pkeccentric.livejournal.com[the camera clicks on to show Ray sitting at a table littered with all sorts of mechanical doodads and tools; among them, nozzles, several dozen screws, a ball of multicolored wires with a wire cutter laying nearby, and a screwdriver. in the middle of this chaos lays the proton pack, which Ray appears to be in the process of screwing a small slot back onto. when he's finished, he sits back triumphantly and turns his focus to the camera.]
Man, time flies when you're charging subatomic particles. Or, uh...having fun. Same difference, right? It's fantastic that warping between time and space hasn't damaged the pack's power cell, but all the same, I've been making some repairs to the neutrona wand and seeing if that affects the stream's overall performance. Sorta makes me wonder if there's any difference between this reality's ionization rate and our own, but it's not like there aren't any opportunities for experimentation--
[stops short, blinking; an awkward chuckle follows soon after]
Woah...bad habit. Talk about getting too ahead of yourself before you even try to get to the point. Dunno what mine was, but -- oh, yeah!
To the students and faculty of the Xavier Institute who I haven't gotten around to speaking with yet, I'm Dr. Ray Stantz. I along with my fellow colleague Dr. Peter Venkman have been graciously offered housing and employment at your fine faculty, an experience which we hope will further our research and give us some terrific data to work by. If all goes smoothly, we hope to design some new equipment that we think will come in handy for both the students and staff here, sorta in the similar vein of the gear we had on us when we were brought here.
[stands up, picking up the pack's proton gun] Take this beauty for example. Mini particle accelerator with a half-life of 5000 years -- we call it a proton pack. Assuming the rates of ionization are constant between realities, this can emit a stream of pure protonic energy to trap a supernatural entity--more commonly, a ghost--within it indefinitely. I'm making a few tweaks here and there, just some routine maintenance, but otherwise it works perfectly! I think it's done recharging now, sooo...
[he flips the switch on the side of the pack on, smiling proudly. a low but very audible humming can be heard, seemingly growing louder and louder much to Ray's visible confusion--
--until the lights in the room he's in start flickering before going out completely, sending the area--and the camera feed--into blackness.]
...Okay, so it isn't. Oops.
[the transmission cuts out immediately after]