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Agatha's back in the bar today, at the tables she set up before. The sign and items are all still there. Draping it in a blanket helped keep everything safe.

Well, that and the security system she added.

She's not keeping an eye out for customers at the moment. There's something more importaint on her mind.

In front of her is a slightly used camera, disassembled. Notes and schematics are spread out on the table around it, and there is much tinkering. She's humming an odd tune.

Fear.

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"There were problems for anyone who happened to live between two warring houses, of course --"

She smiles slightly.

"If they're anything like the armies I've seen, they would fall out of use once half their trainees killed themselves before figuring out how to use them and the other half realized some time later that no one taught them how to repair the device. Still, some damage would be done before they caught on."

"Well, see, the thing with the proton packs is that if you have two of them in one place, and you're firing both of them at full stream, and you cross the streams, it causes some serious dimensional cross-warping. The streams basically work on the ghosts by overloading them with enough energy to force them into manifesting fully and severing their connection to the etheric plane, so they're innately local planar breaches. Cross two of the streams and you're forcing two breaches to interact at utterly different angles. The end result, from the user's point of view? Imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light. The first time two recruits sneeze at the wrong moment during target practice, you're doomed."

Agatha considers this.

". . . and the people who think it's a good idea to give an army these devices. They've lived this long, how?"

"Well, that's the thing." Ray says. "once we explained that part to them? Suddenly they didn't want them any more."

"That's a relief. Let's hope they've learned their lesson and leave you to your work."

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