Scent Trail
Leave trail for allies to follow.
- School
- Transmutation
- Casting Time
- 1 standard action
- Range
- Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
- Target
- —
- Duration
- 1 hour/level
- Saving Throw
- Fortitude negates (harmless)
- Spell Resistance
- No
- Components
- V S M
You, or a willing creature you touch, lay down a trail of scents that only the creatures you designate at the time of casting can detect. These creatures find it very easy to follow this trail. They gain a +20 competence bonus on any Survival checks made for the purpose of tracking the creature laying this trail. Subject creatures with the scent special ability gain a +10 competence bonus on Wisdom or Survival checks to follow the trail.
In addition, you can leave scent messages along the trail. Each word or emotion in this message requires spending a move action in the same spot. Subject creatures seeking to understand this message must make another DC 20 Survival check, with a –1 penalty for every word or emotion in the message, in order to understand it. Creatures cannot benefit from this smell if they cannot use, or do not have, a sense of smell. Creatures can use this spell to backtrack through a dungeon, maze, or similar areas even if the creature laying down the trail crossed over the spot multiple times.