Skyrim - Taste of Death

[@eddmario]

"Besides, he's not gonna chop up people and sell them as meat anyway." Hindsight is 20/20

[@nihtgengalastnamegoeshere7526]

Bloodiest beef in the Reach...

[@Skorpeonismyrealname]

I also love how he gave him "Make Markarth Great Again" after he saved Margaret. Pretty sure the butcher appreciated that donation and didn't take it as a joke. Eltrys was the only one in the crypt...

[@Khint]

"I'm glad we could solve this peacefully", Zach said, after having frozen someone so thoroughly that the ice shattered instantly

[@richardgadberry8398]

That IS peaceful by Zach standards.

[@trenton8211]

Fast death instead of his usual slow killing, definitely peaceful in his books

[@walnzell9328]

They were pretty peaceful after that

[@titanjakob1056]

I mean they were cannibals so…

[@sam_wilds]

​@@titanjakob1056I was expecting Zach to follow the "peaceful" statement up with "They're cannibals! They're not people"

[@elijahjarman2837]

Fire, water, air, and earth. Fucking magnets, how do they work?

[@Zach_Hazard]

Fuckin miracles

[@BlackMoonHowls]

By "Law" of Attraction. This comment was not meant to be laughed it, just a small quip playing off of yours.

[@elijahjarman2837]

@@Zach_Hazard eyyyyyy 😎

[@Zurkon128]

If Zach has an issue with cannibals, nobody tell him about Bosmer lore.

[@rolo6676]

As a bosmer I can say you have no idea what your talking about. That lore and those rituals are exaggerated survival stories from severe circumstances a long time ago. We do not eat people anymore.

[@soapscope3721]

@@rolo6676speak for yourself 😋

[@GhostBear3067]

​@@rolo6676until someone harms a plant and the Green Pact comes to collect 😜

[@rolo6676]

The green pact is supposed to be about practicing ethical hunting and harvesting. Despite law makers and stoytellers do what they will with it. Our carnivorous diet ensures we stay in our lane inside Kynareth's garden. Many woodelves have to violate the pact to function in modern society and quietly brave the consequences. I doubt anyone here has been insulted by a bosmer, let's not sling mud at a friendly peoples. (This has been a roleplay experience)

[@mattking7238]

i never caught the subtext that eola might by hypnotizing you with a theoretical cannibal origin story to help her and again not telling the priest about her

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

Unless she knows for a fact, then she's 100% trying to gaslight the player into believing her.

[@TooLateForIeago]

@@Sp4rt4nSl4yaYou might be right, but it’s hard to gaslight an adult about their childhood unless you have known your victim for a long time. Then again, the people of Skyrim have a way of being frighteningly vulnerable to exploitation.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

@@TooLateForIeago I think it's more likely OP is right honestly. The way the priest just does what she says jedi mind trick style has hypnosis all over it. It's entirely possible it just doesn't work on DB which explains why we can disagree with her and comes off as gaslighting from our perspective. Though clearly that disagreement can only go so far without failing the quest, which I think is poor quest design.

[@Hell_O7]

@@Sp4rt4nSl4ya I'm sure it works on some people (like me) who just want to scratch off the quest from their to-do list

[@ashwolf2006]

she definitely is trying, eola seem's to have the power to convince people of something they are not.

[@siamihari8717]

7:50 Mike here trying not to get killed by any elf by cleverly hiding his worship of Shor (who talos was but an incarnation/avatar of) the one true god of the Nords and all Manfolk. Also known as Lorkan.

[@archerbascha8757]

The first time I stumbled over this quest I was wondering what she was talking about eating humans for the first time. Then I remebered "oh right, I did 'sample' that zombie meat that one time." Alchemy is wierd in Skyrim.

[@mickyflint]

ironically thats how most people thru history had to figure out foods and chemicals. iirc the guy who created the first sweetener or something forgot to wash his hands and went to dinner. during he tasted something sweet and started going thru his lab taste testing things.

[@paralell8371]

@@mickyflint It's also what happened to most mummies in the world... we ate them. We ate the mummies. Sold their skin as medicine or something.

[@aksman4434]

I got disqualified from the sextathon for doing a solo run :(

[@paytonhaworth4478]

Your joke was bad, and you should feel bad😂

[@SuperDeeredriver]

You monotheistic heathen

[@TheStormybob]

You tried to have an orgy for one, despite Mike and Zank being professional orgy ruiners?

[@sodadrinker89]

9:27 Yeah...about that.

[@enderpwny]

lol, was coming down here to say something like this.

[@wipepod]

did the same

[@Cai_Mao]

Bloodiest meat in the Reach am I right?

[@chriskoloski32]

Its actually a big fucking shame he went straight to murdering. Didn't even attempt to talk to everyone elss

[@konahrikb1578]

I wish someone would write a mod that alters the quest journal and objectives so it doesn't force you along the path of being a cannibal. Like just a line about "I could put her down now, but she might lead me to the rest of her cult if I play along for awhile."

[@mairaineplayzgames2205]

9:30 foreshadowing!!!!!!! "bloodiest beef in the reach"

[@DrunkenFin]

Who's gonna tell Zank that Meridias sword is meant to kill undead and is good at it?

