I am level 20 at a big blue gate I'll figure out how to open at some point. Trying to get 24 str to use this big stick an enemy dropped, then go kill the edgelord bleed guy in the rose palace or whatever its called. I got him 1 hit from death before then got greedy.
Can't see any red signs anywhere even after using furling finger and the little statues that say they turn the online systems on (which I don't get the point of if the finger already does this), but that's what I get for putting game off for so long on souls burnout
Might go south next and see what's there. North east and west all seem pretty samey, just east is super ugly