The real world is delivering plotbunnies fresh to my door.

[camwyn]

Page 11 of today's New York Daily News features an article by John Marzulli with the headline, "Co-op doesn't dig idea of 1905 time capsule". It's about the hundredth anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the original NYC Police Headquarters at 240 Centre Street. There's a group of police historians who believe there's a time capsule buried under the cornerstone on the southwest corner, and who say that the city leaders of the time wanted the capsule opened in a hundred years. The building is now a residential co-op and the architects and other people affiliated with the place say 'we checked during 1988's renovation, there didn't seem to be anything behind the cornerstone, we'd really rather you not crack our actual building open and disrupt everything, c'mon guys be nice, will you?'.

All I could think, looking at the article, was: "The walls in the Fifty-Third Precinct were bleeding. How do you explain that?"

There is a GB plot bunny in the Police Building somewhere. I just know it. Hell, it might even be a purebred instead of a mulebunny.


ETA: NO. NO. Damndamndamn, NO, this is not going to be a mulebunny! I am not going to use this as a reason to cross things over with The Alienist!

(Even if the climactic scene of The Alienist took place atop the reservoir that used to stand where the Fifth Avenue library, with the lions and the ghost and the "Alice, are you menstruating right now", currently stands. NO. NO. BAD BRAIN NO BIKKIT. Don't make me go to the video store.)

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[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Oh boy.

I can think of a lot of interesting things that might be down there. All of which would cause amusingly terrifying psychospatial feedback and possibly bleeding walls, along with pent-up horrors breaking loose from their containment and shambling around ripping the heads off passersby.

Can't they rent one of them sonar setups from a paleontologist and set it against the cornerstone and see if there's anything interestingly solid behind there, before they start with the jackhammers (and the release of horrors)?

[camwyn]

Hm. The sonar setups were invented after the 1988 renovation. Perhaps they could ask around...

I'll just note that the police historians say that the capsule contains things like a gold engraved revolver, a letter from Theodore Roosevelt (then the president, but formerly police chief for the city), and a police roster for the time as well as newspapers of the day and some of the currency available in 1905. Not necessarily much room for horrors there... in a sane universe. In the universe inside my head, it's still 1988, perfectly within striking distance of the Ghostbusters movie (so long as we discount the sequel, which I am only too willing to do), and they've still got a largely unknown capsule to open in a vacant landmark that hasn't been renovated yet.

[vivian-shaw.livejournal.com]

Pff, sane universe.

Think of it this way: the police building must be just soaked in negative psychic energy. All the people dragged in there against their will, all their memories of what they did, all the policemen's memories themselves; place would stand out on a mental map of the city like a migraine. All kinds of potential horrors that don't even require a time capsule's being opened to be set free.

Is it wrong that I'm thinking about some of Morpheus's old relics being found inside that capsule? The bag of dream-sand would be bad enough, but the ruby...oh, yes, the ruby has potential.

Crap. I am not stealing your plotbunny, because a) I don't have the brainpower right now to do anything with it and b) I have no clue where I'd go with it even if I did.

*removes concept of time capsules from brain with a staple remover*

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

At least three HP plot bunnies and one original plot bunny just hopped in my lap and started glaring at me. I am attempting to shoo them away so that I can finish the three challenges that I'm supposed to be working on.

And I REALLY want to see your Egon, Peter and Roy deal with bleeding walls in the Fifty-Third Precinct.

[camwyn]

Actually, the bleeding thing probably won't show up in any story that might arise out of this, except possibly as a background reference. The line was taken straight from the movie- when Peck was insisting to Mayor Lenny that the Ghostbusters were frauds and had weapons of mass destructionusing nerve gas on people to induce ghost hallucinations, the head of the FDNY snapped that he'd seen every form of combustion known to man and that today's incident was no lightshow- and a dignified Black man in a police outfit that I can only assume was the city police commissioner said, "The walls in the Fifty-Third Precinct were bleeding. How do you explain that?"

Since I'd been kinda pondering (since yesterday) trying to do a small fill-in-the-background ficlet involving that guy and what he thought of Peck, seeing the story in the News kind of lodged the '1988 renovation goes horribly wrong' plotbunny in my brain. Sideways. With pitons and crampons and other mountain-adhesive equpiment ending in 'ons'.

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

At least it wasn't a more macabre crossover with Angel of Darkness. I should ask you to snap a picture of that site of me one day. Mulebunny? Oh dear, you've started MY brain churning, especially now that I think of the glass jar with all the eyeballs...

[camwyn]

Mulebunny, yes. A crossbreed between two things that God never intended to cross; little, if anything, can be brought forth from it, but in itself it is both horribly stubborn in its refusal to leave, and immensely useful in ways that neither of its parents can quite manage.

I haven't read Angel of Darkness. Given the way The Alienist affected me, I decided not to touch the next one, for my own sake. My head's got enough black goo at the bottom, thanks.

*starts muttering to herself that the time capsule was from 1905, and the time frame was ALL WRONG for The Alienist*

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

But wasn't there a sequel to The Alienist which would approach the correct time period? It was full of Hudson Dusters and Dead Rabbits, iirc, and would make an interesting mix with the busters...

[camwyn]

There was a sequel, yeah. I never read it. Carr has an amazing ability to get inside one's head and leave one feeling squicked on a level that has little to do with jars full of eyeballs; I'm not sure if reading the sequel is necessarily healthy for me.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... as I recall, the sequel has to do with a serial kidnapper who has taken the daughter of ambassador, and is cavorting with her drug-addled Five Pointer lover. I thought it was interesting, but your mileage may vary.

[dragonwhishes.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO MEET YOU SO BADLY NOW.

... Okay, done with the fangirling.

[avram]

Yeah, something that irked me (oh so slightly) about Ghostbusters was how they totally missed the opportunity to interact with the actual history of NYC. I wanted the Library ghost to be obviously someone who had drowned, and the shot of Washington Square Park to have a mass of ghosts rising out of it from when it had been a potter's field and gallows.