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p* In ''The Fraternity of the Stone'', a monk notices that a mouse that he's been feeding has died. His food was poisoned along with everyone else's in the monastery--he's a former ProfessionalKiller who had a HeelFaithTurn and was the intended target.* ''Literature/ADearthOfChoice'': When the dungeon starts growing food crops, some of them turn out as normal high-quality plants, but others are corrupted by their high mana levels and the murderous System behind the dungeons, becoming rotten, toxic, diseased, or cursed with even nastier effects like turning people directly into undead. The dungeon assigns one of his minions to identifying and removing the dangerous plants, hoping to provide the healthy ones to the nearby village.

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p* * In ''The Fraternity of the Stone'', a monk notices that a mouse that he's been feeding has died. His food was poisoned along with everyone else's in the monastery--he's a former ProfessionalKiller who had a HeelFaithTurn and was the intended target.target.
* ''Literature/ADearthOfChoice'': When the dungeon starts growing food crops, some of them turn out as normal high-quality plants, but others are corrupted by their high mana levels and the murderous System behind the dungeons, becoming rotten, toxic, diseased, or cursed with even nastier effects like turning people directly into undead. The dungeon assigns one of his minions to identifying and removing the dangerous plants, hoping to provide the healthy ones to the nearby village.


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** A friendly(?) example happens in ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness''. Alanna can't sleep before her Ordeal of Knighthood, so George slips something into her drink that sees her pass out and get some rest.
** ''Literature/TheImmortals'' has this happen several times. When Numair dines at Dunlath, the mages serve him heavily-drugged wine. Expecting just such a trick, he uses sleight of hand to get rid of it. Kaddar has an enchanted bracelet that neutralizes drugs and poisons in his food and has saved his life five times by the time he explains it to Daine. [[spoiler: Ozorne feeds Daine pomegranate juice dosed with dreamrose to get her out of the way - he is [[AffablyEvil genuinely fond of her]], and thinks that their shared interest in his animals means she'll rapidly forget what he's doing to her human friends.]]
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* ''Literature/WeHaveAlwaysLivedInTheCastle'': The event that drives most of the plot involves a sugar bowl containing rather more arsenic than is traditional, which reduces the Blackwood family down to Merricat, Constance, and Uncle Julian, with the third only surviving the incident by a narrow margin. Constance was found innocent of the crime but is widely assumed to be responsible. [[spoiler:It was actually Merricat, who chose sugar because she knew Constance wouldn't have any at the fatal dish.]]

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