# Killing snakes
**URL:** https://forum.menagerie.team/t/killing-snakes/1155
**Category:** Root
**Created:** [November 1, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/killing-snakes/1155 "2022-11-01T19:11:12Z")
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### Author:  [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/killing-snakes/1155/1 "2022-11-01T19:11:12Z")
They have to eat. They’ll hunt for food via senses, probably including scent. Alchemy and medicine and hunting can let us lay a trap. The snake eats the bait, and either poison or explosives do the job.
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### Author:  [@garrett](https://forum.menagerie.team/u/garrett)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2022, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.menagerie.team/t/killing-snakes/1155/2 "2022-11-01T19:38:10Z")
What’s the payoff?
- Public gratitude for eliminating a major hazard - this might come in the form of Value from individual merchants, or reputation with factions who do a lot of overland shipping (or who use boats and are attacked by water snakes?)
- Notoriety from the Lizard Cult for killing a symbol of their god
- If we haul the corpse into a clearing and make an announcement or post a manifesto, it can be seen as a defiant challenge against the power of one or more factions - “we can take on big scary threats like this, and we can take you on too”