Still Room 2342, Yee-Haw

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The sign on the outside of the door says IF YOU ATTEMPT TO ENTER THIS ROOM YOU WILL BE SHOT.

A slightly smaller sign below says UNLESS YOU'RE ON THE SHIFT ROSTER- PEDO MELLON A MINNO.

The latter part is Sindarin for 'speak, friend, and enter', or possibly slightly different translations thereof.

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Ray sighs, but it's a good sigh. "Thank you. I was starting to wonder if something was wrong with me for thinking that way, given how hysterical Peter can get about the situation at times. Honestly, I love him like the brother my parents never gave me but there are times when I think that psychology degree went straight to his head, and not in a good way, either. I'd read the book if I were you, though. Definitely."

He makes a mental note to ask Ecto if she'd rather play Compare the Versions with his old copy of Tobin's and his new one than read more of Spates when he gets home. It'll be nice, to see New York again...

"Yeah, that's true. Still, you shouldn't necessarily be too surprised if there's some kind of-"

He stops, blinking.

"Hey, I wonder how much of it might be related to your currently transitional state according to the world outside the Milliways main door? I mean, let's be honest here- how much of the old school approach had to do with walking in two worlds at once?"

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Egon looks at Ray. It's at moments like this he realizes just how much he underestimates the man sometimes - relying on him for his heart, not just his mind.

"The traditional shamanic-style magics were based on that, as were some of the more esoterically based Celtic and Hellenic concepts. It's an interesting idea - the fact I am somewhat between existences may be the difference. That's quite brilliant, Ray. Quite brilliant. I may have to work on this hypothesis." Then he blinks.

"Ray... could I have come here, now, because you need me, and I cannot go until the situation is resolved? You have greater experience here than I do." That would be rather reassuring, come to think of it - that he's here because this situation needs not just Ray and Peter, but also himself for whatever reason.

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Ray gives this some thought, and then-

"Yeah, actually," he says. "That's distinctly possible. I've found that the only times I've come here by accident, other than the times that involved falling off the Shandor Building, it's been because something or someone here needed me specifically. And that if I try to leave when I've got an obligation hanging over me here other than my tab, the Bar tends to send me to the wrong universe for whatever reason. So I'd say it's very possible that that's why you're here, and why you can't leave just yet."

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Egon takes this all in.

"Then I had best begin reading in depth, then, shouldn't I?" He's immersed himself in fiction in the past few days. Now?

Now it's time to get to work, Ghostbusters style.