Recruiting Talented Modders

[Nexusaurus]

Myself and a community member named Devinpatterson have fleshed out the idea of a mod that adds the monsters of H.P. Lovecraft in the form of a total overhaul, quest, or sky mod.

 

1. The first idea and the largest project. The overhaul is very much a stretch goal, and I understand if it does not happen.

Essentially, it would entail the creation of new NPCs that reflect the cthulhu mythos, including monsters such as night gaunts, ghouls (not the ones in fallout), Bholes, ancient ones, an elder god or two, shoggoths, and that crayfish-fungus hybrid whose name escapes me. These entities would spawn all over the map. the textures themselves, the sky, terrain, ect, would be remade to look more sinister and unnatural. The sky texture itself would be altered to have a massive floating organism such as Yog-Sothoth in the sky.

 

2. This is the medium project, if people are unable to complete the first one.

this quest idea is primarily devinpatterson's, and as such I will use his words to describe it.

 

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If you go with my initial suggestion of a Interdimensional research facility you have a couple of advantages;

1. It fits well with cthulhu mythos lore as portrayed by "From Beyond". Using science to open up the higher dimensions wherein in the old ones exist. For instance the dimensional nexus/singularity/call it what you will, would have been under strict control and supervision, but when the bombs fell all restraints and safety precautions were destroyed. This allowed the portal/rift to become a direct pathway to our world. Various creatures began to wander in, but far more important, a being, a Great Old One/Outer god sensed/saw this portal 200 years ago from an unimaginable gulf of time and space and was drawn greedily toward it.

This way it fits the pre-war timeline. And gives the player a limited amount of time to close the gate before the monster deity arrives The way may already be partially paved by Nyarlathotep who seems to do the gods bidding, interact with human cults and serve as the gods messenger. It also appears frequently as a human so may be have used it's abilities shortly after the war to gather a cult of followers to call out to the great old one and attract it's attention to the gate. He often apears as a black man and can be the primary villain.

Since Yog-Sothoth is the keeper of the gate (""Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again") it may be the best candidate as the great old one in transit to the earth. It is implied (IMHO) that once it reaches earth it can open teh gate wide for all of great old ones, to presumably destroy the earth (or at least all of mankind or it's sanity).

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there may be an option to choose to end the world, with a slideshow

showing the end of the world.

 

3. the smallest mod, simply to only edit the sky texture to add the massive leviathan mentioned in the other two ideas. It may be possible to give it's appendages a small amount of motion, but I do not know the details.

 

If anyone feels like they could take on this project, please let me know.