MacKenzie Strobeck
An Encroaching Sickness follows the cry for help by a group of people who have become overwhelmed with a deadly illness and quarantining within Lockstone Cave. In order to find a cure, the player must go deeper within the cave to find the ingredients and fight off monsters in the process. The story starts out with a corpse sitting at the road in Tamriel, and the player can imitate the quest through picking up a letter.
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This basic quest mod features a custom crafted cave, unique reward, and custom textures.
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In the current game state, I believe it is mildly bugged. Our lead programmer had multiple notes from players discussing a missing character but in our tests and our college professor's test it worked perfect. I am not sure if the programmer changed anything at this point in time as I am not in contact with them.
Mod Description
Hiding in a cavern between Winterhold and The Pale is Monique Branwen and a small host of other humans, all in the process of dying from an illness that can affect the nervous system and lead to death. This cave is said to hold the key ingredients to heal her illness before the worst occurs. These people only have hours left before it, and the symptoms are worsening by the minute. The ingredients in the cave could create a secret potion, its recipe guarded by Monique’s family, that can cure all diseases and leave the drinker feeling refreshed and healthy. Despite the cave’s potential to save her life, she barely has the strength left to go wandering a dark cave aimlessly and her husband Darius Branwen does not stand a chance against what may lie within. It is up to you, to go in to save her life and you shall be granted with a reward much worth the risk.
The player will venture into an never-ending cave system to find ingredients that can be merged together to save Monique’s life in return to receive the potion recipe for Tonic of Vitality. Tonic of Vitality is the crafting recipe crafted from Argiris, a white hyacinth ingredient that glows and possesses the essence of light; Nasia, a dark colored lily that looms a dark aura belonging to the darkness, and finally receive special rose pedals from Monique to help ensure the potion’s effectiveness. With the potion, you can cure illness, poison, and allow for temporary health regeneration to help give the player resistance for a short period.
Level Design
Location 1:
This is the main entrance to the cave where we find Monique to greet the player and Darius to get the quest details.
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Location 2:
This is the Falmer room where we first meet with enemies and the first ingredients to the potion we need to craft.
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Location 3:
The Charrus room is where we find the next ingredient and more enemies.
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Location 4:
The boss room where we find multiple difficult enemies and then the last of the indigents.
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