Dr. Egon Stantz was Professor of Paranormal Engineering at Paragon City University. As a faculty member at PCU's Occult Studies Campus in Salamanca, he conducted extensive investigations into the Croatoa phenomenon - looking for a way to lift the mystical blight from the town.
On the night of April 27 2005, Dr. Stanz and a team of graduate students set up an experiment at the stone circle in the center of Salamanca. Dr. Stanz shrugged on a set of utilitarian coveralls, then strapped a light fusion power pack to his back. The reactor would power a proton emitter and other equipment on his body during the test. As sensors and cameras recorded his movements, Dr. Stanz started pacing round the henge.
At precisely midnight, as Dr. Stanz completed his sixth circle, he vanished.
He never returned.
On the night of April 27 2010, workers at the PTS facility in Cap Au Diable sounded a full alert. Over the space of precisely six minutes, temperatures in the conduits rose dramatically...and stopped.
Then the heavily sealed access corridor to the plant's core exploded in a hail of cold iron fragments. Through the waves of heat walked a lone figure, dressed in what had once been a tattered bodysuit. On his back was a bulky power pack, its casing carved with intricate runes.
The workers yelled for him to stop. He looked at them, and smiled through his ragged beard. His eyes glowed.
The first man, he incinerated with a stream of infernal energy from the device on his back.
Then he threw another of his devices to the ground, a simple metal box with smoke rising from it. As it hit the ground, it opened.
This, and nothing beyond this, was recorded by the plant's security cameras. When an Arachnos team finally arrived on the scene, they found nothing but the ruined access corridor. No blood, no bodies.
Nothing.
But now, word is spreading through the Rogue Isles. It is said that if you have a problem of...a strange nature...if you have difficulties with something weird, and your propects do not seem good...
There is a man whom you can call.
The Ghostblaster.
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Go-go Gadget Random Idea! Illusion/Sonic Controller!
-- Acyl
On the night of April 27 2005, Dr. Stanz and a team of graduate students set up an experiment at the stone circle in the center of Salamanca. Dr. Stanz shrugged on a set of utilitarian coveralls, then strapped a light fusion power pack to his back. The reactor would power a proton emitter and other equipment on his body during the test. As sensors and cameras recorded his movements, Dr. Stanz started pacing round the henge.
At precisely midnight, as Dr. Stanz completed his sixth circle, he vanished.
He never returned.
On the night of April 27 2010, workers at the PTS facility in Cap Au Diable sounded a full alert. Over the space of precisely six minutes, temperatures in the conduits rose dramatically...and stopped.
Then the heavily sealed access corridor to the plant's core exploded in a hail of cold iron fragments. Through the waves of heat walked a lone figure, dressed in what had once been a tattered bodysuit. On his back was a bulky power pack, its casing carved with intricate runes.
The workers yelled for him to stop. He looked at them, and smiled through his ragged beard. His eyes glowed.
The first man, he incinerated with a stream of infernal energy from the device on his back.
Then he threw another of his devices to the ground, a simple metal box with smoke rising from it. As it hit the ground, it opened.
This, and nothing beyond this, was recorded by the plant's security cameras. When an Arachnos team finally arrived on the scene, they found nothing but the ruined access corridor. No blood, no bodies.
Nothing.
But now, word is spreading through the Rogue Isles. It is said that if you have a problem of...a strange nature...if you have difficulties with something weird, and your propects do not seem good...
There is a man whom you can call.
The Ghostblaster.
* * *
Go-go Gadget Random Idea! Illusion/Sonic Controller!
-- Acyl