"'Smoothest death experience I've had so far, would recommend to other people'?"

"No, like, this was a great boat tour and totally not a trap, you should also go on it. Except not those exact words because that's incredibly sus."

... making a plausibly deniable suspicious review would be a way to warn people without getting in a fight. It's a bit under handed for his tastes, but it would work. "Sure."

"Have a sign." 

If it's too suspicious Bacon will just break the sign. Not much risk here.

He puts down a sign that says "lovely building. Reasonable price."

“Okay, well, we didn’t actually sell you a building, even if we took you on the actual boat tour there wasn’t any, um, buildings for sale, but you know what, that’s fine.”

"I can specify the price is for the tour."

“We literally did not charge you anything for the— like I said, it’s fine. Thanks for the, uh, review.”

"You're welcome." And with that he leaves. 

(Bacon does break the sign after he leaves. It is really not a good review. This is the risk you take when asking people you just killed to leave you a review.)

He could, hypothetically, come back and leave more signs.

...covering spawn in signs probably won't help. 

He goes back to mining. He is slowly getting something that approximates full gear and so, so much stone.

(He's been taking Guenhwyvar mining with him. It's risky, but the trustworthy company is good.)

The death messages trickle in throughout the day: Rekrap, Terrain, Mr. Cube. Not quite five, in total, but the word must have spread enough after that; there aren't any more death messages.

It's a shame the boat tour wasn't real. That would have been fun. 

He continues mining. 

He's going to have to work what his principles mean in a world where you can die without being killed. They can't be meaningless, just-- if death means something different, how he feels about those he deal death must be different.

A few days pass. A large sandstone-and-birch church is built at spawn, or at least its facade; it's empty, for now. A new business, too: the APO, founded and run by Leowook, one of the people Drizzt hasn't talked to. One block of each ore--including diamond and netherite--for a membership.

And a couple days after that:

Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: hey
Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: can we talk

Drizzt whispers to mapicc: why

Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: i wont kill unless you do

Drizzt: I don't want to kill you

(He has to think for a moment about it.)

Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: meet at spawn
Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: meet at spawn
Mapicc whispers to Drizzt: meet at spawn

Drizzt whispers to mapicc: en route.

He goes to spawn.

Mapicc waves him over. "...Hey. I'm, uh, not mad or anything, if I was I could've told Parrot about--" Vague gesture. Some things you shouldn't say at spawn. "I actually thought we should bring you in on Medusa but Ro said he didn't know you well enough, which was, like, fair."

"I wouldn't have wanted to be in Medusa," he snaps.

Okay, so Ro was right, Mapicc doesn't say, even though it's his first instinct. Nor does he say we know about Guen, you wouldn't have had much choice in the matter, even though realistically it would've been true. Believe it or not, Roshambo, he is capable of being diplomatic. Sort of. Sometimes.

Instead, he puts his hands up. "Dude, chill out! Fuck, dude, if you want to be enemies we can be, whatever, but I was hoping we didn't have to be."

"I would also like to not be enemies. Why do you want to talk to me."

"So that we can, like, be allies? Leo's doing this whole thing with the APO, it's suuuuuper sus, and you're cool and a good fighter and shit, I wanted to see if we could, like... be allies again." Friends is probably pushing it.

...Right. He's played this game many times before, and if he agreed, it wouldn't be the first time he was stabbed in the back by it.  "Can you give me a good reason to trust you that the APO is a problem?"