This mod adds a new enemy (The Blood Witch), a vampiric blood magic user that feasts on the blood of those hurt around it. It utilises this blood to upgrade and change it's abilities and gain enough blood to create it's true form...
This enemy is highly configurable and is VR compatible.
Once a rich baroness, Valorie Islington had it all. Her family owned several mining facilities across the Thistle Nebula, so herself and her family were amongst the lucky few that could stay afloat during the great war between empires. Hidden away in a manor bunker on the exomoon 85 Rend, herself and her family could sustain their own business empire without being in harms way.
A family of great wealth, such as the Islington's, even had advanced security systems to protect and insulate them from the horrors from the outside world.
They survived and exploited those who were on the front line to ensure their comfort and safety, but times started to get tough. The Islington's started to realise that they needed others to survive, and that their existence was born from the fruits of the labour others have provided their empire. Their life of luxury was not an entitlement like they once thought.
However, there was an arrogance to the impending fate that was awaiting the Islington's as they became even more isolated. Valorie was however always a step ahead of everyone else. She searched frantically for a solution, hoping for a miracle. She couldn't bare the thought of facing her own mortality. It just wasn't a possibility for her. She tried to contact her families associates for help and resources to survive, no response. They had no way out. They reached levels of depravity they would only perform as entertainment for themselves and other elite. They ate the flesh of those that that were trapped with the family, in their eyes they were the most important ones to be saved. But they knew deep down time was running out for them.
Desperate and with their fate inevitable, Valorie looked towards less traditional means... Her family had bought and pillaged several mysterious items and artifacts of great value with some supposedly having paranormal properties. She found an old gramophone that was said to be cursed that contained and stored spirits, an old pocket eye glass that was said to be able to see into the spirit realm as well as an item that could potentially give Valorie the key to survival, but also more. Something that held the ability to dominate entire species, interact with the fabric of biology, harnessing and controlling it. An ancient dark magic book that nobody seems to know it's origins. Valorie heard fantastical stories about this book when she was growing up. Stories of slaughter, miracles and resurrection. These stories also came with a lesson, that those who used it got more than they bargained for. With the power it gifted, it came at a cost. A price that Valorie was willing to pay.
Upon the night of her father's passing from ill health, Valorie decided she had nothing to lose and took the magic book from her bedside drawer. She frantically flicked through the pages, trying to understand the ancient scripture and the attempts at translation below. She found what she wanted, an incantation that promised everlasting life and powers unknown to humankind. She began to recite the spell out loud, with determination and grit to survive. Once she finished the incantation, nothing seemed to happen. She broke down on the floor in tears, perhaps finally accepting her fate once and for all. She went to sleep hoping that it would all be over when she awoke.
Morning came, and everything appeared to be in place apart from a strong smell. A strong metallic smell lingered throughout the air of the manor and into her bedroom. It was eerily quiet. She decided to get up to investigate, but she was startled by something. Looking in the mirror she noticed blood smeared around her mouth. She thought she was going crazy from the hunger. But then she realised she actually wasn't hungry?... Had her body numbed her sense of starvation? She felt... strong and full of life. Then it dawned on her, the spell worked. Perhaps the blood on her mouth was just a side effect, right?
She wandered out into the main hall of the manor to tell her family that she found the key to their survival. But she found something else... a scene of horror awaited her. Several members of her family had been brutally murdered; her auntie, niece and her family friends. Scattered across the floor. Valorie reacted as Valorie would naturally react to this situation, she was scared for her own life. This second chance would not be taken away from her.
She grabbed a kitchen knife and searched the manor for whoever had committed this threatening act upon her. She came across a long time friend that she seen as family. But as soon as they noticed Valorie, fear and panic took hold of her. Valorie tried to calm her, and reassure she was trying to help. But her friend just pointed at her, in a state of shock and unable to speak. At first Valorie was confused, but something inside of her was telling her what had happened. It was her. She was the murderer. She suddenly began to feel a primal urge to consume, but she hesitated. She couldn't do this act consciously, not to somebody who had served her so well. But her mind seemed to change as she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. Her complexion and appearance had changed since the first time she looked in the mirror. She looked significantly older, the rich baroness was gone and her mortality was staring right back at her in the mirror. It felt like an unfair punishment, she deserved to live but not to look what she felt was horrific. Valorie felt she would be a laughing stock to her associates. So she gave in to the hunger within. Her friend screamed, but Valorie felt nothing but relief. After all, its what friends do right?
