In most of my playthroughs I have taken the poison and sworn I’ll use it, and agree with everyone here who has said that almost any character of whatever alignment is going to have a pretty good reason to take that path, and even to mean it. I have played a couple of contrary, awkward characters who wouldn’t share any info with Nettie and ended up intimidating/persuading her instead.
It’s almost a pity, given there are so many other ways to get out of the situation, that the easiest one is also one that it’s actually a bit tricky to justify not doing.
I don’t think I’ve had to do anything more creative than speak to her since the very early patches when I don’t think we had the same options, and/or the persuade/intimidate checks were harder to pass.
EDIT: I agree with the OP that the line about not taking a poison from a woman we don’t trust is a weird one, and it would be better to have different ones to refuse with. I could understand not taking a healing potion from someone I couldn’t trust (ahem, Ethel), but when the advertised purpose of a potion is to kill you I can’t see any good reason for distrust!
Last edited by The_Red_Queen; 25/08/22 05:25 AM.
