Nature's Toolkit

Nature's toolkit [Minor] by Iczer

'Ummm yeah...i got it from that tree over there'

The character can coax local flora to produce abnormal formations to create living tools.

1) Alter plants: The simplest of manipulations is coaxing plantlife to simply change shape. Hedges can trimmed by thought alone, trees can move their branches to block or reveal the sun, and ivy can be arranged to spell out love messages to a passerby. The character requires 1 melee round to manipulate a cube of plant matter 10 feet (3 metres) on a side of 'soft' plant matter grasses ivy and leaves, or 2 feet (0.6 metres) on a side of hard, wooden plant matter, such as branches or tree trunks. Plants cannot move from their current position, but can pull up roots and be transported elsewhere before putting setting down roots again.

2) Create useful tools: The character can coax local flora to form into usefull, but unpowered tools. simple hand held items can be made in a single melee round. alrger items require one minute per 10x10x10 cube. In this fashion, the character can make weapons and armour, crowbars, even lockpicks, ladders and any other unpowered tool. (while ranged weapons are typically beyond the scope of the power, the character can still make a bow or cross bow from local plant matter. A tool remains after creation until it dies of it's own accord. Notably a created object can be planted after it is of no more use to the character, and be reused again at a later date.

4) Create pharmaceuticals and chemicals: By coaxing local flora to produce foreign and unnusual fruit, the character can manufacture a variety of simple medicines and poisons. The character gains the skill Holistic medicine at +10%, and can treat any forested area as a stocked chemistry laboratory. Plants can be made to produce any ordinary byproduct of the plant kingdom, but need not make sense for the plant actually producing it. Kudzu can be made to produce whole apples, while aloe vera may be extracted from an oak tree, with maple sap from Ivy and so on. Depending on the scope and nature of the produce required, changes of this type can be made in between 10 minutes to 2 hours. (Producing water from a tree may only take minutes, while causing a dandelion t o produce grapes may take an hour.)