"The local variation on the theme of fish isn't the same as the original stock, not by a long shot," Ray says. "Four hundred thousand years of development in the absence of active Great Old One influence goes a long way, especially when you consider that their ancestors started dying of old age within two hundred years of arriving in this dimension. They're not even Dagonites any more, from what I can tell."
"Insofar as any race can ever sever that kind of linkage," Egon mutters.
"Thank you, Little Mary Sunshine," says Venkman.
Ray just shakes his head a little. "The rest of us are going to deploy along the high-probability areas for rift openings. I'm hoping we'll see PKE readings that'll be at least consonant with the ones we got at 55 Central Park West, because that implies a possible solution to the rift issue that doesn't require universal self-sealing or the Exploder Wizard's last-ditch emergency spell- that's him over there, the one with all the hair and the swagger. His name's Dark Schneider. He's dealt with similar things before but I'd rather not have him do more than blow incoming nasties to pieces unless we absolutely have to."
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"Insofar as any race can ever sever that kind of linkage," Egon mutters.
"Thank you, Little Mary Sunshine," says Venkman.
Ray just shakes his head a little. "The rest of us are going to deploy along the high-probability areas for rift openings. I'm hoping we'll see PKE readings that'll be at least consonant with the ones we got at 55 Central Park West, because that implies a possible solution to the rift issue that doesn't require universal self-sealing or the Exploder Wizard's last-ditch emergency spell- that's him over there, the one with all the hair and the swagger. His name's Dark Schneider. He's dealt with similar things before but I'd rather not have him do more than blow incoming nasties to pieces unless we absolutely have to."