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You retrieve the Graveweed Concentrate from your pack and pour it carefully over the slices of cold meat. Then you cover the meat with vegetables, to help mask its bitter taste, and carry the tray to the guards on duty at the Rune Hall. They prop their halberds against the wall and raise the visors of their helmets as you approach.
‘Where’s Gragov?’ asks a guard, as you set the tray of food down on a small table beside the door.
‘He’s gone sick,’ you reply.
‘I hope it wasn’t something he ate!’ jokes his comrade.
You can hear the guards eating their food as you walk back along the corridor towards the iron stairs. When you reach the bottom step, you wait here to allow the potion to take effect. After a few minutes you hear a metallic crash, and when you peer over the top step, you see that the graveweed has done its work. The lifeless bodies of the guards lie heaped before the Rune Hall door.
