Comment on [Episode] The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 • Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 3rd Season - Episode 3 discussion
Unboxious@ani.social 3 days ago
It’s incredibly unclear to me what someone could hope to accomplish by wandering around and poisoning random poor people. Imagine that you only have one life and this is what you choose to do with it.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
My guess is that it’s a form of test run backed by someone with political designs on the throne. Given that there’s a famine in progress, a supply of grain contaminated with ergot could wreak some pretty serious havoc, but they may have wanted to know exactly how much damage it would do before deploying it.