In that case I want to outright reward him.

You either need containment measures sophisticated enough to have a release mechanism after deployment, so it's a little more complicated that just designing a more resilient casing, or you need to make it less volatile before detonation.

He has so far figured out neither, but then again, he's not an engineer. Ask Beryl to play sheepdog next month and figure one or both out.
 
You either need containment measures sophisticated enough to have a release mechanism after deployment, so it's a little more complicated that just designing a more resilient casing, or you need to make it less volatile before detonation.

He has so far figured out neither, but then again, he's not an engineer. Ask Beryl to play sheepdog next month and figure one or both out.
What is he working with?
 
I'm hoping for a powerful explosive binary compound.

We can call it Denysitite. Denysium? Book Juice?

I wouldn't use it for controlled demolitions or mining. But if you want to weaken armor plating through a combination of kinetic force (normal materials) and extreme corrosion (more enduring kinds), go fucking wild.
 
It has to be something from the Plane of Earth, and it is acidic in composition... somewhat. Or byproducts become corrosive.

It also reacts violently to heat.
That's true for a host of compounds.

The most hilarious one would be to investigate the effects of a mix of sulfuric acid and nitric acid on organic compounds.
 
I wouldn't use it for controlled demolitions or mining. But if you want to weaken armor plating through a combination of kinetic force (normal materials) and extreme corrosion (more enduring kinds), go fucking wild.
Ok, if you want an explosive that leaves acidic residue, you need fluoride compounds. Or, as the chemist calls them, "fuck no".
 
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@DragonParadox, when is Dany back from the Astral Plane?

Dany can apply mental spells in the dreamlands which carries over to the physical world. Normally, I would not risk this, but we have a piece of it and a staff of greater cursing.

Or just use Vision of Doom to cast anything 6th level and under, it's a little less subtle but if it sticks it really doesn't matter and if we had failed they'd have known anyway.

Actually, @DragonParadox does a creature that passes it's save know it passed a save? That makes certain spells all but useless but if so it'd be nice to know.
 
Ok, if you want an explosive that leaves acidic residue, you need fluoride compounds. Or, as the chemist calls them, "fuck no".

The actual corrosion is obviously magical. This is Alchemy. So the damage is less typed Acid damage because it is leaving behind acidic residue, and more typed Acid damage because it is literally dealing elemental damage and one of the added effects of the bomb is converting part of the damage rolled into Acid.
 
Under the code name N-Stoff ("substance N"), chlorine trifluoride was investigated for military applications by the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Nazi Germany not long before the start of World War II. Tests were made against mock-ups of the Maginot Line fortifications, and it was found to be an effective combined incendiary weapon and poison gas. From 1938, construction commenced on a partly bunkered, partly subterranean 14,000 m2munitions factory, the Falkenhagen industrial complex, which was intended to produce 90 tonnes of N-Stoff per month, plus sarin. However, by the time it was captured by the advancing Red Army in 1945, the factory had produced only about 30 to 50 tonnes, at a cost of over 100 German Reichsmark per kilograma. N-Stoff was never used in war.[19][20]

Hello.
 
Okay so should we requisition a healer for this man who is about to work with this hilariously volatile compound? Or has got that covered?

He's not completely helpless.

And for whatever he can't heal himself, he's got a Divine caster nearby for. Usually.

Edit: Also, he probably wouldn't work with any great quantity of dangerous substances without reasonable safety measures in place. For something like the above suggestions, probably more than he has on hand at the moment anyway.
 
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It's reacting violently with water, can set asbestos on fire and produces bone and nerve dissolving fluorine compounds while burning.

It's basically what Wildfyre wants to be when it grows up.

Labeled "break out in case you start thinking Wildfyre isn't horrifying enough to waste on your enemies".

To be clear, Denys thinks having weapons that can melt through thick armor is perfectly reasonable a concern to have. He has seen supernaturally thick endoskeletons before. He does not want to imagine going through life not being able to avoiding having to mine through bug armor (or battleship plate) with swords and axes. That's for primitives.

But he would draw the line at dropping chemical weapons on populated areas. And would hesitate before using them on anything but hosts of fiends.

