This is the best adventurer.
ACT THE FIRST:
Tavern-goer A: "Did you hear about the magic ring?"
Tavern-goer B: "The horribly cursed one?"
Tavern-goer A: "Yeah, that's the one. They say if you wear it, it transforms you uncontrollably until you die."
Budding Adventurer: "Horribly cursed? Woo! I bet someone would pay a fortune for that!"
Tavern-goer B: "Uh, yeah, I remember the story about old Sal the Miser, how he collected treasure until one day he got that ring. He wanted to be able to turn into a dragon to guard his treasure, but eventually it turned him into a fish and he suffocated. After that, they used his treasure to build an enormous crypt to the north, and seal away the ring so no one would ever touch it again."
Tavern-goer A: "Yeah, but did you hear? Lemmy the Priest says that its evil energies have been seeping out and attracting vicious monsters from all over the land! You'd have to be insane to go in there now!"
Budding Adventurer: "Man, my bar tab is nigh-unpayable! I'd better go in there and risk horrible death to grab the item nobody in their right minds would pay me for! I think I'll need protection, though... I know! I'll wear my bathrobe!"
Tavern-goer B: "Oh yeah, by the way, happy birthday! Here!"
Budding Adventurer: (Is rickscrolled) "We'll see who's laughing when I get that horribly cursed object!"
ACT THE SECOND:
Budding Adventurer: "Hah! I knew making that scroll sing continuously would keep the monsters from approaching me! Of course, I'm completely insane now, but eh-! The ring is mine!"
Spirit 1: "Beware!"
Spirit 2: "Don't touch it!"
Spirit 3: "Horror awaits you!"
Budding Adventurer: "Hey! I just had a great idea! I'll give this horribly cursed ring to the girl I wanna impress! Who needs to pay his creditors when he's getting nookie?"
Spirit 1: "You... you can hear us, right? Right?!?
Budding Adventurer: "Sure I can! What's your point?"
Spirit 2: "We are the souls of those who possessed the ring before you. We remain bound to it forever, an unending torment, our only respite being the knowledge that we can warn away others, so that they might not share our fate."
Budding Adventurer: "Sorry, what was that? I was too busy putting on the horribly cursed ring! It fits! I can tell by the excruciating pain!"
Spirit 3: (Ethereal facepalms)