Still in world 1-1 (Demon's Souls)

I've been killed.   A lot. 

But, I'm getting the hang of combat, timing swings for some of the incoming grunts.  Don't like the guys with fire swinging at me or throwing it for that matter.

I rescued Ostrava, who didn't look like he needed much in the need of rescuing, but he was helpful for cleaning up some baddies.

I had about 2000 souls after I left him and then got plucked off by a blue eyed knight at the top of a staircase.

Oh well, back into it again, reclaimed my body and got back to the Nexus in one piece.

Now I have some hardstone and sharpstone.  I'd really like to upgrade my bastard sword as I am using it in two hand melee most of the time.

Upgraded to a heater shield and going to switch back to a broad sword, which I may upgrade, as opposed to the bastard sword.