Another Bat-ty Campaign Idea

[Mark Rand]

I had another Bat-ty campaign idea yesterday. It's a Dark Champions: The Animated Series campaign set in a DC Elseworlds universe that draws some things from the CU and some from my own head.

Batman (Bruce Wayne) is easier to get along with in this universe than he is in the mainstream DC Universe.

There is no Wayne Manor. Instead, Bruce lives in the penthouse apartment of a Gotham City hotel/casino Wayne Enterprises owns.

Alfred is his butler.

The Batmobile looks like a Chevy Corvette, but is armored and has an extensive sensor suite and other high-tech gear.

Batman keeps in close contact with Warder, heiress Lisa Ward, and she created a gateway linking her fastness and the Batcave.

Knowing he can't defend Gotham City alone,Batman is forming a team of superheroes to help him.

Warder's house is home to three woman who work with Batman. They are April Curtis, R.N., the team's nurse, Christine Hunter, the team's DOSPA liaison, and Mariko Yamashito, M.S., the team's engineer.

Batman maintains good relations with various law enforcement agencies. They understand that he like to remain a mysterious creature of the night.

[Ron]

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I'm not sure, but this looks like Batman just previously to the Crisis. I haven't followed much stories from the late 70s and early 80s, but I think Bruce Wayne was living in a penthouse in Gotham downtown and he was actually training a group of superheroes called Outsiders. Finally, after the crisis, John Byrne, in The Man of Steel mini series established that an early version of the Batmobile was a common car with a mini crime lab in the trunk and other possible advancements. In fact, if Batman really want to maintain his secret identity, this is the only way he could actually move around without calling too much attention to himself.

[Mark Rand]

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I'm not sure' date=' but this looks like Batman just previously to the Crisis. I haven't followed much stories from the late 70s and early 80s, but I think Bruce Wayne was living in a penthouse in Gotham downtown and he was actually training a group of superheroes called [i']Outsiders[/i]. Finally, after the crisis, John Byrne, in The Man of Steel mini series established that an early version of the Batmobile was a common car with a mini crime lab in the trunk and other possible advancements. In fact, if Batman really want to maintain his secret identity, this is the only way he could actually move around without calling too much attention to himself.

I remember it well.

Bruce closed Wayne Manor and moved into the penthouse of the Wayne Foundation building while Dick was in college. The building was open on two sides and an arborial memorial, that concealed the elevator shaft for the spinning restaraunt andBatman's private elevator, which connected the penthouse to Batman's communications center, which the monument also hid, and the Wayne Foundation Batcave, which was in an abondoned subway runnel.

By the time he was working with The Outsiders, Bruce was again residing in Wayne Manor. The Outsiders used the Wayne Foundation Batcave as their headquarters and Halo and Katana lived in the penthouse.

[Mark Rand]

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Wayne Enterprises is the corporation that has many divisions and owns many companies worldwide. Bruce Wayne is Chairman of the Board and Chief Eexcutive Officer. Lucius Fox is President and Chief Operating Officer. Each division has its own President and Chief Executive Officer. Each company has its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

The Gotham Hotel and Casino, which is part of Wayne Entertainment, is two blocks from Wayne Enterprises world headquarters.

The top floor of the hotel is Bruce's residence.

The floor below it has six executive suites and one conference room. The Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Vice President and General Manager, Assistant General Manager, Vice President of Hotel Operations and Hotel Manager each get one. The last is open to whatever executive or director needs one and each can use it for up to three days a month.

Next, we'll meet Batman's support team and liaison.

[Mark Rand]

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Now, as promised, the support staff and federal government liaison.

Alfred Pennyworth is Bruce's butler. Since we know about him, let's move on to the ladies.

April Curtis, R.N., the team's nurse, was a trauma nurse at Gotham General Hospital. An African-American woman whose braided black hair falls just below her shoulders, she always wears scrubs. "Since becoming a nurse, I've only worn a white uniform and cap once. For Halloween two years ago, my mother, a floor nurse at Gotham Mercy Hospital, lent me one of her uniforms, a long-sleeve white dress. While modeling it for her, I made my braids look elegant and pinned one of her caps to my hair. She then added her old cape and white gloves. I thought it looked cool, as did most people I met. A few even took photographs."

Christine Hunter, a former CIA black-bag jobs expert, is the team's DOSPA lisison. A blue-eyed blonde, she always wears gloves. "I studyed acting in college. As you know, we ladies now wear gloves with everything, but usually take them off inside. I was like that until, during my senior year, I was preparing to portray a fashionably-dressed woman in a play set in 1902 Boston. While learning to do everyday tasks gloved, I discovered that I like wearing them."

Mariko Yamashiro, M.S., is the team's engineer. An athleticly-built Japanese-American woman she is a former Olympic gymnast and races a Lamborghini Diablo in races sanctioned by the Sports Car Club of America. She's also a ninja with mystical abilities who prefers working on equipment to joining the team in the field. "My parents are wealthy. When I was three, they noticed my high level of energy and got me into a gymnastics school. My teacher also taught me ninjitsu."

[Mark Rand]

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We're in Washington, D.C. for a short visit.

Henry Hayes is President of the United States. A usually easygoing man, he played ice hockey in his youth and still likes watching it.

Gloria Valdez is the Vice President of the United States. While still a senator, she and her husband, Michael, decided to heve her mother, who lives near Gotham City, raise their 17-year old daughter, Elena, because they didn't want her in the limelight.

