The raisins are poisoned!!!

My friends please, if you are offered raisins by anyone do not take them. It is very possible for them to be laced with deadly poison.

With so many insects pouring through the gates recently... I don't think those were raisins, mate.

--Chet

Haven't raisins always been poison? They taste like it. Blech.

That would be due to the fact that raisins are toxic to cats, Dame Swift.

-Lucky

Everyone behold this fount of knowledge, right here. While he still has legs.

I'm feeling Lucky, are you?

-Lucky

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either. 'Course, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Catch my drift?

No such thing.

Oh good. Someone who understands the nature of luck. This will be fun then. Let the games begin.

-Lucky

Not enough for what comes next.

This one's been buying drinks the whole time and unsure why you thought Lucky's been nibbling the cat grass but enjoying the moment all the same.

--Chet

What if you were to soak raisins in water... until they plumped up.
Would it be cooking, botany, or necromancy?

I dare say, isn’t that fermentation of some sort?

Corpses bloat up in water, but that's not necromancy
Too simplistic for botany unless you were experimenting on the raisin
Must be cooking, plumping up food by soaking in water sounds like what one would do to rice, yes? Same principle.

Sad to say it's not fermentation. Boiling raisins doesn't make wine. It makes bigger raisins!

--Chet

A pity. A nice wine would have been a lovely outcome to this meandering of madness do you not think?

Meandering of madness usually follows a nice wine for me but nothing's stopping us from enjoying one here in the tavern.

Has anyone checked on Jardin, though? I really don't think what the boy chomped were raisins...

--Chet

Damn it, Moostrav.
Now I feel queasy. Yuck.

Hang on, what does Moostrav have to do with raisins? Even after quite a bit of rum, I realize I'm walking into a punchline.

--Chet

Is this where I put a post-script? Oh well. I forgot he posed the question about how to categorize boiling raisins.

Bigger raisins are good in oatmeal cookies.

High seller at the Fudgery, for sure.

--Chet

I was offered some raisins at the proper when I ate them I was clenched over sick..

I think they were actually poisoned. I still feel terrible...

Who offered them? We might have a case to investigate.

--Chet