I would like to see a quest that involves the legend of Jack the Ripper.
Any ideas?

You need someone who can:
- Create a npc with an Advanced AI so when the guards come he will always escape and not go unconscious when they beat him down.
- AI should work like highway man, except he does it only to a random female characters.
- Should have a generic voice and race and should try to blend in to imperial city and major towns (by day a normal citizen, by night he commits a murder).
- Black Horse Carrier can be modified to hand out news of each murder.
- If random murder doesn't work, then a quest based scripted murder scene in each city can do.

Reward to solving the quest should be one of several things:
The weapon and armors he uses to commit the crimes, some gold, and/or ownership of his hideouts.

Jack the Ripper is an interesting story. No one knows who he is, kind of like the Gray Fox. However, since you are requesting this mod, I assume you know exactly what he did and was known for. You know, aside from killing (those certain) people...

I don't think it'll offend anyone just to replicate him, in fact, there will definitely those who would like to beat him down if they want .

Also, im guessing the idea of Jack the Ripper is that a human independently cannot do this much, meaning in real life, he has some support one way or another (gangs? crime organization?) to figure out who to kill and to escape properly. Someone who feeds him information... Is like Beggars are the Grey Foxes' Eyes and Ears.

Well jack the ripper was a doctor and at night hed killed prostitues in allies and in rented rooms, like sweeny tod was a barber and slit peoples throats and put them under his house that lead to the pie store next door. But the idea is brilliant that an (most likely imperial or altmer) goes around from city rents a room and murders an inocent and you track him down (or for improvement) join him and choose who to kill.

Lol, this will turn oblivion into a detective game i guess?

yeah i guess if you added jack da ripper, Clue do Oblivionised! lol

Awesome! These all sound like great ideas. The story of Jack the ripper may need to be modified in itself a bit, seeing as everyone would know already that the doctor is the ripper.
I think it would be cool if the killer could change his appearance randomly so that you would never know if it was the ripper standing right in front of you.

So the AI would wear a set of clothing for each different day of each month?

Ya, and if it's possible, it would be cool if somehow you wouldn't be able to recognize his face. He is a doctor, so plastic surgery?

Hmm then he would need a face so bland, you can't tell whether he is a elf, imperial, nord, or breton.

I wonder if its possible to set an Npc to make cosmetic changes to his face every day.

This sounds very interesting I just love the Oblivion quests like the one that you have to find out who stole the painting of a countess. Don't remember the name tough. My point is that I love this kind of quests .

Cheers

Maafiaman

So basically quests that doesn't give you the location of what to do, and you'd problably have to guess.