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Fritz Baugh, now armed with a PhD in Quantum Physics as well a degree in Historical Anthropology, becomes a staff researcher for Purdue University [GBWC]
Tsukiko Marie Lupin, the daughter of Barney Lupin, is born. [GBOT]
Professor Phillip Leon is posessed by a supernatural entity; it attacks one of Leon's students, Marie D'Angelo, but her latent psychic powers are enough to repel him. Fellow student Jeff Chrismer witnesses the attack. [GBWC]
New Jersey's Rich Roy, a fan of the defunct Ghostbusters, forms the JerZey Ghostbusters (JZGB) [GBNJ]
The Shadow Chaser team Mick Nielson is a member of deals with the outbreak of a "zombie virus", and has their first encounter with Valek. Mick is promoted to team leader. [GBSC]
Tim Bondo leaves the United States Air Force after ten years of service. [GBDP]
Egon Spengler's latest class of students--Eduardo Rivera, Kylie Griffin, Roland Jackson, and Garrett Miller--become the new team of Ghostbusters, sometimes nicknamed the "Extreme" Ghostbusters. Janine finalizes her divorce from Louis Tully, returns to work for GBInc, and by the end of the year she and Egon are engaged. [XGB, GBOT]
The Proton Pack Mark 2, the Proton Pack Mark 3 (the "Proton Pistol"), the Ghost Trap Mark 2, and the PKE Meter Model 2.1 enter service; the packs especially are radically different from their predecessors, utilizing a "plasma core" system. In the long run, the system proves inferior to the original--the cores run through energy at an excessive rate, and lack the durability of the Mark 1's five thousand year half-life. [XGB,GBOT]
Roland's bratty younger brother Casey falls into the sway of the Grundle, which confuses the rest of the Ghostbusters, as the Grundle had been contained by the original Ghostbusters in 1985. Kylie releases the original Grundle to get answers, and discovers that the new Grundle was her childhood friend Jack Ryan, put into suspended animation by the old Grundle twelve years earlier. Both Grundles are defeated, and Jack's transformation is reversed. [XGB]
Edward Kirillian attempts to open a dimensional gate with the Toltec skulls; he fails, and is dragged into another dimension to face eternal torment. [XGB]
Edwin MacShayne is elected to a second term as Mayor of New York City [XGB,GBOT]
The original Ghostbusters reunite on November 21, at Egon's 40th birthday party. Ray and Winston soon return to full-time duty with GBInc (now also known officially as Ghostbusters New York, or GBNY), and Venkman splits his time between them and LA. GBI is reactivated, and Nightsquad--comprised of Bo Holbrook, Egon's niece Jen, Ian "Shades" MacPherson, and "Ecto" Ernie Slaughter--becomes the first new official franchise. [GBOT,GBNS]
Vincent Belmont and Gabriel Angelo Martin are hired by GBInc. [GBAD]
January. Emilia Charlotte "Emi" Wallance, the third child of Andre and Kate Wallance, is born. She is a half-sister to Oscar Wallance, the stepson of former Ghostbuster Peter Venkman [GBOT]
Feb. 14. Birth of Tessa Jane Anderson in England [GBOT]
June 14. Marriage of Professor Egon Spengler and Janine Melnitz. Kylie Griffin and Eduardo Rivera become an official "item" [GBOT]
A laboratory accident leads to Dr. Fritz Baugh's firing by Purdue. No other institution will hire him. The closest he comes is an interview at Newark Community College; he is not hired and, out of money, settles in Newark for a time. He ends up working at a sleazy dive called the White Diamond, and in contact with his dead friend Nick's younger brother, the troubled Leon Hogan. [GBWC]
August. Winston, Vincent, and Gabriel end up in the middle of a zombie invasion in Raccoon City. Vincent is reunited with high school sweetheart Jill Valentine [GBAD]
