Hellfire

At reference 497, it says. "You don't know how or why, but something is causing it imense pain! You are then quickly reminded of certain stories regarding the thing you now face, one of which concerns a rare poison which is meant to hurt it terribly just by being near it! You wonder which of your items may have just saved you..." which item is it?

I'm trying to remember if there was anything else that I'd stumbled upon that could have had that effect. As I was playing it, I remember thinking the belladonna must've the item that saved me from that fight. If there was a use for it elsewhere, I must not have taken that route. I'm not positive on that though. (If you remember, you retrieved that in the only junction I can remember where you went south. The one where you use the candle to avoid falling into all those pits, right around the area where you encounter the bear and the crystal warrior.).

I read the text version and it mentioned a 'wooden chalice'

I'm pretty sure there's a werewolf in there some where

the correct charm, 5 different pieces of armour plus the right weapon, and three different spells, some of which HAVE to be used at exactly correct paragraph and absolutely nowhere else. And that's not to mention the various items required to "shortcut" or lessen the difficulty of some of the extremely difficult combats.

the ending is such a downer. For such a difficult adventure, it's kind of... "your reward for finally puzzling out this devilishly difficult book is... eternal damnation..." Yay, for your pains, you now get to revel in a distinct feeling of horrible failure :/

damn shop keeper and your door monster!