And Maya… tries dropping something on one of the bubbles from the balcony.

It seems to be made of water, not just a bubble, and gets quite squished when impacted, but then reforms nearby.

Oh good, that's going to make this much harder.

Time to decamp for higher ground.

Might be a good idea, since the water creatures seem to be moving in their direction. Slowly, for now.

Blue notices her moving and follows, calling for Thario to follow when he's done.

Thario is… actually, yeah, he's pretty much done blocking off the basement, and also he checked for back doors and such – conveniently easily locked and also conveniently had boxes nearby to stack in front of them – and then he follows them up.

When they get up to the balcony where Maya is, Elleira asks, "Fighting water creatures will be difficult. Do you have any others colors that might be useful?"

"I– none of them are jumping out at me for, like, 'ranged attack', no?"

Thario lags behind a bit, blocking off the stairwell at convenient positions – such as where doors are, good museum having a stairwell with doors – so as to try to prevent the things from getting up as quickly.

"Anything that might disperse them more effectively. I can probably flash-vaporize the water with my saber, but I only have one."

"I mean, I don't know all the colors available and they have weird effects– which, probably worth trying if these things are dangerous like we expect, but I'm just trying to gauge here – what sort of level of danger is acceptable, should I just fling about between colors and see if I get something useful?"

"I am having really quite a very bad feeling about these, so yes, that seems advisable."

"Okay, right," she says— and then Elleira's danger sense goes for getting flung backwards quite painfully.

She preemptively dodges backwards.

And the danger stops. "– What was that?"

"Something was about to happen, probably related to whatever aura you were going to flare there."

"It was going to be purple, and if it maybe causes damage perhaps I should try it with you far enough back that it's not going to harm you? Since, might be useful."

Blue is quite a bit further back than Elleira.

"This distance should be fine. Go ahead."

So Maya flares purple, causing a small shockwave, shoving things back from her. Elleira is not much affected by it from her new position, but it's still definitely noticeable.

There was a small plant in a pot on the edge of the balcony, which has now found a new location on the ground quite far from the museum. It was flung away quite strongly, and the other things on the balcony got pushed away from her.

"Hm," says Maya, after observing this.

"Can you affect the directionality of that, or have it not centered on yourself?"

"That was the first time I used that," she says. "So the aura did a weird thing."

She looks at a chair nearby and tries to push it, which– causes it to move away from her. Then she tries moving it to the side, and that works too, and then she tries a blast and she sort of gets a weak one.

"Seems like telekinesis?"

Blue translates.

"Doesn't seem very strong. Any penalties for its use?"

"Not that I've noticed, but they're not all as obvious as the red one and I haven't actually noticed white or yellow have one."

She tries to shove the table a bit harder, then ups the strength quite a bit, then squints at it and– it snaps in two, vertically.

"… Huh," says Blue.

"Can you broaden the effective area?"