John could only sit at his desk for so long before boredom began to set in. He decided he might as well finish that project he was working on up in the attic. Standing up he crossed the room and instead of taking a right out the door he took a left to a different door. Opening it there were two choices to take, a door in front of him, which went to his bedroom, and a staircase to his left which went up to the attic. The steps began to creak as he ascended, he would have to fix up these steps eventually before they broke or something. He pushed up on the trapdoor that entered the attic.<br/><br/>It was not the neatest place he had put together, but it worked. Three tables lay scattered around edges of the attic and the center was left open with various magical knick nacks scattered around the floor. John also reminded himself he needed to work on cleaning the place up. He snapped his fingers and a set of candles lit up all around the room. He closed the trapdoor behind him and locked it using a latch attached to the door. He then placed Chauncy's medallion on the table to his immediate left, next to a series of wands, chains, rings, and a couple staffs. John had been trying to figure out alternate magical focusing tools for his line of work, seeing if he could change the pace up somewhat. In the end, none of them worked quite as well as his black wood staff that he always carried around with him. The only thing that came even close was the wand, and John did not feel like pulling a Harry Potter on some demon creature or vampire or something, he had standards. Wielding a big stick was one of them.<br/><br/>John lightly tapped on the metallic surface of the medallion and Chauncy's almost gaseous blue form sprang from the trinket in the blink of an eye, immediately beginning to freely float around the room.<br/><br/>"Thanks boss, you know it gets really cramped in there right? You never thought about...oh I don't know creating some sort of artificial space for me to live in right, it's not like I have two bathroom, two bedroom house with a walk in closet you know, it's cramped." Chauncy immediately began complaining the moment he left, a sign that usually meant he hated his life bound to John's little trinket, when in actuality it was simply his excuse to talk. Chauncy enjoyed John's company just as much as John enjoyed his...he just liked to talk.<br/><br/>"Sorry Chauncy, not exactly my area of expertise, besides you are a spirit aren't you unable to feel the pain and discomfort that is associated with being cramped?" John replied, picking up a few odds and ends off of the floor, "Besides being a spirit doesn't that also render a bed, bathroom, and closet useless to you?"<br/><br/>"It's not about what it does it's the message associated with having that sort of stuff." Chauncy retorted, fluttering back and forth across the room and his form slightly flashing with each syllable.<br/><br/>"Ok then what do you need two beds for...?" John inquired.<br/><br/>"Gah you are missing the point boss!" Chauncy said, about to continue before sighing and giving up on this argument, "What are ya doing?"<br/><br/>"First off I am finishing those regenerative potions I started yesterday and I am also trying to finish up that project I started a couple months ago."<br/><br/>"And what project would that be?"<br/><br/>John shifted enough stuff out of the way so that a rather medium sized circle could be seen drawn into the wood of the attic. Numerous symbols were carved all around the surface of the circle and they let out a low hum constantly. John pointed at it and looked at Chauncy. "That is what I have been working on."<br/><br/>"Congratulations boss...you drew a circle, that is Magic 101 ain't it?" Chauncy joked.<br/><br/>"It's not just any circle Chauncy, you see the way this works is that it is supposed to be able to magically transmit my body to any location that has a circle just like it...it has taken a few meditative sessions and steps to get to this point but I think I am almost have it done."<br/><br/>"Huh...that actually sounds pretty cool. How does it work?" Chauncy asked, floating towards the circle and hovering around it."<br/><br/>"Well you see I have drawn only one other circle to speak of, and that is located very nearby the Crowl entrance, so that I don't have to walk for a couple hours to get there."<br/><br/>"Why don't you just drive a car?"<br/><br/>"You know how me and cars get along Chauncy, all they do is sputter and die." John said, still cleaning up the surrounding area. "Anyways you are missing the point, this would allow me to more swiftly do my job."<br/><br/>"And people won't be weirded out by a bunch of Satanic looking circles drawn all over Manhattan?" Chauncy asked.<br/><br/>"No...I put a veil up around them that responds when my magical signature draws near and focuses on it. Then there are a series of wards that can only be unlocked by a few specific magical inputs and then access is approved and I can go anywhere I want that is marked. All I have to do is input the correct amount of energy and visualize where I am going in my head."<br/><br/>"Huh...you have really outdone yourself this time boss, so when is it going to be prepped to go?"<br/><br/>"Today hopefully, I just have to calibrate it a little bit and it should be ready to go."<br/><br/>"Ok then, I will leave you to it." Chauncy said, floating around the attic and humming to himself.<br/><br/>John sat down cross legged before the circle and settled his energies around it, the circle letting out a deeper hum and glowing a slight blue as he did. Focusing his energy he closed his eyes and pressed his hands to the circle. He immersed himself in the energy he had already pumped into this circle. He then envisioned in his mind the other circle he had drawn, he imagined the pavement of the alley that it was located in, imagined the city chill that had recently come over the area and also envisioned the circle itself, located at the very end of the alley, somewhere nobody usually takes the time to investigate. He could just feel the energy he had pumped into that circle as well, waiting to be utilized. He then moved his hands out and attempted to link them together, something he had not exactly tried before with anything. He used his hands to help solidify his mostly mental effort. Normally he could never reach out to something so far away with his magical talents, but the circle in front of him was the only reason he was able to. He got a grip on the energies of the Crowl circle, and slowly began to tug on it, bending it to his will and attempting to link it with the circle in front of him. He imagined the energies as threads slowly nearing each other, he found it easier to bend magic this way if he found a physical object to compare it to. He pulled on both threads and neared them closer together, the effort becoming a little more difficult the further they were pulled from their origin, sort of how a thread would act if it were stuck to a wall. He pulled the threads of energy out until they were taut and within touching distance and focused hard...focused on nothing but what he was doing. With a focused effort of magical will he "knotted" the threads together so to speak and linked the circles together and let go. His mental state snapping back to its physical body.<br/><br/>John opened his eyes and took a couple breaths, he had never done that before and it felt tiring and at the same time exhilarating to have been able to do it. He lipped the word "Yes" and lightly pumped his arm and stood up, feeling accomplished.