Stanford student CJ London meets Hide Tanaka. They strike up an unusual friendship. [GBDP]
Cliff Roswell attends Miskatonic University; he leaves in 2001 without attaining a degree, but extensively studies psychology, particularlly dreams and dream interpretation. [GBInd]
Career of "Tara J"--Roland's younger sister Tara Jackson [GBOT]
October 28. Janine Spengler announces her pregnancy. [GBOT]
June 13. Birth of Johnathan Christopher and Eden Marie Spengler to Egon and Janine. The newborns are kidnapped by Josiah Nodus, who takes them to his Null Zone, raises them to maturity, and uses them in a scheme to restructure the universe to his will. The Ghostbusters are reunited and brought to the Null Zone by the efforts of Romulus and Pollux--John and Eden Spengler from the year 2024--and the Chronomancers, Lady Delphia and "Professor Ulforce". Nodus is defeated, and the proper flow of time is restored. [GBOT]
Nightsquad defeats the Blair Witch in Burkittsville, Maryland. [GBNS]
Leon Hogan attends Newark Community College. He leaves after a year and a half. [GBWC]
Vincent and Julius Belmont (with the help of Alucard, who claims to be the "son of Dracula") give "final rest" to Count Vlad Tepes Dracula forever, dispersing his essence into oblivion. [GBAD]
Bo Holbrook and Jen Spengler officially become an "item"; Vincent Belmont aids Nightsquad in foiling another zombie outbreak similar to that in Raccoon City in 1998. [GBNS]
Oscar Wallance, going through a Goth phase, adopts the nickname "Darkvayne"; his childhood friend Rachel Klien starts calling herself "Rayven" at about the same time. [GBWC, GBOT]
Peter Kong is hired by Jim Davis to be an assistant cartoonist of the Garfield comic strip. [GBWC]
Natalie Daniels is born, the daughter of Spencer Daniels (a former childhood friend of Ghostbusters Garrett Miller) and Grace Temple. [GBOT]
Fritz Baugh moves back to Indianapolis, and is employed by a local K-mart. He meets Bernice Roderick and develops a one-sided affection for her. [GBWC]
Birth of Mykel Wainwright, the second daughter of John and Orla Wainwright; her parents divorce before 2006. [GBDP]
Leon Hogan moves to Garwood, New Jersey, and works at the Crossroads for seven months before punching the bartender (Leon had been accused of drinking on the job) After that, he becomes something of a nomadic drifter. [GBWC]
Garret Menenzes retires from hotel management and passes the Columbia House Hotel on to his oldest two children, Charles and Sarah. They grudgingly allow "Rachel", Garret's lifelong companion, to stay there. Strange occurrences soon follow, which Rachel finds herself taking the blame for. To clear her name and avoid eviction, Rachel discovers the mischief is the work of a band of Dust Monsters, Old Western spirits who died in the 1878 Columbia Fire and took on corporeal forms made of clay dust.. She attempts to rid the hotel of them, but her solution is only temporary and they return in a month. [GBWC]
CJ London and Hide Tanaka graduate from Stanford, and join a non-GBI paranormal investigations group, the Florida Department of Paranormal and Extranormal Activities. Other group members would include Zak Kong, Joey Hightower, and Rachel Gleason (who becomes the object of CJ's affactions). [GBDP]
Shortly after aquiring her Bachelor of Science in Human Resource Administratiion, Chelsea Aberdeen is hired by the same K-Mart that employs Dr. Fritz Baugh. The two become close friends, and in Chelsea's case by 2003 has fallen for her colleague. Fritz, still enamoured of Bernice Roderick, apparently doesn't notice. [GBWC]
Mick Nielson's Shadow Chaser team has their climactic confrontation with Valek; believing the vampire lord destroyed, Nielson resigns from the Shadow Chasers soon after. [GBSC]
