You can get chemical burns along your throat and stomach if you swallow lye.
try it both ways see what happens...
You Die
you die
pain
you die...
Nothing happens
When you boil gold in lye, it can react with the lye to form various gold compounds. The presence of lye can change the physical and chemical properties of gold, potentially leading to different colors or compounds being formed depending on the specific conditions of the reaction.
You burp bubbles
Lye mixed with water and clay, when dry, will produce a geoploymer. The lye solution converts the silica content of the clay into a silicate. AKA waterglass. When the mass I'd dried, the mass will harden into a stone.
It depends on how much you swallow. If it is a large amount, you could get diarrhea and/or vomit.
You'll choke and die
Your ink drys out.