LE Mod Request: The Dancing Plague

[ElectricBeemo]

"In the year 1518, a bad case of dancing mania (this was a real thing) occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace in France. Numerous amounts of people had started dancing non-stop for days and even months on end, some of the afflicted dying from exhaustion."

 

From research on dancing mania, and a casual play session of Skyrim, I believe a connection can be made, and joy will be had. I would like to request the likes of a talented modder to add methods of forcing unsuspecting bandits and civilians to dance non-stop 'till they drop.

 

 

Now, mod talk.

 

I am not asking for random bouts of dancing mania to break out on the world of Skyrim (but if you want to do that...), but rather induced dancing mania through a variety of methods. These include spells, a poison, and a consumable potion for the mentally impaired Dragonborn who wants to "boogie".

 

There would be two versions of the dance effect, normal and contagious. The contagious effect would not only have one victim dancing, but other NPCs who approach a certain radius would break out into dance as well.

 

• For the spells, there would be two varieties. There is the charge spell variety, in which you aim and fire spell and the unlucky victim starts dancing. The other is the area of effect variety, in which everyone who fails to resist will start "making some moves".

 

• For the poison and potion, perhaps the effect itself may be added onto a number of ingredients, as to be able to make your own dancing poison/potion. They may be found as rare loot in chests and containers.

 

• For the effect itself, here is how I picture it. Once the effect is applied, the victim will start dancing (was thinking of Cicero's jester dance) non-stop, draining stamina slowly (or quickly!). Once the victim's stamina is depleted, he will collapse on the floor (bonus points if you can make him unable to get back up) and get back up.
• If you were to make the effect balanced for a normal playthrough, some changes would need to be made as to compensate for the nature of the effect. Charge time, magicka cost may be tweaked as high or as low as possible. I am not a picky person.

 

That is all for the main task, now I have bonus stuff for the modder to do as to appease me further:

 

Particularly strong minded victims have a chance to struggle out of the spell.

Make the victims yell, scream, shout lore-friendly profanity as they dance.

 

And that is all. I hope my requests will be answered in the future (but in the case of this request, as soon as possible).