one time my mom told me about how someone was doing a test for some... medical... doctor... thing
(this story is going to be missing a lot of details, bear with me)
where basically some doctor would DM a patient encounter for you and you have to describe what you would do to determine what was wrong with them
and they "did" tests and tests and tests to try to figure out what the issue was, and it turned out that the end that they would have gotten it immediately if they had asked their DM "what do i smell"
i think that's kind of a fucked way to test doctors, like you don't have to consciously think "i wonder what the room smells like" to get that information irl, BUT i'm playing dnd later and i'm going to try to work "what do i smell" into the session
like if they had asked the answer they got would have been, like, "it smells like someone in this room has "
i don't know what it was i'm not a doctor
@monorail Apparently certain bacterial infections can smell oddly fruity or grape-y. Tuberculosis supposedly has a mouse-y smell. And various vaginal infections have different smells, some of them quite distinctive.
