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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacConnell" data-source="post: 7249924" data-attributes="member: 6855223">Day 122: Testing Ones Own Skills[gm][ooc]Sense Life:Range: Touch (deliberate)Effectiveness:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Essence + Adhesion +</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mind + Knowledge + Will +</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collegiate</li> </ul>This is a modification of the skill used to determine if an item can augment the natural abilities of the possessor or if another being can manipulate way.[/ooc]Not knowing what to expect, Saemund begins by attempting to sense the life force in a tree as it can be sensed in a person. The tree is obviously alive and growing but whatever makes it so must be different than that of people for no Essence exists as part of the tree. The Way lines pass through the tree and affect it but it has all the practical function of clothing on a person, which is not part of that person.[/gm][gm][ooc]Sense Mind:Range: Touch (deliberate)Effectiveness:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Essence + Cohesion +</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mind + Knowledge + Persona +</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collegiate</li> </ul>This is a modification of the task that detects a specific type of animal in that it is being used to detect for functional intellect, something that is known in people and animals.[/ooc]As he is touching the tree, Saemund senses intellects, but they are all belonging to other things upon and even within the tree. There are insects and worms, tiny reptiles, and even a bird that remains unseen, but the tree itself exhibits no form of intellect.Saemund deduces that whatever causes life to exist within the tree, he can only measure it in terms of total body. It has health and strength and limited motility. Though the tree can feel the presence of creature upon it, there is apparently no way for it to communicate such other than by the release of pheromones, which people cannot even smell.[/gm][gm]Not at all feeling discouraged having gained some knowledge, Saemund uses his skill to manipulate way in order to leave a desired function in a particular place.He will later come to know that the process is called imbuing which creates a standing node in the natural flux of the existing Way lines.Try as he might he cannot determine how to cause his manipulation to remain. It unravels in a matter of seconds. Perhaps, he thinks, there is some skill I am yet missing or am not yet adept enough to perform correctly.[/gm][gm]Party XP will be awarded for these efforts.[/gm]</blockquote>

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