Today I witnessed someone's Skyrim character die in a Monty Python-esque manner.

User amelix34 just recently published a little experiment on the Skyrim subreddit (via GamesRadar) that he had saved up in the form of a gluttony fest.

You've seen the joke. You're in the middle of a battle, you say "wait a minute" to an enemy, pause to look at the menu, and consume all of your inventory in an attempt to recover. But what would happen if you ate 20,000 gold worth of food all at once?

After all, this player's character died a terrible death because of it, but not for the reason you might think. It was not the overeating that actually caused the untimely death. It was the Jalyn Root they had unwittingly left in their inventory, as the comments section makes clear.

If you have played the Dark Brotherhood quest in Skyrim, you have encountered this particular herb. It is given to players by Astrid in the To Kill an Empire quest line. She tells the player how powerful this herb is, so it would be in the player's best interest to forget all about it. Jalyn Root deals 1,000 points of damage at a time. Even if the player recovers by eating all the food in the stores throughout Skaim.

However, one user in the comments section claimed that as soon as Astrid handed him the Jarin Root, he immediately scarfed it down and walked away." I ate it right away too, but my character had so much HP that I didn't even get half of it. He told me to use this rare root to kill the emperor, handed it to me, and I immediately shoved it into my stomach, wanting to see Astrid's face as she became totally fine."

I don't think I ever regained that much strength in any of my playthroughs, but I can at least say that I witnessed Mr. Creosote's scene from Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" in Skyrim.