A Bat-ty Campaign Idea

[HewhoisMatt]

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I have always thought a shotgun with a wooden stake mounted under the barrel would be the best vampire weapon. First ya slow em down with a shot then stick them with the stake.

[Mark Rand]

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I have always thought a shotgun with a wooden stake mounted under the barrel would be the best vampire weapon. First ya slow em down with a shot then stick them with the stake.

You could also use wooden pellets in the shotgun.

[Mark Rand]

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The two posted Slayers, both trained as Jedi Knights, are ideas I've been kicking around in my head, but I'm not sure which one, if either, will be Gotham City's Slayer.

The campaign focus is the Bat Team, a group, founded by Batgirl, to fight normal crime in Gotham City. Although the Slayer and her team mates know about the Bat Team, they're not members of it. Of course, the members of the Bat Team also know about the Slayer and her team mates.

The closest the Slayer and her team mates come to the Batcave is Lady Arcane's house. When they visit, they come to consult with Lady Arcane, Christine or Mariko, or get first aid from Aprl.

[Mark Rand]

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In this post, we're taking a trip. To The Batcave!

Batgirl's Batcave is accessable from an elevator that runs downward from the second floor of Wayne Manor and a staircase that leads to a hidden room in the mansion's basement. A second staircase in that room comes out behind the grandfather clock in her ground floor study.

Besides the two staircases, the hidden room contains the Batcave's library, disguise and makeup equipment and Batgirl's costumes and utility belts. For those who are interestedk Marie makes Batgirl's costumes while Mariko keeps the utility belt equipment ready for use.

The main floor has the garage for the Batmobile, the crime lab, a workshop and a restroom. The lab, with its double-sealed doors, has up to date equipment and the workshop has everything needed to design, build and repair equipment. A ramp from the garage leads through a two mile tunnel to the surface.

Sub-level one has the gymnasium, restroom, trophy room, computer room and power and machine room. The computer room has the latest equipment. The gymnasium is equipped for all kinds of training.

Sub-level two is occupied mostly by an underground river. Batgirl sometimes swims here.

Next, we go through the gateway.

[Maelstrom]

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Since Batgirl likes the stealthy approach' date=' what kind of sports car should her Batmobile be based on?[/quote']

 

The Dodge Stealth, of course.

[Mark Rand]

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The Dodge Stealth' date=' of course.[/quote']

Do they still make it? If so, I'll add the Dodge Stealth ES (the one without the wing) to the list of possible vehicles to base the Batmobile on.

The others are the Dodge Viper and Chevy Corvette.

Why the Stealth ES instead of the Stealth R/T? Simple. Neither Barbara nor Mariko like the Stealth R/T's rear wing.

[Mark Rand]

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A political note first.

Kinsey has been arrained in federal court and denied bail. Now he's in jail. The House Judiciary Committee has asked the full House for permission to conduct an impeachment inquiry. They said "Yes." Quite a bit of evidence has been taken from Kinsey's house. The Judiciary Committee and the federal DA are sharing it. Kinsey's in trouble.

Onto the gateway world.

It's a three by three cluster of squares, each square 1200-feet per side. The odd squares contain gardens. The even ones contain buildings.

Although April and Mariko traveled through it daily to get from Lady Arcane's house to the Batcave, it wasn't really explored until Cristine and Mariko explored it.

Here's what they found.

Square one is a formal rose garden.

Square two has a church, rectory and community center. A blood drive has going on in the church. Due to her four years in her high school choir, Jennifer, the church custodian is an honorary member of the church choir and has her own robes. Although the Musical Director hopes Jennifer will change her mind, she claims that she has too much to do to become a full time choir member.

Square three is an English hedge maze.

The rest of the squares are coming soon.

Comment is appriciated.

[Mark Rand]

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Back to square two for a bit. The church has a robing room. Against one wall are lockers that'll hold school books or purses and a rack of handbells. Next to a second wall is a coat rack with choir robes for the choir and albs for the lay readers and alter servers. Above them are plastic boxes. The ones above the robes have white gloves and the ones above the albs have cinctures. (When using a handbell, gloves are worn to keep oils, dirt and fingerprints off the bells.) The last wall has a full-length mirror and a cork board with schedules and the artical from the church newsletter about Jennifer.

According to the board in the community center, belly dancing classes were held several different times on the day the people died.

Two things were left out of the description of the block, a parking lot for church and community center vehicles and a building with six, two-bedroom apartments.

[Mark Rand]

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More stuff I forgot about square two.

The community center is on the north side of the block, the church is on the south side, the rectory is on the east side the apartment building is on the west side, and the parking lot is in the center. It can be entered or exited from the east or west.

Onward.

Square four has a theatre on its west side and. from north to south, Office Depot, the East End Medical Clinic and Style Uniform Company on the east side. There are two bus shelters in front of the uniform store. One is the gate to the Batcave. The other is the gate to Lady Arcane's house.

