Dragonborn Chapter 215: A Fork For Your Thoughts

A/N: Sorry for the short chapter, this is just something I wrote hastily in the car while traveling. Also, I hate to break it for you guys but Sheogorath does not appear in this part. In exchange, his Daedric Quest (in the future) will be changed just like how I did with Vaermina and Hircine so far. The explanation is in the chapter.

Enjoy~❤

I read the letter that is said to be from Sheogorath and my brain just stopped from seized from functioning.

This simply can't be true!

This shouldn't be true from the start.

I didn't download that mod.

To explain get an idea of what is happening here, I requested a room in the Retching Netch to stay in alone for a while, I took Nefert.i.ti, the Fork and the Note with me and started studying the note.

This was unbelievable.

"System, call the Augur!"

{What is it you want?}

"Do you see what am I seeing?"

{... It seems you have come across something unexpected, indeed.}

"What do you mean unexpected? It shouldn't be here."

{You are mistaken, I find it natural and completely logical for you to find this here.}

"What do you mean."

{Why don't you check this out?}

The Augur viewed a screen for me, on it a memory of mine was being displayed. In that memory, the past me was holding a table and browsing throw a web page.

{Do you see that?}

"... I see."

This is really unexpected… but logical. Still, needed more confirming.

"Show me the other pages."

More memories started popping up on more screens and I started confirming things I never foresaw they would happen.

After 17 years of my reincarnation, I discovered something new. These web pages I was viewing in my past life were about the Mods that came from the Creation Club, a below-average modding community of the game that added official mods to the game. I never downloaded a mod from that Creation Club as its mods were all charged for with money. Of course, the free mods in the Nexus were much better and more vivid. [A/N: Remember to support your favorite modders.]

But the thing I didn't take notice of was that these mods from the Creation Club are 'OFFICIAL', just like the DLC content which is also official, Raven Rock itself existed in the lore and was official which meant it should exist after my reincarnation… and so the Creation Club mods that I didn't download.

"Oh, b.u.mmer!"

The realization hit deep, I took my enchanted quill and a paper from the Haven Amulet and started copying these notes from the screen about the possible mods and the things they provide. Strangely, not every mod from the Creation Club existed in the lore in the official and the unofficial descriptions so I started to include some mods and exclude the others based on the immersion and how possible they are.

[A/N: I am adding only 5 mods from the Creation Club, other mods like 'Sunder and Wraithguard' or 'Divine Crusader set' are really far fetched in terms of lore.]

"Five Artifacts, huh! These are really interesting. Never have I ever thought I would be relying on the Creation Club."

These artifacts were in a sort easier to acquire than the other Artifacts, mostly in the hands of other people and only needed to be 'liberated'.

The first artifact we come by is the Staff of Sheogorath, how to acquire it is simple. Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of madness and the most dangerous one to deal with in my opinion, has offered the staff as a reward for whoever hunt to Bull Netches with the Fork of Horripilation.

A very unreasonable demand by the most unreasonable Daedric Prince. Sheogorath himself is known to be the Mad G.o.d whose motives and purpose are unknown. In my opinion, they are unknowable because I am sure that Sheogorath himself is not sure about his motive. He is just a hot mess of a Daedric Prince with a lot of power and a ton of time to waste.

Dealing with Sheogorath is dangerous, I would prefer to avoid him as much as possible because one minute he loves you as f.u.c.k and the second he is forcing you to make the choice of your life. Sheogorath once tricked Arch-Mage Shalidor, the one who founded Winterhold's College and the city itself, Shalidor once built a safe haven on an island to all mages but Sheogorath tricked him with knowledge that are incomprehensible and traded it with the island which was Shalidor's greatest regret and what led him to lose everything. It was later recovered by the help of a Senpai Hero of mine called the Soulless One [A/N: ESO Player Character] but that is a story I am not really familiar with.

All in all, dealing with Sheogorath is dangerous and but the reward is really appealing this time. According to the notes I have, this bet with Sheogorath is not direct and not really harmful.

I opened the door of the room and asked Wulfur to come in.

"What is with you? You just…"

"It is really Sheogorath. The Challenge is real, not some prank."

"Whoa!"

Wulfur face turned pale.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

Wulfur had an unpleasant experience with the Daedric Princes from the time he got trapped in Quagmire so he wouldn't be really pleased in doing this.

He looked at the fork and seemed like a guy who was turned off from a naked girl.

"This fork is called the Fork of Horripilation, it is a cursed artifact created by the Daedric Prince Sheogorath."

"Really?"

"Yes, he really loves it and refers to it affectionately as 'Forky', even though in appearance and in function, it is just a mundane iron fork. Still, legends say that in the hands of the right people, this fork can be a deadly weapon because of a mysterious enchantment on it. Sheogorath is fond of forcing mortals to use it as a weapon and doing challenges with it, kinda a thing for his amus.e.m.e.nt."

"I see… what does horripilation mean by the way?"

"It is the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear, or excitement. The reason why the fork is called with that name is unknown."

"So, is using it safe?"

"Well, as long as you only use it as a weapon and don't infuse any Magicka in it, it is pretty much just a fork."

Wulfur started thinking in hesitation, he was really excited about the challenge but it seemed he is now thinking about it.

"A fork for your thoughts." I put the fork in his hand and asked him.

"When I asked about the fork, they told me that some people tried to do the challenge before but mostly failed and some were injured, in all cases, the fork magically returned to its place with the note and all." He said.

"Natural."

"People think that a Master Wizard called Neloth who lives in the east of Solstheim is the one who made that prank."

"Neloth? I know him, believe me, he is bored enough to do so but that is not him. This is Sheogorath himself."

Wulfur started thinking again then finally gave up.

"Dammit! I want to do this so bad but I am afraid. Jon, what do you think?"

"I think you shouldn't tell Bjorna if you are going to do it, actually, the reward is a magical staff so don't think too much of it."

"I don't want the staff, I want the fork."

"Oh, I see. Fine, if you do the challenge, I will come with you and the staff will be mine."

"Okay. We shouldn't tell the girls."

"Sure."

"And we should get drunk." Wulfur said and turned around.

"... I knew you are my best friend for a very good reason."

At that time we headed out to do something really foolish.