I turned the game on again because Bal got it, and I felt like playing it. I loaded up my character (55 Hours played, so I quit shortly after I posted this, I think.) and tried to get my bearings.
It was a journey of discovery. Recovering repressed memories.
"Why do I have 0 souls? In spirit form? Why am I in 1-1? How far did I get in this New game+?"
I went step by step to discover that I had actually made some decent progress in New Game+ - I didn't remember any of it, I only recall starting it before saying "Fuck this". I realized that the boss I was working on before I quit was Penetrator. So I pulled out a blue stone, helped a player kill him for practice to get my body back. (Total souls now: 64,000). I then felt like I was ready to kill Penetrator.
I was murdered. I ran out of mana to cast Warding before reaching him, and thus was killed in a impale and toss. The 66k Pool of souls is sitting in that boss room now.
End result: Now standing in 1-3, with 0 souls again. In spirit form.