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[pkemeter]

"You have reached Dr. Egon Spengler. Please leave a message, preferably fifty words or less."

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[ghoststanning]

Sure! It's really simple if you know what you're doing, just a simple rewiring of the proton packs-

[?]

"With an F"? Do you know him with another name in your universe?

[pkemeter]

Yes. His name is Trump. Unless he is somehow not an entirely different millionare with lucrative and unnecessary gaudy residential buildings, this is an incredibly strange difference between dimensions.

[neverstudied]

... That sounds more like Plump. The guy who runs Plump towers- remember that, Ray? Deadcon and the dentists?

But nah, I'm talking about Frump. NYPD. Real sweetheart.

[Venkman grimaces, putting his fork down.]

First time I met him, he came stomping into the firehouse and basically accused me of attempted manslaughter, with a ghost as my accomplice. Since then he's been an occasional thorn in our sides. Mine especially.

[pkemeter]

....Dentists.

[He doesn't even sound surprised at this point.]

Never heard of Frump, though. The only person who's ever come close to interfering with our work consistently has been-- [He grimaces slightly and lowers his volume.] --Peck.

[ghoststanning]

Oh I remember that. Janine still hasn't quite forgiven me for making her release Stay Puft during Deadcon.

[Well more like she teases him about it every now and again but HE STILL HATES IT.

Ray suddenly glowers, in an almost uncharacteristic way.]

I remember dickless; I guess some things never change, huh? I'm guessing he let all the ghosts out of the containment unit too and then tried blaming it on us?

[neverstudied]

Ray, you unleashed a giant marshmallow man on New York twice. At least the second time he just wanted to make farmer's daughter jokes.

Ol' dickless. We haven't seen him around in a while, though. Not since his last lawsuit fell flat.

[pkemeter]

[The corner of Egon's mouth twitches up in a half-smirk.]

It's good to hear that insults and the failure of Walter Peck remains consistent throughout--

[...]

You released Gozer for a convention?

[ghoststanning]

I still can't believe Peck tried blaming the Stay Puft thing all on me...

[:C]

I didn't mean it! We were infiltrating Deadcon and Janine called me complaining about one of the requests and I told her to do it anyway! I didn't know she was talking about releasing him until after he was released!

[neverstudied]

It's a good thing Dickless never got stuck in a room alone with me.

Hey, if it helps, Stay Puft apparently chilled out a lot in containment. Learned to talk and tell jokes. We got him to fight a giant praying mantis for us, once.

I dunno if that means Gozer calmed down, or if he has no residual connection to Gozer anymore, or what.

[pkemeter]

[Egon just sort of stares at the two of them for a few moments, glancing back and forth between Ray and Peter.]

An ancient Sumerian god, reduced to telling sexual jokes and fighting giant praying mantids.

[He folds his hands together, looking incredibly pensive.]

It leads one to wonder what happens between all of those ghosts in the containment unit. And how you contained Gozer in the first place--I'm pretty sure he just...exploded when we dealt with him.

[ghoststanning]

[He looks over at Venkman and whispers:]

How did we get Gozer into the containment unit again?

flexes my bullshitting skills

[neverstudied]

[Venkman raises his eyebrows.]

You forgot? Damn. Maybe I shouldn't tell you, then.

... It was the uniforms that got covered in bits of Stay Puft and turned into weird copies of us. When we captured them and put them in the containment unit, there was something about the spirit energy residue... I can't remember the exact wording Egon used.

But basically, when the fake versions of us went into the unit, they all meshed together to form a new Stay Puft.

valid

[pkemeter]

Hmm. Yes, I do remember you speaking about your failure to dispose of the jumpsuits following the Gozer incident. [Crosses his arms.] This would align with the idea that ghosts can leave ectoplasmic "fingerprints" of PK energy, in a manner of speaking.

...Though, as this was only an "impression" of Gozer and not a complete manifestation, it would also follow that his personality or mannerisms would change drastically given enough time isolated from his native dimension.