The Cask of Amontillado Rule

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How long would suffocation in there take? Might not be too bad tbh

Depending on how well it's sealed you might die of dehydration first

I would think this.

They didn't have exactly airtight building skills. So it'd be something from three days to a week probably.

In the real story the walls were covered in arsenic (?) also the executee has sensitive lungs so not long.

What's the story?

Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Cask of Amontillado. Flippant internet synopsis: A guy builds a wall and his friend pays for it.

Air holes will extend the time to days instead of hours.

A giant hampster bottle of water will extend the time to weeks instead of days.