Evelyn Baker Long is Chief Justice of the United States and Presiding Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Alex McGregor is a Secret Service agent and the head of the agency's Executive Protection division. She has no problem working with superheroes, as long as they're either government sanctioned or employed and willing to do what she wants. Alex also occassionally gets her her husband, Grant Coleman, a former Colorado river guide and currently a corporate adventure specialist, involved in her cases.

[Mark Rand]

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The undead exist. So do Hellmouths. Fortunately, Slayers and Watchers exist, too.

Slayers work in a cell system. Each cell is composed of a Watcher, up to three Slayers, and their allies. The cells keep in touch with each other and Slayer Central, which is a castle in the Welsh Highlands. All parks operated by England's National Parks Trust have portals leading to it.

A Slayers allies are sometimes fighters and sometimes help the Watcher. A Watcher that has good research skills could have expert linguists, a wizard or witch, a computer hacker and trainers assisting. The trainers would, probably, also patrol with the Slayers.

Alex McGregor knows about Slayers and is on good terms with Slayer Central. She's had the Washington, D.C. group examine the White House and other buildings her agency protects and suggest ways to guard against mystical attacks. There's also a Slayer nearby when the President's out of the White House at night. Alex doesn't take chances, and neither do Slayers.

[Mark Rand]

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As we all know, Gotham City is the county seat of Gotham County, New Jersey. So, where is it? In my campaign, it's the southern part of Ocean County, New Jersey. Gotham Bay is Little Egg Harbor. It's about six miles from Gotham Bay to Beach Haven Inlet.

A light station, Beach Haven Inlet Light, marks the inlet. After the Coast Guard called the station unusable and turned it over to the Gotham County government, the Wayne Foundation funded the repair and renovation of the buildings. All buildings weree brought up to code and made accessable.

The first and second assistant keepers' duplex was converted into one building and is leased to the Gotham County Historical Society for use as a maritime museum.

The principal keeper's house, which its attached tower, and the fog signal building, had modern equipment installed and a mother-daughter team were hired to tend it.

For those who are interested in such things, the light is a cluster of 4, 1,000-watt lamps, only one of which is on at a time. They're surrounded by a plastic first-order lens. There's also a diaphonic fog horn, BEEEEooooh, that operates electronically instead of on compressed air and aircraft and marine radionavagation beacon transmitters.

[Mark Rand]

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I mentioned Hellmouths in a previous post. For those who don't know, a Hellmouth is a portal between this reality and a hell dimension.

A closed Hellmouth still attracts undead and, possibly, criminals to its vicinity. An open one could cause the end of the world.

A Hellmouth's energy output isn't constant. In fact, a graph of its output looks like a sine wave. It peaks at the summer solstice, bottoms out at the winter solstice and is at the midpoint of its cycle at the spring and fall equinoxes.

Batman is aware of the problem and dusts any vampires he finds feeding. Most undead, however, fall prey to the area's three Slayers and their associates. Elena Valdez, the Vice President's daughter, is a Slayer. Secret Service agents guard her all the time, even when she's on patrol. She does, however, insist that they wear crosses and wooden stakes.

Although good with many weapons, Elena's favorite is a non-magical version of Buffy's scythe. Like most Slayers and their associates, she wears a fanny that has a spell on it that Willow created. Said spell turns a fannypack into a bag of holding that's keyed to the person that owns it and their team mates.

[Mark Rand]

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Don't worry. I haven't abandoned this thread. I've just been busy with others. I'll get back to it soon.

[Mark Rand]

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Let's visit Bristol Township, which is north of Gotham City and look at the added stuff.

Gotham Downs is the areas's thoroughbred track. It has a 7/8-mile (7 furlong) grass track inside a 1-mile (8-furlong) dirt track. The parade marshall's horses are white Arabians wearing English tack and she wears English riding clothes. The buglar, called a horn blower because he sounds the post parade bugle call (The Call to Arms from The Symphonic Arrangement of the Tales of Hoffman) on a coach horn dresses, according to some people, like a circus ringmaster.

Next to the track is a resort hotel. Beside the hotel is Gotham Park, a greyhound track. A large shopping mall separates it from the Gotham Hunt Club Arena, which has an outdoor steepelchace course and requires all competators to wear English riding clothes.

[Mark Rand]

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Last time, we were in Bristol Township. This time, we're going northwest of the city, near Eagle Air Force Base and Sommerset Township.

Gotham Raceway is located here. It's a 5/8-mile, limestone-surfaced harness track. The parade marshall's leopard appalossa (white with dark spots all over) horses wear Western tack and she wears Western clothes. The buglar is a recording.

A hotel is beside the track and a shopping center (strip mall) is beside it. Next to these is the Gotham Horse Arena and Rodeo Grounds. Both Western and English riding clothes are welcome.

Gotham Motor Speedway is here, too. It's a 2.5-mile Indy-style oval with a 3.194-mile road course that has two shortcuts inside the oval. With shortcut one in use, the track is 2.940-miles long. With shortcut two in use, the track's 2.980-miles long. With both shortcuts in use, the track's 2.700-miles long.

The track's official pace car is a Ford Mustang Cobra and the official pace car of the Southerrn New Jersey Region of the Sports Car Club of America is a Corvette.

[Mark Rand]

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I just corrected some spelling errors and fixed a few sentences.