November 11, 2021
Jack sits bored on the couch trying to find something to watch one television. After flipping through a few channels Jack decides to play some games instead. Jack gets up and strolls over to his PC sitting on his desk. Jack sits down and starts the machine. After it boots he opens steam. Before Jack can begin scrolling the deals page pops up saying that the elder scrolls series is on sale. Jack realizes the date is eleven eleven twenty-one, Skyrim's anniversary.
"Wow been ten years already."
Jack ponders for a bit before being overwhelmed by nostalgia and deciding to play Skyrim. It's been some time since he last played but it'll be fun to get back into the game that got him into RPG's in the first place. As the computer screen dims and then relights with the bethesda logo Jack is filled with memories of the long hours spent playing this amazing game.
"Hmmm. Should I continue a previous save or start a new game?" said Jack thinking out loud.
After thinking for a moment, Jack settles on starting a new game. He arrows down to the new game and hits enter. The screen fades to black then a loading screen with Hermaeus Mora appears on the screen. The text in the corner reads "Hermaeus Mora has access to all knowledge even that of other worlds" as Jack finishes reading the sentence he realizes in all the time he had played the game he had never encountered that load screen text before. Jack shrugs.
"Must have been added with an update after I stopped actually playing the game."
The computer screen fades to black, and Jack prepares for the familiar sound of creaking and the voice of Ralof of Riverwood, but nothing happens. Jack sits there for a moment thinking maybe it's just lagging but still nothing happens. Jack hits alt f-four. Nothing. He tries hitting control alt delete to open the windows menu, maybe he can close Skyrim with the task manager, but nothing happens again.
"Dammit" Jack mutters at the monitor. "Looks like I have to restart the computer."
Jack holds down the power button for a few seconds until he hears the familiar sound that says the computer off. Something off though, the monitor is still on. Jack hits the power symbol on the lower right corner of his monitor, but nothing happens. He hits it again, this time a little more forcefully. The monitor doesn't turn off, however the image of Hermaeus Mora with the text pops back up.
"What the…"
Slimy tentacles race from the "statue" of Hermaeus Mora heading towards the monitor screen. Instead of stopping at the monitor's screen they pop into existence encircling Jack. Jack begins to struggle but is unable to free himself from the grasp of the tentacles that now have a tight hold on him. Jack is slowing being dragged face first into the monitor. As his face crosses the screen's threshold Jack blacks out.
As he begins to come back around Jack hears something eerily familiar. Creaking.