LE Junji Ito Mod - Halloween Idea

[lissahearn]

I came across the Fish Companion mod again and thought that with a little tweaking while recreating it, the fish-spidermechs could be spawned a massive but weak horde to stomp to death. Or there could be small clusters in different locations that might have the number spawned when you near the locations get higher the longer it takes you to reach as a quest that has you defeating all the fish-mechs for a special prize from the quest-giver (most likely a mage or someone obsessed with dwemer-tech). The prize? A giant person-sized spidermech mount that has a higher movement speed than any horse. I know I'd never use it.

 

Which got me thinking. A fair few Junji Ito stories would make for interesting locations or quests. Like you come across the ruins of a town where a few ramshackle rowhomes still stand but mostly its just clumps of ash and broken trees. You spot a lighthouse off near the pier. Its empty although trying to enter it past a certain point sets off unseen fire runes. If you return to the town proper you might encounter a few insect enemies maybe a giant slug but if you reach the center of the town grounds you'll spot a custom-textured manhole. If you enter it you find a massive cave with hints of dwemer-tech... but further you go the more you find twisting flesh-toned stones covering up machinery. At its core is a retextured copy of the Eye of Magnus.

 

The Enigma of Amigara Fault would just be an easter-egg location where a few cracks on one side of a mountain are shaped like silhouettes and if you can find the exit side its a weird squiggle that should you interact with spawns a highly distorted corpse.

 

The Dissolving Classroom would be a bit harder to pull off. The lazy route would be having a young girl and her brother in an otherwise empty house. Entering the basement would reveal its covered with bloodstains, mostly near the door or against the opposing wall. Closer inspection would also reveal lumps of flesh-colored rocks stuck in the floor. Entering the basement would trigger the inhabitants aggression and also a poison rune.

 

The biggest thing would, naturally, be Tomie. Wait no actual biggest would be Hellstar Remina but I doubt that thing would get anywhere near Nirn. For the most part you could cherry pick ideas from the Kyoufo Manga Collection but Tomie would abuse the idea of same-face-same-voice NPCs. Some might be just living wherever you find them, some might be potential Followers... but either way they're very annoying to deal with. They are cold and cruel to your character and the catch with the Followers here is that you can't tell them to leave or wait and they're terrible in a fight. If your character attacks and kills them, the Tomies are now enemies. Your bounty goes up in whatever hold is closest to your then current location. Maybe there's more of them now but there is a random chance that the one you encounter remembers you killing them and acts scared and makes the closest male NPC attack you and killing that NPC also drives up your bounty/infamy because its treated like an act of aggression on your part.

 

All in all just a strange idea.