With Vivienne minding the space between them and the skirmish- there was time and space enough for rapid casting that might stack the odds in their favor.

Adelaide drove her staff into the ground before her, ice coiling up to keep it upright while her hands snapped out in intricate gestures, power roiled in the air around her. To Norrington that same Heroic Aura, to Garris the golden lines of Haste slowing the world about him till the count of Thirty. To Vivienne, a green glowing wisp circling her in a constant bob and weave to provide supplemental mana. To Emmeline a coil of frost that encircles her weapons to slow those she strikes.