School enhancing/illusion; Level bard 2
CASTING
Casting Time 1 standard action
EFFECT
Range personal
Area 20-ft.-radius emanation
Duration 1 min./level (D)
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance yes (harmless)
DESCRIPTION
Rotating your hand over your chest, you find the tempo of your own heart whilst in a still-emotional state, comparing this to those around you allows the altered tempos of lying to be detected.
The bard can successfully identify when any creatures within 20ft tell a lie, hold back information, or otherwise have some form of ulterior motive. If the bard is using this song on a creature that lacks a heart they instead gain a +4 circumstance bonus on sense motive checks against them.
If no creatures saw the bard start to perform this song, then no one will know it is in effect unless they use Detect Magic.