Egon Spengler is in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks. He survives. [GBOT]
Edwin MacShayne is elected to a third term as Mayor of New York City [GBOT]
Peter Kong becomes an animator on the "Dance of the Skeletons" movie, produced by Disney. Jon Dennison, a friend of Peter Venkman, is the director of the project. [GBWC]
May. The Jersey Devil Paranormal Society is recruited into GBI by Rich Roy, the CEO of JZGB. They become Ghostbusters New Jersey (GBNJ) [GBNJ]
Venkman and his family relocate to New York City. Oscar is not pleased about this, and spends a year in a fairly rebellious state, where he dies his hair blue. [GBOT, GBWC]
Venkman enters secret negotiations with Sebastien Clavet of Canada's 88MPH Studios about the prospect of doing a new Ghostbusters comic book. [GBOT,HA]
Tired of fighting a losing battle, the Menenzes family purchases the Aladdin Motor Inn on the other side of Tuolumne County and leaves the haunted Columbia House Hotel to be dismantled. [GBWC]
Oscar Wallance meets three fellow aspiring musicians: Ella Stephens, Danny Hart, Tim Price. The three begin practicing together and form the band that is eventually dubbed "Mood Slime". Oscar serves as lead singer and guitarist, Stephens as bassist, Hart as lyricist and drummer, and Price as second guitar and roadie. [GBOT]
Andy Harness, Josh Goban, and Johanthan "Bill" Rollow are attacked by the demon Ashram; they form the East Tennessee Ghostbusters (ETGB). Harness's cousin Brandon joins soon after; Mindy Baxter is hired as their Client Administrator. [GBTN]
Mick Nielson, having resumed his academic studies, meets Kurt Summers and Mark and Damon Lucas. [GBSC]
When Venkman, Ray, Egon, and Winston go to London to save Tony Blair, they gain the unlikely help of the members of SPRIG: Dr. Tommy Simpson, Iain Bennett, and Ben King Senior. After successfully saving the Prime Minister, the threesome form an official GBI franchise, Ghostbusters UK [GBUK]
December 18. Birth of Nichole Alexandria Baugh. She is the daughter of auto mechanic Curt Baugh and niece of K-Mart employee Fritz Baugh [GBWC]
February: Tim Mabes leaves GBNJ; Rob Wurm is hired as his replacement. [GBNJ]
Jeremy Hicks has an encounter with the local spirit "La Llarona", who delivers a strange prophesy to him: "Beware the snare of Anpu...seek those who follow the neon banner of the rat...the ludicrous one and the dragon of victory, the healer and the binder of spectres...but guard yourself, for the ten will be sundered... remember my words." [GBWC]
March: GBNOMAD and GBUK are present at a major supernatural event that occurs during the invasion of Iraq by the United States [NOMAD,GBUK]
The Proton Pack Mark 4 (a return to the cyclotron concept of the Mark 1) and the PKE Meter Model 3.0 officially enter service. [GBWC/GBOT]
Dr. Fritz Baugh and Jeremy Hicks win tickets to the premiere of "Dance of the Skeletons", the new Disney animated movie directed by Jon Dennison, a friend of GBI CEO Peter Venkman. Fritz asks co-worker Chelsea Aberdeen to accompany him on the trip [GBWC]
April. Jon Dennison, the director of the animated movie "Dance of the Skeletons", is murdered by an entity calling itself "The Ravisher". Peter Venkman is present at the attack, and convinces several witnesses of the attack--Dr. Joey Williams, Dr. Kyle Stevens, Peter Kong, Dr. Jeff Chrismer, Jeremy Hicks, Dr. Fritz Baugh, and Chelsea Aberdeen--to form a new Ghostbusters West Coast team. Williams is named CEO; Aberdeen becomes Client Administrator; three recruits fill out the roster: Dr. Robert Griffiths, John Lipsyte, and Micheal Chad. ETGB's Andy Harness is brought in to help train the team. The GBWC becomes the first franchise to recieve the Proton Pack Mark 4 and PKE Meter 3.0 as part of their start-up package. [GBWC,GBTN]
