[color=thistle][h3]Io[/h3][/color]

[at the breakthrough peeps]

Io retreated along with the other task force members, gladly taking the safer option now that she had managed to luck out with her bold move of draining the sorcerer. There was no time for any intricacy now. Io needed to buy them time, and that meant slowing anyone following them into the house.

After entering the house, she quickly turned and opened her grimoire. It was less than ideal, but she had no choice - to make a sufficiently powerful rune trap she would need to use a page. She deftly scrawled the incantation in her secret language across the page and tore it out, leaving it in the entryway to be triggered.

After placing the rune trap she stole back deeper into the mansion, behind the other Task Force members. "[color=thistle][b]I've trapped the entryway with a magic circle. It should electrify and stun, if not completely disable anyone coming through it.[/b][/color]" Io had doubts if the Varjan that challenged them would be so easily dispatched, but it was certainly not something anyone could take and shrug off instantly. She took a moment to survey the interior of the mansion, thinking about how they might need to defend the area further. "[b][color=thistle]Do we have an exit strategy?[/color][/b]" Io asked, though she had a feeling that she knew the answer already. She briefly focused while she could, calling to mind powerful spells that she might need to carve a path if needed.