[IDEA] Resurrection... by erection?

[sillyseal]

Just a shower thought I had. Defeat's necro feature resurrects dead bodies to play its animations and it made me think - what if, instead of being an unavoidable quirk of game design, this became a feature? Would it be possible to create a mod where you can maybe mark a humanoid corpse (with a spell?), necro a corpse and have them resurrected and grateful? Maybe even lose some of own XP/have XP lowered for a period of time to suggest you transferred some of your life force into the resurrected person as some kind of a reverse succubus. Obviously, resurrecting NPCs is always done at one's own risk, but I think it could be interesting... willing to hear some actual modder's verdict on whether it'd be viable, though. 


and yes. I blame Powerwolf for my weird shower thoughts.

[karlpaws]

5 hours ago, sillyseal said:

Just a shower thought I had. Defeat's necro feature resurrects dead bodies to play its animations and it made me think - what if, instead of being an unavoidable quirk of game design, this became a feature? Would it be possible to create a mod where you can maybe mark a humanoid corpse (with a spell?), necro a corpse and have them resurrected and grateful? Maybe even lose some of own XP/have XP lowered for a period of time to suggest you transferred some of your life force into the resurrected person as some kind of a reverse succubus. Obviously, resurrecting NPCs is always done at one's own risk, but I think it could be interesting... willing to hear some actual modder's verdict on whether it'd be viable, though.

 

Instead of a new mod (though depending on your end goal, might need to be) this might be something that would work as an add-on for PAH or AYGAS or something in that line.  I am not sure if your scenario would be more of a roleplay function or an "oops, something happened to that NPC I didn't mark with the mod's functions" but a mod that already handles an "I don't want to kill you" solution killing things.

 

On the other hand, if you mean a mod with a kinky resurrection spell for NPCs you intend to bring back to life and set back on their normal pattern of daily behavior... that might be better off as a standalone mod but there will probably be a few problems that arise. Selecting an NPC in the console and rezzing them that way usually works but the death is often recorded in the game and can have a variety of side effects.