Sam Loomis and Iain Bennett resign from NOMAD [NOMAD]
Roger Kennedy is hired as GBUK's Client Administrator. [GBUK]
Ghostbusters Freelance Division is formed with field exterminators Adam Bestler and Rose "Cute" Kittami, and receptionist Molly Anne Hanes. They battle King Minos and the Omega Cult. [GBInd]
Through the guidance of Vincent Belmont, Adam Bestler discovers that he, like Michael Draverhaven, is an ectomancer: a human being who can telekinetically manipulate ectoplasm and has an acute psychic connection with ghosts. [GBInd]
Chris Spade is posessed by a vampire entity, and leaves the group. Shortly after, the UN pulls out all funding, and NOMAD is disbanded [NOMAD]
May. The new GBWC team confronts the Ravisher in the Sanchez Diner, but it escapes. Dr. Ron Daniels is hired as a "Mobile Agent" [GBWC,NOMAD]
Kurt Summers returns to New Jersey. Max Turner is caught cheating on a test, and blames Nielson and the Lucas brothers for his embarrasment. [GBSC]
June. Dr. Nathaniel Masterson ("Otter") is hired by the GBWC. [GBWC]
A second team of "Anti-Ghostbusters", similar to the ones the original Ghostbusters encountered in 1983, is created. They succeed in capturing Egon, Janine, Venkman, and the Extreme Ghostbusters. The Ghostbusters of 2023 (keeping their true identities and connections to the present-day teams secret) aid Ray and Winston in foiling the "Anti-Ghostbusters" [GBOT]
June 8. GBI throws an anniversary party marking twenty years since the formation of Ghostbusters Inc. [GBOT]
Louis Tully goes on a leave of absence, and Rich Roy of JZGB becomes Director of Ghostbusting Operations of GBI [GBNJ]
July. The Ghostbusters West Coast first meet the ninja "Sub Zero", master of the Lin Kuei arts of cold manipulation. [GBWC,GBNS]
August. GBUK associate Euan Sinclaire is killed following a hostage situation that went bad. Iain Bennett is chosen as the new bearer of Excalibur. The GBUK's ECU explodes, and the franchise is forced to shut down. Iain, Tommy, and Ben reactivate SPRIG. [GBUK]
September. With the help of Ray Stantz, GBWC members Fritz Baugh and Joey Williams uncover the truth about the 1988 murder of Fritz's friend Nick Hogan. Hogan's brother Leon also aids in the case. Shortly after, Joey returns to LA with the staff of GBNY while Fritz is ordered to stay in New York. Jeff Chrismer joins him. [GBWC, GBNS]
September. Nightsquad's HQ is damaged by a cult dedicated to Samhaine, and in the process the Blair Witch is freed. The Extreme Ghostbusters (save Roland) are defeated and hospitalized--Roland, Vincent Belmont, and GBWC members Jeff Chrismer and Fritz Baugh are tapped to help Nightsquad deal with the Witch. The cult successfully revives their master, discorporated since Halloween 1990, and Samhaine and the Blair Witch merge. Nightsquad defeats the Hain Witch, but Ian "Shades" McPherson and "Ecto" Ernie Slaughter are killed in the process. Jen Spengler begins a leave of absence. [GBNS,GBOT,GBAD, GBWC]
Eric Rose is hired as "temporary" help by Nightsquad as it tries to recover from the Hain Witch battle. [GBNS,GBUKGS]
GBUK's ally Detective Giles is assigned to the newly-created Occult Crimes Unit. [GBUK]
Vincent Belmont journeys to England, and aids the OCU and SPRIG in investigating a series of murdered perpetrated by out-of-control werewolf Leon Vega. The GBUK is reactivated, and a second team--the GBUK Graveyard Shift--is formed. Belmont serves as temporary team leader; the team is comprised of Eric Rose, Adam Bestler, Roger Johnson, and Vega. Ben King Jr., curious about the father he never knew, transfers with Rose and Bestler to England. Rosey Collins is hired as a civillian assistant. [GBUK,GBUKGS]
To replace Eric Rose, Tom Morgan is hired by Nightsquad; [GBNS]
