User blog comment:StoryGirl83/Elemental Attundement in the Test for "The Elementalists"/@comment-32788407-20181104225147/@comment-3452092-20181105025707

Thank you for that as well as your analysis. I have added them to the database. I've had some confusing ones myself looking back on them. I agree that we are not there yet.

My most recent test was trying for metal, just straight metal. I got a metal, fire tie. Here's what I got:
 * How do you make decisions? With great difficulty (Wood & Metal)
 * What scares you most? Being forgotten. (Metal)
 * What sound do you find most pleasing? Laughter. (Metal)
 * Where would you like to spend your time? Wandering a canyon (Air)
 * You're at a crossroads. A bank of fog lies ahead. Which way do you go? Straight ahead and into the fog. (Fire & Metal)
 * You're working in a group. You... Take the lead. (Fire & Metal)

I'm currently testing the wandering canyon for Metal. Based off this, it seems unlikely that it is, which leads me to believe it probably is "Sitting on edge of a cliff." I guess that would help with their control issues. So based off this, if I was correct I would have 5 points for metal (or six if the one I'm testing was metal), 2 for fire, 1 for wood, and 1 for air. Didn't happen. I'm very sure of the last one. It's metal. Leading is one of the qualities. Probably it's fire, too, but we are trying to find more fire and potentially less metal, so keeping that. On the fifth one, I'm pretty sure it's fire, less sure it's metal, but I'm not really seeing one that is better for metal. We'll assume the canyon isn't metal. We don't know what fire is in that either, so maybe that's fire. Potentially that could put us at three fire, two metal. I'm really shaking on the laughter one. It's just there, because something needed to be there and it seemed the others fit where they were, but maybe we should switch fire and metal there. This would give us four fire, two metal. The top two seem likely, so that would give us four metal, four fire. That would make those fit.

-- If I switched those ones I said, that would make you third:
 * Wood - 2
 * Fire - 2
 * Water - 1
 * Earth - 2
 * Air - 2

That would at least get you the missing fire, so I think that since that fits both of ours, I'm going to change that.

Not really sure on the second one. Your arguments seem valid. I'm switching the Air to the city, but at the moment I think what we need to look at is the decision making question. I'm thinking maybe you could be right about Air also being part of Spending time up a tree answer. That would bring that one to:
 * Air - 3
 * Fire - 2
 * Wood - 2
 * Metal - 2

If I switched around the "How do you make decisions?" question to look like the below, it could work:
 * Based on my gut (Earth & Water)
 * By weighing pros and cons (Metal & Air)
 * With great difficulty (Wood & Fire)

That would make your numbers look like this:
 * Air - 3
 * Fire - 3
 * Wood - 2
 * Metal - 1

-- That does mess mine back up, again, but if I switched back to the theory that wandering the canyon was metal, it would work again, and not mess up any of yours.