New Gotham, Tuesday

[blondecanary]

The Policeman's Ball was tonight. There was time to check out New Gotham and shop for dress clothes first, of course, or do a lot of other things. But that was the cool part of the day.

[ocd going up]

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...At least until the Party Crashers arrive

[blondecanary]

"LISTEN UP! THE BOSS WANTS TO SPEAK!"

You had to wonder if the world's craziest criminals was an automatic assumption when those in question were wearing bowlers and question-mark jackets, and pointing sub-machine guns at a roomful of (very pissed-off now) cops.

"LADies and GENTLEmen... And officers of the law. Hello." A mild-mannered man in a mask, twirling a cane, stepped forward. "This has now become a fundraiser for-- the Riddler!" He stabbed the cane out at one cop, puffing a little green cloud of gas at him.

"If we can't raise funds from your donations, we'll be taking hostages for ransom back to our lair! Please obey the usual security procedures, and cooperate now."

React

[blondecanary]

Run, hide, get taken hostage!

[mod your own henchmen, or ask fore one to fight below.]

Re: React

[blondecanary]

The first thought through Dinah's head was, I thought he was still in Arkham?! The second one was, Why don't I have weapons on me?

And the third was, Stupid Arthur jinxed us!

While she was thinking all that Barbara had already opened up a compartment on her chair and withdrawn two sets of eskrima. "Never leave home without them. Head's up!"

"That is more like it!" Dinah turned and whapped a henchman approaching with more gas pellets, and then it was on.

Re: React

[wantstodirect]

Tony got a faceful of the gas and crawled under a table until he could clear his head. Because blasting away with magic was a bad idea when the floor was all wobbly and things were kind of spinning and...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Re: React

[glacial_witch]

Karla also got a faceful of gas, but her Black Widow metabolism just had her retching in a potted plant, rather than passing out all woozy-like. "Dinah," she croaked. "Tell me this was supposed to happen. Please say this is the entertainment."

Re: React

[blondecanary]

Dinah hit two bad guys who had been approaching them, high, low, then right in the solar plexus.

"...uuuurgh..." Was their editorial commentary.

"I wish. No. This is an old-school crime-boss who must've busted out of Arkham Asylam." THWACK! "Busy now. Hide! Or, uh, disarm any you can from cover!" WHAP!

Re: React

[glacial_witch]

"HEY!" Karla protested, straightening back up. "No need to be mean!"

She pulled out the sticks that were holding up her hair; Dinah's birthday gifts were going to be used to good effect tonight. She could tell.

She flung the first one at a guy, hitting him in the thigh. The stick sank deep into his flesh. He yelped at her, turning and almost incredulous expression her way. "YOU ARE RUINING MY PARTY," she yelled.

Re: React

[blondecanary]

"NO KILLY," Dinah yelled. "Witnesses! Cops! And nice throw," she added, turning to take down another two guys.

A CRASH of glass signaled that Helena finally felt like showing up.

"Mind if I crash in?"

"...always with the one-liners."

Re: React

[glacial_witch]

Karla decided not to tell Dinah she'd been aiming for his throat. "No killy!" she repeated cheerily. "But--wait! They totally started it! Oh. Right. Due process."

Alex would be so pleased.

"Helena!" Karla would just be standing there, looking starry-eyed for a second. At least until one of the thugs tried to grab for her. "You're so lucky I just promised no killy," she growled as phantom hands circled his throat and began squeezing. "And that I'm a good enough Healer to know when unconsciousness starts!"

Re: React

[blondecanary]

Said thug obligingly passed out, and with Helena wreaking havoc in the middle of the room, and various cops fighting back now, the bad guys started to flee, jumping off the fourth floor balcony onto little portable air bags and heading for the hills.

WHAP!

THUD!

POW!

Dinah and Helena ended up back-to-back at one point, whirled around, did the oh, it's you look, then grinned.

And went back to beating up bad guys.

Dinah made her way back over to Karla and said, "How are you doing?"

WHAMMO!

Re: React

[glacial_witch]

"This would go easier if I wasn't worried about certain restrictions," Karla pouted sulked said. "But I'm doing pretty well. I've had some reasons to practice recently."

Reasons she hadn't exactly told Dinah about. Right.

"I like it when I get to use them for decorations," she said hastily, using Craft to lift one up and wrap him in the flag bunting on the wall. Her arm shook with the effort of holding him up, but she had to make sure he was secure. "Oh, wait. Should I not be doing this?"

Re: React

[blondecanary]

"Youuuu might want to put your arm down so no one can guess it's you," Dinah said sotto voce. "...wait, why were you practicing?"

Re: React

[glacial_witch]

"Because I thought I might get attacked at a Police Ball?" Karla suggested, dropping her hand. The male fell with her, but she caught him. Sorta.

Okay, the broken leg would almost certainly keep him from further participating in the attack.

"Is this something we should really talk about now? Oh, look! Bad guy!" And Karla was just going to try to sidle away...

Get Taken Hostage!

[blondecanary]

And rescued in a bit!

Re: Get Taken Hostage!

[gothamlights]

The Henchman were using gas and weird trick ropes to get around the cops, and dragging various people off to balconies, only to jump off with mini-parachutes for the 4-story drop.

Run! Hide! Run some more if you're not a cop!... or a crimefighter.

Re: Get Taken Hostage!

[lovemykilt]

Priestly had to admit, he kind of froze up when the crazy henchpeople started running around. On the one hand, he had a very well developed sense of self-preservation, after years in Fandom. On the other, he was supposed to be Dinah's sidekick, right? And sidekicks did stuff.

He just couldn't quite work out what stuff needed to get did, just now. And the gas was not helping with his thought processes.