oo5; video, backdated to Darkness of November 2nd

[kingofrooks]

[ Darkness. In the background you can hear the soft chittering of the monsters. There's the sound of an Eight-legs, then a low moan of a Mutate. Are you wondering if some poor bastard is now dead and has dropped his NV, inadvertently switching it on

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video;

[cowboy_newsie]

I know a couple people'll be real happy to see you. Welcome back, I guess.

voice;

[kingofrooks]

How insincere.

permavideo!

[cowboy_newsie]

Oh, it's sincere. Just cuz I'm not cryin' tears o' joy don't mean it's false.

permavoice!

[kingofrooks]

I find that hard to believe.

Not here.

[under_thehood]

[Jason doesn't even know how to respond to this, doesn't know where to begin to respond. He's glad Bruce is alive, but, it's been an extremely difficult almost month since Bruce died.

So, he settles for saying nothing at all, but he'll be watching this post.]

[ not here ]

[kingofrooks]

[ HE'S WATCHING YOU, JASON. ]

[text]

[caveatwalls]

I take it stating the obvious is one of your powers now.

[text]

[kingofrooks]

I take it that blindness is somehow yours.

[text]

[caveatwalls]

Cute. Not back to full form yet, I see. Your sarcasm needs a little fine tuning.

[text]

[kingofrooks]

Or you have lost your touch.

[Text; Private; following morning]

[gaveherwings]

As suspected. Your companion gave us the wrong impression, then?

[Text; Private; following morning]

[kingofrooks]

He doesn't lie.

[Text; Private; following morning]

[gaveherwings]

Then you did die, that night?

[Text; Private; following morning]

[kingofrooks]

Yes.

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[he_is_wild]

[He has no response at first; but as he watches that familiar shadow, he feels something stir deep down inside. In his mind's eye he does not see Batman. Instead he sees the water. He sees himself staring into it, into his own reflection. White skin, green hair....a bat....

....He blinks and looks again at the video, at those familiar movements, that familiar voice. Same as that day at the river outside ACE, he feels the scream before it comes. The ripping, painful scream that he knows signifies the beginning of his lunacy.

"Nnnnnnnnn-"]

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[he_is_wild]

[When the video clicks on, the feed is untraceable and it's the dead eyes of the gunslinger's mask that stare into the camera.]

No?

You must be the Batman, then.

[voice]

[kingofrooks]

I am, and you are Zulfiqar.

The one with the poisonous blood.

[voice]

[he_is_wild]

No.

Just Zulfiqar.

[He turns his head, feeling dizzy.]

I had heard people here came back from the dead. I did not believe it was truly so.