Jo Kendall is injured in a rock climbing accident. During her recovery, she meets Garrett Miller, and the two begin dating when she leaves the hospital in May 004. [GBOT]
New Years Eve. Kyle Peterson becomes an official Mobile Agent of GBI. [WNCGB]
Cliff Roswell and Zac "Yeti" Crago's Tri-State Paranormal Society is inducted into GBI as the Tri-State Ghostbusters. Not long after, however, the TSGB merges into Nightsquad [GBInd, GBNS]
February 13. Birth of Rose Rivera, the second daughter of Eduardo Rivera and Kylie Griffin. [GBOT]
Sandy Drake, the murderer of Alberto Rivera, is executed [GBOT]
The members of the GGG, a Nazi supergroup killed before World War II, returns from the dead and attempts to resurrect Belial once more. The GBWC and the vampire Bloodrayne destroy the GGG once and for all. Kyle Stevens becomes involved with the vampire Gen Brown. [GBWC]
Dr. Cedric London (a parapsychologist working for the Florida Department of Paranormal and Extranormal Activities), Rob Statler (engineer), Salina Duran (cryptozoology), Andrew Williams (monster hunter), and Brian Roig (a non-Hermetic sorcerer from the fringe Order of Ra) form Ghostbusters Doom Patrol. Erin Cummings is hired as Client Administrator. In their first case, they encounter madman Adrik Thorsen. [GBDP]
April. Lord Atrocity--the avatar of the Egyptian God Anubis, the God of the Dead--conjures a pyramid in Los Angeles. His attempt to enslave the entire world is halted by the heroic efforts of the Ghostbusters West Coast and Venkman, though GBWC member John Lipsyte sacrifices himself in the process. [GBWC]
Ghostbusters NOMAD reactivates. Ron Daniels leaves the GBWC and rejoins NOMAD. Dr. Will Ketcham of the Maryland Ghostbusters is hired by the GBWC to replace Ron. Leon Hogan is hired to fill John Lipsyte's postion in the GBWC roster. [NOMAD,GBWC]
Father Vincent Crapello, a Catholic priest, joins NOMAD. [NOMAD]
Jeremy Hicks is posessed by the spirit of Vinz Clortho [GBWC,GBOT]
Oscar Wallance (who adopts the stage name Oscar Venkman) and Mood Slime have their first major gig; he also begins to date Roland Jackson's younger sister AJ. [GBOT]
Roland Jackson attains his PhD in Electrical Engineering [GBOT]
Brian "Reilly" Walker and Chris Davis form ECTO Canada [GBOT]
June 8. The original Ghostbusters, the Extreme Ghostbusters, Nightsquad, ECTO Canada, both units of the GBUK, and the GBWC work together to foil the new effort by Vinz Clortho and Zuul (posessing English martial arts teacher Sarah Jones) to once again summon Gozer to Earth. [GBOT,GBUK,GBWC,GBNS]
The town of Columbia decides the Columbia House Hotel is a public menace, partially thanks to its age and partially thanks to its ability to attract unwanted paranormal visitors. It is condemned to total destruction, in hopes such a measure will discourage supernatural presences. [GBWC]
Vincent Belmont and Jill Valentine resign from Graveyard Shift, and return to the United States. Belmont reassumes leadership of the Arcane Division. [GBAD]
The Gem of Odin surfaces in Onarga, Illinois; Kevin Kemarly, Ryan Price, Josh Kanosky, and Andrew Thomas form the Onarga Ghostbusters. [OGB]
Due in part to Rich Roy's workload with GBI, JZGB is closed and it's operations merged with GBNJ. [GBNJ]
Early Summer. Western North Carolina Ghostbusters officially open for business, albeit on a part-time basis. Kyle Peterson tries to get Doctor Deven Raines, his supervisor/mentor, to join up. He finally does, when the two find themselves without their pharmacy jobs. They bust ghosts all over NC for a few weeks, then return back home where they are re-hired by the pharmacy - but not after a strange battle in Asheville...[WNCGB]
July 10. Max Sanford is born; his parents are drug abusers who sometimes use him to hide their illegal substances from the police. His "father" might not even be his biological parent. [GBOT]
