Goats are among the most common animals that Skyrim players will come across as they adventure the Bethesda Softworks open-world RPG, and sometimes they act in strange ways. One Skyrim player has captured a moment in which a goat is walking through an abnormal location as it attempts to climb a waterfall.
Twitter user KOAwkwardness recently posted a clip of their adventures in Skyrim in which they move the camera from third-person to first-person as they come across a waterfall. Standing on a rock near the edge of the waterfall, the Skyrim player observes a goat that is running in place in a rocky part that's slightly calmer. The goat continues to sprint as if it were capable of climbing the waterfall. Unfortunately, it is to no avail as it seems stuck between three rocks where the river turns into a waterfall.
KOAwkwardness' Skyrim clip begins with the player running up a riverside boulder while donning a full suit of armor with a cowl and wielding an Elven weapon. As the Skyrim fan approaches the part of the river that becomes a waterfall, a goat appears nearby that seems stuck in the swift current. The goat is seen running without getting anywhere, and it's noticeably stuck in a pocket that prevents it from being thrown to the bottom due to the current of the river.
At no point in KOAwkwardness' Skyrim video does the goat stop running, which may suggest that if it had stood still, it could have been swept away. The Skyrim clip ends before the goat escapes from the pocket of rocks it got stuck in, which may imply that it remains in the same spot even still in an eternal struggle between the goat and waterfall. While most goats in Skyrim reward players with Goat Hide and Leg of Goat which can be used to Smith items in Skyrim or cook meals respectively, this one would've been sent quite a distance downstream if the player chose to kill it and try to loot the corpse.
Since the river is unable to move the goat outside the pocket of rocks it's stuck in, the small Skyrim animal may be as fast as the wild river transitioning into a waterfall. Because the goat is unable to run up the Skyrim waterfall based on its positioning, it's currently unclear if it would have been able to climb this part of the river to get to a calmer area if it were unstuck. Although KOAwkwardness chose not to help or hinder the goat in their Skyrim clip, other players may choose to give it a boost in one direction or the other with the Unrelenting Force shout.
Skyrim is available now for Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.