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[why_so_serious]

-- it's not clear exactly how it happened.

But someone's done a little fancy footwork.

On the bar sits an abandoned newspaper, free for anyone to pick up and flip through.

Although, considering the content, we're not so sure how much you'll want to keep it.

| ooc: volume one of the ha ha ha times. image-heavy, dial-up unfriendly. this

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[52_dropoff]

Being a one-time TV news reporter, Charlie isn't huge on newspapers. They're so 1970, But he also can't resist looking at one, if only for the raw data (or what passes for raw data). One look, though, tells him that the paper is the handiwork of, at the very least, an admirer of the Joker.

Page after pages send a chill down Charlie's back. It brings back memories of so many Joker rampages that made the news across the US, even when the target just Commissioner Gordon, or even when it was just the Joker on trial. But there's some a bit off. The paper, by Charlie's standards, is old. From before Dent became Two-Face and before Gordon made the cops a bit cleaner. No date, though. Not that a date matters in the Bar.

He puts the paper back down, not really wanting to keep it or even see it again. He wonders who would go to all that effort to make such a work so macabre. He doesn't think of the most obvious answer.

[ostro_goth]

It is a news-paper; but it looks dishevelled, and unlike any news-paper Teja has seen men read around the bar. Teja looks at it, turns some pages, shakes his head -- it has no news from any place that he knows of, or cares about. Gotham -- Alexander Knox is from Gotham, is he not?

But this paper looks like a wall on which giggling schoolboys have scribbled, not like anything to do with Knox.

Teja puts it down again, and thinks no more of it. There are enough important things to worry about, here.-

[[OOC: OMG where did you get that -- or did you really MAKE the entire graphics?? What incredible lot of work if you did! It probably deserves a price as most elaborate single OOM ever. To say nothing of the great, consistent graphics design job, and the total dedication to canon -- which I am in the process of ingesting, btw.]]

[weeper_of_blood]

It's a habit of Le Chiffre's to poke around at abandoned things, just in case there's anything worth knowing, so he goes for the newspaper, soon realising it's been massively defaced by some unknown culprit.

Even so.. this has to be the best thing he's read since coming to the bar, and were he capable of hysterical laughter, the 'Dead Girl No Longer Most Likely To Succeed' headline would have him in stitches. But, as it is, he'll just go for smirking plenty for everyone, and making sure to read this totally important set of articles.

Death is funny, see, if you know when to laugh.

[mandercommander]

Bonzo, to be fair, has probably never seen a newspaper in...well, paper format...at least outside the Bar or a library archive somewhere. Still, being slightly curious he picks it up...

...and isn't sure whether to be amused or freaked out. He settles on a little of both, and flips through the whole thing with about the same sort of interest that keeps one watching a train wreck as it happens.

Who the hell came up with this?

He doesn't know; he's got a very good guess, though. For now, he's content to be a little weirded out by some of the stuff in the paper...and somewhat amused by the rest of it.

[nothawkingbird]

Kate noticed the paper, and while she did scan the circled phrases especially to seek for clues, the overall look was creepy. Something very disturbing about all of it. And what was with the obsession with smiles and clown-like faces? And did it have to do with the article on clown gangs and something about a toxin? Also the drinking water ad that was likewise doctored had her wondering too.

She eventually put it down since some of it like the girl guide articles and the dead girl one turned her stomach. She wanted to go practice, or go out and patrol, and put the hurt on bad guys again.

Like whoever doctored up this newspaper.