JUNE - JULY TEST DRIVE MEME

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➞ Post with a character you wish to test drive in this game's setting.
➞ Tag other people's starters and thread out shenanigans!
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[pkemeter]

[Egon doesn't actually catch the first part of the stranger's video post--though he does catch the murder joke. He remains mildly interested in the video, as ghosts of any sort are always of interest to him. When the person gets jumped, he blinks, peering closer in concern.

He doesn't recognize him as Winston--why would he? The Winston in his dimension looks different, older. More like Ernie Hudson.]

Are you alright? [His flat tone makes him sound utterly unconcerned.] You know, it's unwise to go into notably haunted areas without proper equipment and preparation beforehand.

[As if the Ghostbusters ever spend more than five minutes "preparing" for any bust.]

[yousayyes]

[With some effort, he manages to summon the strength to roll himself onto his back, holding the Pokégear out above himself so he can get a good look at the video feed of whoever's talking to him now. ...this guy does look a little familiar to Winston, but it's the kind of "familiar" where he's sure they've never actually met. ...might be somebody from a movie he saw once.]

Yeah, you're right about that. [Now if only he had access to any of that equipment...] Should really keep my guard up in a place like this. Thought I could at least spare a few seconds to capture that joke in the moment... then the next thing I know, I wind up getting decked... and by something that looks like a class two, at best.

[Winston turns the screen around a bit to bring the gastly that attacked him into frame. It looks into the camera, scowls, and sticks its tongue out.]

...albeit a class two in real bad spirits. [The gastly blows a raspberry at that pun.]

[pkemeter]

[Egon seems to perk up at the words "class two" as he leans closer to the screen, peering at the stranger and adjusting his glasses.]

Ah, so you're familiar with the categorization of supernatural spirits. Excellent, excellent. You're much less prone to being harmed once you gain a base knowledge of their tendencies and are able to apply it to the field.

[He seems...almost excited about this? He clears his throat before he gets ahead of himself.]

I work first-hand with research on the unnatural world and study ghosts, myself. Though, to be quite honest, the spirits of this world seem to be much less malevolent than the ones I've encountered in my home dimension. I doubt they would allow them to be captured if they weren't able to calm them.

[yousayyes]

[Winston steadily shifts himself up into a cross-legged sitting position on the ground, giving a sideways glance at the Pokegear as he listens to this stranger speak.] It's something I picked up on the job... like I said, I'm a ghostbuster.

...and with the way you're talking, it sounds to me like you're something of one, yourself. [...specifically, he sounds a lot like Egon. Both in terms of voice and the way he talks like that... all blunt and technical. It's kind of uncanny, actually- in a way that's getting him to question that nagging sense of familiarity he brushed off as just recognizing him from a movie-]

[...that's it- he looks just like the guy that played Egon in the movie!]

Hey, the name "Egon Spengler" wouldn't happen to mean anything to you, would it?

[pkemeter]

[Ghostbuster? So, this man is from another dimension in which he's a Ghostbuster, as well? How odd. Egon blinks, scratching his chin.]

It does. You're speaking to him. Or, at least one version of Egon Spengler.

[He squints at the stranger's face, seeing if he can recognize him. Unfortunately, it's just not clicking for him.]

Are you another Ghostbuster from a different dimension, then? Two other Ghostbusters from a different dimension than mine have arrived here with me. Do you know Ray Stantz and Peter Venkman, then?