Change of Bastardry
Oct. 25th, 2007 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynHave decided that it would be narratively awkward to go ahead with the plans to have Walter Peck kidnap one of Ray's nephews for the big 'open the box, Dr. Stantz, or he will' scene. Even with using Incompetent Henchmen R Us to wind up sedating Alex with prescription strength Benadryl rather than morphine, it still doesn't work that well (although the image of Alex biding his time and waiting to use telekinesis to punch Peck in the crotch is a nice one). Someone has to get out of Poughkeepsie, get into Bellmore, deploy a Hand of Glory, grab the kid, inject him, and get back up to Poughkeepsie before the sleepy effects of the allergy drug wear off. It's mostly the beating the clock + beating the Poughkeepsie police force on the roads into town that're the problem.
OTOH.
I'd been planning on having Peck have some extra toys along for a while now. The discussion at Denny's is not in reference to the Ark at all. Peck is talking about an entirely different source of power and I want that noted right now, that I've been planning this all along. Peck worked for the Technological Intelligence Movement Monitoring project (Foliage Census) for several years. He had access to their files. He knows what their captive geniuses were capable of doing, and what their cooperative ones were capable of doing. More importantly, he knows where the kidnapped tech geniuses' stuff is stored. The Warehouse (which is maintained by the General Accounting Office's personnel, hence reporting the loss of the Ark to the Comptroller General lost more than just the Ark that night, but the President wasn't informed of all the losses because they were hoping to track those down themselves by following whoever went after the Ark.
yes, this means Ray is being trailed by a team of stealth accountants.
... anyway, one of the stolen items was chosen because Peck figured that the Ghostbusters would probably be bringing lots and lots of technology with them, especially after last time. One of the items in that Peterbilt truck of Peck's is an EMP generator.
"Open the Ark, Dr. Stantz, or your daughter gets it."
OTOH.
I'd been planning on having Peck have some extra toys along for a while now. The discussion at Denny's is not in reference to the Ark at all. Peck is talking about an entirely different source of power and I want that noted right now, that I've been planning this all along. Peck worked for the Technological Intelligence Movement Monitoring project (Foliage Census) for several years. He had access to their files. He knows what their captive geniuses were capable of doing, and what their cooperative ones were capable of doing. More importantly, he knows where the kidnapped tech geniuses' stuff is stored. The Warehouse (which is maintained by the General Accounting Office's personnel, hence reporting the loss of the Ark to the Comptroller General lost more than just the Ark that night, but the President wasn't informed of all the losses because they were hoping to track those down themselves by following whoever went after the Ark.
yes, this means Ray is being trailed by a team of stealth accountants.
... anyway, one of the stolen items was chosen because Peck figured that the Ghostbusters would probably be bringing lots and lots of technology with them, especially after last time. One of the items in that Peterbilt truck of Peck's is an EMP generator.
"Open the Ark, Dr. Stantz, or your daughter gets it."
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Date: 2007-10-25 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-25 01:57 pm (UTC)The scene pauses as we attempt to determine how the heck one pronounces '::'.
"... besides, Garion said he'd turn him into a fish."
But, yeah. That seems like bastardry enough for just about anybody, really.
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:05 pm (UTC)If you wanna go totally canonical SAT it would be, "Peck is to Ghostbusters as Starscream is to pretty much every other Cybertronian".
I still maintain one of the top five squee lines in the movie was "AGain you fail me, Starscream."
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:11 pm (UTC)That'll work, yeah. Ray will probably explain it that way when he gets back to the Bar after the Ark thing is dealt with, too.
And then he will have the Moment of Dawning Horror Face as he realizes that if Peck is the persistent crazy bastard who exists to make your life hell, where the heck is his Megatron?
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:19 pm (UTC)Who probably still sits outside of the universe, going "I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those darned Ghostbusters!"
....and who is watchign the rising PKE levels and waiting for another chance to open a small portal and send in Vinz Clortho and its match....
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:23 pm (UTC)Now I have a fairly awful picture of Goze attempting to get through again and getting the snot beaten out of it by Big C AUGH NO WHAT THE HELL STOP THAT sorry brane in runaway analogy mode
Peck : GBs :: Starscream : Cybertronians
Gozer : Megatron :: Cthulhu : Unicron
AUGH
GALVATRON GOZER
WTF IS THAT SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE
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Date: 2007-10-25 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-25 02:35 pm (UTC)Egon: You just broke Rule 23, Peter.
Venkman: Rule 23?
Egon: If a concept is sufficiently ludicrous as to cause rational individuals- and yes, I'm stretching the term at the moment- to consider it too silly to exist, it will not only exist, but be abundantly homicidal as well.
Venkman: So you're saying...
Winston: He's saying Bingle the Clown's gonna be responsible for the destruction of Tokyo thanks to you.
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Date: 2007-10-26 08:22 pm (UTC)no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men.
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Date: 2007-10-26 08:24 pm (UTC)Really, the boys would be overkill.