"Everybody needs a hobby!" Scrooge chirped. He took a few bites of his fish and chips. "But in all seriousness, expensive vacations are usually so dull. No adventure at all! And hob-knobbing with celebrities?" He shuddered. "I pretty much try to avoid that whenever possible lest I lose brain cells. As for exorcising ghosts and restoring old mansions, that's more because helping out people like you two does ultimately help me."

He took a moment to contemplate one particularly crispy "chip".

"I never want my family to go back to starvation, so I'll ensure they never have to. And now my fortune and company have gotten so big that I've got hundreds of thousands of employees whose families depend on me to put food on their tables. A crisis is a good opportunity for a get-rich-quick scheme, but what I'm after is stability. Plenty of opportunity for innovation but for the most part it's about keeping the ship steady to provide for everyone from me to the janitor and his family. The agreement I worked out with Countess Morgana, for example, was to stabilize the area on a magical front and ensure nothing truly nasty could settle in."