A new kind of trap

[Ripclaw]

Hey y'all! It's your good buddy woodsricardo, here to propose an idea for new kind of ghoul trap. After seeing what Dr. Harness had done with his Deer Hunter pack, I was inspired to think up a trap that could contain corperal entities as well. I think it would make a good accesorie to the Deer Hunter. It would take into account the same basic principles that Dr. H had used to first create the pack along with a variation of the atomic destabilizers. I know how you dudes about the destabilzers, but I think this could really work since they'd be built into the traps instead of the throwers.

The main reasons I think this would be a good idea are because whenever ghostbusters encounter powerful entites that may need to be preserved, such as fledgeling vampires or werewolves, you could contain by use of the deer hunter's thrower and my trap idea, and have any easier time of transporting them to a cage or whatever where they can be held untill they can be effectively cured. There's also the problem of combating solid entites and you don't have the neccessary materials needed to slay them. This way, you can just toss em' in the ECU. Not to mention, I think it could make the creatures easier to study.

To tell them apart from the standard ghost traps, I'd do something simple yet distinctive, namely make the box steel blue instead of black and make the traps striped doors red and yellow instead of black and yellow.

Well, that's my idea, let me know what you guys think. I know this would probably be considered an "iffy" piece of gear, but this is an "iffy" line of work, considering that you chase ghosts, werewolves, gargoyles, etc. for a living.

[TheRazorsEdge]

The problem is ECUs aren't made to hold solid things. It's a very small space that compresses ectoplasmic entities to make them fit and holds them in with a negatively charged electric grid that repels them so they can't pass through the walls.

Solid monsters need to be either cured or destroyed. There's no middle ground worth exploring.

[woodsricardo]

I see what you're sayin', but dude, don't shut down my idea that quick. I mean, didn't you read the part about atomic destabilizers built into the trap? They'd pretty much transmutate the entity into an ecto-ethereal state.

[TheRazorsEdge]

As I am constantly saying, atomic destabilizers are impractical, horrendously dangerous, and border on inhumane.

Gargoyles are constructs and vampires are practically hellspawn, sure, but lycanthropy is a disease and in my opinion, it's almost murderous to turn a werewolf into an incorporeal creature and then lock it up in the ECU where it would remain until well past what its natural lifespan would have been.

Besides, vampires have so many freaking weaknesses, what's the point of capturing one when it takes less than a minute to kill it?

[Professor Egon Spengler]

Having once been victimized by an....unusual form of lycanthropy, I have to agree with Dr. Chrismer's assessment. Only a small percentage of lycanthropes are genuinely "evil", and unless they are of the "natural" variety (ie Garou such as Irena Cortez or Bernard Lupin) they will have another aspect that, chances are, is completely innocent of whatever crimes committed.

I think you raise some interesting points however, Mr. Ricardo.

[woodsricardo]

Thank you, Prof. S. Coming from one of the original slime-stompers that bitch-slapped monsters like Samhain or Hob Anagarak like they were nothing, that means a lot.

[woodsricardo]

Oh and F.W.I., I proposed this idea because a lot of solid manifestations like modern day vampires and true stone gargoyles have been developing immunities to many of their weaknesses.

[Dr. Fritz V. Baugh]

That's a disturbing thought...

I wonder what insight Dr. Stevens might have on that issue--he is, shall we say, on very friendly terms with one of the local undead. Or at least he was at one point.

[Jeremy Hicks]

He still is. I heard them *ahem* discussing plans for their future.

[TheRazorsEdge]

"their future" being code for "a cheap hotel room with a vibrating bed", yes?

[Jeremy Hicks]

Your guess is as good as mine Jeff, but you're probably right. ;D