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Big_Bob posted...

Perhaps an undisclosed amount of time passed after Kefka poisoned it, and by the time Cyan noticed the water's color, too many people had already drunk it (which is likely what would happen in real life).

This is how I took the scene, or at least the explanation that makes the most sense.

I feel like games in that era would sometimes have weird things like that, where they expected you to use your imagination to make it work. In FF4, your characters would swing weapons nowhere near the enemy and hit them, heh.