REQ Cursed Dagger Weapon
Posted: 11 Jul 2009, 20:47
I had an idea that could be used to develop mutually exclusive schools of magic. Currently it is possible to learn every school. I feel that it would be more interesting if The Mana World had mutually exclusive paths that forced players to make choices about what they want to do and whether they want to be good or evil.
So I thought of a quest.
The Story
I starts in a cave deep below Hurnscald, where a sinister, evil dark magician waits:
This magician offers to give you a better weapon, a cursed dagger which does much more damage than an ordinary weapon.
To get this special you must perform a rite which enters you in his school of dark magic. You get a cursed dagger, but you forever fall from the graces of Wyra, Elenore, and other magic teachers.
Specifications
The cursed dagger will be a very special weapon.
It has a base attack of 200, a phenomenal damage factor that is explained by the fact that the daggers curse causes it to drink from the HP of monsters you attack with it.
The dagger also has improved attack speed and accuracy, making it easier to hit monsters.
There's only one drawback:
As long as the cursed dagger is equipped it drinks from your own HP, similar to the poison effect. It is like being poisoned the moment you pick it up, and the poison doesn't stop until sometime after you unequip it.
Another caveat is that to use a cursed dagger you must be wearing a demon mask.
If you get a second cursed dagger from the evil NPC you can equip it as well, and it takes the place of your shield, allowing you to attack with two hands, for phenomenal damaging attacks.
However, to be able to wield a second cursed dagger you must be wearing both a demon mask and a black robe. And, by the way, it drinks your HP twice as fast.
A black particle effect would also be nice. As long as you have at least one cursed dagger equipped you emit a strange black particle aura.
Drawbacks to the Cursed Dagger
Making a Cursed Dagger involves the following ingredients:
a normal dagger,
5 dark crystals,
15 sulpher piles.
The cursed dagger is created in a ritual that combines the ingredients with a mouboo sacrifice. At the same time you are accepted into a school of dark magic.
Needless to say you are forever banned from nature magic and healing magic.
This could be a serious limitation in the future, but some people might not mind taking it, just so they can be evil.
A major drawback of the cursed dagger is that its hard to use it and survive.
Especially if you are using two, with a demon mask and black robe equipped you can kill really fast, but you are very vulnerable to attack, and meanwhile the daggers are drinking your HP.
The only way to use it would be with a couple healers to back you up, but what white magic healer would want to risk their standing with Elenore to heal an evil magician?
So I doubt that these daggers will be used by any but the most evil players and even then, not as primary weapon, but rather as a quick assassination tool.
Possible effects on the world
I think that it is good to start incorporating serious decisions that players have to make about which direction they want to go.
I see a lot of players running around with names like "Evil Magician," etc. That's what they want to be, but they can't in this game at this time. I think it will be interesting to see how this leads to magic specialization and magic guilds as people have to choose between which type of magic they want to use.
What is Needed
Probably a better NPC character image to replace the one I scrapped together from the sex change surgeon and the monster skull helmet.
Personally, I think the cursed dagger image looks pretty good, but someone else might not think so.
Also needed are scripts for the NPC and patching it into the rest of the NPC's. Also code for the item and the equipped cursed dagger particle effect.
So I thought of a quest.
The Story
I starts in a cave deep below Hurnscald, where a sinister, evil dark magician waits:
This magician offers to give you a better weapon, a cursed dagger which does much more damage than an ordinary weapon.
To get this special you must perform a rite which enters you in his school of dark magic. You get a cursed dagger, but you forever fall from the graces of Wyra, Elenore, and other magic teachers.
Specifications
The cursed dagger will be a very special weapon.
It has a base attack of 200, a phenomenal damage factor that is explained by the fact that the daggers curse causes it to drink from the HP of monsters you attack with it.
The dagger also has improved attack speed and accuracy, making it easier to hit monsters.
There's only one drawback:
As long as the cursed dagger is equipped it drinks from your own HP, similar to the poison effect. It is like being poisoned the moment you pick it up, and the poison doesn't stop until sometime after you unequip it.
Another caveat is that to use a cursed dagger you must be wearing a demon mask.
If you get a second cursed dagger from the evil NPC you can equip it as well, and it takes the place of your shield, allowing you to attack with two hands, for phenomenal damaging attacks.
However, to be able to wield a second cursed dagger you must be wearing both a demon mask and a black robe. And, by the way, it drinks your HP twice as fast.
A black particle effect would also be nice. As long as you have at least one cursed dagger equipped you emit a strange black particle aura.
Drawbacks to the Cursed Dagger
Making a Cursed Dagger involves the following ingredients:
a normal dagger,
5 dark crystals,
15 sulpher piles.
The cursed dagger is created in a ritual that combines the ingredients with a mouboo sacrifice. At the same time you are accepted into a school of dark magic.
Needless to say you are forever banned from nature magic and healing magic.
This could be a serious limitation in the future, but some people might not mind taking it, just so they can be evil.
A major drawback of the cursed dagger is that its hard to use it and survive.
Especially if you are using two, with a demon mask and black robe equipped you can kill really fast, but you are very vulnerable to attack, and meanwhile the daggers are drinking your HP.
The only way to use it would be with a couple healers to back you up, but what white magic healer would want to risk their standing with Elenore to heal an evil magician?
So I doubt that these daggers will be used by any but the most evil players and even then, not as primary weapon, but rather as a quick assassination tool.
Possible effects on the world
I think that it is good to start incorporating serious decisions that players have to make about which direction they want to go.
I see a lot of players running around with names like "Evil Magician," etc. That's what they want to be, but they can't in this game at this time. I think it will be interesting to see how this leads to magic specialization and magic guilds as people have to choose between which type of magic they want to use.
What is Needed
Probably a better NPC character image to replace the one I scrapped together from the sex change surgeon and the monster skull helmet.
Personally, I think the cursed dagger image looks pretty good, but someone else might not think so.
Also needed are scripts for the NPC and patching it into the rest of the NPC's. Also code for the item and the equipped cursed dagger particle effect.