. Thanks for letting me know about this.

I always did like the bells thing, hearing them and I never looked it up but I assumed it meant someone else had just done that.

[Toji's Sweaty Gymshorts]

Originally posted by Mason™ of Germany:

What you saw is a so called Vagrant. They come in different colours but are all usually triggered in other peoples worlds when someone drops a certain item.

http://darksouls.wikidot.com/vagrant

Ya know, just one of the many Dark Souls 1 exclusive online interaction things that never ever appeared in any of the other games.

(Just like things like being able to see where people died through curse, getting an extra estus when someone kindles their bonfire with you being near it, the bells obviously, things like that)

except out of all those only the bells and vagrants are exclusive to DS1?

[Sasha Mason]

Originally posted by Shindi:

except out of all those only the bells and vagrants are exclusive to DS1?

Bells, Vagrants, seeing other peoples cursed bodies, getting Estus from bonfires when others kindle it, all of those things are pretty much just in Dark Souls 1. In later games, the online interaction outside of invasions was reduced to just player ghosts / phantoms visible in your world, messages and bloodstains.