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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9555644" data-attributes="member: 42856">The story suddenly takes a bleak turn. As we hail the Dirge-Man and starts discussing what could be in for him, we're showcasing a bottle as our most precious bottle of liquor, offering to give it to the Dirge in exchange for safe passage. He's initially suspicious, but we make a show of drinking a few drops of chimera's spittle and saying how much it is delicious. As we do that, we're careful to drink the antidote as well.The Dirge-Man, convinced to enter a fair deal of exchanging a bottle of swill for transportation, agrees to take us into his talons and we take to the sky, well, at least to the middle of the cavern. Then, he asks for the bottle mid-flight, saying that he could very well drop us into the lava, and getting the swill now ensures him we won't be tempted not to honor our part of the deal. We then explain the Dirge-Man that the bottle was laced with a potent poison called Chimera's spittle, and that if he wants to drink the cure, he should make sure we reach the other side safely.When ashore, we give him... the bottle of poison, that he gulps, while we leaves before the onset time of the poison expires and he realizes he's been tricked.There goes the idea that poison is a tool of evil. Not only did we cheat the Dirge-Man, who, as far as we know, entered a fair deal of alcohol for transportation, by giving him a poisoned drink, and when he (justifiedly) suspected we might not be totally honest, we just... play another trick on him and he dies.Extra bonus, Trixie got back 3 HP during these non-combat sections, where she delighted in her healing powers and the death throes of the Dirge-Man.</blockquote>

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