The prisoners, the outsiders, the castle turning on us on a monthly basis, the residents turning on each other or the townspeople, new people arriving every week. Just the major ones, you know.
Oh! That's really nice of you, thanks. ... You're welcome! Personally, I don't do much - I head the Supernatural Division? But we don't get a lot of ghosts on a regular basis, so. I mostly do a lot of castle research.
Same to you! ... And yeah, sure are. That was my job, back home - my best friends and I started a sort of paranormal containment and relocation service. Ghostbusters.
It's actually a really complicated and intriguing process, but the short version is - we've got special equipment designed to compress the spiritual entities on a molecular level so that they can be stored in temporary traps and moved elsewhere, usually to a containment facility on-site of our headquarters, if they're harmful.
[yep. that was sure the short version alright. he's learned over the last year that most people do not appreciate teal deer]
You know, we tried to find out by weighing the filled traps and then using the weight of the actual trap as a tare weight. ... It averaged out pretty close on classes 3 and 4 - which are our humanoid classifications. The other classifications were way off, though, which makes sense if you think about it.
I always thought he got kind of a bum rap. I mean, he did the best he could with the technology of the time, and --- people weren't exactly receptive to that kinda study back then. Also, he didn't really use a big enough sample to count from a statistical point of view, which was probably what hurt him the most scientifically.
It's kind of a half-and-half thing. A lot of people are? And a lot of people still think it's a bunch of hooey ... but the people who don't believe in it these days are less likely to condemn the people who do as dangerous heretics or outright charlatans.
... I've ... definitely had to deal with a couple've jackasses, though.
Oh, I dunno - I've always believed in it, ever since I was a kid. It's kinda hard to pinpoint. ... I can tell you when I first started really getting into the scientific end of studying it, though, that's pretty easy.
Freshman year of college at Columbia. I was enrolled as an engineering major, but paranormal studies had always kinda been a side hobby of mine. Around Halloween, the paranormal science majors put on this haunted campus walk thing where they take people around and show them all the spots that're reputed to be haunted and cite the evidence and stuff ...
One of the other freshmen was on the walk with me - he was a para major, but he hadn't been there long enough to actually be able to help with the whole thing. So he spent the entire time hoofing it around with me and telling me about how it all worked, and what they were planning to study over the year, and how they needed more adequate equipment ...
We got along so well that we ended up being best friends, and I ended up switching majors. He's one of the ones who started the Ghostbusters with me.
Oh, I still minored in engineering. I actually kinda doubled up, took equal amounts of core classes in both - because one started augmenting the other. By the time we were working on our doctorates, I had a lot of first drafts for schematics of the stuff we'd end up using in the business.
Oh! I can show you how, if you want. I've done it as a Patrol demonstration, before, trapping and releasing a castle ghost. I try not to do it too often, though - they aren't really doin' anything wrong.
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Did we do something to help you?
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Not personally.
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So why the thanks? Or is it just a general thing?
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It may be. Perhaps it is in advance.
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Nice to know. Still, do your best not to get into too much trouble, hmm?
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[ Smiling to himself. ] I always do.
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Is lack of interest the only hindrance?
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No, there are about six billion things causing a hindrance all at once.
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And the major ones?
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The prisoners, the outsiders, the castle turning on us on a monthly basis, the residents turning on each other or the townspeople, new people arriving every week. Just the major ones, you know.
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There are few we can change. The recruitment drive, then?
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Well, for that, you'd have to speak to the boss. Which is either Yuan or Five, it's hard to tell, these days.
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Well, I'm not sure what it is. He calls himself the Doctor, but there are a few of them so we go by numbers to make it a little easier.
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I didn't catch your name.
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The pleasure is surely mine, Corporal.
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What for?
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What's your name? I'm Dr. Ray Stantz.
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Ghosts are your specialty, Dr. Stanz?
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[yep. that was sure the short version alright. he's learned over the last year that most people do not appreciate teal deer]
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Do they weigh 21 grams?
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You know, we tried to find out by weighing the filled traps and then using the weight of the actual trap as a tare weight. ... It averaged out pretty close on classes 3 and 4 - which are our humanoid classifications. The other classifications were way off, though, which makes sense if you think about it.
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Your findings would salvage MacDougall's name.
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... I've ... definitely had to deal with a couple've jackasses, though.
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One of the other freshmen was on the walk with me - he was a para major, but he hadn't been there long enough to actually be able to help with the whole thing. So he spent the entire time hoofing it around with me and telling me about how it all worked, and what they were planning to study over the year, and how they needed more adequate equipment ...
We got along so well that we ended up being best friends, and I ended up switching majors. He's one of the ones who started the Ghostbusters with me.
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Greater love hath no man that he would switch majors for his friend.
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... Why?
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I'd like to see how material objects can possibly affect the supernatural.
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