It's not a completely rational progression of logic, since he would reluctantly admit dropping Alchemist's Fire on an enemy army has tactical advantages little different from firing vollys of pointy objects at men packed together, with the added virtue of being able to cook men in heavier armor alive.
 
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Speaking of wildfire, @Crake, would Denys like a few dozen bombs of the stuff?

No, he got his start reading some of the shit those crazy hacks wrote. He doesn't want anything to do with the stuff. He also tries not think about Aerys considering who he serves.

If someone suggests he uses it, he will start thinking about Aerys again.
 
Speaking of wildfire, @Crake, would Denys like a few dozen bombs of the stuff?
Bombs made by the Alchemist PC class are magical concoctions they charge immediately prior to throwing, IIRC. They're safe until used.

I would be extremely leery of giving Denys Wildfire bombs, though. The stuff is stupidly volatile.
 
No, he got his start reading some of the shit those crazy hacks wrote. He doesn't want anything to do with the stuff. He also tries not think about Aerys considering who he serves.

If someone suggests he uses it, he will start thinking about Aerys again.
While I get where he's coming from, the Alchemist's Guild had a botched version which was largely responsible for the volatility.

We have an improved version from the Uniila.
 
It's reacting violently with water, can set asbestos on fire and produces bone and nerve dissolving fluorine compounds while burning.

It's basically what Wildfyre wants to be when it grows up.
For when you need to set things more on fire. I think pretty much nobody wants to work with this stuff, since it can burn concrete.
 
Bombs made by the Alchemist PC class are magical concoctions they charge immediately prior to throwing, IIRC. They're safe until used.

I would be extremely leery of giving Denys Wildfire bombs, though. The stuff is stupidly volatile.
Standard wildfire, yes.

But like I said, we have the formula for an improved variant.
 
While I get where he's coming from, the Alchemist's Guild had a botched version which was largely responsible for the volatility.

We have an improved version from the Uniila.

*Wildfyre is volatile, uncontrollable, and Searing, making it twice as painful, which while useful when battling some enemies that you want to try scorched earth tactics with (Deep Ones, etc) is gratuitously cruel when used on peasant levies or armsmen or whoever else.

Moreover, Wildfyre specifically bears a stigma because of Aerys' actions. It is a can of worms neither Viserys nor Denys want to touch.
 
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Alchemist's fire is volatile, uncontrollable, and Searing, making it twice as painful, which while useful when battling some enemies that you want to try scorched earth tactics with (Deep Ones, etc) is gratuitously cruel when used on peasant levies or armsmen or whoever else.

Moreover, Wildfyre specifically bears a stigma because of Aerys' actions. It is a can of worms neither Viserys nor Denys want to touch.
First off, nobody is suggesting using this on the NPC armies. This is the kind of weapon reserved for supernatural foes, like the armies of the Others or the Legions of Hell or whatnot.

Second, while wildfire does have a very unfortunate stigma that would make people uncomfortable, with Viserys at least that does not mean he's unwilling to research it. He sanctioned the construction of the Harbinger with a heart of wildfire. He specifically looked through the Tome of the Cabal Devil for the Superior Wildfire Formula, and he found it.

If Denys is unwilling to further research here we can assign the project to someone else. There is more than enough for him to do without needing to bother him with this.
 
First off, nobody is suggesting using this on the NPC armies. This is the kind of weapon reserved for supernatural foes, like the armies of the Others or the Legions of Hell or whatnot.

Second, while wildfire does have a very unfortunate stigma that would make people uncomfortable, with Viserys at least that does not mean he's unwilling to research it. He sanctioned the construction of the Harbinger with a heart of wildfire. He specifically looked through the Tome of the Cabal Devil for the Superior Wildfire Formula, and he found it.

If Denys is unwilling to further research here we can assign the project to someone else.

The Harbinger is fairly special, but it's also a heavily engineered magical construct which can turn off its flame aura at will. That level of control implies careful thought put into the Wildfyre item's application.

And yes, the rest of the stuff is just reasons a person who is specifically trying not to think about horrifying past events by deflecting with rationality would present. Denys isn't aware that we have an enhanced version of Wildfyre. He is only familiar with the volatile variety. Everything about it has icky implications.
 
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