I am suddenly reminded of something that happened in Neopets way back in the day: an entire town was scammed into buying some "snake oil" potion that solved all their problems, but in the long run turned them into monsters; to combat the effect, they resorted to being enchanted by a forest spirit and entered a state of barely existing -- like spectres that only appeared once a year, iirc -- but not before chasing away Bruno, the guy who'd first bought the potion and told everyone about it. In the end everyone could be turned back to normal except for him, because he hadn't been enchanted and the potion effect had become permanent.



That was what, 12 years ago? Tale of Woe sure was something.