I know that the Blood Slick ability of a Blood Knight is an aura and it always exudes the following out ten feet from it,
"A blood knight constantly drips slippery blood in a 10-foot-radius spread around itself. Entering the area of a blood slick counts as difficult terrain and as it if were under the effects of a grease spell. The DC on the Reflex save to avoid falling is Charisma-based. Blood knights are immune to the slipperiness of any blood knight’s blood slick."
However, a player recently put a question to me that I do not have an answer to right now. Does the effect of its aura linger on the ground similar to how its Fountain of Blood ability functions?
"Once every 1d4 rounds, as a full-round action, a blood knight can spray blood from its armor in a great cascade. Each creature within a 15-foot radius is covered in blood and must succeed on a Fortitude save as though it had ingested the blood knight’s poisonous blood. The blood fills the area until the blood knight’s next turn. Creatures entering the spray while it persists are subject to its effects, but a creature can be affected only once per round.
The area covered by the blood spray becomes coated as though by a blood slick and remains slippery for 1 round per two Hit Dice the blood knight possesses. The blood remains until it is washed away with at least 5 gallons of water or other liquid, or burned away with normal or magical fire as a full-round action. Creatures and objects within the area that do not have total cover are coated with the blood, and a creature wishing to use, pick up, or cling to an item coated in the blood must succeed on a Reflex save (save DC is Charisma-based) to do so. Failure means the item is immediately dropped. A creature coated in blood gains a +10 bonus on Escape Artist checks. Blood knights are immune to the slipperiness of any blood knight’s fountain of blood."
For instance, if it did a run action across a room 100 feet in length, would it leave the slick behind where it moves until it's cleaned up? I feel like the answer is no and is what I provisionally ruled it at the time, since it is an aura ability and it specifies that it lingers in the Fountain of Blood ability, but I am also not entirely sure.
Am I correct in thinking it does not linger where it moves over?
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Bllod Knight, Green Ronin Products
Blood Slick does what it says and nothing more.
It is an Ex ability, so it is a "natural" effect. If you need to explain why the indrances affect only people in the aura and don't linger after the Blood knight has moved, you can say that the dead blood (it is an undead) coagulates very rapidly.
In my home game I would treat the blood from blood Slick as a SU effect, and have the blood disappear as soon as it is outside the Blood Knight aura.