Can we have some of these: (from Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke - first 30sec or so of clip)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZ...
And if you can get your mood really high then a few ambling kodamas will wander past you and guide you to places where you'll find a new task (in their happy drifting way).
Could be a great way of keeping people occupied while they're waiting for skills to load - other than just wandering about raising their xp and harvesting berries. So maybe you can only see them when you reach a really really good mood.
So if you've finished a quest and your pet rock is waiting on a new skill to load to give you something else to do, you just have to get your mood up high enough and these guys will guide you to somewhere where there's something to do that you haven't experienced yet e.g. hidden levels.
If not can we have a few wandering through a level anyway? I just love the way their heads rotate and make that gorgeous noise!
Thoughts?