[ john chooses the same place he'd encountered set last time for this. it had been suitable before, so it will be sufficient now as well. location isn't really a factor that matters as long as it's quiet and without distractions.
he's thorough, so he arrived early, knowing what preparation he needed to do would be time-consuming. john has no need for rituals, but wards are a different matter. he's been working on these for a bit to adjust his theorems to account for kenos' energy, and he's hoping they will hold out long enough to be useful. they are made out of blood and bone, and he is putting the final touches on the last one. the significance of the patterns they're shaped into isn't clear at a glance, but john seems satisfied with them.
a lot more of this is guesswork than he'd like, but kenos presents a unique problem. he's been in space and on different planets, but never in a place made up of islands floating in an astral sea — if that's even the whole truth — so, this is all new territory. it might actually be interesting to look into all this, engaging him in a way that hasn't for a very long time, but that all really depends on whether or not anyone will listen when he's through. ]
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he's thorough, so he arrived early, knowing what preparation he needed to do would be time-consuming. john has no need for rituals, but wards are a different matter. he's been working on these for a bit to adjust his theorems to account for kenos' energy, and he's hoping they will hold out long enough to be useful. they are made out of blood and bone, and he is putting the final touches on the last one. the significance of the patterns they're shaped into isn't clear at a glance, but john seems satisfied with them.
a lot more of this is guesswork than he'd like, but kenos presents a unique problem. he's been in space and on different planets, but never in a place made up of islands floating in an astral sea — if that's even the whole truth — so, this is all new territory. it might actually be interesting to look into all this, engaging him in a way that hasn't for a very long time, but that all really depends on whether or not anyone will listen when he's through. ]