Who you gonna call?: A Ghostbusters RP - Interest Check/Signups

EDIT: Jameson sounds like a cool cat, but you didn't give him any talents.

Bummer. I'm sorry to hear that, but I understand.

Hmm. I hope we can drum up some more interest. I'd really like there to be more team members.

If not, I suppose I could whip up a character and just have a team of three.

edited 30th Sep '13 5:21:12 PM by KarlKadaver

A Ghostbusters RP? Based on the old pen and paper game? Can't sign up fast enough! Just give me a day or so to get something written up. I'm sure this information is somewhere in the thread already, but where is the story set? Still New York?

Mid 90s New Jersey from the sound of things.

Joey's correct. The setting is Newark, New Jersey in the year 1994 (about three years after the events of the good game).

Note that I'm not actually all too familiar with the area, so I'll be taking some Artistic License with locations and such.

Which is a full 10 years after the events of the first movie BTW. The original pen paper game is old enough to reference Telex. The thing the fax machine replaced.

Speaking of 80s tech. Looking through the item cards I noticed that while you're Limited to walkie-talkies for long distance communication on foot, There is a workable car phone.

Now here is my question. Would it be meta gaming to have the characters get Egon or someone reasonably intelligent to patch the car phone into the CB radio to receive incoming calls while in the field?

I don't see why not. I was actually going to periodically have Angelo "place an order with Corporate" to get updated tech and such. An improvised hands free device isn't outside the scope of possibilities.

•Name: Esther Markowitz

•Age: 21

•Physical Description: In a previous, lower paying job.

•Traits:

◦Brains: 4 (Occult)

◦Muscles: 2 (Grapple)

◦Moves: 4 (Drive Vehicle)

◦Cool: 2 (Tell Fibs)

•Goal: Fame

•Residence: GBI Warehouse, if permitted by Da Boss.

•History: Esther's childhood was your typical middle-class existence, getting by more or less comfortably. She was kind of rough and tumble thanks to spending a lot of time with her father, who thought wrestling moves were something worth teaching your daughter. Then the family decided to move into Manhattan after her mother got a promotion and within a month an ancient Summerian god was trying to destroy the town, along with a giant marshmallow man. The Markowitz family evacuated safely but Esther watched the news coverage in an enraptured state. What could have caused this sort of thing to happen? She set about trying to learn more about the occult, spirits, paranormal activity and all that sort of thing.

There was the added incentive that she had a girlish crush on one of the Ghostbusters at the time and reading about ghosts somehow got her closer to understanding him. Even though she knew nothing about the man other than his name and occupation. As she matured her motivations changed to more of a genuine interest in the occult, which became her primary area of study even when ostensibly her major was psychology. A lot of struggling and a change of majors (to Political Science, oh boy!) later and she was in the workforce.. as a convenience store clerk. During her break she happened across the ad for Ghostbusters New Jersey and simply walked out on her minimum wage existence. Delighted as she is to be in the new line of work, she's really hoping it makes her as well known as the original guys over in Manhattan. That would be pretty exciting.. and it's entirely possible she hasn't totally given up on that crush either.

Da Boss takes pity on ya and lets ya stay in one of the spare rooms. (Your rent comes outta ya salary, of course.)

Looks good!

I'll wait a few more days to see it anyone else joins, but I have a Dumb Muscle character to round out the team if we don't get any other takers.

To round out Da Team, I'm going to add the following Ghostbuster:

• Name: Mark "The Hammer" Gittlen
• Age: 43
• Physical Description: A rather large, African American male with short, black hair, chisled features, and a hard stare.
• Traits:
  • Brains: 1 - Guess
  • Muscles: 5 - Lift
  • Moves: 4 - Attract Attention
  • Cool: 2 - Bluff
• Goal: Fame
• Residence: Formerly from South Philly, he now lives in Newark's East Side
• History: A former linebacker for the Philadelphia Eagles, he was forced to retire after taking one too many hits to the head. When he became washed up, his money dried up and his wife divorced him, taking their house and children with her. After performing several different odd jobs, he finally came up with enough money to move out of Philly and away from his old life. After setting up residence in Jersey, he spied an ad for Ghostbusters Newark and quickly signed up, hoping for a piece of the fame that the original Ghostbusters got.

@Troyand Hawk: You still didn't give your Ghostbuster any talents.

@Everyone: I plan on starting this thing tomorrow, if all goes according to plan.

• Name: Jameson Murray
• Age: 21
• Physical Description: Jameson has messy red hair, brown eyes, and freckles, he also possesses a cut above his right eye. When not in uniform he wears grunge style cloathing, unless he's in uniform
• Traits:
  • Brains: 3
  • Muscles: 2
  • Moves: 2
  • Cool: 5
  • Talents: Jameson is skilled at Parkour, as well as a smooth talker, able to lie to people with ease, mostly about how they need to hire the Ghostbusters. He is rarely fazed by the Ghosts, simply due to the fact he believes they are lies from the goverment. He also has a history of knowledge about crime.
• Goal: To get paid.
• Residence: About a block away from the Warehouse, in an apartment building.
• History: James grew up in a paranoid, Flat Earth Aetheist house, he believes everything has a logical, physically possible explanation, think of him as having the same type of mindset of Walter Peck, however, he got kicked out of college, and disowned by his family, so seeking a good paying job, he signed up for a ghost buster, and frequently blames the many things they face as Secret Goverment experiments, hallucinations, everyone in a ten mile radius being high...It goes on.

edited 8th Oct '13 9:40:17 PM by TroyandHawk

Well that's two talents, what about the other two?

From what I'm seeing, it'll look like this:

Let me know if that's alright.

Sure. No problem.

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