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Title: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-22-13/0914:58>

Ghostbusters, Winnipeg Teaser:

*Black Screen With White Text*

The Supernatural is on the rise.

Ghosts are running rampant.

Demons are coming out of the woodwork.

The walls between worlds are getting thinner and thinner.

The Murder Capital of Canada is becoming more and more dangerous every day…

Who are you going to call?

*Scene:  A yellowed brick building with “MASONIC TEMPLE” written on the top, “1895” written in the middle, and a “Ghostbusters” banner just under the date.  Twin doors open outwards revealing a secretary’s desk at the far end of the room, as red and yellow emergency lights begin to flash from the ceiling.  A metal ramp moves slowly downwards and the camera moves forward, down the ramp as it lowers to reveal a 6’2” intense looking man with a beard, wearing a Ghostbusters Jumpsuit staring right at the camera while standing in front of a 1968 VW Bus.  The camera finally settles on a close-up of his face as he continues to stare right into the screen, and possibly the viewer’s very souls*

Desmond:  “Us.”

Subtitled:  Doctor Desmond Phips
Nuclear Physicist
Parapsychologist
Scientist
Ghostbuster

*Fade to Ghostbusters, Winnipeg Logo, hold for four seconds, fade to black*

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <04-22-13/1003:05>

 ??? Is...this a game?  Google came up with no related results.  I'm not sure the world is ready for a Ghostbusters game.  We'd need another awesome movie, first.  Also, why Canada?  Does Canada actually have a murder capital?  If you said it was someplace more hardcore, I'd believe it.  Or you could've said it was the waffle capital of Canada... I'd buy that, too.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-22-13/1008:46>

It is a game (http://greywolf.critter.net/ghostbusters.htm).  It's Winnipeg because we live here.  Winnipeg is the Murder Capital of Canada (Not much compared to other countries, but still bad enough!).  As for not being hardcore enough, Siberians complain about Winnipeg winters.  Living here makes you hardcore.

I didn't grow my Beard of Awesome until I moved here!

Also, here's the building I was describing (http://touchlesstickets.com/ttsystem/vendors/UserImages/2/Masonic_Temple.jpg).  In the game, the doors are bigger, that's it.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-24-13/0115:10>

Ghostbusters, Winnipeg is:
Dr. Desmond Phips: Scientist, Parapsychologist, Ghostbuster, Played by: John Candy.
Dr. Rodger MacPhearson, Medical Doctor, Played by: Samuel L. Jackson.
Dr. Andy Reshen, Psychologist and Parapsychologist, Skirt Chaser, Played by: Timothy Dalton.
Sgt. Lucas Brute (Ret.), Experimental Equipment Technician, Ghost Puncher, Played by: Richard Moll.
Tim Heisenberg, Rich Haunted Debutant, Played by: Bryan Cranston.
Judy Death, Goth Wheelwoman, Played by: Pauley Perrette.

And, just recently signed to the cast is... Betty White!

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <04-24-13/0248:19>

So it's a game that you're making/running?  I'm still confused.  As much as I love the idea of John Candy in a Ghostbusters product, the fact that he'd have to be one of the ghosts makes me feel somewhat disinclined to watch/play.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-24-13/1422:06>

Quote from: mtfeeney on <04-24-13/0248:19>

So it's a game that you're making/running?  I'm still confused.  As much as I love the idea of John Candy in a Ghostbusters product, the fact that he'd have to be one of the ghosts makes me feel somewhat disinclined to watch/play.

It's a game I'm playing using Pinnacle Entertainment Group's "Savage Worlds" ruleset, and this website's ideas (http://greywolf.critter.net/ghostbusters.htm) for the world.

The game takes place around 1995, so with just a little smudging around with the life of John Candy, he could still be alive then.  (He died in '94.  So he might have shot this before he died, like Canadian Bacon.).

The recent Ghostbusters Video Game (which has been confirmed as Canon) has things take place in 1991, so a jump in time that long for a franchise in Canada makes sense.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <04-25-13/0020:44>

Now that I understand, I'm fully in awe and jealous.  Ghostbusters is amazing, and John Candy would just quadruple the awesome factor.  Seriously, how could you go wrong?  Even his "bad" movies were great.  I'm also a fan of the savage worlds system.  I once missed my target with a fireball... but it hit his ship.  That wouldn't be impressive normally, but my damage dice kept exploding.  I ended up dealing over 200 damage to the ship, instantly incinerating it along with the passengers.  I'll never forget that moment.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: GiraffeShaman on <04-27-13/0101:49>

Save me a  sample Ray...er Canray that is.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-27-13/0129:26>

Quote from: GiraffeShaman on <04-27-13/0101:49>

Save me a  sample Ray...er Canray that is.

*Hands you a test tube of ectoplasm*  Your mucus.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <04-28-13/0029:37>

Ghostbusters, Winnipeg Commercial:

*Green Text On Black Background*

When the world is in danger...