[@TheVampManson]

9:28 Oh, Zach... How wrong you are... Bloodiest beef in The Reach...

[@LongWolf1987]

"And nothing of value was lost"

[@holydezmondgamez1728]

Oh I remember 1st playing this back on the 360, kinda was shocked that they have a questline for basically the cannibal perk. Also the intro of the start with the woman projecting your thirst for blood is basically the "vampires" in Fallout 3.

[@chriskoloski32]

You know. Zach and Mike flip flop between evil deeds and good deeds. One day theyre trying to kill children, another day they think cannibalism is wrong, and another day they think bandits don't have souls and are willing to work with criminals as long as they pay more gold

[@Zestence]

Markarth is the worst place in Skyrim. Place is filled with reachmen cultists, cannibals and the Silver-Blood family. If you kill all the bad people in Markarth there will be no-one left.

[@polarknight5376]

If you killed every bad person in Markarth, the only people left would be children, and even then, only some of the children.

[@roamingnpc7088]

At 9:30 when Zach said this guy wouldn’t chop people up and eat them I cackled

[@Morveyn]

No relation to the dead guy in the fire pit, thankfully

[@AceOfBlackjack]

You sure?

[@Steven_Antonio]

Getting rid of cannibals doing gods work, zach

[@ashwolf2006]

And finally mike and zach finally found out why the entirety of markarth needs to be burned to the ground! Forgot to mention aiding the cannibals isn't even worth it the reward is trash

[@chriskoloski32]

Not like 1000 gold is much better.

[@titanjakob1056]

@@chriskoloski32I’d rather take that then a stupid ring that makes me eat people

[@ducaoftheabruzzi]

Being an atheist in elder scrolls is really counter productive. Especially because akatosh literally appeared in the imperial city to take down mehrunes dagon in oblivion

[@lefteron6804]

Jokes aside, from the start there were 8 divines and the only one to be added later was Talos.

[@Doctor_Sirus]

I really like this quest. I love playing the good guy and massacring cannibals.

[@jazzyjswift]

Eola is easily one of the best vanilla companions in the game. She's technically classed as a "nightblade" - the only companion in the game with that class - but is really more of a very solid all rounder, uses destruction, swords, conjuration, all equally well. She also doesn't give you a bunch of lip for using her as a pack mule.

[@GModBMXer]

Getting an Arbys ad after this video talking about choosing their favorite new sliders is like picking their favorite child to eat was....... worrying

[@ilDuderoni]

Funny thing is, in Fear & Hunger lore, theoretically there could be 150 Gods, give or take.

[@gamekilla6066]

You're right, magnets be magnet-ing

[@lukevankleef4245]

Everyone in Markarth was a cannibal. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, everyone!

[@mr.miller6278]

What i really hope for ES6 is that you are ALWAYS given the option to refuse working for the daedra. It is one of the reasons i am apprehensive to doing the thieves guild quest as you are forced into nocturnal, and if you read on the lore, the afterlife with nocturnal is pretty miserable.

[@shorewall]

I'm sure Bethesda doesn't care about the lore. But that's part of what makes the Elder Scrolls special.

[@chriskoloski32]

​@@shorewallwhy would bethesda not care about the lore they actually created though

[@alecmullaney7957]

​@chriskoloski32 ask the developer behind fallout 4, fallout 76, & Elder Scrolls online.

[@mickyflint]

As dragonborn the God akatosh gets dibs on where your soul goes and even if you say your the head of the theives or the brotherhood tsun still confirms your going to sovengarde when you die.

[@chriskoloski32]

I consider it canon that you killed the forsworn in jail and then stealth killed thonar silver blood after he gave you a pardon. None of them deserved to live anyway. With thonar dead theres less silver bloods to corrupt morthal and with the forsworn leader dead the forsworn are back to just being bandits with less clothes

[@Only1199]

The cannibal that was supposed to be there but was running late after getting caught up in a rush hour forsworn attack arriving shortly after Zach and Mike had left the cave Hey guys, I brought the sauce, WTF happened here?

[@hotdogvan3399]

Lol, the Discworld novel 'Guards Guards' has a scene like that, where a cult member was out getting the pizza and arrives a couple of minutes after the rest of the cultists had had an...encounter...with a dragon.

[@loonboy1996]

I always resolved this quest by turning into a werewolf at the feast. HIRCINE SEND HIS REGARDS!!! 😆

[@DanteTorn]

9:19 FORESHADOWING!

[@walnzell9328]

Zach's comment on the butcher in Markarth got me good. Oh this is gonna be so funny.

