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[OOM: The Tour de Bronx may have to change their route this year.]The door opens and Ray comes in- respectably dressed in clean civilian clothes and not smelling of anything weird or dripping anything unholy, for once. He does, however, look like he found half a bug in his Cheerios. "Bar," he says, "I could use some coffee and a good book on the

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Kevin wasn't trying to eavesdrop. But he happened to catch just the one word.

"...Sasquatch?"

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Ray nods. "We have evidence of a potential Sasquatch encounter in Van Cortlandt Park," he says tiredly. "Mostly in the form of the biggest humanoid footprint I've ever seen."

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"In the city?" he asks, startled. "That's unusual."

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"It's a big park." Ray shrugs. "Somebody thought it was a coyote pack until it punched a guard in the gut and ran like hell."

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"What was it doing at the time?"

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"Rummaging through a dumpster at high speed. Or at least it was making the trash fly. The guard said he didn't see anything, except for the flying trash- until whammo, punch to the gut."

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"So they're becoming urbanised. Fascinating."

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"You know these creatures?" Ray says. "Everything I've found on them so far indicates they're native to the Pacific Northwest."

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"I know of them, more than know them. I never got much chance to study the living animals - no one really did - but I know a little about them."

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"Oh, good," Ray says. "You wouldn't know how to convince one to move away from the human areas of the park, would you? I mean, is it like the guy in Colorado who chases off black bears with a megaphone, or are we talking near-sapience here?"

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"Nearer to sapient than a bear, I'd say", Kevin says thoughtfully. "There's evidence that they mourn their dead. And if all it wants is food..."

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"I have no objection to relocating the critter somewhere further away from a population center," Ray says. "The Bronx isn't even safe for humans, let alone a full-grown sasquatch."

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Kevin nods.

"The best way, as far as I can see, is to lure it away with better food than it would find in a dumpster."

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"I think we can arrange that. Are they carnivorous or was this just a case of opportunistic feeding?"

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"Most likely opportunistic feeding, I think. It's a forest dweller, mostly vegetarian."

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"Okay," Ray says. "So... fruit and stuff? We can definitely pull that off."