[22:13] <Ramc> You eventually get through, "Yes hello Fin."
[22:14] <Ramc> "Did manage to reverse the Paco and Candace brain swap."
[22:14] <Fin> did you*?
[22:15] <Ramc> correct
[22:15] <Fin>  "Eh, I like it better this way."
[22:15] <Fin> "How's Mickey's athlete's foot doing?"
[22:27] <Fin> ping
[22:29] <Ramc> "It would be a stretch to call Reynolds an Athlete."
[22:29] <Ramc> "He is improving."
[22:29] <Fin> "Can he talk yet?"
[22:29] <Ramc> "He can communicate yes."
[22:30] <Fin> "Good. I'm, uh, actually calling about something else."
[22:31] <Ramc> "You may pivot."
[22:32] <Fin> "Thanks. So did we tell you about how we dragged the Curse of the Bambino out of Fenway to help us handle some other baddy?"
[22:32] <Fin> "We might be a little responsible for this year's particular matchup, I mean."
[22:32] <Ramc> "You have told me so many insane things honestly I can't remember if you did but proceed." no judgement!
[22:33] <Fin> "Well, the spirit got all mixed up with this other shadow-monster-vampire-thing. Details aren't important here. But long story short it's coming back meaner than ever and aims to manifest in the middle of Game 7."
[22:34] <Ramc> "Of the World Series of Baseball?"
[22:34] <Fin> "Yeah. The W-SOB, as they call it."
[22:35] <Ramc> "Why does the O merit a presence in the acronym."
[22:35] <Fin> "Sports people," with a note of 'am I right'?
[22:36] <Ramc> "And they made fun of us in high school." pity and contempt.
[22:37] <Fin> "Although I guess our houses aren't exactly the furthest from silica-based, us Etherites I mean, acronymwise --- anyhow."
[22:37] <Ramc> "We know the terrible power of the Acronym."
[22:37] <Ramc> "That is why we have so many regulations regarding their use."
[22:38] <Fin> "Right, right."
[22:39] <Fin> "I read that manuscript you sent me, on using or omitting periods - I'm convinced."
[22:39] <Fin> "Anyway!"
[22:39] <Fin> "We've got a shot to head this spirit-thing off at a mansion. Saving us from having to cross the Storm over at Fenway and duke with the thing on the other side of the Gauntlet."
[22:45] <Ramc> "Go on."
[22:45] <Fin> "I'm hoping to engineer some sort of trap, to keep it from getting from the mansion to Fenway. What goes into building a spirit trap?"
[22:46] <Ramc> "Are you familiar with Ghostbusters?"
[22:46] <Fin> "
[22:46] <Fin> "You're kidding, right?"
[22:47] <Ramc> "This was a rhetorical question, yes."
[22:47] <Ramc> "It is the same principle."
[22:47] <Ramc> "I haven't had the time to perfect a containment unit however."
[22:47] <Ramc> ('i do not have spirit 4')
[22:48] <Fin> "Mmm. What about making a more, y'know, typical-style trap with materials the spirit can't pass through?"
[22:51] <Ramc> "That might work. Unless..."
[22:51] <Fin> "Unless?"
[22:52] <Ramc> "Unless it is very strong."
[22:52] <Ramc> "And it punches through them."
[22:52] <Fin> "It is probably going to be very strong."
[22:55] <Ramc> "That could be a problem then. Making items ectoplasmically relevant cuts both ways."
[22:55] <Fin> "How's that?"
[22:56] <Ramc> "Because it can touch it too."
[22:56] <Fin> "Ah. And a wall becomes a weapon pretty quick?"
[22:58] <Ramc> "If it can lift and use a wall as a physical weapon you probably have other problems to address."
[22:58] <Fin> "Maybe... hm. Maybe ropes?"
[22:59] <Fin> "Ectoplasmically relevant hypersteel fiber."
[22:59] <Ramc> "Does it have teeth or scything blades?"
[22:59] <Ramc> "Your milage may vary."
[23:00] <Fin> "It does have hundreds of mouths."
[23:03] <Ramc> "That might mean proportiately weaker bite strength."
[23:03] <Ramc> "Or not."
[23:04] <Fin> ".... yeah. I mean, Leigh'll be there. Maybe my best bet is to just prep a strong enough etherblast and shoot the damn thing."
[23:04] <Fin> "But, uh, yeah, I appreciate the advice."
[23:05] <Ramc> "Most spirits can be effectively exploded."
[23:06] <Fin> "That's been my experience."
[23:06] <Fin> "Don't suppose you'd be on board for an on-site explosion?"
[23:24] <Ramc> "That depends on the site."
[23:25] <Fin> "It's a mansion." Fin gives the address. "Fenway's too dicey, I think, to be asking people willy-nilly to jump onto."
[23:25] <Fin> "But if you want in on the death ray..."
[23:25] <Ramc> "I'm not familiar with this place, but keep me posted if I am needed."
[23:26] <Fin> "I'll see what Leigh thinks. Thanks."
[23:27] <Ramc> "Let me know if Paco and Candace swap brains again. Goodbye."
[23:27] <Fin> Fin... rolls with it.
[23:27] <Fin> klk