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?

Comments

batman | warnings: violence, deaths, gore, crazy

[kingofrooks]

[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.

Re: reactions;

[batgraduate]

{ Have to admit, there's something incredibly satisfying about seeing Black Mask being shot in the head.

Batman's going to be busy tonight. There's work to be done. }

[reaction]

[unmantled]

[ It's a lie. He knows it's a lie, just like his shadow was. That's all it is. Bruce wouldn't...

He wouldn't. Never. Not Carrie. Not Superman. Not even the Joker. Not...

No. ]

Voice; private; call via Bruce Wayne

[dragonvariation]

By that same coin, one would have expected you to shoot yourself, don't you think?

Your rogues gallery was wanting for something--I can't quite place my finger on it.

private call.

[kingofrooks]

[ He sounds rough-edged when he calls back, but doesn't even bother with Batman's voice. Why the fuck bother. ]

That's a logical fallacy. Though, are you thinking that I should've added you to the list?

private call.

[dragonvariation]

Is it? You have dangerous skills. Indeed, if the world is better off without me, it's certainly better off without you. I, at least, am predictable, whereas you clearly are not.

It is those who are all too aware of the knife edge on which they balance that are most likely to fall.

private call.

[kingofrooks]

So that's what it comes back to? [ A sharp laugh. ] "You're the same as me." [ Mockingly ] The same tired argument.

Aren't you sick of yourself yet?

[ What composure. ]

private call.

[dragonvariation]

[ A significant pause, as though to let Bruce's own words echo accusingly between them. ]

At the risk of satisfying your accusation, have you tried asking yourself that same question?

private call.

[kingofrooks]

Let's take the evidence. Tonight, I've attempted to destroy myself multiple times. [ There's a sick, oily smile in that tone. ]

Now answer the original question.