9 Best Video Game Quests Triggered At Random

2. Iron Fist Alexander’s Questline - Elden Ring

Souls fans will know that FromSoftware’s side quests aren’t exactly traditional in format but for attentive players, there are interesting questlines you can follow.

Iron Fist Alexander is a large Living Jar who you can first encounter in the unfortunate position of being stuck in the ground. You can walk away, sure, or you can whack him a few times to help him out of his predicament. You’ll continue to stumble across him as you progress through the game, sometimes as a potential summon, sometimes because he’s become stuck again. If you stick with him your final engagement with him will be a duel at his request. Sadly this means you’ll need to defeat him but his greatest wish was to be a mighty warrior and dying in battle is at least an honourable way to go.

Better than being stuck in the ground, anyway.

Like many Souls side quests they require initiative and you’ll have to stumble on each subsequent step to trigger the rest of the quest, but it’s so worth it for those who can make it to the end.