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After some in-bar discussion earlier, Ray retired to his room to check on some experiments and make up for lost sleep. He's awake properly now, and wearing the equations T-shirt. And he's got dinner and a couple of small grey possibly electronic things on his table, along with the creepy green opalescent soda stuff. Come say hi!

[Summary: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBABYDINOSAURSEEEEEEEEE!!! Ray once again displays all the survival instincts of an eggplant as he finds first one, then two, then three baby Utahraptors clustering about his table. They get fed, watered, and played with, and then momma shows up, so she gets fed too. The babies get named Scribble, Kona, and Tiger, and Scribble decides that she likes playing tug-of-war with Ray, which is good, because he likes playing it too.

Donatello shows up at the sight of Ray's T-shirt, and there is discussion of general geekery, then ghost geekery, before Donatello realizes who Ray is. Then Ray breaks out the Map of Milliways Patrons' Worlds and OMG TECHNO FOO. Slowtimed for now.

And Lysistrata comes around, and she and Ray chat, and the possibility is planted in Lysistrata's mind of visiting New York City. Ray indicates that the status of women in his time is fairly high compared to Athens in Lysistrata's day. There is also much discussion of the fact that the Greek playwrights and philosophers are still remembered and taught in the schools in Ray's time, which pleases Lysistrata to no end.]

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[redsnout.livejournal.com]

"Yeep! Yeep!" A raptor chick hops up to Ray, nipping at his ankle curiously. "Yeep!" It blinks, bouncing up and down for a moment before looking up at him.

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Ray looks down and goggles at the baby raptor for a moment. "Well, aren't you the cutest little bundle of death on two legs!" he says, reaching for his dinner- a hamburger this time. He breaks off a piece, crumbling it back into ground beef, and drops it on the floor near the chick. If it's anything like a kitten it's got really sharp teeth.

[redsnout.livejournal.com]

"Snnr? Yeep!" The little raptor stretches its neck out as it sniffs, then stats to gulp down the meat as quickly as it can. Apparently, it's not picky whatsoever.

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Of course not. It's young and a predator. They're all like that. Ray looks over the hamburger, calculates for a moment, then breaks off some more and waits to see if that one chunk was enough. Maybe if he's careful he can get it to eat from the palm of his hand?

Yep. Eggplant.

[redsnout.livejournal.com]

The chick lifts its head up as it finishes, eyeballing Ray hungrily. One chunk wasn't enough for the chick-after all, it'll only survive if it stays greedy. "Yeep!" It bounces again, eagerly squawking for more food.

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Of course. And so Ray holds out the next chunk on the flat of his palm, with only the tiniest part of his brain ever even considering the kinds of bacteria that might be in a baby raptor's mouth. "Here you go, kiddo. Eat up."

[redsnout.livejournal.com]

"Squuuyeeep!" the chick trills, gobbling up the chunk without a second thought. This strange animal doesn't smell like either parent, but it's offering food, and that makes the chick happy. "Yeep! Snnrrryeeep!"

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Ray thinks for a minute, then peels the bread and stuff off his burger and sets it aside. The remains of the burger are smooshed into something approaching the consistency of canned dog food, and the plate is set on the floor in the little guy's vicinity. There is a purpose to this. Ray is going to the bar to get himself another burger, and to get a small slab of whatever that stuff was that the big raptor was eating last night- raw, whole, and suitable for little beasties to tear into and exercise their jaws.

Assuming it's not at the 'eat what mommy disgorges' stage, in which case he's going to have to cut the red meat up really fine for it. But hey. He'll deal. It's a friggin' DINOSAUR.

[redsnout.livejournal.com]

Immediately, the little raptor hops to the plate and starts gobbling down the food. A few moments later, another baby raptor appears-this one dragging a shoe by its laces. Fortunately, the shoe doesn't look like it was forcibly removed from its owner. Soon both chicks are gobbling the meat, and squeaking and squawking at each other.

[mnt_donnie]

What's that? Geek in the house? Kinship!

"Testing the boundaries of the time-space continuum,?"

