Originally Posted by geala
Maybe my wording was not clear, but indeed you cannot get the hair if killing Ethel.

Apologies, I should have made clear that my response was to the OP rather than your more recent reply, and specifically the statement ..

Originally Posted by RadMissFliss
I negotiated with her to save her victim and let her go, and I got nothing mechanically from doing that. At least, nothing I wouldn't have gotten from also killing the hag, who was left with 12 hp.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"