Deathbed Smalls

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About

Deathbed Smalls is a cut content leg armor item from the 2022 video game Elden Ring. A thong worn by character Fia, the item gained notoriety in the Elden Ring community after some players used cheats to obtain it and transfer it to unsuspecting players, which resulted in them getting soft-banned in the game.

Origin

On February 25th, 2022, open-world action RPG video game Elden Ring was released. Pre-release builds of the game included leg armor item Deathbed Smalls,^[1] which appears as thong underwear in-game, which was cut from the release version of the game but can still be seen worn by character Fia, Deathbed Companion (shown below).

On March 8th, 2022, Twitter^[2]^[3] users @Waero_Re and @tfwPhoebe both shared an image of the item as it appears in-game worn by Fia, with the tweets gaining over 7,700 retweets and 54,600 likes and 6,300 retweets and 60,800 likes in one month (shown below, left and right).

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On March 9th, 2022, Attack of the Fanboy reported about the item, with the article stating that the item can be obtained by using Cheat Engine by item ID (1930300).^[4] On March 15th, Polygon^[5] posted an article about the item, writing that "FromSoftware opted not to be horny on main"

Starting on April 6th, 2022, Elden Ring players reported that obtaining the item, either by using Cheat Engine themselves or by acquiring it from other players, resulted into them receiving a warning about receiving a quarantine penalty (getting soft-banned) in the game for a period of 180 days,^[5] meaning that they would be put in a separate online pool with other cheaters. On April 7th, Redditor^[6] JeSuisLePamplemous made a PSA post which warned that acquiring Deathbed Smalls could you soft-banned in the game (shown below, right).

On April 15th, 2022, Redditor^[7] OK-Communication7125 made a post titled "after 220 hours, I pick up some underwear and it's all over." in which they reported that they received the quarantine warning after picking up the item from another player nicknamed Pantsu Dealer^[8] (post shown below). In the post, Ok-Communication also shared screenshots of communication with Bandai Namco support in which the redditor was advised to delete all game files and reinstall the game to avoid getting put into quarantine. The post received over 11,100 upvotes in the /r/Eldenring subreddit in four days.

Following the post, several gaming websites reported that Elden Ring players had been getting soft-banned after picking up the item from other players, including articles by VICE^[9] and Kotaku.^[10]

On April 19th, 2022, the ability to drop Deathbed Smalls was removed as a part of the 1.04 Elden Ring patch.^[11]