Tuesday, December 20th, The Midnight Channel

[thepull_mods]

Who: The Port's Latest Shadow Televisions Stars! And Thousands of Home Viewers!
When: Midnight, Tuesday, December 20th
Where: In front of your Television Sets or Streaming NV TV. (Digital Cable? You'll still get the analog effect.)
Summary: Full Plot Details Here
Warnings: Please Put 'em In the Subject Lines As Necessary, Kids?

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[caveatwalls]

[This was what became of heroes. Sherlock knew this from the start, which is precisely why his trust in Bruce was so shaky, if even there at all. Even if Batman claimed he wasn't a hero, that didn't match his praises, didn't match the evidence of irrevocable morality. This was inevitable; this or reducing oneself into something spineless. There is no moderation for someone who climbs to the bastion of the proposed high ground of justice. He wondered how long it would be before Bruce actually tipped to either side.

Strangely enough, it wasn't as difficult watching himself get shot this time, considering how many times he'd done it on his own just a few nights before. The others disturb him more: Re-l, and Carrie, as they knew her (he'd seen that enough).

Sherlock could only imagine that Batman went running off after his Shadow as soon as the transmission ended. He was prone to such brash reactions when his vision of himself was affronted, and after all, Sherlock nearly did it too. He'd just... waited longer. This fact doesn't stop him from texting.]

Robert Nozick. The utility monster.

[kingofrooks]

[ He replies much, much later. Near early morning sirens. ]

Monstrous, indeed.

Kantian deontology. A direct contradiction.

[caveatwalls]

Either way. Good to know how you really feel about competition.

[He's... half joking.]

[kingofrooks]

Don't change your day job.

[caveatwalls]

I'll keep that in mind the next time you deride my skills in that area, too.

Or when I start to actually care about your opinion.

[kingofrooks]

The island might sink first.

[caveatwalls]

I suppose I won't risk that for the moment.

You know of the connection to the suicides.

[A statement, not a question. If Batman doesn't know, he certainly should.]

[kingofrooks]

That's a rhetorical question.

Five of the Shadows, and they return every single night. The only 'mystery' is how they got into the television screen, and how they can have such a psychic connection to us when we are not near them.

[caveatwalls]

Darkness monsters of people who've been in the Port tend to have exaggerated or distorted versions of the powers they had in life. That and there's been strong enough telepathic waves to echo across the island before. Depending on how the psychic energy works, it could be leeching on the radio waves.

[kingofrooks]

You adapted well. [ A little droll. ]

The cables being corrupted by Darkness might explain how the images reached the television

[caveatwalls]

It's not difficult to accept what is only fact. Even if it isn't fact back home.

One of them was the child of an AGI executive. They'd know where to find broadcast stations.

[kingofrooks]

Assuming the station isn't Darkness-proofed, and that the images can fit within a tape slipped into the broadcasting channels. Too complicated.

[caveatwalls]

Not enough evidence to make it simple yet.

But nothing too intelligent. They retain memory, but they aren't entirely sentient. Darkness creatures act on desire.

[kingofrooks]

Meaning?

[caveatwalls]

Meaning these were children starved for attention. They had influential parents who clearly had no time for home life. That fosters histrionics, sometimes to extreme means like suicide. Similarly, that's what their monsters want. The attention of the whole Port.