Wieneke The Lemure

A hungry soul finds her way to the Constant. There she possesses its creatures, to procure and eat as much food as possible…

Wieneke is a ghost character for DST! She can possess and control creatures in the Constant, and uses hunger as a resource for doing so. If that sounds fun, please give her a try! More details can be found below.

• Wieneke is considered a monster: meaning friendly creatures will attack her on sight.
• Having no legs, she floats wherever she goes; leasurely avoiding obstacles such as spider webs. However, she also won’t benefit from helpful ground types, such as roads.
• As she has no physical body, items such as salves or glands cannot be used to heal her; instead, she must rely solely on food to recover her own health.
• Like other ghosts, she deals less damage during the day, but more during the dusk and at night. She’ll also slowly lose sanity when it’s light out, but be perfectly comfortable in the dark.

• To aid in her "survival", Wieneke has developed a special ability: She’s able to possess any creature, or thing, in the Constant.
• While possessing a creature, she loses less sanity from the day and dusk, and her personal damage modifier is ignored.
• Controlling creatures is quite taxing. Performing actions, attacking, or even running faster during possession will drain her hunger much more rapidly.
• If she gets too hungry during a possession, she will quite literally fall out of her host, and won’t be able to possess again until she’s eaten something.
• Wieneke takes a portion of all damage taken during possession, shortly after exiting her host.
• Note that some creatures are quite imposing at first: these need to be defeated once, before they can be controlled properly.

• As previously mentioned, Wieneke is a voracious ghost, especially when possessing creatures: as such, she has a huge hunger pool to store energy with.
• Anything that’s edible, she’ll eat with no second thought: she gets no negative effects from food, period. That means you can eat monster meat, mushrooms, etc. with no penalty.
• Some things aren’t really meant to be eaten, but at times sacrifices have to be made. While she can’t use Booster Shots to recover lost max health, she can eat them instead, for the same effect.

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There’s a few more in-depth features explained in the thread below! Covering topics such as:
* Special food buffs
* Giving a ride to your friends
* Sprinting
* Reawakening dead creatures
* A unique craft, the Quelling Candle
* Another unique craft, the Quelling Canister
* Possessed creature damage
* Possessed creature special actions

• Implementing her possessing ability was a bit of a technical challenge, but she should work alongside other mods, and of course the base game. Note that creatures from other mods may break or lack balancing when possessed.
• I’ve exposed the methods for adding host actions/effects in the unlikely event someone wants to make their creature/thing have a unique effect when possessed by Wieneke. It’s a bit complex, so for now I recommend digging into the mod files and seeing how I’ve done mine.
• Ideally, I’d like to add a unique ability/strength for all creatures when possessed. This has been quite the project already though, so that likely won’t happen anytime soon. But if time permits, I may push an update every now and then, with new powers for specific creature(s).
• She’s got a ton of speech lines written: about ~60% of all the DST quotes are done so far. The missing/default speech lines will be slightly "ghostified", matching her speech pattern: So hopefully you won’t notice the missing ones, hehe!
• Controller support is planned, but I don’t have access to one at the moment, so please be patient!
• She has custom quotes for all Uncompromising Mode dialogue!
• Wieneke has her very own voice; she’s voiced by a singing saw![freesound.org]
• Her name is pronounced as "wee-nuh-kuh"!
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