A Rose, Unnaturally

[four_is_death]

The lockpicks slide against each other with a gentle metal-on-metal sheeee, then click solidly into place.

Sophia smiles beneath her mask. "Got it."

Comments

[pythbox]

This sense knows all about the effects of Silencer gas on Slab. And it knows that Rose should push on the mental representation there and there to reduce those effects.

[four_is_death]

How obliging of it.

Rose prods in the indicated locations.

[pythbox]

It's slow going, but the magic definitely thinks it's getting somewhere.

[four_is_death]

She stares at Slab some more, and increases her mental pressure on the relevant locations.

[four_is_death]

"Uh... Is there a reason why you're looking at me like that?"

[four_is_death]

"Sh." She is trying to concentrate.

[pythbox]

Increased pressure increases progress.

[four_is_death]

Slab manages to scootch a decent distance away from creepy-staring-Rose, then realizes that he just sat up and scootched away from Rose.

"... The flowers can do healing magic on other people?"

[four_is_death]

Rose nods and keeps concentrating.

[four_is_death]

Sophia tries to do the healing thing for Eyes. After all, she has a flower too, right?

[pythbox]

Sophia's flower is disinclined to heal. Although if she tries to do magic with it, she might notice it displaying the capacity to move small nearby objects.

[four_is_death]

Sophia blinks, then tries to pick up one of Rose's books from her piling system across the room.

[pythbox]

Gosh, those books are heavy. And far. She can shift them, sort of, but the effort involved is inordinate.

[four_is_death]

Okay. Her coat is already fairly ripped up, she won't miss a button. Can she levitate a button if she removes one from her coat?

[pythbox]

She can levitate the heck out of that button!

[four_is_death]

... She's missing the obvious, she has a lockpick set. How many little tools can she manage at once?

[pythbox]

Well, one. Almost two, though, the second one twitches. Maybe she can do two with practice.

[four_is_death]

Still, if she has a key...

[four_is_death]

Eyes seems to have noticed the levitation.

"Okay, the roses are pretty magic."

[last_one_out]

"Useful," comments Aaron.

[four_is_death]

"Did you all get anything useful, or could Sable already fly?"

[last_one_out]

"The flying is new."

[four_is_death]

"Maybe you two should also check for mysterious new powers."

[last_one_out]

"Maybe we should," he agrees. "Going by what happened with my magic weapons, I'm guessing my flowers do heat and cold."

Then he consults with the other unclassified rose-bearer.

[unmarred]

The other unclassified rose-bearer produces an extra flower, blue and purple like Sophie's but with flower and petal colours reversed.