Trivial Tasks are Boring

Talk to Research Intern Cory at the First Square in the Mine.

Cory says he's extremely bored, because all the fun experiments go to senior researchers, leaving him with only the trivial tasks no one else wants to do. He wants you to be his puppet and put yourself in the abnormal status he names...

If he says Poison, then you get poisoned, and if he says Curse, then you get cursed and come back to him. All the abnormal status potions are in Cory's laboratory, so go and drink the potion according to the abnormal status he names.

You find this to be a pretty strange way to entertain...

You sacrificed yourself and became whichever abnormal status Cory named. Cory was entertained, but you wondered what was so enjoyable about it...