<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/2/2e/Poison_Ivy_2.jpg)</div><strong>Briar Rose</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hg-CqLqGg4uAa-cEN-zWKVpQgNaDv5Kw4c8vsjo_4MY/edit)<br/><br/>Between throwing herself off of the ground and reaching her feet, Lizzy became Briar Rose.  Thorns ripped and shredded her normal clothing to a mass of frayed scraps.  For a moment, her buxom nude form was somewhat visible to anyone in the panicked crowd who cared.  Then she was modestly covered--by the standard of a french beach!--by a costume of body hugging leaves.  A rose bloomed in her hair, trailing a gentle whiff of aphrodisiac pollen--not enough to influence anyone in the midst of this mess...  For now.<br/><br/>Rose bound up onto the sculptor's work table to get a look over the panicked crowd.  "Oh my God...  This is like..."  She shook her head.<br/><br/>"Negative, General Irving," she echoed Daibuster's response.  "There's thousands of civilians here.  Stand by."<br/><br/>Briar Rose raised her hands and sent her power into the Earth.  The desert was hot, parched, and barren, but life...  Life was a miracle.  From what she'd learned studying biology, there had never truly been life on Mars.  Once you had life, there was getting rid of it.  Scour every seed from the land and life still thrived in sulfur vents beneath billions of tons of water.  Burn the surface of the earth to a nuclear cinder, boiling away every drop of ocean, and there would still be bacteria in the molten rock of the earth's mantle!<br/><br/><em>I need you,</em>her soul sang to long dormant seeds deep beneath the earth.<br/><br/><em>These people need you.</em><br/><br/>Between the retreating crowd and the battle, the parched earth began to crack.<br/><br/>And tremble.<br/><br/>And now Briar Rose spoke with supreme confidence and fierce determination.  "The situation is under control, General Irving."<br/><br/>Cacti, sequoias and thorny shrubs exploded from the earth.  With a great surge of unquenchable life, they wove themselves together, growing and thickening.  The plants formed a great, living wall between the hellish creature from beyond and the innocents it might slay.<br/><br/>"Stand by."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">Free Action: costume change.  <br/>Move action:  Rise from prone and get somewhere higher for a look at the situation.  <br/>Standard Action:  Plant Growth (PL 10): Create Plants, Permanent, Movable, 3 points/rank:  Using this power to create a barrier of living plants between the fight and the non combatants.  <br/>Another free action (I hope!): Persuasion Test 27 to get the good general to delay the air strike.  <br/>At 2019-09-30 21:13:54, Briar Rose (uid: 16) rolls: 1d20a10 Result: 27 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=139960)</div></div>