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I think Scarlet has just tumbled on the main problem with ghost hunting, that you might actually find one.

I can just hear Digit now. "Why are you pinching your eyes together like that, Scarlet? Are you trying to kill her with your face? I don't think it's working... your expression does not affect the situation, not does it seem to convey any physiological benefit. You para-humans behave in such a curious fashion..."

Sometimes I think Scarlett wants to go full Moe Howard on the whole crew.

oldmanmickey wrote:I think Scarlet has just tumbled on the main problem with ghost hunting, that you might actually find one.

Heh.

In one of Ernest Bramah's "Kai Lung" stories - "Stories of an ancient China that never was" - a young woman demands that a suitor for her hand slay a dragon to prove his love.

When he allows as how that seems a bit dangerous, she says that in stories from barbarian lands young men are gladt to go dragon-hunting to prove their love.

He replies that of course they are - "... in barbarian lands, there are no dragons. But here in the Middle Kingdom, there ARE."

Daylla seems to be of the opinion that the way to defuse a landmine is by stomping on it...

They're researchers. Why not research the history of the room?

eee wrote:Daylla seems to be of the opinion that the way to defuse a landmine is by stomping on it...

And there speaks the innocence of youth (and maybe the near-invulnerability of a lass made from living metal... she might not be more than tarnished by a Boom).

I'm sure that with a bit more age and experience, she'll realize that's not the best way to go about it. You don't stomp on a landline. You have an NPC go over and stomp on the landline.

(There's never a redshirt around when you need one.)

Given that these kids are the next generation, wouldn't that be a yellow shirt instead?

Alkarii wrote:Given that these kids are the next generation, wouldn't that be a yellow shirt instead?

Possibly... but I tend to go for the classics

I really do think Daylla is playing with fire here. She's talking about throwing together a bunch of very volatile elements. A ghost. A ghost whisperer. Hiroshi. Shawna. Castela. A sleepover, possibly with pajamas. I don't think psychologists tend to use the word "hypergolic" much, but that's how this situation might turn out.

"Hey, I just brewed up a beaker full of chloric acid. Let's throw in some gasoline, and see what happens. It'll be perfectly safe - we'll just stand over here behind the big drum of dry nitrogen tri-iodide."

The smart thing for Castela would be to skip on it as well. At least, I would, in her place and situation.

Dave wrote:You don't stomp on a landline. You have an NPC go over and stomp on the landline.

Around here, they string the landlines on poles. Makes 'em harder to stomp.

Dave wrote:

Alkarii wrote:Given that these kids are the next generation, wouldn't that be a yellow shirt instead?

I really do think Daylla is playing with fire here. She's talking about throwing together a bunch of very volatile elements. A ghost. A ghost whisperer. Hiroshi. Shawna. Castela. A sleepover, possibly with pajamas. I don't think psychologists tend to use the word "hypergolic" much, but that's how this situation might turn out.

Lots of things are hypergolic in the presence of a Castelalyst.