Don't knock that axe, it cleaves at full damage.
Ah, but however good its special abilities, a non-magical great axe is probably only for Act 1 whereas an attribute score increase is for life
. But point taken.
When talking to Ethel's corpse she also mentions seeing you again at some point, so she probably has some control still over her magic.
I think if you want to beat the Hag at her own game, you'll have to come up with something a little more clever than just killing her immediately after making a deal to spare her life.
I don’t believe I have ever tried talking to Ethel’s corpse! I’ll give it a go. Despite the fact she’s so awful, or maybe because, I kind of do hope we’ll see her again.
Perhaps a better way of reconciling Crimsonrider’s problem with mine would be to make it so that you could kill Ethel after making the deal, but that robbed the hair of its power (and you lost the attribute point if you’d somehow managed to use the hair before killing her)? That would be consistent with Ethel’s (apparent?) death ending the effects of the other bargains she’d made.
