Healing Arts

Scholarly

This skill may only be purchased once.

Requires skill: Educated

Requires skill: FirstAid

This skill represents checking pulse and otherwise examining the body and it cannot be done instantly. To use this skill, the person must touch the subject and role- play an examination. The amount of time it takes to perform the examination is determined by the length of the questions being asked but in no case less than three seconds. A player who is being given having Healing Arts preformed on them and does not wish to have body contact must tell the player with the Healing Arts skill. This does not mean the Healing Arts is being refused in-game. Before asking any questions, you must say “Healing Arts” so that the recipient is aware that the questions being asked are not actually being said in-game and thus must be answered. Since these are out-of-game questions, they can be asked and answered while under the effects of a Silence. These out-of-game questions can only include the following: - How many Body Points are you down? - Were you damaged by edged weapons or claws? - Were you damaged by blunt weapons? - Are you diseased? - Are you sleeping? - Are you paralyzed? - Are you drained? - Are you regenerating? - Are you unconscious? - Are you bleeding out? - Are you dead? - How much time until you <wake up, become conscious, stop being diseased, become unparalyzed, die, resurrect>? A player representing a permanently dead body should respond to “Are you Dead?” with “yes,” and “How long until you resurrect?” with either “Never” or “Not applicable”. If this skill is used to ask an inexplicable answer (such as asking a living person “How long until you resurrect?”), the recipient should answer “Not applicable”. You cannot use Healing Arts on a conscious person without their knowledge. It is always obvious that you are using your skill. Shaking hands or touching someone’s shoulder will not give the results that a real check-up would. A conscious person thus can prevent Healing Arts from being performed unless bound or similarly restrained. Healing Arts can be performed through Binding effects such as Web and Pin but not through effects that block physical contact such as Prison and Circle of Power Alliance LARP Rulebook Version 2.1.2 65 Certain creatures are not affected by Healing Arts. Creatures that have “No Metabolism” or “Alien Metabolism” or “Animal Metabolism” on their monster card should state “No Effect” when someone attempts to use Healing Arts upon them. If a creature has an alien metabolism and the skill Healing Arts, it may also use Healing Arts upon creatures of the same type. Creatures with no metabolism may never have Healing Arts used on them effectively, even by other similar creatures with the skill Healing Arts.