For his thesis project, soon-to-be Arch-Mage Hannibal Traven cast a spell that brought sentience to a bowl of potato soup. The soup later suffered an agonizing death when it was consumed later that evening, which haunts Traven to this day.

Joke and fake loading screens and screenshots from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, run by @ChrisOfTheDead.
General links and the actual Oblivion mod made from these jokes in my Carrd page:
For his thesis project, soon-to-be Arch-Mage Hannibal Traven cast a spell that brought sentience to a bowl of potato soup. The soup later suffered an agonizing death when it was consumed later that evening, which haunts Traven to this day.