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adrian veidt

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Thank you.

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.

[ Ah, those lovely years of self-discovery. ]

Greater love hath no man that he would switch majors for his friend.

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.

Are they trade secrets?

Uh, sorta? We're kind of a unique business, back home. As far as I know, no one else does it on the scale that we do.

... Why?

Curiosity.

I'd like to see how material objects can possibly affect the supernatural.

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.

I wouldn't presume to take so much of your time, Dr. Stantz.

Oh, it doesn't take long at all once I've got my stuff. Five, maybe ten minutes.

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