Ok guys, I'm gone ahead and done the research I needed here to transfer the Touhou charaters I've selected and decided to now discuss my plans for building to youkai that'll be in the Suika Fortress mod in my upcoming release. So without further ado, I would like to present:
The above piece is a representation of I managed to accomplish through basic experimentation of making Rumia into a "Night Creature" And yes, in one world gen example, she seemed to have a fixation of devouring turkeys. This was the first step to realizing the potential of bringing out some of the more aggressive youkai into the Suika Fortress realm. So from here on out, I will be turning this youkai thing into a bigger project to try to bring out the best of the youkais that I hope to add into this mod.
So with that I will being discussing the steps I plan to do now to make sure that the Touhou youkais I plan to introduce into the game will make with make things worth while and perhaps ensure that they'll be a bigger challenge compared to anything you confronted before....
1.The Youkais I plan to introduce as of this point will be the more weaker (as in less impressive danmaku) ones that are (or were once known) to cause trouble for humans.Part of the plan for this day onward was to start off with some of the more basic youkais who's danmaku weren't all that flashy or impressive. Cause from what I've known, most of them didn't having much going to them other than thier ability.
Which seem to give them the definition of who they were. Well I'm not saying thier patterns stunk because they were low level. What I'm trying to more or less say is that I want to keep them basic since there is no real way to make actual danmaku in this game (and probably won't be for years until magic is finally implimented by Toady) So yeah, why not start with the basic youkai and work our way up as time progresses...
2. Who am I planning to introduce? Well as mentioned before: I currently got Rumia, Wriggle, Mystia, Yamane, and Kisume in my list, but I'm considering adding in Medicene too.
3. Will they be able to keep thier key abilities?For most of them yes. Kisume, Yamane, and Medicene should be very easy to impliment. Wriggle, I'd have to wing it. Rumia and Mystia are the only one's I'm concerned about which is why I will be asking a few question regarding them at the end of this discussion.
4.With no real magic in DF yet, what are you going to do with the said youkai?Well if following, Akyu's journal had any importance it notes that there is more than one way to exterminate a youkai, but most of the other ways are extremly difficult and not recommended (since using a shrinemaiden or fighting via spellcard combat are the best solutions). And since there are no magic or spellcard rules in this world yet. We will treat it as if this were a more barbaric time in Gensokyo.... (perhaps) What does this mean? Well if your going to go fight a youkai, you're gonna have to put everything you got into it and have a hope and a prayer cause you'll need it if you wish to survive. Besides above all else... youkai don't really die when they are killed. They just disappear for a while.
5.How hard could they possibly be to exterminate?Insanely hard. You know some of the difficult yukkuri out there? They're only childs play compared to the youkais. Youkais will be more harder to take out and much more difficult to fight than most yukkuri (there are still some real tough yukkuri, but only a few will still be at part or tougher than youkais) Let's put it like this... If your going to go hunt a youkai you best prepare for what could be a long fight, high regeneration rates, tough defenses, and even skills will be given upon them to give them some degree of difficulty. Plus from Akyu's perspective, even if you were to managed to decapitate a youkai, to them it would only be a flesh wound to thier eyes. (Yes, that's how hard I'm talking about making them) More or less I'm aiming to make one area their vital weakspot. So no matter how much you hack them you probably won't get anywhere unless you destory the vital area, and I will garuntee it won't be easy.
6. How much of the youkai's behavior will remain in place?If at all possible I would like to keep all of it. Cause I would like be fun for the youkai to act like who they're suppose to be. Rumia has already starting showing signs of her cannibalisitc behavior. Which is a plus. I'm iffy about Mystia, mainly because she usually runs a lampery stand these days and sells to the anyone. Course problem is, Night creatures aren't quite accepted in welcome arms. I suppose I can try those sphere tags and see if I can make someone worship her. That may be the cloest thing I can get someone to "liking her" but other wise, well she's generally passive unless attacked or provoked in some way. Medicene, Wriggle, Yamane, and Kisume will easy to do, though most of thier behavior probably won't appear in legends. It'll be more like in game bahavior. Mostly through breath attacks and techniques. And to make sure that some of these youkais will eat humans, they're size will likely have to be bigger than a human to insure they can devour it. Yeah alot of things are being planned up cause this is going to be a bit of a complicated process, but I'm hoping it'll all pay off.
7.Why can't we have anything other than youkais right now?Well ask yourself this question: Should Reimu live in a cave? Should she live under a mound of dirt? There's alot of problems to be conisdered with that plus her age would be limited too due to being a human, same goes for Marisa. Making them live longer would sort of brake the trend I'm trying to conduct here. Perhaps if there is someway to introduce a "unique individual" that would only be born in a specific time period and influence history, I would consider throwing them in. But as of this point, that's hardly possible. Sounds like a DF question I should dump for toady for the next DF talk.
Also consider the limited locations, some things wouldn't work out for some charaters. As I would love to make SDM come into the picture, but sadly she lives in a mansion, but if in the future, we can customize and make a vampire and her sister become nobles and rule a mansion, live with a maid, a youkai librarian, a little devil, and a youkai that serves as a body guard. I would glad throw the SDM team in the whole thing. But that's not quite possible. Same can be said for our new hopping zombie, I would like a graveyard for her to live in. ect. Again, more DF talk type questions I should ask.
And so far temples for night creatures sever as nothing but hideouts, so yeah. alot has to change before I consider putting in the more complex charaters in the game...
Course I may still toss in other if they can fit under the current system that is...
8. I got an idea for a Touhou youkai or charater we can add.You do? Please give me some details about her and please tell me why you think she would be a good addition to the whole thing. I would need time to experiment with the modding system to ensure everything will work for her. But assuming I like the idea, I'll consider it, otherwise, they'll be in the maybe catagory to be consisdered for later when the opprotunity becomes more open....
Anyways, this is my idea about what I want to do with the youkais I've come up with for the time being.
Now I do have a question for you all since I am concerned about Rumia and Mystia...
Is there a way to make one's vision become disabled or dim for a period of time. You know... cause a temporary blindness effect. It would be nice to give Rumia and Mystia at least the abiltiy to simulate darkness and night blindness. I'm assuming IMPAIR_FUNCTION is the key to making blindness. This would be much appriciated. Also item corpse stuff would be nice to know too. Though I think Mystia should drop Lampery upon defeat at least.
Anyways off to work...
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