Skyrim player becomes serial chicken-murderer after attempting infinite illusion cheese

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A Skyrim player has accidentally become a poultry serial killer after trying to level their magical abilities using a little-known cheese.

Earlier this week, Reddit user PromptZues19508 took to the Skyrim subreddit with a cunning trick they'd recently discovered. They'd learned that Fury - a low-level spell that causes low-level enemies to attack friend and foe alike for 30 seconds - could repeatedly be cast on chickens with no ill-effects.

Casting Fury on a sentient NPC is likely to cause them to attack your character - or get you in trouble with the local guards for using magic against innocent civilians. Casting the spell on a bigger animal might also cause an issue, as you'd have to fend off that wild beast. Certain creatures, however - like rabbits, or in this case chickens - can feel the effects of the spell, but can't attack anything. They'll run up to you, seething with rage, but won't be able to do anything about it. After 30 seconds, they'll calm down, letting you cast the spell again with refreshed magicka. As PromptZues pointed out, that means that you can cast the spell over and over again, sending your Illusion spell stat rocketing.

At least, that was the plan. That initial chicken was eventually killed, not by the Dragonborn, but by a local guard (opens in new tab). Turns out that a frenzied hen is a threat to everyone in the vicinity, and a swift arrow was dispatched to take it out. PromptZues took that knowledge on board and endeavoured to draw his next victim away from populated areas.

Unfortunately, that one was shot by a roaming mercenary. A third chicken, which was lured under a bridge to keep it safe from stray archers, was taken out by an unfortunately timed dragon. The same fate befell chicken