The Toxicant - how quick is its poison?


Rules Questions


The toxicant alchemist archetype gets the ability to secrete poison from her skin and gather it up to apply it to weapons:

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As a swift action, the toxicant can collect and concentrate this secretion into a poison she can deliver as a touch attack or apply to a weapon. Targets of such attacks must attempt saving throws as if they had touched the toxicant’s toxic secretion. The toxicant can do this a number of times per day equal to her alchemist level + her Intelligence modifier.

I'm not sure exactly how to read the ability, though.

A) Does it allow her to create a dose of poison in item form, which can then be applied like any other poison (or put in a backpack for later use)?

B) Or does it take the toxicant one swift action to poison her weapon, allowing her to use a standard and move action in the same round?

C) If delivering the poison as a touch attack, does that take another standard action, or is it included in the swift action?

D) Are A and B mutually exclusive?

Finally, how does it interact with certain alchemist discoveries? Does Sticky Poison essentially make the secretion usable IntMod^2 per day? Does Malignant Poison allow the toxicant to take a full-round action to boost the secretion ability for 10+ minutes? Does Concentrate Poison work at all?

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