GBWC: Act Two

[Fritz]

Act Two, Part One
By Fritz Baugh

2005--Timeline Year Twenty Three
The Ghostbusters West Coast are back and all brand new. After the trials of the last year, a smaller but more determined team comes together as a monster is stealing eyeballs all over LA.

[SuperStantzio]

That was pretty good, Fritz Keep up the good work!

[Silent Seraphim]

Very interesting, and kind of gross, too. ;D

I've gotta say, I do like the idea of the identity badge with the PKE strip on the bottom. I'm surprised that nobody thought of that before.

[Fritz]

It was inspired, actually, by something in the old GBI role playing game.

PKE Badge: The latest development in Ghostbuster detection equipment, PKE badges are small plastic badges with a clip to adhere to and ruin your shirts, and a small pink strip of paper on the plastic part. When exposed to any greater-than-normal PKE activity, the pink strip turns blue. That's it.

PKE Badges can be left with clients who are worried about recurrent activity; they can be placed all over a haunted house and left overnight to determine the ghost's walking habits; they can be combined with ID badges at large facilities so that workers will know when their friends are possessed by demons...or something

I figure sixteen years of technology have improved the design. If nothing else, the clip has been replaced by a magnetic device like on my K-Mart nametag, and the "improved " exposure strip is more orangish than pink.

Example name badges can be found at www.gbwc.net/av/gbi.html

[Kingpin]

Quite a neat idea that, and yeah, orange is much better then pink, less garish and less reference to the river of slime.

[Miss Janine]

And I hate holes in my clothes.

But instead of the magnetic clip, what about one of those plastic squeezy ones? I'd yhink magnets would be easier to lose.

Cuz I'm eventually gonna print mine out and make a real one, just for the heck of it...

OT:
[glow=red,2,300]Hey, this is cool. How can I make it purple?[/glow]

[Fritz]

Act Two, Part Two
By Fritz Baugh

2005--Timeline Year Twenty Three
The mysterious ninja takes on Calcent the Eye Collector, but even he can't stop the bloodthirsty fiend. How are the Ghostbusters going to stop this opponent when the standard procedure is useless? Plus, another new face appears in GBCentral West, one that gets a reaction out of Otter

[Fritz]

We're nearing the end of the bumps, aren't we? Only a couple more to go.

I'll probably space them closer together next year.

[Kingpin]

Story's going well, some amusing little bits and pieces... and I forgot to say, a nice tribute to Jerry Orbach.

Keep it up, mate.

[Fritz]

Bump.

[Kingpin]

Reminds me of a question you didn't answer via email.

Have you guys been written into a corner with the badges? Surely Rachel's constant presence will render them useless?

[Fritz]

kingpin said:

Reminds me of a question you didn't answer via email.

Have you guys been written into a corner with the badges? Surely Rachel's constant presence will render them useless?

Lol...I guess I did. But if it's a standard badge some other franchises would be in the same boat. GBNY has Slimer and Arcane Division...heck, most of those guys would set off their badges all by themselves.

I would guess they're still used...if nothing else, if Rachel's out with them on a job, and THEN the badges change colors...well, time to be worried.