History of the WCD, According to GBN

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Hey, I thought some of you would be interested in reading the true history of team and maybe travelling down memory lane one last time.

I'll post the link to the thread later, but for now I'll just sum up our team in a way to make even Fritz proud. I can't believe Ron Daniels put up with us ever since page 2.

[glow=red,2,300]Feb 27, 2003 9:42 PM[/glow]
I made my first official post on the project "Legends of Ghostbusters" as SpecterHarness. Two seperate storylines are introduced for the premise of the story. The only members so far are Peter Bo and myself.

[glow=red,2,300]Feb 28, 2003 6:38 PM[/glow]
Ludacris abandons idea for new team and joins up with Rogue Squad team-mate Andy for new crew.
[glow=red,2,300]Mar 01, 2003 4:51 PM[/glow]
Proton User (Dr. Griffiths) another RS members joins the team.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 01, 2003 5:11 PM
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Joey introduces West Coast idea thanks to Vincent Belmont.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 11, 2003 3:10 PM[/glow]
Andy Harness passes down control to Joey Williams due to lack of time. A decision later regretted.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 18, 2003 12:02 AM[/glow]
Jeremy Hicks joins the team.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 22, 2003 10:46 AM[/glow]
Chadderbox joins the team.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 24, 2003 6:27 PM
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Joey introduces the world to the new team named the West Coast Division (Ludicris, Robrultztheworld, Peter Kong, Egon901, Chadderbox)

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 25, 2003 12:53 PM[/glow]
Ray Parker Jr. joins the team.

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 25, 2003 7:22 PM
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Andy is back from a way shorter than expected vacation from Ghostbusting. (Told ya he'd regret passing down the chief spot)

[glow=red,2,300]Mar 27, 2003 11:10 PM[/glow]
Borzuo joined the team. I forgot who this guy was.
[glow=red,2,300]Apr 03, 2003 3:13 PM[/glow]
WCD is eager to work in Doomsday. Whatever happened to that thing anyway?

By April 6, the team had grown to nine members (Kyle Stevens had joined) and still hadn't officially been named (other than LOG). And all this had happened in just 7 of 53 pages.

If anyone is still interested in seeing what else happened to the team, please let me know.

Coming soon....

Veedramon enters the scene
The Harness/Masterson Era
The Big Split
Opening Night

[Dr. Fritz V. Baugh]

Oh do continue. This way we'll have some of this down here when if GBN goes down again.

Just a couple of notes:

Peter Bo was not Robert. He was Euan Sinclair, later of the GBUK, later still of psycho hackers.

Doomsday died around the time GBN morphed into GBCentral, because it's main sponsor team (NOMAD) fell apart. But I think it set some examples that helped pave the way for Chronicles of Gozer

[Dr. Andy Harness]

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 07, 2003 8:16 PM[/glow]
West Coast Division is not up on revised franchised list.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 08, 2003 11:34 PM[/glow]
Jeremy Hicks finds out you really don't have to pay franchise fees.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 09, 2003 12:10 PM[/glow]
Joey realizes there are no real fees either.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 12, 2003 12:45 PM[/glow]
SpecterHarness returns from another internet vacation due to time issues.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 22, 2003 6:51 PM[/glow]
Kyle introduces ideas for cats, later to become his trademark.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 23, 2003 11:39 PM[/glow]
Ray Parker Jr. introduces new ideas for the WCD.

[glow=red,2,300]Apr 25, 2003 7:32 PM[/glow]
Kyle Stevens brings up issue of Goverment funding.

[glow=red,2,300]May 02, 2003 8:30 PM[/glow]
It is decided that the team will be regular ghostbusters with Dr. Harness as the mentor for the team, helping the newer guys learn the ropes.

[glow=red,2,300]May 04, 2003 8:02 AM[/glow]
Proton User back from Spain, introduces idea for a website for the new team.

[glow=red,2,300]May 05, 2003 7:25 PM[/glow]
Kyle brings Michael N. Erica to the team.

[glow=red,2,300]May 10, 2003 11:15 AM[/glow]
Proton User comes up with idea for Recruitment Drive.

[glow=red,2,300]May 17, 2003 6:09 PM[/glow]
A very flattering Veedramon compliments the team on their efforts. We get twinkies and cokes.

[glow=red,2,300]May 19, 2003 8:44 PM[/glow]
The first official appearance of Jiggs.

[glow=red,2,300]May 19, 2003 10:34 PM[/glow]
After consorting with co-CEO Harness and other team members, Veedramon is the the 10th member of the WCD. Yay Fritz!

