Nauseating Flesh (Discovery)

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It is widely rumored that alchemists taste terrible, and this is the sort of lore that most alchemists heartily encourage. In some cases, it is even actually true...

Ability Type: Ex

Prerequisites: Alchemist 16

Benefit: The alchemist's body is suffused with poison. Any creature that bites, engulfs, or swallows the alchemist must make a Fortitude saving throw against a DC of (10 + half the alchemist's class level + INT modifier) or become Sickened until the start of that creature's next turn. Unlike the normal sickened condition, it cannot be made worse through just any bite, swallow, or engulf action the creature performs, only by those made against the alchemist with this discovery.

If a creature already sickened by the alchemist's nauseating flesh bites the alchemist again or continues to swallow or engulf them, that creature must make a new save each subsequent bite (or each subsequent round if swallowing or engulfing) or become Nauseated until the start of the creature's next turn, instead. Nauseated creatures who have swallowed or engulfed the alchemist will eject them immediately upon becoming Nauseated.

Creatures immune to poison are immune to all of these effects.

Note: In the unlikely event (well... let's say 'in the event') that the alchemist with this discovery feels a need to eat their own flesh for some reason, they are not affected by the harmful effects of their own nauseating flesh, though it still tastes quite horrible. Not that THAT is any excuse not to complete their experiments.