Sense Life's Slippage

Sense Life's Slippage Mystic Proficiency (Awareness) 800 hours Requires: Vampiric Blood

Your senses are attuned to that substance required to sustain both life and unlife—blood. You are able to smell blood exposed to the air at about 20 paces on a simple skill check—reduced for greater distance, and increased for greater quantity. Additional checks allow you to sense the species of the spilled blood, or to determine if the bleeder is living. For example, Raven can successfully smell spilled blood with a skill check of 10 or higher; he suffers a -8 penalty, however, since the blood is 50 yards away. Another successful check (as Raven wisely draws closer to avoid the penalty) reveals that the blood is Human, and a third check enables him to sniff out that the source of the blood is a slowly cooling dead body—shame. Note that this skill only applies to relatively fresh blood—still at least somewhat fluid. Clotted or otherwise dried blood does not have an appreciable odour for purposes of this skill (it does still stink, however, but does not excite a Vampire's mystic senses).