Adam Bestler leaves England, and returns to the States. Bestler and Cute Kitammi resume working together at GBIndependant, and during the year battle ectoplasmic doubles and the ancient ectomancer called The Torture. [GBInd]
Chelsea Aberdeen resigns from the GBWC, and Rose Prevost is hired to replace her. [GBWC]
August. Marriage of Dr. Vincent Belmont and Jill Valentine [GBAD]
The Ghostbusters West Coast temporarily disbands; Joey Williams, Micheal Chad, Robert Griffiths, Leon Hogan, and Peter Kong return to civilian life. Kyle Stevens, Jeremy Hicks, and Will Ketcham join Andy Harness in Tennessee, as the ETGB combines with the MTGB to form Ghostbusters Tennessee (GBTN). Fritz Baugh returns to Indianapolis to look for Chelsea Aberdeen. Dr. Jeff Chrismer leaves to undergo ninja training under the mysterious "Sub Zero" [GBWC,GBTN,GBNS]
Tom Morgan resigns from Nightsquad [GBNS]
Fritz Baugh follows Chelsea Aberdeen's trail to New York City, where her aunt, Dorothy Aberdeen, lives. With the help of Vincent Belmont, Bo Holbrook, and Jen Spengler, they uncover the reason Chelsea has come here: the Aberdeen family curse, cast by Lucindra in 1504; fearing for Fritz's life, Chelsea had agreed to take Lucindra's place and thus end the curse. After a fierce battle on September 27 at Toad Island, Chelsea is freed, Lucindra is defeated, and the curse is lifted. However, the curse had already heavily damaged Fritz's body, leading to the amputation below the knee of his critically infected left leg. [GBWC, GBNS, GBAD]
Just before Halloween 2004: a Ghostbusters International strikeforce, spearheaded by GBNJ, is formed to defeat the Baccardio entity. While they are victorious, Baccardio manages to escape...[GBNJ,OGB,WNCGB]
Ron Daniels, formerly of NOMAD and the Ghostbusters West Coast, is elected to the United States Senate by the citizens of Georgia.[GBOT]
Mick Nielson (formerly of Shadow Chasers), and Damon and Mark Lucas join GBI, and become Ghostbusters: Tampa Division. Julie Madison joins the team.[GBSC]
Oscar Wallance is hypnotized by a Shannon O'Callahan tape he found in Venkman's trash. After being broken of the spell, he spends some time in Los Angeles. [GBOT]
Bo Holbrook kicks Cliff Roswell off of Nightsquad ; he later becomes a Mobile Agent attached to the GBUK. Jeff Chrismer joins Nightsquad, but also retains membership in the GBWC. [GBNS,GBInd]
Zak Kong resigns from the Florida Department of Paranormal and Extranormal Activities. [GBDP]
Tampa Division aquires the ECTO-2 (not to be confused with the helicopter long used by GBNY). It was purchased by Peter Venkman from Universal Studios after the Ghostbusters show was shut down. [GBSC]
Brian Roig's old friend Jason Riddle appears, just as reanimated Iraq War corpses attack a bar in Philadelphia. Tim Bondo is a witness. Passion starts to tentatively flare between Andrew and Salina. Despite Riddle's aid, CJ is apparently killed by Adrik Thorsen, Doom Patrol headquarters is destroyed, and Roig turns to the dark side to become Thorsen's "Disciple". Williams remains missing after this.[GBDP]
While in LA, Oscar Wallance is attacked by his childhood friend Rachel "Rayven" Klien, now a vampire of the Followers of Set Clan. The GBWC comes to his aid when Rayven and her master, Teth-Apophis, try to Embrace him. Rayven and Teth-Apophis are destroyed; unbenownst to the Ghostbusters, much of this had come about by the manipulations of a sorcerer calling himself "The Necromancer" [GBWC].
Garrett Miller marries Jo Kendall. Oscar returns to New York. [GBOT]
Mick Nielson's nemesis Max Turner becomes a member of the E.P.A. and hires Jake Fuller to form the undead rights group “Ghost-Aid”.
