Random Item Drops?

[Huggles the Cat]

Just ran into the catacombs to grab the mace and used a homeward bone. Once I appeared at the bonfire I turned around and saw three item drop bags on the ground as if I had a summon or invader dropping items. I'm playing online, but don't have anyone in my game. After picking one of the bags up (it had 1 titanite shard) the rest disappeared. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

[Ñokk]

Were you doing that in human form?

[Huggles the Cat]

Originally posted by The Red:

Were you doing that in human form?

Nope. Was hollow at the time.

[Vudak]

Late response sorry, but they are Drift Bags iirc, similar to Vagrants. Rare items/enemies that phase across worlds when items/humanities are dropped / lost on death.

Saw my second ever vagrant just a couple days ago in the catacombs - red angry crabbo :)

[Huggles the Cat]

Originally posted by Vudak:

Late response sorry, but they are Drift Bags iirc, similar to Vagrants. Rare items/enemies that phase across worlds when items/humanities are dropped / lost on death.

Saw my second ever vagrant just a couple days ago in the catacombs - red angry crabbo :)

I've seen and defeated several vagrants, but this is the first i've ever heard of "Drift Bags". Never seen that mentioned in player or official guides, game manuals (what even are those anymore, lol), or online chats (until now). Do you have anything related to this that I could read up on about it?

Update:
So I found this old forum post (and others) when searching the topic and I'm surprised I’m only now finding out about this. I've seen plenty of red and white vagrants, but never knew that white vagrants start out as loose item bags drifting from online world to online world. This is pretty neat. According to the forum post certain items act as triggers for being turned into drift items/vagrants. Since I got a titanite shard and don't see it on the guy's list, I’m guessing the list is fairly extensive with most consumables and materials being on it.

The Forum Post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/1snzu9/good_vagrant_and_drift_item_bag_tutorial_a_guide/