Poisoning pots: am I missing something?

[Bloque Cerveau]

So I'm eager to try it out and and poison the Cuman camp near Uhshitz (early game, only activities and side quests done after the prologue). I read it works to drop Bane potion into the pot, and so did it. I lied in wait for a long while (pretty sure at least 4 characters ate the stew), skipped time, came back the following day... all of them are alive and with no sign of ailing... What's the catch here? Do I need to pour several potions into the pot for it to kill those guys? Or are Cumans poison sponges ? ^^

[Lieste]

If you watch them eat the stew in real time it definitely works. Skipping time or moving too far away might be the problem here if it reduces the LOD for AI sufficiently to break cause/effect on food/sleep/poison.

I haven't mapped the 'edges' of this, as I like to watch them eat and then move in later, so don't see it failing, but this is the 'shape' of the problem I might expect to see if I were to do so.

[breversa]

Confirmed :
If you drop the poison, then wait for the ennemies to eat from the cauldron (night sentries eat at 6, day enemies at 8 ; also later but cannot be more precise) WITHOUT skipping time or reloading a save, then they'll die 1-2 minutes after having put their empty bowl on the pile. :-)

[Bloque Cerveau]

Thanks guys for your input. It did work on another attempt. Neutralized the sentry, dragged him into the bushes to curb-stomp him American History X style, then poisoned. One first guy died at dawn just 3-4 minutes after eating. I had to withdraw a bit as his mates started to beat the bushes, came back 2 game hours later and found two corpses ripe for the plundering. Didn't wait for the others to come back. I guess the camp will respawn anyway. Very satisfying all :-)

Still puzzled at why it didn't work the first time. Oh well...