Having to walk home covered in blood was not a nice experience, in this world people would be more suspicious of that, or think it's some kind of cosplay but Lucianus did not want to run the risk. Once home he had to resist the urge to pass out on the bed, a suit was enough laundry to take blood off of, so he changed first. While assessing the damage to his suit he noticed two stains on the back of the jaket, "Strange" he thought, "There is no way the blood would get here, and not in such a precise pattern", the bloodstains in question had the vague form of wings, or the start of them anyway.

After putting the suit in the wash and putting on a different one Lucianus had a bit of time to think, his first experiment was to just use the picture to go back, as dangerous as it was he had to at least try and he could always come back anyway. The first test was simple, just hold the phone with the picture displayed and say the word, it did not work. After that it was a question of replicating the circumstances, put the phone on a table, did not work, "Maybe it needs to be wood?", put the phone on a stool, still nothing, "Material seems to not have a part in this", time to try something else. Intonation also did not work, pretending to be scared or curious either. Drawing the rune on the table had no effect, but that was probably just the lack of artistic skills on his part. He ran out of ideas, the only remaining options would require a skilled artist but even if he knew one they would probably not be happy to be contacted at this time, that was one of the few social interactions Lucianus was familiar with.

After the experiments on the runes it was time for research, any legend or myth that even vaguely related to this misterious world could be useful, no matter how vague. His library while much bigger and more well stocked than the average student one is still limited in selection. A couple hours went by and no progress was made, no runes were close enough and no information was more accurate than what he already knew, if he wanted to know more he would have to search a bigger library, or the web. One of the two options was more accessible so it was time to use that, the search was much shorter than the books one, none of the results made sense and the sheer amount to parse trough was too much, it was also getting late, research had to wait.

The last main point was equipement, specifically armor as offense was taken care of for the time being by his powers, which he should at least learn to use instead of devolving into a beast but one thing at a time. Having two crazy parents has some advantages so for once Lucianus decided to call them by his own will. The call was interminable and exausting, the strangeness of it was pointed out many a time by both parties but in the end he got what he needed, one of the few treasures that was considered his, japanese traditional armor. It was decorative, completely useless in a fight, but it was very well made, with the right materials it could be turned into real armor by a blacksmith, or used as inspiration to modify something else. In exchange for promising to call more often his parents aggreed to send the armor by mail, it should arrive in a couple of days, or weeks if they forget to do it early enough.

With most points at least partially solved it was time to reflect on a very important topic, the online group. They were about to meet in the very same room with the same coffe table, will they also be attracted to it? Will they just ignore it? Will the table just suck everyone in if someone says the magic words? At least he knew how to come back, should he tell the other this as a safety measure? While thinking about these difficult topics the day's exaustion caught up with him and he fell asleep in his spare suit that he forgot to take off. Today was a strange day, but soon it may be the new normal.