The San Francisco Ghostbusters are a franchise of Ghostbusters who operate in San Francisco and are the protagonists of Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord.
History[]
The San Francisco branch of the Ghostbusters was founded by Gabriela Sparks and announced on November 24, 1994.[Note 1] However, there weren't any ghosts to bust.[1] Decades later, a new team was formed after a P.K.E. spike was detected at Hookfaber Mansion and an incident led to the release of a diabolical entity named Ghost Lord. Gabriela guided them remotely while she dealt with cases throughout the state. While the team dealt with various busts around the Bay Area, Gabriela and journalist Big T conducted research and analysis on Ghost Lord, Gustav Hookfaber, and an ancient prophecy called "The March of the Malevolent."
Garbiela theorized Hookfaber's hidden prototype Summoning Staff was the key to controlling Ghost Lord and sent the team back to the Hookfaber Mansion to retrieve it. Before the team could leave with the staff, Ghost Lord appeared with several ghosts. Gabriela instructed them to place the staff in the container on Ecto-1. The team weakened it with Proton Streams then Gabriela fired the charged up staff at it. It had the opposite effect and Ghost Lord enlarged into a giant form after absorbing its power. It revealed it manipulated them into retrieving the staff in order to fulfill the prophecy. The team battled Ghost Lord on the Golden Gate Bridge. Ronald Petnick, unaware of the situation, yelled at the Ghostbusters for breaking every Health and Safety rule. Ghost Lord picked Petnick up and tossed him into the San Francisco Bay. He tried to grab Gabriela but she ran for cover and used the recalibrated Summoning Staff. The beam shattered the glass helmet and the team tethered an eye out then trapped it. Ghost Lord backed away in agony as the Ghostbusters continued battling his army of ghosts. Once Ghost Lord came into range, Gabriela fired at the glass helmet again. The team tethered and trapped Ghost Lord's other eye. Gabriela shared her plan to hijack the Staff with antiprotons and create a beam rather than a pulse then merge it with the Proton Wands on reverse. The Ghostbusters crossed their streams into the Staff's beam as Gabriela blasted the Ghost Lord. It worked and the world was saved. Gabriela revealed her team made the papers. Petnick sort of apologized for how he treated the team and announced the Mayor invited them over for a congratulatory toast. Gabriela was shocked and excited to receive a phone call from congratulatory Ray Stantz. He asked to pass his thanks to the team and warned her about something called the Apocalypse Avoidance Super Surge.
During a June blizzard, Ray summoned the San Francisco Ghostbusters to the Firehouse and asked them for their help in dealing with Garraka. He made a mental note to have Janine update the records then tried to remember where he placed the Heat Beam attachments. He came out into the office, found them, and explained the Heat Beams was a new adaption made by Lars Pinfield that concentrates UV waveforms for targeted ice melting. He then asked the team to help in look for a brass Swedish chocolate box with their P.K.E. Meters. They returned from upstairs with the box. Ray told them the story about how Gustav Hookfaber came to them in the 80s with the box claiming it briefly contained the spirit of his dead sister and at the time thought he was scamming them for funding. He believed Hookfaber's research might help them extract and contain Garraka. Gabriela arrived late but was frozen by a Googly. The Heat Beam thawed her out while Ray and the others trapped the ghost. Ray instructed the team to head back to San Francisco and search Alcatraz for Hookfaber's secret office and locate his diary. They went to Hookfaber Factory in search of three objects Hookfaber trapped ghosts in. After they placed them on Frequency Generators, they were surprised to see Ghost Lord manifest and defeated him again.While the team worked in San Francisco, Garraka escaped the orb. Ray and Gabriela speculated the Ghost Lord Hookfaber served was really Garraka. The team headed to Chinatown to restore a Harvester in order to collect ectoplasm from five icy ghosts.