The Columbia House Hotel is destroyed and its effects are auctioned off, but the Dust Monsters it housed are undeterred. They move on to terrorize the entire Columbia State Historic Park. Suddenly homeless, the more benign specter known as "Rachel" leaves Columbia and heads south to apply for residence at Disneyland Park. The Disneyland Resort turns down "Rachel's" request to take up residence in one of its attractions, claiming the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror are both full to capacity. Rachel vents her frustration by causing the Matterhorn attraction to leak green slime for nearly an hour, until a phony psychic is summoned to boot her out. [GBWC]
August 20. Dr. Vincent Belmont (GBAD), Dr. Fritz Baugh (GBWC), Dr. Kevin Kemarly (OGB), and Dr. Greg Justis and Amy Kerns (GBDD) are present at GenCon, and stop an entity that feeds upon creativity. [GBWC,GBAD,OGB]
September 13. Vincent Belmont's interview with Adam Sessler runs on X-Play [GBWC,GBAD,OGB]
Kyle Peterson and Deven Raines head to Japan, to investigate reports of strange things that are happening to kids that watch a certian Japanese cartoon. Ironically, the trail leads back to the mountains of Western North Carolina. The two manage to destroy a 'psychic vampire' (with a little help). [WNCGB]
Dr. James Ferguson, a friend of Tampa Division's Damon Lucas, is believed deceased after an incident in Pompeii; he resurfaces soon after, in accordance with a prophesy that Rome would rise again. An outbreak of zombie attacks related to the incident is seen worldwide, and practically every GBI franchise has to deal with the problem to one extent or another. [GBSC]
Shortly after this, due to internal stresses, Tampa Division breaks up. Nielson takes a teaching job at a community college; he discovers that Kurt Summers has returned to Florida, and hires him as a teaching asssitant [GBSC]
Talena Ketcham, the daughter of Dr. Will Ketcham (GBIndependant, GBWC, GBTN) and Jess Williams, is born [GBWC/GBInd]
Parapsycologist Steve Reeves, engineer Jay Davis, and biologist Mark Skyler are recruited by Ray and Egon to form a Richmond branch of Ghostbuster Virginia [GBVA]
November. Republican Micheal Bloomberg is elected Mayor of New York City; his predecessor, three-term Republican mayor Edwin MacShayne, declined running again in favor of considering a run at the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. [GBOT, HA]
Rachel wanders to Long Beach and spends time aboard the Queen Mary, communicating with the ghost hunters that frequent the permanently moored cruise ship. One of them, Kitty LeChat, makes a drawing of her and posts it on the Internet. Another, Erika Frost, is afterwards hired to be the QM's resident psychic and tour guide, despite her inability to properly classify Rachel. She spends a few more months providing special effects for a B-movie studio called Exploding Spaceship Productions, but quickly tires of this occupation. [GBWC]
May. Master Orus, leader of a faction of the Los Angeles vampires, murders Gen Brown, lover of Kyle Stevens and in their eyes a "traitor" the the Kindred. The Ghostbusters West Coast and werewolf Victor Nightstalker smash Orus's coterie, and Nightstalker executes Orus personally. Unbenownst to the Ghostbusters, Orus's murder of Brown had been orchestrated by the Necromancer.[GBWC]
May. The Necromancer awakens the Soul Tracker. [GBWC]
May. Tampa Division reactivates; Nielson and Madison return to their posts, and Kurt Summers joins. Jerry Lewis (no, not THAT Jerry Lewis) joins about a month later. With Bo Holbrook's blessing, Tampa forms a Nightsquad team. Heather Jennings is hired for the Tampa Nightsquad, and Nielson's sister Mimi serves as their science officer. [GBSC]
June. Mick Neilson's old enemy, Valek, attacks GBTD; at one point, Nielson is missing and feared dead. Hurricane Alberto strikes Florida at the same time; it is feared that Valek may have influenced the storm. Agents of the Arcane Division and Onarga go to Florida to defeat Valek alongside GBTD. Nielson is found alive. [GBSC, GBAD, OGB, WNCGB]
June. Oscar Venkman and Mood Slime move to Memphis due to their developing musical career.
