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[gone_byebye]

It will be a positive relief to go back to Chicago and deal with the nightly near-hurricanes brought by the Robert Mackenzie's repeating manifestation. Right now Ray's about had it up to here with astonishingly perfect women. He's sort of hoping that Mary Poppins will walk through the door with a claymore slung across her back and 'There can be

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[works_in_space]

"Good morning, Ray. I assume that sign has to do with the investigation Sarah Jane told me about?" Jim looks reasonably well-rested and calm.

[gone_byebye]

"Afraid so," says Ray. "It's turned up a number of likely hits so far, too. Morning, Jim."

[works_in_space]

"I hate to ask this question, but given what Sarah told me, I have to. Have there been any mysterious deaths?" He trusts Sarah's account of events, but he needs to ask one more time.

[gone_byebye]

"Nothing yet, thank Fnord," says Ray. "And I've been keeping in touch with the afflicted parties' less-messed-up friends and associates, so I'd've heard if anybody got psychically vampired to death."

[shadowsfound]

Kevin's reading the sign.
"...huh. Can't help you there yet. I've only been here a week. Met a few good people, but none of 'em are that sort of wonderful.
Well, you could talk my ear off. So long as I have one left."

[gone_byebye]

"Oh, that's fine," Ray says. "I'm mostly trying to bring in victims of an entity that I believe may be a type of psychic vampire, possibly one with an eye to insinuating herself into multiple universes. Romana's perfectly normal for her species- that's my fiancee. My name's Ray Stantz. Hi."

[shadowsfound]

"Hi. Kevin Ford; nice to meetcha, Ray." He considers. "Trying to bait her, or figure out where she's hiding?"
Psychic vampires are trouble but on a threat scale for Earth 616? Not as terrifying as some entities.

[gone_byebye]

"More the latter than the former," Ray says. "Given her capacity for inserting herself retroactively into people's memories, and the amount of incredibly awful rewriting she's been doing of people's life's stories, I'm inclined to suspect she's attempting to establish footholds in multiple universes for some pretty nasty purposes. I'd like as much data as we can pull together before anybody tries to lure her out and make a strike."

[good_or_awesome]

"I think that'd be Raspberry," says the wrestleman. "But I'm not gonna talk your ear off about her either. Except to say that she's so hot I'm amazed she doesn't melt herself."

[gone_byebye]

"High quality nanomek and magic probably goes a really long way," Ray says. "Hi, Strong Bad. Long time no see."

[good_or_awesome]

"Likewise. So don't talk my ear off about this fiancee'a yours, but please tell me a little about her. She must be hella hot, if you can hear somebody mention Raspberry and think about her technical aspects first thing."

[gone_byebye]

Ray chuckles and pulls out his duct-tape wallet. "Well, she's blonde, she's cute, she's about so tall, she's funny, she's clever, and I have never in my life met anybody who was just plain that intellectually drop-dead gorgeous," he says. "Here-"

He flips out the pictures in his wallet. There's a fair number of them.

"I should probably mention that she's not from Earth, either. She's a Gallifreyan, which is cool in itself."

[jonathanparagon]

"I need to talk to you about Andrew", Jonathan announces, arriving at his table. "Also, hi."

[gone_byebye]

Ray looks up from his cereal. "Hi, Jonathan," he says. "This is about Little Miss Wonderful, isn't it."

[jonathanparagon]

"Yeah", Jonathan confirms. "He said you've been working on it?"

[gone_byebye]

"Yeah," Ray says. "Here, have a look." He taps a few controls on his holocomputer and pops up the extended listing and write-up of all the affected individuals- including the slightly sketchier one on Andrew.

[mend_and_defend]

Bob sags into the chair next to Ray, bearing a mug of java the size of his head. He looks like he hasn't been sleeping well.

"Please tell me you've got some idea of how to fix this."

[gone_byebye]

"Working on it," says Ray. "The infiltration entity's range seems to be pretty widespread, although she hasn't really seemed to hit anybody more than once so far that I can tell."

[mend_and_defend]

"Maybe it's not trying to take over, then?" Bob offers. "Seems like if it was trying to infiltrate people's worlds it would hit them up repeatedly."

[gone_byebye]

"Except that once certain varieties of evil spirit or supernatural being are invited to enter a residence, they have a permanent pass-code to get into that residence with or without any further permissions given," Ray says. "And this thing is giving off a lot of the same vibes you see with your more esoteric and less corpsey varieties of vampire, which is on the list of beings you should probably avoid saying 'enter freely and of your own will' to."