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[Character Mod] Zack, The Nightmare Lord


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Biography
Zack (Otherwise known as Wizz) has spent so much time in the world of don't starve that he has pretty much forgotten who he originally was.  His attire is that of a once proud clockmaker, paying attention to each individual detail and mechanical spring that went into each of his watches.  Perhaps he attempted to figure out how this world worked similar to his clocks.  However he was not up to the task as the world broke his mind and left him a different person alltogether.
 
Zack feel's like he is in a neverending nightmare, that he is simply dreaming a dream that will never end.  And that he has dreamed it for so long that he has become lucid of his dream and as such has control over it.  While control isn't exactly what he has, he has something.
 
Zack apparently believes that there is no such thing as sleep, as sleeping only brings you to another world, as such he see's tents as portals rather than places of rest.  That much being said, it appears that the more sane he is, the less likely that bad things happen to him.
 
He often times has people refer to him by the name Wizz, as for some reason the name feels safer to have.
 
Perks
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-Nightmare Attuned
Zack has a strange attunement with nightmare fuel, his apparent "lucid" state makes it so that he is increasingly effective with weapons and armor that were made with nightmare fuel.
 
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-Knows when danger is near
Zack spawns in with a watch, while to most player's it appears like a normal unusual watch, when Zack looks at it, he can see the exact day that the hound attack will happen.  This action requires him to use up nightmare fuel from his inventory.
 
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When the hound attacks aren't the primary concern, Zack can choose to infuse nightmare fuel into the watch and turn it into a strange looking clock themed crown.  This crown apparently frightens the nightmare creatures around zack, causing them to fight more slowly.  However this effect only lasts as long as Zack is sane, which means this crown is primarily useful for when your friends are insane, not you.
 
Also, only Zack should ever wear the crown, you have been warned.
 
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-Nightmare Forge
Due to his incredibly weak prowess with normal weaponry, Zack can imbue certain weapons and armor with nightmare fuel, making them suitable for his use.  This equipment isn't much better than normal equipment, but it's equipment that Zack no longer suffer's a penalty for.  Each piece that Zack decides to upgrade requires a piece of nightmare fuel.  
Here is a list of equipment Zack can imbue, along with the modifer he gets for equipping it.
 
Night Spear: 1x damage
Night Boomerang: 2x damage
Night Blowdart: 2x damage
Wereball helmet: 4% extra damage absorbtion, 50% extra durability
Night Marble: 4% extra damage absorbtion, 50% extra durability
 
Additionally, upon reaching the shadow manipulator, Zack can create a very powerful weapon, however it should never be used.  EVER... I mean it, don't do it.
 
Disadvantages
If Zack is wielding any weapons or armor that are not made with nightmare fuel, he wields the weapons at half damage, and the armor with 20% less damage absorption.  This leave's him either using a lot more resources to create standard weapons, or relying on other alternative non-combat methods until he crafts his stronger arsenal.
 
Additionally, the shadows don't like him very much... At all.
 
To-Do list
-Unique Animation for using the watch
-Updated Nightmare Forge artwork
 
I've had this character sitting on the backburner for too long, it's about time other people get to see what I've been working on.  This is the character that I made through my first "Character Perk Creation" thread
 
Special Thanks to all the people who helped me get this far.
DarkXero  -All that amazingly compact and useful code
Rezecib  -Great tutorials and inspiring example mods
Mobbstar  -Helping me get started
Blueberrys  -Helping me get started
As well as thanks to anyone else I forgot to mention
 
Also, thanks to my artist friend Phiode, here is his Deviant art page
 
 
Edited by Zackreaver
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@Zackreaver, please remove the banners those are copyright material. You do not have permission to use them, if you want to use banners as such you will need to create them yourself, that does not look like the ones Gondar specifically made for our collaborations. 

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@Kzisor, I only wished to make the description appear a little more professional, I didn't intend to plagiarize.  The banner's just felt very authentic and I enjoy recycling previous assets.

 

Regardless that's no excuse, I should have considered they weren't public property and I should have asked first, so I apologize for that.

 

 

That much being said, I hope people enjoy the character.

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