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General Discussion Introductions
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Hi- I’m from New England, USA, and my handle’s “Smoot”.

I’ve been a fan since I saw the first movie. I enjoyed the Real Ghostbusters series, as well. What brought me back ‘into the fold’ though, was that someone on rpol.com (RolePlay Online) ran a Ghostbusters RPG game. It didn’t last long, but I enjoyed the bejezus out of it.

I’m a fairly-varied movie enthusiast, and I like to read RL history (which can be weirder than most fiction, if you’re looking in the right place!). Some of my friends call me ‘omnigeek’, because I take an interest in a LOT of odd topics. (I’m not expert in most of them, but I know when I don’t know, you know? :slight_smile: )

When I see ‘RPG’ I still think of what the youngin’s call “tabletop” or “pen and paper”. I like Unisystem, GURPS, oWoD, and Hero System best, but I’m flexible.

I play computer games, but I’m not ‘■■■■■■■■’ whatever that means. I just finished with Portal and (I’m playing catchup here), I’m going to be starting HalfLife 2, soon. Mostly, I do strategic games (EE2, Civ 4, etc).

I guess there’s more, but we’ll have to find out as we go. :slight_smile:

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Well, I don’t really understand most of what you just said there, but welcome to the fold. Ghostbusters RPG, huh? That sounds like a lot of fun. So, how’d it go?

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Welcome Aboard :cool:

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While it lasted, it was fun. We were playing a “San Francisco Franchise” of the Ghostbusters. (in this background, Louis basically convinced Venkman that there was a lot of money in selling franchises, and he went for it.)

My character was an intern (picture Seth Green, basically). In the short run we had, the best lines I got off was on the phone, in reply to a ‘we are about to shut your utilities off’ bill. It went something like:

“Um, hi. I’m calling from the Ghostbusters, about our utilities being shut off? Sure, I’ll hold.”

“Hi, yeah- I’m from the Ghostbusters, calling about the disconnect order? Thanks. I’m an intern, here, and I’ve been asked to say that we will be paid up and current by Friday.”

“No, they actually *mean *it. I’m not just being told to say it.”

[They just said they’d been told that three months running, and the shutoff is still coming.]

“Ah. Then, can I ask a small favor, intern to employee? You know how there’s paperwork for everything? Well, if things get shut down here, I’m going to have a TON to do- so could you wait until Friday, please? See, I can start the paperwork NOW, but if you shut everything off now, there’s going to be this chain-reaction that will vaporize my desk and everything* on* it. Including my hard-drive and printer. And, most of the block.”

“So the paperwork’s kinda trashed, then.”

“Yeah, Friday would be great. Thank you.”

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I like how they did in Return of the Ghostbusters. They digitized the ghosts and used them as a power source.

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Welcome.

We are still trying to figure out how to set up a GB RPG game here on the site.. do you think you could help?

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Welcome Smoot! :cool:

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RPG, eh? Yeah, I still play on occasion with my buds (It’s tough now, since some of my friends and I are married with children (Peg, Peg, tell Bud to get out of the bathroom) When I say “Roleplaying” at work, my boss kids me since she reads the “adult personals” for fun, and that a different kind of “roleplaying” : ) We play Call to Cthulu, pulp Indiana Jones, but it is like GB’s since we hunt the supernatural. And we may get a Vampire: Masquade off the ground. Welcome!