When the cold winds blow through the very souls of everyone around...

When death itself is at your very door...

Who are you going to call?

*Melody Anderson answers the telephone*:  “Ghostbusters, Winnipeg, how can I direct your call?”

*Montage of scenes showing a VW Bus as an Ectomobile*:  [Announcer]:  From the Big Apple to the Great White North, Ghostbusters has opened a new franchise and business is booming!

[Announcer]:  Staring:  John Candy.  *Scene of John Candy with a large beard working seriously at a proton pack while wearing a tie-dyed labcoat, until his beard catches on fire and he dances around trying to put it out*

[Announcer]:  Samuel L. Jackson:  *Samuel L. Jackson looks up at the camera wearing a strange combination of medical equipment and Ghostbusting gear while examining a patient hovering a metre above a table, raising the ectogoggles so you can see his face clearly*

[Announcer]:  Timothy Dalton:  *Shot of Timothy Dalton in full Ghostbusters gear, looking at the backside of a woman in a very revealing dress, and then looking ahead of him to see a grey spectre dressed in the tatters of a Hudson's Bay Company blanket-coat, both scream in terror and run away from each other*

[Announcer]:  Richard Moll:  *Shot of Richard Moll's feet in oversized boots, moving slowly up his body, showing all of the intimidating gear and weaponry mounted to a tactical vest, including two arm-length gloves that have miniature proton packs on the upper arms.  When the shot finally gets to his face, demonstrate the huge and horrific scarring on his head, which the then covers by the goalie mask with the “No Ghosts” logo painted upon it*

[Announcer]:  Bryan Cranston:  *Scene of Bryan Cranston in a tuxedo, shooting a neutrona wand off-scene, with a 1995-era brick cellphone tucked between shoulder and head*:  “Can I call you back on those bonds, Chad, I'm in the middle of a very important business meeting here.”

[Announcer]:  Introducing Pauley Perrette:  *Scene of John Candy in a Ghostbusters Jumpsuit looking at the Goth-Like Pauley Perrette in absolute terror as she drives the VW Bus through a series of boxes*  [Samuel L. Jackson (Off Screen)]:  “I haven't been this scared since the Falklands!”

[Announcer]:  And Betty White:  *Shot of Betty White with Ghostbusters Jumpsuit and Proton Pack in a completely dark room, surrounded by the ghosts of the Red River Rebellion*:  “All right all you little Metis bastards.”  *Draws Neutrona Wand*  “I got a something for all of ya!”

[Announcer]:  With Special Guest Star, Geddy Lee as the Premier of Manitoba:  *Scene of the Premier's office, Geddy Lee in a nice suit pressing the intercom*:  [Possessed Secretary (Offscreen)]:  “Mr. Premier, Louis Riel for you.”  *The statue of Louis Riel in the window behind Geddy Lee turns and starts running towards him*

*Fade out, fade in to shot of Ghostbusters Headquarters (335 Donald Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba) with full Ghostbusters crew in front of it in full gear*  [Announcer]:  Ghostbusters, Winnipeg.  They're ready to believe you!

*Fade out to Ghostbusters “No Ghost” Logo*

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-01-13/0224:11>

Job One (Tutorial):  Busting a ghost of a recently deceased, and possibly murdered, husband for his "suffering" widow.  He was busy watching Hell's version of The Honeymooners when we broke in, blasted his chair, the curtains, and a few other things, slimed him, and trapped him good.

Job Two:  HBC Department Store Downtown called about a haunted Toy Department.  Mass possession of plush toys going to war lead to possessed cardboard standees.  Ghosts busted with only a huge slime mess due to a Rookie rupturing his oversized Slime Blower Tank.  Paid in full with bonus (after 90-days.  Stupid contracts.), investigation ongoing.  Discovery of PKE-Infested/Integrated buildings that may explain heightened PKE-Readings in the entire city.  Researching Masons in Winnipeg further through the use of Phips Family Library of Spirituality and Occult, and using contacts of Heisenberg's to get at hard-to-acquire tomes of forbidden lore in government archives.

Current design projects:  Arsenal and secured units for dangerous/expensive Ghostbusting equipment.  R-1 Series replacement Neutrona Blasters.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: lumiragdas on <05-01-13/2154:14>

Quote from: CanRay on <04-22-13/1008:46>

Siberians complain about Winnipeg winters.  Living here makes you hardcore.

As a fellow Winnipegger, I can confirm this.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-01-13/2327:20>

Quote from: lumiragdas on <05-01-13/2154:14>

Quote from: CanRay on <04-22-13/1008:46>

Siberians complain about Winnipeg winters.  Living here makes you hardcore.

As a fellow Winnipegger, I can confirm this.

Glad to have you on board.  PM me if you ever want a space at a table.  I'll find a new chair if I have to!

