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A while ago I posted a trial balloon here about a possible plot in Ray's world. As soon as he's back from the plot he's currently involved in, over in the Knight Rider universe, I'm going to start the ball rolling on the East River Revolution plot. The basic elements will involve old shipwrecks in New York City's East River, a master thief, and the ghosts of Revolutionary War soldiers from both sides of the conflict.

There is a section of the East River- the part of the Hudson that runs down Manhattan's east side- called the Hell Gate. The Hell Gate is extraordinarily deep, fast, and cold. It's generally accepted that this part of the river is un-divable, as the conditions are far too dangerous. Naturally, this has led to all kinds of stories; at least one claims that several British paymasters' vessels from the Colonial and Revolutionary days were sunk there, and that the gold they were carrying still lies in their holds.

Sometime late in September or early in October, someone is going to make an attempt on that gold.

The problem is that the Hell Gate lies literally in the shadow of two major bridges: the Queens span of the Triboro Bridge, for car traffic, and the Hell Gate Bridge, for train traffic. Using machinery would be noticed, and stopped. Using occult means, on the other hand, is generally pretty indistinguishable from typical New York weirdo use of Astoria Park, right up until the ghosts start rising out of the landscape. It's not that hard to get the ghosts of American soldiers of the Revolutionary era to agree to stick it to the British one last time by helping out with the salvage operation. What is difficult is getting the spell to raise all those soldiers exactly right on the first go.

Did we mention that the largest island in that part of the East River, Ward's Island, used to be a base for British soldiers during the Revolutionary War? Or that quite a lot of the pillars of the Triboro are sunk into Ward's Island itself?

It's going to be Revolutionary battles all over again, in the middle of a major transportation hub, unless the Ghostbusters and their allies can bring it to a halt before disaster strikes…

So, anyway, if you're interested in that sort of thing, foreshadowing will begin when Ray gets back to the Bar, and the actual plottage will commence a bit after that. Let me know your specific interests and we'll see what can be done!

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K will, as always, be glad to help out. Though I can see potential for crack with some of my other pups too....

Me, as in Rue, would be glad to play.

Schweet!

You always have an Ace.

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Even if Ace's reponse to ghosts/the undead generally tends to be 'You've got to be kidding me.' followed closely by 'Can I blow them up now?', which might not be entirely useful.

I hope she's really good at shaped directional charges if she does blow anything up.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Hey, my great-grandfather in RL helped build the Triboro. I'm allowed to be the tiniest bit paranoid about bad things happening to that bridge.

Really? Coolness. Definitely allowed the paranoid.

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Maybe Ace needs to be introduced to different means of destroying ghosts. As a precautionary measure.

Yeah, it was a WPA project and Great-grandpa Raimondi was one of the bricklayers employed to work on the bridge's foundations.

The prospect of Ace with a proton pack...

Is scary like hell. Yes.

Which side would run screaming first, I wonder? The living or the dead?

The living. They know what that thing can do.

Leaving Ace alone with two opposing armies of ghosts?

You know that can't end well.

Oh, come on. We're talking about the Ghostbusters. They've collectively got the survival instinct of a very small hamster. I don't think they'd do more than throw themselves on the ground and cover their heads screaming. They'd get up and join in once that was out of their system.

*is too busy laughing at the mental image to form a coherent answer, please leave a message after the beep*

Definitely in.

Probably with Andrew.

If you need a geeky filmmaker or an Force-ghost, let me know. Dunno if either would be of any help/use, probably not, but that just sounds cool.

Val might be of some help with political/social things from the Revolutionary War Era perhaps. *shrugs* You know where to find me.

You know I'm always happy to help.

As noted, Knox will be available. It might also be fun to have him note what's familiar and what's not about this New York.

Watch Harry try not to get sucked into such a plot.

Watch Harry fail miserably at that.

Watch Harry end up getting his ass handed to him, but helping anyway.

;)

Listen as Bob gloats upon Harry's return, telling him 'I told you that would happen.'

You can count me (and Archie) IN!

I'll play! And look, I even have a pup from around the right era.

Tom's been to New York (even if Ray's version is not quite his) and he knows about ghosts... Although the being a Brit thing might not be so good.

This could be really fun!

Add in another british armed forces pup, from just a little later than the revolutionary war, if needed.

Bonus, he's dead already.

Belated, but - so in, if you want. :D

*posts with wrong journal, but has just seen this*

I haven't a clue as to what Angela would do, but if you can think of anything a geeky, non-powered teenage girl could do, give me a call. ;)

She can fight and shoot, but other than that...