[@Jacka1376]

It would’ve been great if Zach threw the ring somewhere before the end of the episode, and then the clip at the end was him aggressively searching for it

[@kylecancilla5483]

0:50 I see you, ICP reference

[@darktriadsun8440]

"fucking magnets , how do those work?" Insane Clown Posse

[@CrimsonFox36]

Pierogies, but with human flesh

[@sawtooth2152]

When I heard Mike talk about expanding the pantheon, the first thing I thought was “he has been playing CIV again”😂

[@bigmyke2008]

Zach is doing a pretty good Paladin playthrough whether he intends to or not. Still, missing out on all those daedric artifacts

[@Lendon142]

I would definitely sit in a room for 20 Hours straight with Zach Hazard just so i can hear him talk about how Cruel VA are, Rant about guns and caliber and how some of them suck, and also talk about how horrible being in the Army was, specifically Fort Polk.

[@rusky9110]

Awe, they missed all the cool dialogue from the cannibals.

[@gabrielvieira9578]

I'm surprised they had Morals and saved the priest

[@Hell_O7]

Maybe the forsworn got a point after all...

[@cameronlaird949]

Ah that quest that makes a perk in fallout an item perk

[@alexv1154]

I'm an engineer who regularly uses magnets. I have no idea how magnets work

[@vampirekingdarkness9076]

I like completing this quest to get the ring that lets you eat people

[@ethangray7392]

Was the magnet bit a icp reference. Fucking magnets, how do they work. And I don't want talk to a scientist. Y'all getting me pissed. ( I think that's how it went)

[@Lakefish_HAXX]

i- i thought i was just missing something in the Molag Bal one. i need that mod.

[@Jvegas2281]

I get your point Zach. Too many Divines is gonna upset the balance. They already had to nerf Talos.

[@StrangeandConcerning]

The eight divines were established in the first era.

[@walnzell9328]

There is a failsafe for merchants dying in this game. Usually the game will have someone else flagged to take their spot. However, this doesn't always work. The owner of the Bannered Mare is always talking about how she's planning on selling the inn to Ysolda. Well if she dies, the inn passes to Ysolda. Or it's SUPPOSED to. Sometimes she just doesn't become the new innkeeper. Oh but kill Belethor and suddenly Ysolda will take his spot! THIS STUPID GAME! So yeah, expect Arnlief and Sons, the butcher stall, and the stables to be inaccessible from now on.

[@richmondnorte6864]

Vlindrel Hall is even better than Molag Bal's house, just saying. Also microdosing poison make sense if you're talking about heavy metal exposure.

[@Mote.]

Mike pronouncing Nimphaneth 😁

[@chriskoloski32]

Mike being an atheistic nord makes no sense when you think about it. Daedric princes are basically gods, during the oblivion crisis martin septim brought akatosh to earth to stop Dagon, theres so much evidence in tamriel that gods actually exist in some way

[@lelanternoscope3691]

Well, the Dwemer existed and sent a big middle finger to the gods.

[@chriskoloski32]

@@lelanternoscope3691 yeah but the aedra and daedra still existed

[@ruofytnewt1730]

mandatory algorithm food

[@silentassason]

0:32 someone may or may not know the story of Talos 😂 Talos' story is also the same story high elves forget as to why their 'divine' is also a divine lol

[@DAE_Neko]

Hey mike and zach, if you have lucien and inigo together as companions they will have funny dialogue together and will grow closer as friends

[@NotsilYmerej]

I’m pretty sure you can circumvent the Taste of Death by just killing the cannibal when you first meat her in the Hall of the Dead. Unfortunately, that leaves the rest of the canibals alive, so I don’t recommend it

[@daJNX]

I'm gonna ask the tough question: are Mike and Zach juggalos? They make an awful lot of references to Jug-culture that they either are, or are Jug-adjacent. Maybe Majik Ninjas?

[@TenkoBerry]

This this is Great OoO👍

[@Midnight-kz2vh]

Hell yeah Batman

[@StrangeandConcerning]

Not a correction, just wanted to share.

[@zozangzozang4073]

If Zach thinks 70s guitar solos suck, he should check out The Sails of Charon by Scorpions. It's pretty much a Megadeth solo almost 10 years before Megadeth existed.

[@Badazzgamer43]

Fun fact u can kill her after u clear the dungen to fail the quest and not become a cannable. This was also saves all those people u killed so markarth is still populated. but they were cannables so oh well no one will miss them lol.

[@meinebosma]

You can kill Eola in the Hall of the Dead and tell the priest the cannibal has been dealt with.

[@Badazzgamer43]

@@meinebosma oh wow i never did that lol in my almost 8000k hours i guess im still learning stuff about skyrim even if its rair.

[@meinebosma]

@@Badazzgamer43 Maybe with another million hours you would have found it.

[@Badazzgamer43]

@@meinebosma lol maybee

[@HalloitzJasper]

Hey Mike and Zach been watching you two for fkn years and was wondering if you guys would ever play baulders gate 3 on the channel feel like that'd be hilarious to watch oh also hi I'm Jasper lol

[@glenngriffon8032]

I dunno, I'd like to try human meat. As long as it was butchered fresh and prepared in sanitary conditions like beef is butchered. I wouldn't want to do like cannibal tribes do and wait for the person to start decaying and then eat the brain. That's just nasty. But yeah, i am genuinely curious about what human meat tastes like. Apparently it's like pork.

[@bestbudeverful]

DO INIGO

[@TheMannamies]

I always hated this quest. Its just so stupid