Invigorating poison looks cool and is apparently pathfinder society legal.
The gist is, while under the effects of the spell, if you take a poison that would do ability damage, you instead get a +4 alchemist bonus to that ability. Cool, right? The next part is what I am unsure of. "The bonus lasts for a number of minutes equal to the amount of ability damage the poison would have caused."
What about a poison that causes damage over the course of several rounds? If a poison could do 1d2 STR damage a round for 6 rounds, do you take into account the damage it would have done on rounds 2-6 or just the 1d2 of the initial contact with the poison? I would assume you would just consider the first round. Am I right?
Furthermore, the spell says "When a poison would cause ability damage to the target creature" not "When afflicted with a poison that would cause ability damage." So does the spell negate the ability damage from the poison entirely or only take effect during the first instance of damage leaving you to suffer the ill effects for the next several rounds?
I was also wondering that.
When a poison would cause ability damage to the target creature, the target instead gains a +4 alchemical bonus to that ability score. The spell then immediately ends, but the bonus lasts for a number of minutes equal to the amount of ability damage the poison would have caused.
The first time poison would do ability damage to you, instead you get a bonus for that many rounds. Then the spell ends. If you're still poisoned, you may start taking ability damage as usual.