Ghostbusting

Hello, and welcome to the Freedom City Ghostbuster division. Here you will learn what ghosts are, why you should go after them, and how you should do so.

What the fuck is a ghost?

Many of you have probably occasionally had items vanish from your inventory and gotten a minor stress bump. This is due to a ghost harassing you. Most ghosts are poltergeists, which will drop whatever they take on the floor. This is the kind you will be hunting most of the time.

Why should I hunt ghosts?

For the money, of course! Ghost contracts pay out an assload of hellbux per kill with comparatively little effort needed for the actual killin'.

Okay, so how do I kill them?

You will need three things in order to find and kill ghosts:

1) A PK Illuminator. This essentially is a ghost tracker, and it will tell you if PK energy is in the area. Using it is simple: type view PK. If any ghosts are anywhere nearby, it will tell you how much PK energy is detected and in what direction. Follow the trail until it shows you some ghosts.

2) Ghostbait. Drop this on the ground to make one of the ghosts in the room appear. The ghost eats the bait, so you will want as much as possible. Only one ghost per ghostbait!

3) A source of EMP (or fire or shock) damage. As ghosts are immaterial, you cannot beat them up or kill them through base physical means. You need something that will do EMP or elemental damage to do it, and EMP grenades are not good for this since you must be out of the room to use them. Therefore, you will want one of three options, in increasing order of usefulness: a weapon EMP mod, an EMP shotgun, or a proton pack. Once the ghost appears, blaze (or thump) away, as you desire, and with luck. soon enough it will poof into nonexistence and money will poof into your wallet! EMP shotguns rely on the rifle skill, and the proton pack has recently been changed to use SCIENCE! instead of rifles. If you are lucky enough to own a flame chain, this will work as well.

4) This part is optional, but if you drop a trap, the ghost will be sucked into it. Traps sell for only a few bucks more than you can buy them, and you can't let the ghosts back out either. The only reason to use a ghost trap is if you like to brag about your ghost collection for some reason. There is also a journal for using one properly once, so might as well make the few bucks at least once.

All of these things can be purchased at CS in Slagtown, directly south of the Bradbury.

How do ghosts kill me?

Ghosts do a combination of fire and cold damage, but have shitty hit. You can tank the fire damage with weezer dam gear or leech hide, and the cold damage with yeti fur. If you have even a moderate amount of dodge, you can probably kill them without getting hurt, though. The only annoying thing is that ghost attacks can set you on fire!

Where can I find ghosts?

Most ghosts spawn in Freedom City, making them relatively easy to find and kill. Spectres spawn in Necropolis, though if you go there to ghostbust, you're probably retarded. Edith's dad also counts as a ghost, and Edith will summon spectres if you attack her. Naskar and Moms (the two ghosts in the Sharpton Projects) near Firewalker are ghosts too. Ghosts also will spawn in Adamant Canyon and Gangland.

Making ghosts

You two can make your own ghosts! Go to the Church of Satan and go all the way south. East one from there is a cabinet, in the cabinet are 3 pieces of chalk. Inscribe pentagram with chalk on any square you're going to kill someone on and you suck their soul from their body, causing it to be expelled as a ghost. Drop bait, wield proton pack, profit.