Skyrim Players, We've Been Pickpocketing Wrong For Years

You’ve not had the full The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim experience if you’ve never pickpocketed.

Is it morally wrong? Definitely so, but you only have to face the consequences of your actions if you get caught.

Skyrim is a playground where you can be the fiend you can’t be in real life.

What if I told you, however, that you’d been pickpocketing wrong for all of these years - 14 years, in fact - since Skyrim’s release.

Well, not wrong exactly, but totally without flair.

I’m sure you’ve gone through the process umpteen times, crouching by an NPC before snatching what it is that you want.

Well, Reddit user Sacred_Divide8626 has a very different way of pulling things off, and it’s perhaps best if I initially let the footage speak for itself.

“When you’re a Master Thief, you must have your own style of work. I’m creating mine,” they wrote.

Damn. They’ve certainly got style; now my pickpocketing technique feels lame.

The question is: how did they pull this off?

Well, at first, I thought it might be the work of a mod, but it actually seems that this method is achievable in-game via a glitch.

The general consensus seems to be that Sacred_Divide8626 was able to use the Vampire Lord ‘Vampiric Grip’ ability while in their human form, allowing them to put this poor, unsuspecting NPC through a rather terrible ordeal.

“That was definitely one way to do it, maybe not the one that would spring to mind first. But it worked,” replied FeelingOk494.

“After more than a decade since the game came out, there is still room for more creativity damn this game is like no other,” added Ubermensch_introvert.

“This entire clip is comedy gold. When the chicken says ‘ugh’, when the guy says ‘If you hurt me again I may have to kill you’ and you sheathe your weapons. 10/10, giggling like a maniac,” commented xombae.

They’re totally right. At the end of the day, gaming is a means of play and sometimes, laughing at a stupid feat is just what the soul needs.