I think I'll stop on that happy note for now. This is around page 20 of 53. I'll probably do the next posts 10 pages at a time.

[Travis, GBDH]

remember to go straight up until about 2011....

[Jeremy Hicks]

Travis, what are you talking about? This is the real world history of how the GBWC started way back on GBN. It was hard to believe we had 56 pages on there.

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Jeremy, that doesn't even include all the space we took up on other boards. That would probably bring the total to at least 100 pages. That doesn't include the pages of posts we've made here, which is still smaller than the brand new NightSquad board.

[Jeremy Hicks]

Andy, I specifically said GBN because I knew how many pages we had on there. I would have totalled all the pages up myself if I weren't a bigger slacker than you. ;D

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Maybe I should have worded that differently, Jeremy. My comment kinda sounded like I was shooting you down. lol

I was just stating random facts. I could find the exact number if some of the boards that put up with us actually still existed.

[¡Eduardo Fantasico!]

GBN sucks. They all hate me there.

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Amen, Eduardo.... Amen.


lol

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Holy crap, I need to finish this thing off pretty soon.

[Dr. Fritz V. Baugh]

It feels strange bumping a two year-old thread, but just yesterday I went looking around The Old GBN and found the infamous thread that started it all...

archive.ghostbusters.net/disscussion/ghn/13/120100

Fifty-three pages of memories there. Everybody up to Razor joining. A prop guy named Borzou quitting even before the first story was put together (>sigh<....would we have not had as much trouble in GBI if we'd had another prop guy on the team?). Jiggs/Micheal Camy not showing up and posting. Guys like Proton User, Ray Parker Jr, Otter, and even original CEO Ludicris who are now basically gone from the community.

It was really fascinating to me seeing the shape of "Opening Night" and, indeed, our entire "first season" take shape. Otter and Andy squabbling.

One part that really jumped out at me personally was Andy's dilemma of his character's physical condition--whether the GBWC would take place before or after his maiming at the hands of Ashram. Especially the part about "he'll be stuck in a wheelchair in 2004"...something that didn't happen to Andy Harness, but it's just kind of a creepy verisimilitude to what happened to a different team member in 2004.

Heck, for old time's sake, here's the original GBWC "trailer":

Somewhere...

I will have my revenge...

He laughed at me...said I wasn't good enough...

That I wasn't skilled enough to be part of their clique...

I will show him...

I will have my revenge...

"Are you ready, then, fleshling??? Do you accept the power--and your obligation???"

"I do, Lord Atrocity"

There was pain. Intense, exquisite pain.

Pain so intense that I should want to die.

But no.

I cannot die.

I will not die.

HE will die.

And then the pain is gone. I stand transformed.

There is deep, dark laughter.

"You have the power now. You will have your revenge. In return, you will now serve me."

"Yes, Milord."

Such power!!! I bristle with it!!! I...

Hm..okay, I don't have hands anymore, but that's a small price to pay.

"Thusly, in the name of Anubis the Lord of Death, I shall call you henceforth...the Ravisher!!!"

Ravisher...oh yeah...I like it. The Ravisher.

"Go, my servant. Have your revenge...and then we'll talk..."
Uh-oh.

With a guy like this making trouble, Who Ya Gonna Call?

....

Um, but they're three thousand miles away.

(cue Ghostbusters theme. Neon orange Ghostbuster logo appears)

Dr. Joey Williams...
"Please, no applause"

Dr. Kyle Stevens...
"Doctor Stevens reporting for duty"

Dr. Andrew Harness...
"It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye to a proton stream.... Then it's hilarious."

Dr. Fritz Baugh...
"You rammed a troll at a Wal-Mart? Are you medicated?"

Peter Kong...
"Let's Go Ghostbusters!!! Sorry, couldn't resist."

Micheal Chad...
"Chillax. Mister Clutch is on the scene!"

Dr. Micheal Camy...
"Now that's a configuration of body parts not approved by the AMA"

Jeremy Hicks...
"Ahh, there's nothing like the sound of an unlicensed nuclear accelerator in the morning."

John Lipsyte...
"Ghostbusters Forever!!!"

and Dr. Robert Griffiths
"I'm thrown in with a bunch of bloody lunatics."

GHOSTBUSTERS WEST COAST DIVISION
The new Legends of Ghostbusters are here!!!

also featuring Dr. Nathaniel "Otter" Masterson
"Do these parachute pants make me look sexy, or what?"

[Dr. Andy Harness]

Fritz, I could hug you right now. That brings back so many memories.

It makes me wanna do Legends again, but make it a GBWC story.