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Facehugger concept


Storms of Superior

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Hey, folks. I want to talk about one of the new mods that has us all raving; I don't want us to stop raving and let this gem pass into the files to be forgotten. I don't think I'm alone in this.

 

To help keep facehugger alive, I've developed what I think is a solid, if not difficult, concept to use the mod in a more robust fashion. This concept has taken a few days to bring far enough to share with the community, but I think it's ready. Therefore, keeping with the theme of turning Skyrim into a huge nightmare scenario, read on.

 

1. Facehugger Expansion
A. New Location/Land
B. Mechanics and Mod Support
a. Tentacle Attacks
i. Mod Support
b. Reproduction
i. Mod Support
c. Spreading Like Herpes in a Swingers Club
i. Traveling
ii. Combating the Pandemic
C. Consequences

 

1. Facehugger Expansion

 

I like the idea of Fox Girls Club, in that it seems like it can provide a limited base of pleasure and perhaps consequences, but why stop with a mere indoor location? There is much that can be added if the facehuggers were to somehow find their way outside of the Fox Girls Club. What may have been meant to be a shady business turns into a pandemic that can threaten to cover all of Skyrim.

 

A. A New Location/Land

 

The player can learn about a new area to explore, in this case, I'm thinking maybe a warm-temperate or sub-tropical island to isolate the facehugger population. This doesn't really have to be anything special, but it should be Navmeshed to allow for the fullest possibility of later consequences.

 

Where does the player learn about this? The player would most likely find the information while snooping inside Fox Girls Club. Easy.

 

How does the player get there? Perhaps a standing stone that "teleports the player to the island" can be used. Also easy.

 

Where is this leading? See the next section titled "Mechanics and Mod Support."

 

B. Mechanics and Mod Support

 

a. Tentacle Attacks

 

While on the island, the player should find a mess of the green pods that seem to be inactive. They are dormant, but waiting for someone to get too close. Once the player or a follower gets too close, a tentacle attack should occur. Tentacle attacks with be further discussed in the section titled "Reproduction."

i. Mod Support: Estrus in Skyrim. I don't know of another mod that does this.

 

b. Reproduction

 

The tentacle attacks that were discussed in the previous section is the initiation of a two stage reproduction cycle. Stay with me. When the tentacle attack occurs, the green pod is feeding. Yes it is eating the actor, and yes, the player can be eaten, but there is more to it than that. Keep reading.

 

The first stage of the reproduction is asexual; the green pod will use the nutrients gained by eating the actor to form up to three facehuggers.

 

The three facehuggers will seek to attach to the nearest female actors and begin inseminating them. This second stage will be sexual reproduction.

 

The facehuggers should spit some kind of fluid onto the female actors that will cause them to remove their armor, clothing, and weapons; the cause of the willful removal is burning pain, and the items removed are covered in it. The female actors will then be nude, and the facehuggers will then attach to them. To accomplish such an attack I suggest reworking the chaurus poison spit attack.

 

It is important to note, that the green pods should prefer to eat male actors if possible in order to preserve the female actors for reproduction.

 

Pregnancy support is a must for this to be the most fun that it can be.

i. Mod Support: Whatever pregnancy mod that is easiest to work with will suffice; there will be no failed pregnancies. Also, to cause the female actors to strip, Serial Strip can be added to the support list. I hope to set it to automatically strip the female actors when they are attacked my the facehuggers' fluid attacks.

 

c. Spreading Like Herpes in a Swingers Club

i. Traveling

 

Let's assume, that if we want this mod to live up to its full potential, that wait, sleep, and fast travel must be disabled while the pregnancy cycle is under way. This will cause the player and followers to walk or ride everywhere, which is what we want; I propose that, after a three day insemination process, that the facehugger dies, falls off, and the pregnancy cycle begins. During this pregnancy cycle, there will be a 50% chance that actor will vaginally drop a green pod seed once every Skyrim hour. This will grow a green pod to full maturity in one Skyrim day. There are no messages to tell the player that any seeds are dropped. Once Skyrim begins to be populated by these pods, they will begin eating animals as well as male actors, if they can.

 

ii. Combating the Pandemic

 

This shouldn't be easy, so let's make the facehuggers invincible. Instead, combat mechanics should be used against the green pods to destroy them. This should cause any facehuggers that are still in the cell to come to the rescue, causing the cycle to start all over. The pods should be made to be hostile to everything so everything will try to kill them in turn.

 

If the last facehugger is allowed to die (presumably they should expire after a certain time period), then the green pods can be attacked with impunity. To combat just sitting back and letting the facehuggers die out, I would advise against including any messages that would notify the player of such a case. Therefore, there is never a way to know if there is a facehugger still waiting to take control of a female actor.

 

The green pods can grow in any habitat.

 

C. Consequences

 

A total loss of control over the situation will be signaled when facehuggers start showing up in containers and inside interior buildings.

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The problem is if everything is hostile to the pods then the population is going to get destroyed

Especially with the long time for gestation (3 days) it would be very rare to actually encounter it, and when a pod does get dropped down it might be in a very bad location

If you placed them in skyrim proper it could be more interesting due to the size of the place

While I do like almost everything  you posted, I think a "population" number dictates how many are in an area without actually taking up the space(easier on the code)

So lets say you take all NPC spawns in a place like whiterun hold(Monsters,animals,humans,etc) and then compare that to say an inital 3 facehuggers

Once we do that it can "roll" against any and all creatures in this mathmatically problem and everything rolls against it based on an RNG of who "uncovers" the eggs

So for example
Lets say there are 3 eggs and 9 huggers and 100 humans
obviously 100 people are not going to bump into it all at once so we divide based on a subtype(bandit,guard,civilian) so lets say bandit(20) and then it rolls 1-20 to see how many people find them

From there the eggs and huggers roll against them to see if they win, if they do they infect/consume the enemy while accounting for losses themselves(3 humans could take on 3 huggers and a egg, so if 5 humans attacked 2 eggs and 6 huggers they would most likely lose in this situation but be close and do damage) from there they can generate and spawn in more eggs(in a random spot) and huggers thus simulating a actual infection

Now what does this mean to the player

Lets say the amount of population is 10%

When walking into a new cell(towns would have a severe curb on how much if any eggs would be there) you have a chance of the spawn being an egg or a face hugger(and you can guess what happens)

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OK. Thanks for the reply. I've been up for almost 24 hours, so I'm slower than usual. I need some help with your explanation; I think you addressed my method directly, so let me ask this this: my intention is to have pods and actors together, as though they belong, not rolling to see what spawns. The reason for this is that regular NPCs that are meant to be in the game can be eaten. Given this, wouldn't it be better to allow for wolves and sabercats and the like to be eaten with the same chance of occurrence, or is that what you're driving at, but with a different method?

 

Wow that was a long-winded question.

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nice ideas but may i suggest another way of spreading ? what if the face hugger lays egs/ seeds inside a female who on her turn by having that lovely close encounters with others, spreads it around ?

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