Nuisance monsters

[Zeofar]

Well, I think Wyvern needs some more nuisance monsters. What EXACTLY are nuisance monsters you ask? Monsters like Will o' Wisps, balls of light, and the like. Why? We need more things to slow us down, thats why. Here are some I've thought of. I'm showing strong and weak versions of what I've imagined because I can't decide which would be better.


[b:013d0]Fire Mote[/b:013d0]
[img:013d0]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f353/Zeofar/FireMote.gif[/img:013d0](No, this isn't quite how I envisioned it, but its fine for a 5 minute mock-up)
At its weakest? Perhaps just firing fire...somethings (Yes, Its not Firespray, or Fireball, you guys know what I'm trying to say.)
Strongest? Shooting fireballs with high dodge.


[b:013d0]Dust Mote[/b:013d0]
[img:013d0]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f353/Zeofar/Dustmote.gif[/img:013d0](still not how I imagined it, but goo enough. Could be replaced with petrification image)
At its weakest? I didn't think much for that, perhaps blinding or a choking spell.
At its strongest? Perhaps shooting Petrification, with also, high dodge.

[b:013d0]Imp[/b:013d0]
Yes, I know we already have this, but it also kinda plays into the multiple versions of monsters thing, it could even share the same image.
At its weakest? We have that.
Midrange/High version? Perhaps stealing items and gold, casting spells like paralysis and confusion, maybe even slow.

Thats all I've thought of right now, But I'll think of more later.

Heres some more things.

I want to add Poison as a more plausible affliction in the game, and also thus increase the frequency that people encounter it. ( And I hope somebody could fix the poisoning spells)

Disease (Something could be better)
Could just be a bunch of green colored dots, the poison gas image, or the petrification image turned green.
A monster that does very little/no damage, but has relatively powerful poison attacks and/or spells. Probably could change in power accordingly.

Poison gas trap.
Vents?
Stepping on it will cause gas to be spewed?

Perhaps adding a sort of affliction other than poison referred to as a disease, that takes away health and perhaps slows you down, maybe turning your health bar brown instead of green. Or not. Or you could just scrap the whole idea, as I pretty much came up with it for these next things.

Adding diseased versions of some monsters to the game. Like say, Sewer Rats and some random rats could have a chance of poisoning you, and some Skeletons and Zombies. Perhaps some other monsters according to location or type.

[Fredd]

Curse would be a good spell for them, Zeo. If you are out of the remove curse scrolls, that can be a major pain. Fury must have been thinking about a leech type creature. In a swarm, getting mana, and hp drained be a bigger pain.
Of couse, the biggest pain would be something that could cast the Destroy Armor spell. But that would be too nasty to use.
For the rats you talked about, use the old idea about rabid rats. That sorta poison would not go away naturally.

[Zeofar]

I added some more things, poison based.

[Narhalles]

dark whisps are my favorite! <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s -->

[Zeofar]

Meh, I haven't ever had contact with any special kinds of whisps.

[Narhalles]

LOL I have no idea where macabre is lol......

[Narhalles]

Haha that is just about all I do do lol.....

[Narhalles]

LOL I have never found the whole skull cave stuff in Noir.... lol I've spent over 30 game hours searching Noir too.... LOL I am terriable at finding areas.... <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="Razz" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> Even though I love doing it. <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s -->

[Narhalles]

yes furry.

[Narhalles]

Arilou was threatening at one time to make all the monos in RD's follow you from level to level.

[Fredd]

About 6 months ago, Binyamin set us out on a snoop mission to find out if the Xorn was copyrighted. That would make a very nasty nuisance monster.
Consider it likes to eat stone, and metal. That involves your armor,rings,amulets, and weapons being a potential lunch. And they can travel through walls, so some kind a blink spell would be involved, to make them harder to hit. Then destruction, and however weapons and armor is damaged, involved in meleeing the varmints. Since your equipment is a snack, they would pursue you, on a dungeon level, until you destroy it, or escape to a new map. And since they are a elemental, some spells would be quite useless.

[Narhalles]

nope no lie, the Dinos do it already.