LE Ritual stat bonuses:

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My idea is this: there are books that, when picked up, taken to certain places (usually cultist and necromancer hideouts or other similar places with interest in the arcane), and put on

a stand then activated allow you to quickly increase your magic skills and magicka stat at the cost of speech penalties that don't just stack, but multiply on each other.

 

Each ritual would increase a different magic skill, each ritual would increase magicka by say 5, 10, 15, or 20 points. rituals could be stacked on top of each other with the same type. The effect would be permanent, and either provide a bonus to those skills+stats or raise them normally. Some, instead of doing these things, might give you custom modder made spells or increase magicka regen.

 

Each ritual would also cause a decrease in the speech skill that got worse every time until the player would be attacked on sight. This would probably be best as a permanent penalty rather than an actual decrease to prevent level up exploits.

 

Speech skill decrease rate for each ritual: 5*x

 

x=number of rituals performed.

 

if speech cannot be decreased further, than the amount of points speech would be reduced becomes a permanent penalty to default reaction type instead.

 

The total amount of speech decrease/reaction type decrease becomes a bonus to reaction type percentage with cultists, necromancers, and other arcane freaks, as well as

organizations like the dark brotherhood that are criminal yet accepting of differing conditions on a mortal body.

 

an added touch would be that as you complete more of these rituals things come up on the screen sometimes post-ritual that show a growing hatred/discontent/assured superiority of/to other mortals, physical changes, and increased hubris in thought.

 

Finally, as the clincher, add cultist/necromancer quests if possible, to both replace the lost quests and mirror how in geneforge if you pissed off one group by using canisters you could actually get in better standing with another from it and take quests from them instead.