Thanks for this; really found this place frustrating so far, I didn't think to use those madness fruits as a decoy either. I was stuck on some hard bosses but beat them(messmer, General gaius, and the scadutree avatar), I just beat all three of those today and got to the consort boss and decided to nope out of that endeavor real quick. To the accursed stealth woods I return.
Thanks for showing us how to get there but you need to show much more. We needed to see the map for a start and some sort of commentary, even just text pointers would have made this a lot easier.
They grab you for like 2000 hp and they run as fast as you, but they passively gain you madness so you won't outrun them. Basically instant death, but I did manage to outrun one