<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=204281.msg10280506#msg10280506">Quote from: Rhedyn on 20-07-2014, 17:33:16</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Can Baba use his wind-wise trait to help by sniffing the air for scents in relation to the peddlers whereabouts?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Possibly. Keep in mind it's raining, and rain washes scent out of the air. I think Baba could suggest it, everyone has a sniff, and that's enough to make the Wise qualify as help on the test.<br/><hr/>I think we've decided that a Scout Test by Lea is the way to go. Let's go over the mechanics for that briefly:<br/><br/>A Scout test is usually a Versus Test between someone searching (Lea) and someone hiding (the grain peddler). In a Versus Test, Scout tests against Nature, so Lea will have her Skill level (4), plus any Help from her comrades (that's us!) in the form of helping Skills and Wises, plus any of Lea's own Traits or Wises that might assist her in the test, versus the grain peddler's Nature (6).<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Help</span><br/>The characters who aren't Lea can help her in this test if they have helping skills or wises, and they apply to the situation. As players, we need to describe how what our character is actually doing is helping, like Rhedyn did above. In this case, DeeDee can help using her Pathfinder skill, which is a skill that helps Scout, Baba can help with Wind-wise, which Rhedyn described above, and Mawgwa can help with his Pathfinder skill and/or Rain-wise. But more than having the skills and wises to help, we have to describe what our character does to actually benefit the situation.<br/><br/>Rhedyn has started to do that above. She's stated she thinks Baba has a Wise that will help, and how. Now she needs to put that idea into action, possibly in the way I suggested (Baba orders everyone to have a sniff), or in another way of her choosing. As long as the table agrees that the action would be beneficial to the situation, it counts.<br/><br/>As the next step in that example, I'm going to suggest that Mawgwa's Rain-wise would help because he can tell that certain low laying areas are becoming too wet, flooded, and frozen to travel on. Therefore, we're pretty sure the grain peddler couldn't have gone that way. As long as no one really objects to this application of Rain-wise, it will provide help to Lea in her test in the form of one bonus die to her skill test roll.<br/><br/>So Josi and Rhedyn, do you want DeeDee and/or Baba to help in this test? If so, how?<br/><br/>For anyone, do you think Mawgwa's Rain-wise doesn't apply? Say so, poking holes in my reasoning if you like so I can try to persuade you with further discussion.<br/><br/>Eventually, this process will become sort of second-nature to us so we won't have to go through it so thoroughly, but we'll take things slow and deliberate for now until we get the hang of it.