[ encrypted to Norman Osborn ]

Well. That worked out nicely, I must say. Have you your speech prepared? You know, something a little more elaborate than what the news is showing. Considering all our hard work, you ought to damn well milk this ( Read more... )

--You need to turn on your--- [Pause. The voice was distant, slightly muffled, and there’s some brushing rumbling sounds as a hand searches his pocket.] This isn’t---

Oh. Oh dear. No, no, no, don’t do this to me!

[He takes out the communicator and switches to video. There’s a cell phone in his free hand and an incredulous, somewhat furious ( Read more... )

[Static, blurred static, and slowly a hazy video comes into focus. The communicator is on the ground, propped against a streetlight, and has full view of Edward Nygma. Civilians scatter before him, out of the way, as he staggers. He raises a hand, spreading his fingers, and zaps out an electric bolt. It strikes the third level of an apartment ( Read more... )

[Dododo dododododododo dododo! CHANNEL FOUR NEWS flickers onto the screen for anyone whose communicator is on. The urgent harbinger of monosyllabic dos bring attention to a flustered and clearly unscheduled broadcast ( Read more... )

Underground dweller and two thirds an eye

Read in metres, forsaken by poets,
Behind by nine but not in the past.

Standing on the shoulders of red rex lickerIn the substance of the kinged and lost by the lovers of the widowed ( Read more... )

[Riddler is sitting at a table--essentially the only furniture in Lust's apartment that's accessible to him--with crosswords and newspapers covering the surface. The papers are vaguely in view, with scribbles and notations, but nothing's clear. Recent events--bizarre ones, weather patterns and monsters--tend to be a common theme ( Read more... )

Question: has anyone done anything about the nigh-rabid out patients of Crane's running about? Just wondering.

[Encrypted to Norman Osborn; absolutely unhackable.]

Norman. Time we added to that little team project of ours, isn't it? The City is practically ub an ideal situation for some emergent leadership. Our leadership. Now, Norman, I know ( Read more... )

Do you recall what Dick Clark once said? “I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.” Engaging man. How about Jack Kerouac? “Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” Heh. See a pattern, perhaps?

So riddle me this, who's watching, and who's to be watched? Which steps are ( Read more... )

I daresay this is the first day in a while when something tragic hasn't happened. Spooky, isn't it?

I noted more people have been ported out. Anyone else unnerved by such seemingly arbitrary outcomes? Or have we any who can see the pattern?

[Encrypted to Norman Osborn || Voice || Unhackable]

Did you secure him? I didn't ensure his movement for ( Read more... )

[His tone is neutral, even painfully so. Any slips of anger are evident in the words he stresses.]

This city is a disgrace. Let's bear in mind how the truth differs from lies. It would be a pity to confuse the two.

[Encrypted to Stark]

Tomorrow. Noon.