Skeletons

[Cyrefy]

- Skeletons revive on a full moon

- They can be possessed by nightmare creatures or Gestalts.

- When defeated by weapons they do not "disappear" they just turn back into a pile of bones, to completely kill them you need to hammer them.

- Koalefant, Deers, Volt Goat, Pigmen, Bunnyman, and also bosses leave bones when they die. (except those that obviously do not have bones).

- To avoid affecting automatic farms too much, only those that a player has killed could turn into a pile of skeletons (if possible). Or an item that inhibits the creation of skeletons in an area. (maybe a skeleton totem).

[DegenerateFurry]

It would be a neat counterpart to the masks we get with shadow rifts if Gestalts started possessing skeletons and making them into horrifying and aggressive boneboy mutants while rifts are active/during a post-rifts full moon.

[readkey]

On 4/26/2025 at 2:07 PM, DegenerateFurry said:

It would be a neat counterpart to the masks we get with shadow rifts if Gestalts started possessing skeletons and making them into horrifying and aggressive boneboy mutants while rifts are active/during a post-rifts full moon.

I thought the masks counterpart are the deadly bright shades?

[Well-met]

Not gonna lie I've been itching to see Wilton used one way or another, this works.

unfortunately klei never accepts suggestions unless it involves complaining.

[DegenerateFurry]

11 hours ago, readkey said:

I thought the masks counterpart are the deadly bright shades?

I thought the Deadly Brightshades counterpart was the Ink Blights, considering they both give their factions' respective post-rift resources.

 I had an idea for this just now: what if, instead of just skeletons, it's sea skeletons? So, you're sailing out at sea during a full moon and suddenly you get a bunch of partially reanimated fish (like the fish skeletons on lunar island) biting onto the side of your boat, slowing you down like an anchor and doing a small amount of damage to your boat until you kill them.

Once your boat's slow enough, reanimated dead sailors (powder monkeys) start climbing aboard your boat and attacking you with Cutlesses. Maybe they have eye sockets glimmering with Pure Brilliance and are wearing leaves of brightshade as armor (so, they drop a couple brightshade husks and 1-2 Pure Brilliance on death). Maybe there's a few waves of them and the final one has a reanimated Prime Mate with a special Brightshade Battle Paddle, and he's the one the Gestalt's inhabiting, so killing him makes the rest fall dead.

And, naturally, if you're using his Brightshade Battle Paddle (which you get from killing the zombie Prime Mate), the bone fish will just detach from your boat and let you go without you having to do the event (like how wearing a masque stops the shadow-possessed mobs from attacking you).

[Wawchik]

What about that couple in caves? Do they also get revived 

[Cyrefy]

20 hours ago, Wawchik said:

What about that couple in caves? Do they also get revived 

Yes, by nightmare creatures.

 

If in the grotto the the one who gets to possess first.