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-01-13/2344:16>

I so don't miss polar jet streams.

The lowest temperature ever recorded here is the same as the average temperature where I grew up.

I can't even think about that. I gotta go make a mojito.



-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-02-13/0014:11>

Quote from: JoeNapalm on <05-01-13/2344:16>

I can't even think about that. I gotta go make a mojito.

-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Bastard.  I want rum now.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-02-13/0710:56>

I bet!

Rum's freezing point is so low, you can enjoy a mickie, even in Peg City, eh!


-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-02-13/1314:54>

Slurpee capital of the world.  Go figure.  (The natives here are INSANE!)

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: lumiragdas on <05-02-13/1352:38>

Nothing like walking to 7-11 at like 3 am and making a vodka slurpee :D

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-12-13/0059:36>

I think there's something wrong with my GM...  This is the logo for one of the companies we're going to have to deal with:

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/CanRay/Uni-CornCerealProducts_zps12d18dba.jpg)
Uni-Corn Cereal Products

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <05-12-13/0126:28>

He certainly has an artistic..uh...flare.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-12-13/0812:06>

Papa Bear, we're gonna need that ATBIP delivered to these coordinates.

*Say again, Cerberus Actual?*

Just drop it right here.

*Cerberus Actual, minimum safe distance for that ordinance...*

Papa Bear, I'm staring at a Uni-Corn. There is no safe distance! Drop it. Drop it, now!

*Roger that, Cerberus Actual. Pickle in the shack. FOAB away. Godspeed, sir.*



-Jn-
City of Brass Expatriate

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-15-13/0431:13>

So...  Uni-Corn had a major ghost issue, but one that was quite distributed.  We were attacked by massive amounts of ghosts.

So, utilizing a series of intelligent moves on my part (including my knowledge of explosives), I was able to determine that the cause was a cursed artifact:  A painting of a "Golden Sea Of Wheat".

Yeah, not so golden and shiny when looked at with Paragoggles (The Goggles, they do SOMETHING!).  Hordes of starving people standing in the field, all trying to get at the food.  Well, after a hose-down with positive-emotionally charged slime, I stored it safely in the bulk slime container in Ecto-W1, and demonstrated what the hell the manager of the place had.

We now have a nice new painting at the former Masonic Lodge that is Spook Central, in a specially-made frame and glass.  Just...  Don't look at it out of the corner of your eye.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: JoeNapalm on <05-15-13/1624:30>

...


I want in.

 :'(



-Jn-
Ifriti Sophist

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-15-13/1648:00>

Now you know how I've felt for years.

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-17-13/1344:38>

I got bored.

Ground Floor:
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/CanRay/SpookCentral-Floor1_zpsb651f8cf.jpg)

Second Floor:
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/CanRay/SpookCentral-Floor2_zps383326fc.jpg)

Third Floor:
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/CanRay/SpookCentral-Floor3_zps987a85e3.jpg)

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-18-13/2333:35>

The Basement:
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/CanRay/SpookCentral-Floor0_zps5f0e3200.jpg)

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <05-27-13/0034:13>

So...  Tonight we investigated the Legislature of Manitoba (Manitoba's Political Capital Building) after the two bronze statues of bison got up and started eating the carpet.

After we got surrounded by the two of them on the second-floor walkway (Exactly where we wanted them, yeah, that's the ticket!) conventional ghost wrangling was used on the first, while our Experimental Equipment Technician/Logistics Mule tested out his new "Proton Knuckledusters" and dented the head of the bronze statue (and the ghost inhabiting it!).  Despite a hole in the wall (which lead to a room that had previously been sealed off), and some damage to a banister (and...  Yeah, the statues), we were paid in full, as everyone was expecting us to "New York" the place but good!

We got back to the VW Bus (and Dr. Heisenberg's Motorcycle) to find all the tires slashed, and a card from the Ghostly Liberation for Undead Entities (the militant arm of the Liberation for Unrestrained Biological Entities).  We're now looking towards filing a civil lawsuit and a restraining order against members of these organizations.  Luckily, Ghostbusters, Winnipeg has a CAA Corporate Membership.

The good news is that the cheques have cleared, and my character has more money to experiment with again!  :D

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: mtfeeney = Baron on <05-27-13/0104:07>

GLUE is associated with LUBE? That is an unpleasant combination. Be careful...

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: CanRay on <06-02-13/2328:49>

Tonight...  Ghostbusters, Winnipeg has picked fights with a Motorcycle Gang (The Manitoba Warriors) and Neo-Nazi Skinheads.

...

"It's not a Ghostbusters Drinking Party without Nazis!"

Title: Re: Ghostbusters, Winnipeg
Post by: All4BigGuns on <06-02-13/2329:30>

Quote from: mtfeeney = Baron on <05-27-13/0104:07>

GLUE is associated with LUBE? That is an unpleasant combination. Be careful...

Never mix up those two containers...