I just randomly came up with this idea.


Envision it like this.


You need to scare an NPC out of a house in the dead of night.

The door is locked, you have no lock picks.

Simples..

Perform a Ritual, to curse the house.


Stand outside the house,
Perform the ritual (could be a spell, or perhaps something more complex?)
Point at the Door of the House
Fire!!

The Door is no doubt linked to an interior area, which would have the npc's sleeping in their beds or doing whatever.


The script/mod would spawn Ghosts (perhaps Wispmother npcs) etc - inside the house.

They could also infect the npc's with a fear effect, which causes them to flee the house.

NPC's flee, the doors are left open behind them, and the player can slip in for a few minutes unnoticed.