My adventure begins in a familiar place the Live Another Life mod. Don't let your actual savegames anywhere near the result. If you feel like trying this experiment for yourself, great. This modded Skyrim is I Want To Be The Guy: RPG Edition, only without the sense of mercy or fair play. I'm not going to keep harping on about this, because it's not fair to blame the camel for buckling under the weight of the straw-never mind the anvil that all these mods count up to-but yes, it crashes all the time, some areas are impossible to enter, several armour items were corrupted leading to random acts of nudity, the frame-rate is regularly drop-kicked into single digits, and as for balance? Forget it. This is not a nice thing to do to Skyrim. By the time I was done, I had over 240 mods installed, and actually knew what about 10 of them were. Even asking a few friends to send over mods, which I'm pretty sure is why I apparently own an all-male brothel/bath-house outside Whiterun. Running through the Skyrim Nexus' categories and just hitting the download button without even looking at names. Whole Collections on Steam Workshop, sight-unseen.

There was only one way-to embrace chaos and random chance. I wanted to turn corners and actually be surprised by what I found. Where would the adventure and discovery be in simply picking something off a menu? I didn't want to install, say, 'Really Pretty Flying Boat House Mod' only to walk over, see it, go 'Oooh,' and be done. Damn near every aspect of Skyrim has been worked over by this point. It's not like there's not loads of cool stuff. I was browsing the Steam Workshop to see what modders were working on, with the idea of picking the best for a brand new playthrough, and trying to work out why I didn't have any enthusiasm.

Like most of the best and worst ideas I've ever had, this started with a whim.

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