But now Valorie was all alone, nobody was left. But she had enough blood to sustain her just a while longer. Constantly at the brink of death she desperately looked through the book that had given her a second chance. Hoping to find a cure for her horrific wrinkly skin. She learned valuable skills, and gained feats that she felt was deserved. It seemed blood made her more powerful. She gained an sixth sense, an ability to feel the blood pumping inside of others. And the ability to interact with it, and control it. She could sense the pests that were still roaming within the manor and was able to test her abilities on them. Eventually, she was able to feel the lifeforce of bodies far away and reach them. She even realised she could escape her prison and punish those who put her in the position that led her to almost starve. However, her body was weak and frail on the edge of death. Her youthfulness stolen from her. She couldn't even enjoy the burning radiation of the neighbouring dwarf star that her home moon gravitated around.
Sometimes she also felt that something was living within her. Squirming around, trying to find a way to escape it's own prison. Each consumption seemed to increase these sensations even more. But she didn't care. She was becoming more powerful, and was untouchable. She realised she could prey on those who were isolated and vulnerable. Those that would not be able to live to tell others about her horrible wrinkly skin, and pale complexion. Scavengers, explorers and wildlife were her prey, and hunting them down was the only way to keep her immortality. But she didn't realise something, she wasn't the one in the driving seat. She was being exploited herself, a means to an end. A build up to a magnum opus, a cocoon for the birth of a new entity. But for now, she could feast to her hearts desire...
The blood witch collects blood around the map left by players and enemies by teleporting to them, contributing to a total blood level. One spot of blood contributes 1 to the counter. Each level has a set configurable threshold of required blood to level up. Each level up changes the Blood Witch abilities and makes them stronger and requiring different strategy to handle. In granny form she is unable to teleport to blood outside, or exit the facility.
At her maximum level, the blood parasite inside of her is able to create it's new body, unleashing the blood witch's true form.
Hitting the granny form of the blood witch a set number of times detaches each limb. For example, (if set to two hits) you will have to knock off her arms with each containing a method to attack (right arm holds dagger, left arm holds blood magic abilities) to disarm her, and then knock off her head and lastly torso. When knocking off her torso, she dies. Be warned, the limbs slowly regenerate.
During this stage, the blood witch is at her weakest. She is slow, and unable to cast any abilities. Her main goal is to either hurt somebody to make them bleed, or pounce upon an enemy or player taking damage to consume their blood.
The Blood Witch gains the ability to summon a blood geyser attack that is marked by a sigil on the floor. The blood witch will try to predict where a player will run to cut them off with the attack.
The blood witch gains the ability to explode players into a bloody mess after maintaining eye contact with them for a few seconds. Players must break LOS to avoid succumbing to her attack.
The blood witch succumbs to her symbiotic parasite living inside of her. It sheds the weight of it's human host and uses it's newly made body to brute force it's target's down. The monster cannot use blood magic, but gains the ability to leave the facility and reach terrifying speeds.
The Blood witch is countered by knocking off her limbs by damaging her. Knocking off her right arm disables her dagger attack, then the right arm disables her magic. Following this you must finish the job by knocking off her head and then torso, at which point she is mostly defenceless.
She can also be stunned by conventional means when in levels 1-3. However, when progressing to level 4 the monster is completely invulnerable, un-stunnable and unstoppable. You must rely on stealth and out manoeuvring to survive this encounter.
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JJ08UK
SuperBritish
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medical for writing bestiary text
J0n4rez for portal SFX
DawnLib API by TeamXiaolan used to make mod: https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/TeamXiaolan/DawnLib/
Dagger by EteUcK: https://skfb.ly/pI8Xv
SFX from https://www.zapsplat.com
Would love to receive any feedback, clips, suggestions, or bug reports! Feel free to reach out to me on Discord (reikomegalul) or create an issue on the GitHub repository.