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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 1591950" data-attributes="member: 9254">Same way chemists would create & contain toxic/explosive gases/fluids; use a water bath.  Take a bucket and stick it in a swimming pool.  Submerge it so it's full.  Invert the bucket.  Now lift it so the bottom of the bucket is out of the pool but the mouth isn't.  The bucket is now full of water.  Now run your tubing into the bucket through the pool.  You can now fill the bucket with a dangerous substance without exposing it to air.  Seal tightly while underwater, possibly by using hot water and low-temperature wax.  If alchemist fire is denser than water fill your flasks with water and pump the AF into the bottom of the flask until *almost* all the water is out.  Seal and breathe a sigh of relief.  On to more important things....I generally disagree with the currrent design of the KoAF.  Right now it's a direct target weapon.  Bad idea.  Plan it to be catapult/trebuchet ammo.  Wrap a rope around it so that when fired at a certain distance the barrel's key linchpins come undone.  A pint of oil can cover a 5' square and do d3 damage for 2 rounds.  Oil is listed as doing the same as AF in direct mode, so we can assume AF does the same as oil in indirect mode.  That means the  50 gallon barrel covers 400 5' squares, inflicting d3 damage over 2 rounds.  Being on fire, the units now have to run in circles to put out the flames.   Poof, there's one cavalry charge that just dissolved and something on the order of 5% of an siege force that's at ~50% hp and thoroughly demoralized.  Of course I'd make it 49 gallons regular oil and 1 gallon AF, using the AF just to set the oil on fire.  It's much cheaper and far less dangerous.  Use the spare thousands of gold to buy silk rope so the barrel keeps a good range.  Or find a clockmaker and build a centrifigul mechanism than kicks open the barrel after so many revolutions.  Or just keep a low-grade cleric around with Shatter to blow up the barrel in mid-air.</blockquote>

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