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"Not at the moment," Ray says, looking up from his dinner. "But it comes in awfully handy sometimes. Mostly I just screw around with the border between the prime material plane and the realm of the spirits.... Oh. Uh, my name's Ray. Which of the brothers are you?"

[mnt_donnie]

"Really? I've played around with subspace and the layers between the dimensions, but never spiritual...oh, I'm Don. That, um, smart one."

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"Ah, see, you want anything to do with subspace around the firehouse, you're going to have to ask Egon. He's the high-energy physicist, not me. I do the engineering." After a pause he adds, "Mostly. These days there's more research involved. Anyway- between dimensions? Which ones've you been working with? My graduate thesis experiment involved trying to put enough pressure on local spacetime to tear open a small controllable portal, but the machine sort of exploded partway through the data gathering phase."

[mnt_donnie]

"I managed to get a working prototype of a transdimensional portal, but I was never able to figure out exactly how all the science worked. It was a gift from a Time Lord type guy. The machine...well, it got blown up. Everything was very...purple in the place I went."

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"Oh, you met one of the Time Lords too, huh? I've only met Romana so far... This was outside the Bar, I take it?" Then he blinks. "Purple? Really? You didn't meet a being named Asar-Suti there, by any chance, did you?"

[mnt_donnie]

"...there's more then one?" He fears for the universe. "Yes, outside this place. And what? No. That was more of a comic book universe. Things were never dull there. What did you mean by realms of the spirit?" He is getting his geek on.

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"It's a whole planet, called Gallifrey. They do it via technological means- they've pretty nearly perfected dimensional travel by now. Ask Ace about the Time Lord called the Doctor if you see her any time soon."

He smiles a bit. "Exactly what it sounds like. Dimensions stocked primarily with ghosts, spirits, ectoplasmic entities of every stripe and color- they're out there, and in my world they're a real problem. I'm not just an engineer, I'm a parapsychologist."

Mikey recognized him. Maybe this one will, too, given enough of a chance?

[nonookie4u.livejournal.com]

Lysistrata decides to join Ray.
"Hello again. How are you?"

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Ray looks up and smiles. "Pretty good. I've met a lot of new people lately, and a couple of ancient reptilian creatures that'd make crocodiles look like youngsters. How are you?"

[nonookie4u.livejournal.com]

"There have been a lot of...odd people in the bar lately. I've kind of been avoiding them in my room but I'm supposed to meeet a friend. Plus it's way too hot upstairs."

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"Oh, yeah," Ray says. "There's been an influx of newbies lately. That's probably going to be kind of disturbing. Doesn't your room have a-"

He pauses. She wouldn't know.

"-a dial or device or something with writing in an unfamiliar alphabet on it? Probably on the wall, or sticking out of the window? Those can usually be used to control the temperature."

[nonookie4u.livejournal.com]

"I...I think I do. But I wasn't going to touch it. You never know what it might do. 'Press this to cool down the room,' or 'press that to summon the end of the world.' It's all foreign to me. This entire place is disturbing. I think Caspian had to show me how to turn on the lights."
She puts he head in her right hand and rolls her eyes.
"And if I meet one more sentient shape-transforming animal I'm going to scream."

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Ray nods. "Fair enough. Around here, it's kind of a toss-up. I could show you at some point if Caspian can't pull it off." He thinks the name sounds a bit familiar, but Caspian's common enough in the right parts of Earth, so he doesn't say anything there.

"Well, if it's any comfort, the lizard things I met can't shapechange and don't speak any language I can think of. They're just monstrous reptiles." Then he smiles a bit. "You know, it's just occurred to me... the language thing. I know enough Greek to relabel the stuff in your room, if you can read."

[nonookie4u.livejournal.com]

"That would be helpful, Ray. I can read a little bit, although I'm not sure how one would label a lot of things in Greek. We don't have stuff like 'milkshake' in our language.
Although then again I should probably learn to read the language here so I'm not so helpless."

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"Modern Greek's come up with a few words that might help," Ray says. "I don't know the modern dialects all that well, but if my memory fails I can always try to cobble some words together for you. I learned Attic dialect, so it's good old fashioned Athenian all the way. Not sure who else here speaks Greek, though. I might be able to help you a bit with the learning, if you liked."