Descent into the Underdark

Shops sell at Normal and buy at cheap. Assume everything is on hand.
Just list items sold and bought with a total

Is the whip ranged?

Are you able to use the heavy armor, and is it better than the Venombane armor you have on right now?

Oh right, no, I don’t have the Armored trait yet. Thanks though.

Armor is just a conduit for magic. So, having magic armor is better than having mundane armor.

To get the benefit of extra HP for armor, you need to take proficiency. First medium armor proficiency, then heavy armor proficiency. That takes a total of 12 XP (6 XP each) to gain.

Now, whether your magic armor counts as "medium" or "heavy" is up to the GM, but he's been rather flexible thus far. So, no, it isn't worth it for Andor to spend any money on armor, particularly since he has magic armor.

A much better spend would be ditch his piddly little low-class sling and get a big ole impressive bow!

Or a crossbow ;)

i can’t wait to see what you do with so much wine!

Nothing mysterious. Make alcohol for our fire raid plan, only that. And Oliver needs Duende hands (specifically) to help carry the barrel as well.

Reading back over this from the split. Assuming 1 down day in the base then of the the next. If you let me know the plan of action I can drop the intro for you to play off while I play catch-up.

You trying to make a fire with wine? Other alcohols would be better. Wine does not burn very well. Not a high enough Alcohol %

@Smiley, which beverage would be more reasonable within our world? I'll add your advice in the narration as having come from Ishzu. Easy explanation is that he has learned stuff while helping peasants.

Whiskey would be my first guest. Beer, Wine, and Mead don't have high enough Alcohol % to burn. Whiskey should. They higher the Proof the better. Dwarven Fire Whiskey should work. (If it is a thing.)

I mean, I'm distillating it anyway (Alchemy) so the final result will be actual alcohol anyway. Just the quantity would vary

Wine is around 10-12% and whiskeys are 40-50%. However, Oliver wouldn't know this and would likely go for whiskey based on Ishzu's advice unless it's criminally expensive

As a non-alcoholic drink type person this is my understanding. Basically the "hard liquor" is more flammable. Vodka being generally over 100 proof, over 50%, alcohol is one of the more volatile. While beer, ale, mead, and wine have some it isn't considered much.
As an alchemist it would be known that oil based materials are best. Naphtha is a historical term used to apply to most of these fluids. There are some variations that burn hotter, are very sticky, more explosive, etc. Ex recipe: mix tar, oil, fat, crushed linseed, and stir in rough help fiber, place in clay/glass/wax sealed cask container = sticky fire bomb that burns for 3 rounds(vial) or 1 minute(mug sized jar) or 10 minutes(large jar or small cask)