Skooma, Drink or Smoke?

Corpsage

So I had always thought that Skooma was just a drink. I remember finding Skooma dens in other games and seeing the empty vials strewn across the floor or on small tables of the partakers rooms. The thing I don't remember seeing are Skooma Pipes, like this one I found today in Windhelm.


Now the questions rises, does one drink or smoke Skooma?

Dekkameron

Maybe they drink it through straws like students do to get drunk quicker?

Thymos

Maybe it's just a pipe you smoke while you're drinking skooma. There's lots of people that smoke while drinking, and Skooma is like Absynthe.

Corpsage

Again, I was aware of what Skooma was in other titles. A drink. It seems that they are re-writing some things though in this game. If it were merely a Pipe wouldn't calling it a "Fancy Buckhorn Pipe" (or something along those lines) suffice? This seems oddly specific calling it a "Skooma Pipe" and the description on the item doesn't clarify anything.

waterfairy

It's a magical drug made from moon sugar...maybe the kitties add water to it while the lions smoke it straight.

Corpsage

Vigarr wrote: »

maybe the kitties add water to it while the lions smoke it straight.

This made me laugh pretty hard. I would accept this as an answer for sure. ZOS we need a lore master here, STAT!

Enemy-of-Coldharbour

Skooma is made by mixing Moon Sugar and Nightshade. Skooma can be used by smoking it through a pipe or by drinking it in its liquid form.

newtinmpls

Think of "pipe" in the sense of Hookah.

Although the ones in Morrowind always looked to me more like teapots.

Rosveen

Corpsage wrote: »

Again, I was aware of what Skooma was in other titles. A drink.

Morrowind had skooma pipes.

Forestd16b14_ESO

You drink skooma but those could be like modren day "puffers". You know those square things hippsters "smoke" that are flavored with berries or something cause exhaling smoke is appearntly "cool" but regular smoking isn't.

Eriquito3

You can do both, but I suggest not to smoke it, because smoking anything can cause copy and enphaziema. Drinking it is not much safer

Gidorick

As far as I understood it Skooma is a refined liquid Moon Sugar derivative. You can drink it straight or put it in a pipe and inhale the vapors as you heat the Skooma. I wouldn't be surprised if the Skooma drink was diluted with something.

Skooma pipe:


How it works:

Corpsage

Gidorick wrote: »

As far as I understood it Skooma is a refined liquid Moon Sugar derivative. You can drink it straight or put it in a pipe and inhale the vapors as you heat the Skooma. I wouldn't be surprised if the Skooma drink was diluted with something.

Skooma pipe:


How it works:

Thank you for this. I'm gonna see if I can make one or have one made somehow

Preyfar

I just wish Skooma was in game as a usuable item. The game's rating is high enough, why not include the one legendary item from ES lore and past games?

Corpsage

Preyfar wrote: »

I just wish Skooma was in game as a usuable item. The game's rating is high enough, why not include the one legendary item from ES lore and past games?

Right?!?!?! There aren't any Skooma Dens either...

Yakidafi

Dekkameron wrote: »

Maybe they drink it through straws like students do to get drunk quicker?

Please explain it make no sense to me. Drinking the same drink but through a straw Will add more alkohol?

TheShadowScout

Ah, the wonders of skooma...

There are some substances that can be effective both smoked and imbued, so it makes sense.

And who knows, maybe someday they will add it to the game! Always illegal, impossible to launder, adding a nice bounty if you are caught with it, addictive (though they'd need a compeltely new addiction mechanic... which could also work for lingering poisons and chronic illness... stuff that won't just get better with a healing spell, but needs a special antidote made by an alchemist, breathing new life into that profession...)

Corpsage

Yakidafi wrote: »

Dekkameron wrote: »

Maybe they drink it through straws like students do to get drunk quicker?

Please explain it make no sense to me. Drinking the same drink but through a straw Will add more alkohol?

As far as I know thats just an urban legend. I think they may have tried it on Mythbusters though xD

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Ah, the wonders of skooma...

There are some substances that can be effective both smoked and imbued, so it makes sense.

And who knows, maybe someday they will add it to the game! Always illegal, impossible to launder, adding a nice bounty if you are caught with it, addictive (though they'd need a compeltely new addiction mechanic... which could also work for lingering poisons and chronic illness... stuff that won't just get better with a healing spell, but needs a special antidote made by an alchemist, breathing new life into that profession...)

This would be incredibly awesome.

Corpsage

Found this just now in Riften, figured it was appropriate for this discussion and also kinda funny.

Tommy_valkyria

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Ah, the wonders of skooma...

There are some substances that can be effective both smoked and imbued, so it makes sense.

And who knows, maybe someday they will add it to the game! Always illegal, impossible to launder, adding a nice bounty if you are caught with it, addictive (though they'd need a compeltely new addiction mechanic... which could also work for lingering poisons and chronic illness... stuff that won't just get better with a healing spell, but needs a special antidote made by an alchemist, breathing new life into that profession...)

I second that. Maybe it'd make you faster, and cost less stamina while sprinting. And it'd slow you down and cost more when you began to detox. Haha

Junglejim82

If you're not injecting it between your toes you're not hardcore and clearly doing it wrong

Minorem

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Ah, the wonders of skooma...

There are some substances that can be effective both smoked and imbued, so it makes sense.

And who knows, maybe someday they will add it to the game! Always illegal, impossible to launder, adding a nice bounty if you are caught with it, addictive (though they'd need a compeltely new addiction mechanic... which could also work for lingering poisons and chronic illness... stuff that won't just get better with a healing spell, but needs a special antidote made by an alchemist, breathing new life into that profession...)

I will settle for a smoking emote.

Gidorick

Well, whenever Skooma comes to ESO... Heisencat will be ready

And yes... that is actually his in-game name.

Emperor_Will

I get the appeal, it was rampant in morrowind - the game rating would allow it yet its virtually non-existant in eso?

Gidorick wrote: »

Well, whenever Skooma comes to ESO... Heisencat will be ready

And yes... that is actually his in-game name.

Best post i've seen all week.

NDwarf

Gidorick wrote: »

Well, whenever Skooma comes to ESO... Heisencat will be ready

And yes... that is actually his in-game name.

"If this one is unknown to you, then maybe you should tread lightly."

Gidorick

NDwarf wrote: »

Gidorick wrote: »

Well, whenever Skooma comes to ESO... Heisencat will be ready

And yes... that is actually his in-game name.

"If this one is unknown to you, then maybe you should tread lightly."

hehe..

"Je'see, you asked this one if he was in the skooma business or the gold business. Neither. This one is in the empire business"

or..

"Khajiit is the one who knocks"

oh! oh!

"Say this one's name."

nine9six

Turkey Baster.

Corpsage

Gidorick wrote: »

Well, whenever Skooma comes to ESO... Heisencat will be ready

And yes... that is actually his in-game name.

This is TESO gold. GG, Sir/Madam.

Steven11k9@aol.com

I think it can be both drinkable and smokeable

TheGreatBlackBear

You're all wrong. You inject it between your toes.

RaveRaveRaveRave

I'm sure it depends on the type and quality. Myself, I prefer insufflation if it's a fine powder/dust but you got smoke the gummy/tarry/rocky hard stuff. lol