Scent Trail

Abjuration ([[[]]]) [[[[]]]]

Level: Druid 2

Casting Casting Time 1 Standard Action Components V S M F DF Effect Range Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Area One creature/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart Duration 1 hour/level, D, P Saving Throw Fortitude negates (harmless) Resistance Yes

Description

You, or a willing creature you touch, lay down a trail of scents that only the creatures you designate at the time of 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.

This spell can be made permanent.