I used to be someplace round Whiterun on the sting of Fort Greymoor when the skooma started to take maintain. Issues grew to become washed-out and smeary, after which there was two of every thing together with me and my pet elytra—an odd type of mantis-looking bug who I noticed, seeing two of the weird insect beside me, in all probability wasn’t the perfect companion to deliver on a 10-skooma bender.
Skooma is a narcotic substance made from refined moon sugar that is banned in some components of Tamriel as a consequence of its addictiveness, although thought-about a sacred sacrament by the khajiit. In Morrowind and Oblivion it fortified your velocity and power whereas draining your intelligence and agility, whereas in Skyrim it merely restores stamina. Its addictiveness and hallucinatory qualities have by no means actually been modeled by any of the Elder Scrolls video games—till now.
JaySerpa is accountable for the Skyrim on Skooma mod (opens in new tab), which not solely makes skooma addictive, however provides 69 totally different psychedelic experiences you may randomly take pleasure in one among every time you devour a bottle of the madgod’s favourite tipple. It might sound like a joke, and it was uploaded on April 1st, nevertheless it’s clearly a labor of affection that took JaySerpa about 5 months to create. Probably the greatest Skyrim mods? Properly, I believe so.
The subsequent bottle I drank made me really feel 10 ft tall, like Alice within the music. Really it was in all probability nearer to 30 ft tall. Whereas I jogged over to a close-by big shepherding some mammoths to match heights, the world cycled by means of colours—purple, orange, blue, each as vivid as an unpleasant reshade mod. Considering that at this measurement I may in all probability take the large and his mammoths, I readied my mace, just for the 60-second length of skooma to finish, leaving me my authentic peak. So I drank one other.
“This skooma is to lose your head for!” a textual content pop-up introduced as a swirl of crimson gentle whooshed round me. Switching to third-person digicam I noticed that was actually true. I would misplaced my head, leaving solely a jagged crimson stump with a shard of white bone jutting out of the middle.
The mammoths, now charging at me as a result of I would wandered too near them, weren’t delay by this, and nor had been the three wolves who subsequently appeared to affix the get together. I bravely ran away as the colour distinction went wild, leaving the mammoths to begin stomping the wolves as a substitute of me and my elytra pal.
The bottle after that turned me into an unmoving chair for a sluggish 60 seconds, whereas the one after that ramped up the colours once more, this time biking by means of the type of “why is this feature within the photograph mode anyway” settings that make every thing seem like an optical phantasm designed to stain your imaginative and prescient once you look away. I killed the final wolf as every thing turned so blue I could not see it, then a hazard yellow that basically introduced out the crimson of my darkish elf’s eyes.
“You’re feeling the urge for extra skooma”, one other pop-up knowledgeable me, and I figured why cease now, since I would used Skyrim’s console instructions to present myself heaps of the stuff (~ to deliver up the console, “participant.additem 00057A7A” adopted by the variety of bottles you want, you are welcome). Positive, turning into addicted takes away 30 factors of your well being, stamina, and mana, however solely once you’re not consuming skooma. There’s a simple resolution to that downside: drink extra skooma.
Because the subsequent bottle had the impact of boosting my archery rating, I figured why not have one other earlier than the consequences wore off? And that was after I handed out, which is what occurs in case you do not anticipate one journey to finish earlier than embarking on the following. I responsibly waited for the timer to run down earlier than I drank one other, and instantly handed out once more.
The unusual imaginative and prescient that adopted certain appeared just like the opening credit of a videogame, solely as a substitute of transitioning to a cart experience, it ended with me mendacity on the ground of a hovel close to Ivarstead. A dirty down-and-out named Roluf who knew the hazards of skooma nicely woke me up and gave me a glimpse of my bleak future if I stayed on this path.
Which may have made me stroll away from a lifetime of skooming out, if I would been in a position to arise to take action. As a substitute, I used to be caught within the lying-down pose whilst I flew out of the constructing, which can have been a bug moderately than a part of the journey, however who can inform? I fastened it by quick touring to Ivarstead, the place I figured I’ll as nicely neck the final bottle, simply to maintain it out of circulation.
It was value it, as a result of that was when the magnificent goat appeared. The goat wore a floppy hat, left rainbows beneath its hooves, and was named Cabrita Bartholomew in accordance with the immediate that steered I experience Cabrite Bartholomew. After all I did, with my elytra by my aspect. Who is aware of what adventures we’ll have subsequent?
The Skyrim on Skooma mod is offered for Skyrim Particular Version (opens in new tab), in addition to authentic taste Skyrim (opens in new tab). You’ll be able to safely set up this mod mid-playthrough with out having to fret about any impact it’s going to have in your save file, though your well being and psychological stability are one other matter.