The theatre is equipped for movies, small stage shows and lectures. Style Uniform Company, like uniform stores of the 1970s, doesn't sale scrubs. Instead, it sales white and colored dresses and pantsuits, white shoes and stockings, white caps and other items men and women in uniform needed then.

Square five has a Japanese garden, complete with a pond, tea house, bridges and restrooms. The only door is on the west side.

More to come. Hopefully, some of it will be from you.

[Mark Rand]

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Square six has a crematory on the east side and five buildings on its west side. From north to south, the buildings are: Shirly's Beauty Salon, West Jewlers, Bridal City, Thompson Midical Supplies and The Oasis. Bridal City sells wedding and evening gowns, gloves, shoes, and other accessories. The Oasis sells Islamic clothing.

Square seven has a gravel path winding through a garden of cacti.

Square eight is a 12-unit, two story apartment building. Each unit has its own garage and entry. (The garages and four of thge units are on the first floor. The other units are on the second floor.)

Square nine can be best described as a statue and sculpture garden. The Washington Monument is in the center. Surrounding it are trees, rows of hedges, flower beds, fountains, statues and sculpture.

All the clothing from the closets, outerware, footware, jewelry, purses and other such items were removed and placed, on racks and shelving, in the community center gymnasium. Everything else was cremated with the wearer.

[Mark Rand]

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A few short items.

Shortly after he publicly exposed the truth about Shadowdancer, the disgruntled former agency executive was struck down by a hit and run driver. When the driver was caught three minutes later, he was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.12, way above the legal limit of 0.08.

The clothing in the gymnasium and stores can be used either for disguises or dress up.

April, Christine and Mariko spent a day trying on clothes and taking photographs with Mariko's digital camera. Everything was cleaned as needed.

[Mark Rand]

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What we're doing is, of course, Dark Champions: The Animated Series, Dark Champions motivations with Four-Color attitudes.

Batgirl's first recruit is Longbow, an archer with trick arrows and his own motorcycle.

Everyone that goes out has a utility belt. It's the one from Dark Champions and Gadgets and Gear with adjustments, as needed, by each hero. Although the belt itself is a multipower, there's also a 50-point gadget VPP to represent mission-specific gear on the shelf and personal equipment. (Batgirl's throwing blades are razor-edged batarangs. Longbow has an extra multipower of trick arrows. Mariko's throwing blades are shuriken and her gadget VPP contains ninja weapons. Christine's gadget VPP has burglar tools.)

Although Batgirl doesn't want the heroes to use guns, she keeps a locked safe of weapons in the lab for weapons testing. She also accepts the fact that Christine has a government-issure 9mm Beretta 92F and, when she goes out, Mariko carries a CO2 pistol and her gloves have retractable claws that act like the Nekode, a ninja weapon and climbing device.

[Mark Rand]

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A few ideas have been running through my head. I'd like to get your opinion on them.

Warder replaces Lady Arcane as the mage Batgirl knows.

Silver Avenger Terry Kestler assigns Intelligence Agent Beth Davies to the team as liaison. Although she works out of her office and visiys Warder's house only once a week, she talks to them more often on the telephone.

I'm making April the engineer/ninja and Mariko the nurse.

Although her race car is an Eagle Talon, April's driven pace cars at tracks in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio and can handle anything from a 125 horsepower Toyota to a 750+ horsepower Lamborghini.

Since Mariko was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan and attend college in Tokyo, she, like all Japanese nurses, is used to wearing a uniform and cap instead of scrubs. When she told her employer her preference, all Barbara said was, "Your decision, not mine."

The gateway has been changed. Once you go through the door in the Batcave, you see a hall with two doors on each side and one at the end. The first door on the left leads to a one-story medical building with six offices. The one on the far right is a dental office. The first door on the right leads to a Japanese garden. The second door on the left leads to a two-story apartment building with 12-units. Four units and the garages are on the first floor. The other units make up the second floor. Items in the building indicate that all tennents were airline stewardesses employes by British Caledonian Airlines. The second door on the left leads to a high school and a crematorium. The door at the far end leads to Warder's house. The clothing from the bodies was removed before cremation and stored in one apartment, along with outerwear and stuff from the closets in the apartment building. The choir robes, however, are still on their rack in the school.

[Mark Rand]

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A couple of quick notes.

Christine is now allowed in the batcave.

April and Mariko will return to their normal jobs.

According to NPR, Rhonda Scott, the Chief Nursing Officer of Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital now requires its nurses to wear all white uniforms. If you want proof, go to http://www.npr.org, type nurses uniforms in the search box, then click on Old Nurses Uniforms are New Again. You can have the audio downloaded to your computer, or do what I did and buy a transcript for $4.95.