The team returned to New York to deliver the canisters just as Garraka emptied the Containment Unit of the captured ghosts in it. On the roof, they encountered Garraka who stole the canisters. As they attacked with Heat Beams, Garraka dropped the canisters. As vents overheated, they placed the canisters on them. Ray reported the canisters flooded the Containment Unit and acted like coolant. They reversed the entropy on it and used the Containment Unit to trap Garraka. Gabriela declared they earned themselves a break.
Known Members[]
- Gabriela Sparks: Founder and leader.
DLC Costumes[]
DLC 10/26/2023[]
Alice Aces
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION - NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Be the ace up your teams' sleeve from day one with the purchase of "Aces"
Price: $1.99
DLC 11/16/2023[]
Keymaster
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION - NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Become the key(master) to your team's success.
Price: $1.99
DLC 12/15/2023[]
Suits
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION – NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Tailor-made to look stylish, Suits means business when it comes to bustin’ ghosts.
Price: $1.99
Mascot
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION – NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Step into the shoes of a Ghostbusters icon and bust San Francisco’s ghosts as the legendary Stay Puft mascot.
Price: $1.99
Grill
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION – NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Turn up the heat against those pesky ghosts and add Grill to your squad today.
Price: $1.99
Spinners
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION – NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY Order-up!
Ghosts are no match for this plucky Spinner's employee.
Price: $1.99
DLC 3/28/2024[]
Gatekeeper
INCLUDED IN FULL CONTAINMENT EDITION – NO NEED TO PURCHASE SEPARATELY
Play as The Gatekeeper with this playable character skin.
Price: $2.99
Patch 5.1 4/25/2024[]
Red Flight Suit
Progress in the game is measured on the Progress Terminal and includes the number of missions completed and ghost types caught
Now when the total completion is 100% a new red flight suit will be available
Go to the locker and select any of the original 'Rise of the Ghost Lord' avatars, pick their flight suit costume and select the red colour swatch
Note: 100% completion now unlocking correctly in all circumstances.
Trivia[]
- Several costumes are nods to outfits seen in the various movies and television series:
- One is based on an outfit worn by Janine Melnitz in Ghostbusters II, Chapter 16:Vigo 101 when she is closing up the Firehouse for the day.
- Keymaster is based on the look of the Vinz Clortho-possessed Louis Tully when he's being interviewed by Egon Spengler and Janine Melnitz in the first movie.
- One of the costumes includes a Ray's Occult Books shirt.
- One is based on the outfit Phoebe Spengler wears when the family first arrives in Summerville in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Chapter 2.
- One is based on the Spinners Roller Hop uniform worn by Lucky Domingo in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
- Mascot is based on the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
- The blue lab coat from the Ghostbusters commercial in the first movie is one of the unlockable costume.
- In the Slimer Hunt update, the original flightsuit from the first movie was added.
- In the Slimer Hunt update, the dark flightsuit from the second movie was added.
- In the Slimer Hunt update, three suits with primary colors inspired by Egon, Peter, and Winston's from The Real Ghostbusters was added.
- In the Frozen Empire mission, one of the new suits is Gatekeeper based on the red dress Zuul wears when she possessed Dana Barrett and Callie Spengler.
- A white T-shirt bears the Puffer on the front.
- In character designs by Ben Blethyn, two of the male Ghostbusters' names patches read "Kurtz" and "Khan" and one of the female Ghostbusters' name patches reads, "Gonzalez."[2]
Appearances[]
Notes[]
- ↑ According to the Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord story trailer, released on June 1, 2023, a November 24, 1994 edition of The Bay of Today newspaper covers the Ghostbusters expansion to San Francisco.
References[]
- ↑ Mission Objective; San Francisco Headquarters (2023). Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord – San Francisco Headquarters (2023) (Meta Quest 2/Playstation VR2). nDreams. Line reads: "This is the HQ of San Francisco's Ghostbusters. Gabriela had it fully kitted out and even employed a small team before realising there were no ghosts in San Francisco."
- ↑ Ben Blethyn ArtStation "Ghostbusters Player Characters" 9/24/2024
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