IIRC there is a way into her place past the masks if you go through the underdark. I vaguely remember jumping up a mushroom wall and there being a teleportation mushroom ring on the ground high on a cliff. It's been a while though, so don't quote me on that.
I remember that, too. But I always take the direct route to her house, through the swamp, because my character wouldn't know about the other portals. I try to metagame as little as possible (though I don't say I am always successful, after so many hours of early access, it is hard to always ignore what you know as a player 😄)
I’ve killed her only once successfully in the tea house - it is doable but you need to use the wyvern poison
or other high damage scenarios ..speed pots, paladin wasn’t a class when I killed her.
But that’s once in 520 hours of early access - could try harder but kinda feels like cheating as player characters wouldn’t have any idea what she was going to do …
I didn't have enough potions of speed when I tried this , but I also didn't try it very often, for the same reason you stated.
Yesterday, I managed to save (or rather: not kill) three of Auntie Ethels slaves. But I hope we will be able to remove their masks on full release, maybe after knocking them out.
I love how Auntie Ethel is by far the most talkative corpse in the game. She doesn't seem to mind at all to talk to her killer - if that means that she has the possibility to mock us even postmortem 😄
I wonder if we will meet the other hag, M., in Baldur's Gate (at least I assume M. is a hag, too).