GBVA: Richmond confronts and defeats Damien Safire, alleged heir to the "Throne of Hell". [GBVA]
July. From the spot in Onarga where the Gem of Odin had appeared in 2004, a PKE sink hole appears, jeaprodizing the entire ectosphere. The entity Vespiral, a pre-Mesopotamian Goddess of Temptation, attempts to utilize it before being defeated by the Onarga Ghostbusters, Vincent Belmont, and Professor Spengler. [OGB, GBAD]
Mark Skyler of GBVA: Richmond is lost during a zombie attack. Later in the year, Steve Reeves is accused of misusing mood slime as a drug. [GBVA]
July. Former GBTD members Mark and Damon Lucas, along with Jake Fuller, form their own paranormal investigation group, "Banshee Busters" [GBSC]
July. Hide Tanaka, Tim Bondo, and Orla Wainwright are invited to join Ghostbusters Doom Patrol. A year after the battle with Thorsen, Andrew Williams and Brian Roig are still missing. [GBDP]
July. The spirit going by the name Rachel Leavenworth is "fired" from her job, and finds herself drawn to GBCentral West. While understandably wary at first, the Ghostbusters West Coast agree to let her stay; she declares herself "Spirit Liason" and unofficial janitor of the team. [GBWC]
c.July 17. Social services seizes Max Sanford from his parents due to their abuse of him. Peter Venkman is asked to analyze the child, suffering from developmental problems, and he suggests Garrett and Jo Miller as foster parents. They quickly decide to adopt the boy, and rename him Maxwell Nicholas Miller. [GBOT]
August. "Banshee Busters" are defeated by the entity "Beetlejuice"; GBTD must fight the entity, and the battle leads to the death of GBTD member Julie Madison. Damon Lucas disappears, and Jake Fuller is rendered comatose; [GBSC]
August 20. Egon Spengler visits LA to interview Rachel Leavenworth. The Soul Tracker attacks Zagnut and MC Pharaoh, but is driven off by the GBWC. [GBWC]
Late August. Damon Lucas appears in LA, harrassing GBWC Spirit Liason Rachel Leavenworth. [GBSC, GBWC]
August 28. Eduardo Rivera and Kylie Griffin are married by a judge. [GBOT]
September 3. Wedding of Dr. Fritz Baugh and Chelsea Aberdeen in Indianapolis, Indiana. Many members of GBI attend. [GBWC]
October. Jason Knetge is accepted as a trainee by the Ghostbusters West Coast [GBWC]
October. Heather Jennings joins Ghostbusters: Tampa Division [GBSC]
October 31. A dimensional fluctuation brings the GBWC into contact with the "Peoplebusters West Coast", their counterparts from what appears to be the same dimension encountered by GBNY in 1986 and 1991. The counterparts include a living version of Rachel calling herself "Ellie". At the verge of being defeated by their undead counterparts, the GBWC is saved when the dimension flux ends and sends the Peoplebusters back to their home plane.
November 1. Aidan Munroe is accepted as a trainee by the Ghostbusters West Coast. [GBWC]
November 6. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, running for re-election, is attacked by an entity copying the appearance and powers of the "T-1000" from the Terminator movies. The Ghostbusters West Coast is called to defend the Governator. [GBWC, HA]
December. Aidan Munroe and Jason Knetge are brought to Fort Arnold to begin a month of training supervised by Winston Zeddemore. [GBOT, GBWC]
Former New York mayor Edwin MacShayne officially declares his candidacy for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination. [GBOT, HA]
Ghostbusters: Tampa Division realigns, combining operations with a Georgia franchise to become the Ghostbusters South Coast Division (GBSC}; Lawrence Hicks and Shamus O'Riley are hired for the "new" company. [GBSC]
Chelsea Aberdeen Baugh, GBWC Client Administrator and wife of CEO Dr. Fritz V. Baugh, announces that she is expecting their first child, with a due date of October 1. [GBWC]
Late March. GBSC battles a cult attempting to mine New Orleans for death force. Heather Jennings and Shamus O'Riley are believed dead for a time, but with Vincent Belmont's help are returned safe and sound. After this incident, Mick Nielson resigns from the GBSC. Jerry Lewis is promoted to CEO of the GBSC.[GBSC]
May. Looking for a place where he can just be "one of the guys" instead of the leader, and needing the change in scenery, Mick Nielson returns to active GBI duty with a transfer to Los Angeles and the Ghostbusters West Coast Division. Kyle Stevens takes a leave of absence.[GBWC]
En route from Tampa to LA, Mick gets sidetracked in New Mexico by the activities of a cult dedicated to the entity Shudde M'ell. Working without GBI sanction, Kevin Kemarly and Vincent Belmont come to his aid, and the threesome smash the cult. [GBWC, GBAD, GBOT]
Tara Jackson becomes pregnant, and claims to not be certain of the baby's paternity--her brother, Dr. Roland Jackson of Ghostbusters, is among the family members expressing concern. Around the same time, Roland meets Grace Temple. [GBOT]
June. The Ghostbusters West Coast attracts vast media attention when spoiled hotel heiress and "reality" TV star London Sedgewick gets posessed and escapes from prison; they free her from the entity and return her to jail. Kyle Stevens resigns from the GBWC and GBI, making Andy Harness the sole Field Captain of the team. [GBWC]