The Ghostly Touch

[Alaltus]

In the land of Eorzea in which its lore features so much death, tragedy and ruins it lacks in the ghostly goings on department. Increase in ghostly/undead activity is also pretty easily explained away with all the destruction caused by Bahamut and the release of a whole lot of Aether(Spirit/Life energy) onto the land. I think it could add alot to the games atmosphere and bring life to some of those dungeons that besides monsters are mostly void of life.

List of ideas so far:

• Ghosts/Spirits wandering the halls and tunnels of the many ruins and other appropriate places at certain times of the day(Not necessarily at night if the area is enclosed).
• Ghosts/Spirits repeating certain dialogue in text e.g songs, rhymes, An important moment in their past life.(We've seen that SE can make autonomous dialogues between Npcs)
• Ghostly noises, moaning, chattering, Whispering telling you to leave that could escalate. (rather than just coming out of the blue to be fair on peoples hearts)
• Objects being moved by an invisible force, shackles rattling, even objects being thrown at you.
• Docile Spirits becoming hostile when you ignore their warnings to stay away from some where private to them or they protected when they were living(Like if they were a guard before they died).
• Ghostly FATE at night; the night becomes even darker, a thick ghastly mist appears, the music changes to deep horrifying tones... and bam! Ambushed by sneaky ghosts popping out of nowhere!
• Creation of a subspecies of Gargoyle/Gargouille that starts off as a targetable statue and when a character is stood nearby facing away from it, it comes to life. Golden Needles/Stona could be used to reveal and weaken them. As well as the game switching up the statues so players can never be sure which are just statues and which are Gargoyles.

They could all add to the atmosphere and depth of areas where death occurred. It could be as simple as a specter appearing in a chair at a certain time and then fading away. The sort of thing that could make you stop and say "I've come here many times and never seen that before"

I'm sure there have been threads like this before but what do you guys think? What would you like to see SE add regarding ghostly happenings and eerie events? I will come back and update as we discuss!

[Nuru]

There was a dungeon in FFXI that had ghostly activity, thought it was pretty freaky at first because there was also the sound of an alarm that would go off from time to time. lol Places like that were awesome though, just hunting for that magicked skull kinda sucked xD

[HiirNoivl]

And if you look at them they cover their eyes!

[Messenger]

I can see that for halloween event only. Implementing that for actual gameplay might kill the joy as we might end up going there all the time for a some reason.

[NinjaPanda]

There was a dungeon in FFXI that had ghostly activity, thought it was pretty freaky at first because there was also the sound of an alarm that would go off from time to time. lol Places like that were awesome though, just hunting for that magicked skull kinda sucked xD

I remember that place, but I don't remember what it was called. It had such a haunting atmosphere. I loved that.

[Alaltus]

I remember that place, but I don't remember what it was called. It had such a haunting atmosphere. I loved that.

Gusgen Mines ^^ its actually partially what inspired me to make this thread.

[Babydoll]

I love this idea! Having ghosts or creepy stuff sounds awesome

[AmyNeudaiz]

I approve of this. I'm also very easily scared. I'm going to be waking people up in the middle of the night if they add this >_> ....

[HiirNoivl]

I approve of this. I'm also very easily scared. I'm going to be waking people up in the middle of the night if they add this >_> ....

u.u I"m the same way. I'll be the first one running out the dungeon door if an NM ghost pops.

[Delsus]

What about the Weeping Angels of old, you look at them they are statues, but the second you turn away they are fast... don't even blink... Blink and your dead, that would be fun.