[ john moves to the remaining position, carefully avoiding what voryn has already laid down. ]
I suppose post-ritual drinks couldn't hurt.
[ wishful thinking, as even a potentially uncomfortable night out is preferable to being trapped down here. plus, he has drunk toasts to worse things. for now, he gets serious and observes. true magic is a mystery to him beyond what little he's read about locally or had encountered working with akua, perhaps, so there is plenty to wonder about.
when it's his turn to take the rock, he hesitates momentarily at the sight of quetzalcoatl bleeding out of her tongue and into her hand. it's not like he's remotely squeamish about something like this; it's just that a power move like that is a little intimidating. he would know — having fully embraced all the most grotesque aspects of necromancy — shock value can go a long way toward catching your enemies off guard.
however, he doubts shock value is her intention, and after gawking for a few seconds he takes the bloody rock. these little things keep him making mental comparisons even though he'd prefer not to. for his part, john favours a place similar to voryn, frowning as he makes the cut. he's never had to do this in such a crude fashion before, but he has no problem carving deep enough to get the blood flowing anyway to work on completing his third of the circle. ]
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I suppose post-ritual drinks couldn't hurt.
[ wishful thinking, as even a potentially uncomfortable night out is preferable to being trapped down here. plus, he has drunk toasts to worse things. for now, he gets serious and observes. true magic is a mystery to him beyond what little he's read about locally or had encountered working with akua, perhaps, so there is plenty to wonder about.
when it's his turn to take the rock, he hesitates momentarily at the sight of quetzalcoatl bleeding out of her tongue and into her hand. it's not like he's remotely squeamish about something like this; it's just that a power move like that is a little intimidating. he would know — having fully embraced all the most grotesque aspects of necromancy — shock value can go a long way toward catching your enemies off guard.
however, he doubts shock value is her intention, and after gawking for a few seconds he takes the bloody rock. these little things keep him making mental comparisons even though he'd prefer not to. for his part, john favours a place similar to voryn, frowning as he makes the cut. he's never had to do this in such a crude fashion before, but he has no problem carving deep enough to get the blood flowing anyway to work on completing his third of the circle. ]