Members of St. Cyrils Polyhedronic Society would from time to time engage in a strange ritualpart initiation and part parlor gamecalled Breath of the Medusa. The elder deacons would take turns drinking from a ceremonial dram a chartreuse liquid rumored to be ancient blood stolen from the beheaded gorgon. If one was worthy, he would survive the test; if not, he would be petrified from the inside out.
