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With both bells rung, the gate beside the Undead Parish bonfire stands open. Sen's Fortress is a gauntlet of swinging blades, arrow plates and rolling boulders, held by snake-headed soldiers and mages, with one bonfire, on the roof. A bow and a good stack of arrows help a lot here. On the way up you turn the boulders for Siegmeyer and open the wall to a caged sorcerer, Big Hat Logan; the key to his cage lies near the top. After the Iron Golem on the roof, a ring of light in its arena carries you to Anor Londo. Never attack a merchant or a friendly NPC here.
Arrow plates and boulders hurt the snake soldiers as much as you: lure one into the line of fire and step on the plate. Traps reset when you die or reload the game, but not when you rest at a bonfire.
At the top of the stairs, a great hall of swinging blades opens over a pit of tar. The pit is a side trip with four Titanite Demons that never come back, a few items and a hidden ladder to the roof Giant who opened the gate; it ends back at this ledge. The drop costs a good share of health, and the Rusted Iron Ring from the Asylum return makes walking in the tar much easier.
The main route to the boulder machine: cross the first blade bridge (a mage on the walkway above throws lightning; fight the soldier in its shadow), go through the door at the end, turn left and climb the stairs to a second line of blades. In the room beyond, a plate in front of the chest fires arrows from the wall ahead; go left through the door. Boulders roll past the next doorway from the left: once one has gone by, run left up the slope to a fog gate in a recess on the left. Past it, keep to one side of the corridor's arrow plate; in the next room, a doorway on the left opens onto a winding ramp where boulders roll down. Follow one down to the hole at the bottom and duck into the small room on the left. Ride the lift in its corner, step off where it pauses, climb the stairs to a narrow bridge, drop down on the right and run up the stairs to the room with the turning platform: the boulder machine.
One platform further down, Siegmeyer of Catarina sits near two Serpent Soldiers. Talking to him here is optional; what moves his story on is turning the boulders away from this slope at the boulder machine, further up. Kill the soldiers carefully and never hit him. Then follow the wall back up the slope, time your run between boulders and go through the fog gate in the recess.
In the small room off the foot of the winding ramp, the crooked chest is a Mimic, the first of several in the game. Its chain sticks straight out instead of curving back; left alone it never attacks. Opening it means a nasty bite, so hit it first, or calm it with a Lloyd's Talisman. Each Mimic drops a fixed item.
The lift in the corner of the Mimic room pauses partway up: step off there, or it carries you on into a spiked ceiling. Riding it back down later? Let it finish its trip to the top and return before you board.
To go on, return to the machine room. From the planks, go through the hole in the wall into the cell with bent bars, climb out of its window and drop a floor, then drop again into the first blade hall (it costs some health), or take the hole with ledges down into the tar pit. Walk back up through the fortress, now free of boulders. In the machine room, take the small doorway: a plate in the passage beyond sets off four arrow slots on the left, so step on it and back off until they stop. Sprint across the next blade walkway, climb the stairs past a Serpent Mage (a Serpent Soldier waits in a side passage beside them), and cross the last, narrowest line of blades, shooting the mage on your left first. Past them, stairs on the right climb to a fog gate, with an arrow plate on each side of the way: step around them and go through onto the roof.
The Crestfallen Merchant in the next tower sells Large Titanite Shards and Titanite Shards without limit. The Raw Weapon trophy needs ten Large Titanite Shards and nine Titanite Shards in all, less whatever you have found; buy them here before the Iron Golem.
From Logan's cage room, climb back to the roof the way you came and rest at the Sen's Fortress bonfire. The way to the Iron Golem: climb past the roof fog gate and the third flight, take the stairs on the left onto the high walkway and pass the merchant's gap. Turn right into a room with two hanging cages (the Cage Key opens them; ridden down once, they become a lift to the first blade hall). Go out the far door and hurry along the narrow walkway that turns two corners, with an armored archer shooting from its end. The Golem's fog gate is in the room beyond.
When the Golem dies, a glowing ring of light appears in the arena. Logan is at Firelink now, but his sorceries, the Raw Weapon at Andre's forge and Domhnall's new stock all wait for the Firelink trip after the Lordvessel. Step into the ring now.