Isolation Protocol: Add Balthazar as a Nethack style deity

[John-Candlebury]

Summary

Mods "Isolation Protocol: Add Balthazar as a Nethack style deity"

Purpose of change

Add a function simmilar to "peity" you can accumulate during gameplay and then exchange for increased chances of survival. Because this is a sci-fi, and because it somewhat fits with vanilla lore, the deity in question is Balthazar, who rewards your limited acts of violence with much grandiose acts of violence.

You are basically made for each other, how cute.

Describe the solution

Planned features for Balthazar:

• Kill everything in the bubble.
• Kill the single highest danger target around you.
• Kill bossfights so long as you survive for enough time.
• Grant you an energy shield.
• A combat speed buff/Limited pain invulnerability.
• Revive you on death.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Other 'gods' could be possible, although I dont have much interest on that.

Testing

Still wip. Just dialogue for now.

Additional context

Its funny to write balthazar in this way.

[GuardianDll]

lmfao i thought it literally prints <BALTHAZAR_MAIN_GREETING>

[John-Candlebury]

Hmm that'd be a good variant lol.

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• I dont need your help, machine.
• zombie dreadlord
• zombie dreadlords

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[OtherBiscuit]

If other "deities" are planned for, maybe a gimmick for Balthazar could be related to how he switches between cold efficiency and bloodlust. As you use combat-focused abilities more, Balthazar grows more unstable (maybe an explanation is the instability leaking into it as you use it more?), eventually leading to either death, or a more unique effect (maybe something to change your playstyle, like getting buffs but needing to constantly kill enemies or suffer debuffs for example)

And to avoid this, needing to do a side-task or something to reduce the counter. OR letting the player use abilities before the cooldown is fully up, at the cost of incrementing the counter, and only reducing it when the cooldown is fully over.

The closer you are to the "Event Horizon", the more malicious Balthazar sounds. Idk just throwing ideas at the wall.