The Taster

Whoever poisons him kills her first.

52 turns4 endings

Six nights before the treaty is signed, they take a poisoner's daughter out of the Salt Keep's gaol and stand her at the Regent's elbow to drink from every cup before he does. His last taster died at that table and nobody will say of what. The first night's wine is bitter, the whole court is watching, and she has to decide with the cup still in her mouth whether to say so.

4 authored endings — reach any and their Ever After opens.

The premise

4 authored endings — reach any and their Ever After opens.

The love interest

Tavian Mor

Regent of the Keep · ruthless power, used to obedience

Nine years he has held the Salt Keep and the cisterns under it, and the court has learned to move before he finishes a sentence. He lifts his cup last, and nobody eats until he does.

Tavian Mor's Ever After opens at any ending.

Reach any ending of The Taster and it opens for good — free. It remembers what you actually did.

At a glance

Length: 52 turns
Endings: 4
Heat: Open Door
Shelf: Fantasy
Setting: Fantasy World
Rating: Mature

Written in-house, played end to end before it reached the shelf.

How it opens

The hall is full and nobody is eating.

Your place is above the salt, at the Regent's right elbow, close enough to smell the wax on his chain. The chair on his other side is empty and has been for a month. At the far end of the board the ambassador sits with his hands folded, watching the cups come up, and the steward who took you out of the gaol stands behind the Regent's shoulder like a man waiting on weather. …

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