Somehow, I feel I get away from no obligation by becoming a ghost, not in this game world. This town is clearly infected by some curse, I don't think death will necessarily get me away from it. Speaking of town curses, as far as an actual not soft ending goes, I've thought that Ivory might have something to do with it. The whole gods fighting thing, and one of them was definitely more daedra than nine, lol. I think horny cthulhu basically descended for a moment there.
You kind of get the feeling the town is affected/infected by something when hearing some conversations. The one that immediately comes to mind is the rape horny pair who's all excited about it being okay in our town. This tells us the state of our town isn't the norm. I'd really be interested in the cause, if it's one or multiple things, and the possibility of solving said cause, thereby achieving a hard ending. I suppose this might be considered a good or true ending? Drowning by Ivory (hard ending version) might be a bad ending... though only in the eyes of uncultured swine. If we do eventually get hard endings, I hope they come with little final summaries. Here's what we did, who we spent the most time with, how many kiddies, and how our ending had an effect on us and the world.