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<blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3670955" data-attributes="member: 13966">Very unlikely.&nbsp; Seeking out the item wouldn't be assisting in battle.&nbsp; It would not help the party win, help them escape, nor help them survive.&nbsp; It would only save them time after the battle, while leaving them to deal with the danger by themselves.&nbsp; Making noise is unlikely to work, especially not for more than 1 round.&nbsp; Very much not helpful if the opponents have been inside that building for a while and know that there's no one behind them in the house that would be interfering.&nbsp; Likely to be brushed off as a mage trying to fool them with pathetic illusions or something.Moving objects is going to be of limited usefulness, and Imps aren't terribly large or strong.&nbsp; And unlikely to be of much use, at most delaying an opponent for a round.&nbsp; And it depends on what's in the room to begin with.&nbsp; Very unlikely.&nbsp; I would very much doubt an imp to waste a healing potion on a mortal, let alone be carrying one himself to begin with, given his own fiendish defenses and Fast Healing.&nbsp; The imp could always turn invisible or take on an alternate form if it needed to get away and find a short reprieve to Fast Heal.Your alternatives are weak, poor choices for assisting in the battle, and seem more like grasping at straws.&nbsp; None would have bought the party more than 1 round of time to finish dealing with a single foe before another gets into melee, rather than just shooting or zapping them if possible.And none of them would be very assist-ingly useful.&nbsp; It would certainly be a weak, pathetic effort on the Imp's part to fulfill his end of the bargain, not likely to convince the PC adventurers that it really did intend to fulfill the bargain, rather than just use them to do all the fighting for it and help it out, rather than a mutual partnership.And you're still ignoring that it was apparently invisible until after the battle, or until the battle had started.&nbsp; Before then it was invisibly searching other parts of the house for its desired item, as the OP described it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arkhandus, post: 3670955, member: 13966"] Very unlikely. Seeking out the item wouldn't be assisting in battle. It would not help the party win, help them escape, nor help them survive. It would only save them time after the battle, while leaving them to deal with the danger by themselves. Making noise is unlikely to work, especially not for more than 1 round. Very much not helpful if the opponents have been inside that building for a while and know that there's no one behind them in the house that would be interfering. Likely to be brushed off as a mage trying to fool them with pathetic illusions or something. Moving objects is going to be of limited usefulness, and Imps aren't terribly large or strong. And unlikely to be of much use, at most delaying an opponent for a round. And it depends on what's in the room to begin with. Very unlikely. [I]I would very much doubt[/I] an imp to waste a healing potion on a mortal, [I]let alone be carrying one himself[/I] to begin with, given [B]his own fiendish defenses and Fast Healing[/B]. The imp could always turn invisible or take on an alternate form if it needed to get away and find a short reprieve to Fast Heal. Your alternatives are weak, poor choices for assisting in the battle, and seem more like grasping at straws. None would have bought the party more than 1 round of time to finish dealing with a single foe before another gets into melee, rather than just shooting or zapping them if possible. And none of them would be very assist-ingly useful. It would certainly be a weak, pathetic effort on the Imp's part to fulfill his end of the bargain, [I]not likely[/I] to convince the PC adventurers that it really did intend to fulfill the bargain, rather than just use them to do all the fighting for it and help [U][B]it[/B][/U] out, rather than a mutual partnership. And you're still ignoring that it was apparently invisible until after the battle, or until the battle had started. Before then it was invisibly searching other parts of the house for its desired item, as the OP described it. [/QUOTE]

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