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11. Waiting Ages For A Summon Sign, Then It Fails Anyway
Alright, so you've swallowed your pride and admitted defeat. You're ready, at last, to summon help for a boss fight.
You've headed back to the bonfire. You've popped a humanity and restored yourself to human form. Then, you look around for a summon sign...and there's absolutely bugger all.
You know you really need help for this next bit, so you wait around for five minutes to see if one pops up. It doesn't. You leave the area, kill some enemies and pop back to the bonfire, hoping to see a summon sign. There's still nothing.
Fifteen more minutes later, you finally hear the sound of a summon sign arriving. You rush over to it, you hit "YES!" with gleeful abandon, and you wait while it says "Summoning Phantom..."
Around thirty seconds pass, and then, suddenly, the text "SUMMONING FAILED" flashes up on your screen. It flashes multiple times, just to add further salt into the wound.
Now you swear lots, throw down your controller in disgust, leave the area, fight the boss again, die again, and turn off the game. Then you come back later on, pop another humanity, and there's about five different summon signs to choose from.