Thario backs up the stairwell. Then turns around and starts running, because one of the snakes decides to go for him instead.

Elleira turns the lightsaber off again when it reaches her.

"Try to corral them together," she calls to Maya.

She tries to grab the one on the steps to bring it back their direction but isn't actually close enough to get much force on it, and it manages to evade her grip and actually escape upstairs after Thario.

The others she does manage to get into a small group, though.

Blue thinks he's going to smash a few display cabinets and grab some rocks to throw at them.

Some of these rocks are very pretty. He's sure they're also quite heavy and able to do quite a lot of damage.

Elleira sends her saber scything through the group.

"Go after Thario, Blue. We'll hold the others here."

He eyes the door warily but smashes a display cabinet – fortunately there are no alarms – and grabs a rock, then runs to the door, jumps over a puddle that seems to be seeping under the door, and makes his way up the stairs rather quickly.

"I'm not sure we're going to be able to hold them unless we reseal the door," says Maya.

"See anything useful to do that with?"

"My aura could maybe work to put it back in place but no not really!" She looks around for something. "We might be better off just getting away if I can fly people off the roof or something."

The door behind them, the one to the balcony, starts making a weird creaking noise. If they look back that way, they'll notice that there's a puddle on the ground, possibly formed from the rain, and it now seems to be rising up to lean against the door.

"It is still raining. And mind the balcony door." She readies her saber to throw again.

And Maya looks back at the door, just as it smashes inwards and the water starts flooding into the room. She turns to face it and flings in its direction, flaring purple even stronger – tinges of it leak into her hair and it gets a stronger coloration.

The stairwell door leaks a few more animals, so perhaps Elleira should get to attacking them. Maybe they should make for higher ground.

Saber goes vzzthmm, animals go poof.

"Time to leave. Stairs." She heads that way.

Maya starts running that way, flaring the sparky aura so she can just kick off things in that direction, and then takes up the stairs, moving past the leaking door quite quickly.

On the floor above, there seems to be some activity coming from a wing off the central area, some smashing glass and– well, presumably that's where Thario and Blue are.

Rocks and sticks are presumably not an effective weapon against water. Elleira heads in that direction to sort it out.

Maya rises into the air and then flares purple and smashes downwards, trying to destroy the stairwell before the water can get up and then sparking back up to the level of the floor above.

She doesn't expect that'll stop it, since she doesn't expect anything to be fucking easy but dammit she's gonna try anyway.

Blue: has his spear and rock and is in fact throwing the rock at a rather huge amorphous blob of water, then smashing a display case and grabbing more things to throw at it.

Thario is: reading a book.

Quite fervently.

Perhaps it's a variation on the one in her bag that she reclaimed from Tyler.

In any case, amorphous blob of water, meet column of poorly-contained superhot plasma.

It… gets slightly vaporized. Nowhere near completely, though.

And Blue throws a rather large rock at it, which seems to do a similar amount of damage.

She can swing her saber through it several times, if that's what it takes.

It's quite a large blob of water. It will take quite a few tries.

And after a couple of them, Thario throws the book at it. Literally. Causing it to shrink to approximately half the size and the book to return to him like a boomerang, hitting him with slightly too much force and throwing him backwards into some glass behind him.

It is a magic book then. Good.

Does the reduced size make it easier to vaporize?

It does! It's not instantaneous, but she can definitely vaporize it more easily, while Blue keeps throwing stuff at it to try to continue to reduce its size.

Good job Thario. Way to not be utterly useless.

And the blob is summarily vaporized.

Thario is also back on his feet, again holding and reading through the book.