Gotham's A.M. Rush Hour Who: The Joker Involved: Oracle, Nightwing, Huntress, Zatanna, Black Canary, the Creeper, Cassandra (Batgirl) and open to anyone else who would like to participate. Where: Gotham City -- In the midst of Gotham's financial district. When: Monday morning, April 26th, 2010 Summary: The Joker wreaking havoc and destruction upon the citizens of Gotham.
Gotham city on a Monday morning, people were returning to work. The streets that made up the business district became alive with individuals heading for their destination. People talked on their cellphones, others smoked, and some drank coffee, every single one of them undisturbed from their mundane morning routine. Part of the routine at Gotham Square was the Monday morning stock news report, but the newscaster was giving the news of an incident from a couple of days back at Gotham's popular mall, Marcy's:
"...police believe the perpetrator may not have known he was working for the Joker. An unnamed source told reporters that 'Some believed that the attacker was actually hired for a children souvenir stand. From the surveillance video, it looked like he hadn't a clue he was working for the Joker'..."
A few early tourists watched the huge monitor in the front of the Gotham Stock Exchange building; they stared in horror and gasped as it displayed the surveillance video from the mall.
"Luckily the Batman was there in time to avert the situation."
The people watching, cheered, and applauded when they learned that their legendary hero had once again come to save the day. The anchormen continued to converse about the incident when all of the screens suddenly went blank, as did every monitor and TV in Gotham. Static appeared and a loud hiss came with it, everyone who had access to a television stopped and stared at the monitor in confusion. The Emergency Broadcast System had been hacked.
The static was replaced by an unclear image. Incoherent mumbling and obnoxious slurping replaced the hissing noise. On the top right corner of the screen, appeared two rows of rotting yellow teeth, in what seemed to be the shape of a smile. As the image came into focus, a quick tongue traced the smile.
The familiar painted face receded from the camera and grinned devilishly. The people watching stopped dead on their tracks and stared, no one knew whose life would be in jeopardy this time. Anxiously, they watched in silence, petrified with terror. They awaited the Joker's message.
"Goooood morning, Gotham! I know you're up to your same boring routines... So, I have taken the liberty of spicing it up for some of you. I know, how a lot of you are rushing to get to your jobs on time... Annnd, I just wanna remind yoou, to stop, and remember... how precious. Liffe. Really..."
BOOM!
The underground train station near the airport blew up. The concave ceiling collapsed, crushing the platform and train underneath it along with everyone on board the train and on the platform. The explosion started an electrical fire, a few stunned survivors staggered through the smoke and towards the exit. Screams were heard from underneath the rubble. Airport security and fire marshals rushed to the terrible scene.
From his location, the mad clown watched astonished from the amount of destruction caused by (what he thought would be) a small bomb. He burst out in laughter and looked at the camera.
"...Waah hoo hoo hoo! Whoooops! Forgot about that little doozie! But I'm sure by now... All of you are reminded of how precious your life is."
His laughter settled and he eased back into his chair. With a serious face, he addressed the superheroes, as he was sure they were watching.
"Noow. As for you, Caped-tards... So-called, heroes." He giggled, "Yooou get to show how much you value these.. uh-" Makes air quotation marks. "innocent people's lives. The very people who have bestowed this..." clearing his throat, "title, will depend on you. And everyone will see..how heroic you really are. Now for the viewers who may, enjoy the siiight of mayhem and destruction, like I do, ha-ha! Heeere's where things get in-teresting. The rail system has been rigged with six bombs, you will only have an hour to find them. If you should fail, well... let's just say your fans will be..." he squinted at the camera, "quite disappointed."
The Joker sat up in his chair, behind him were six mounted screens, monitoring each of the places he has outfitted with a detonator.
"Of course, the crowd must play by my rules, too! That means that all trains have to stop at their next station. Oh, and no one can leave; should anyone attempt to escape from their train, that train will get blown up." With the smack of his lips, he wished the heroes, "Happy huntiiiing! Hee-Hee-HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
The image switched back to the anchormen, stunned— not realising they were back on the air.
((OOC:)) All righty. The monitors are the clues. Listed below are the threads, each titled after the train station, it will have a description of what is shown on each monitor and its respective station. The sentencesunderlinedwill be the clue to finding the station. The heroes will then search for the bomb once they have established the location. REMINDER: You will have two days OOC time to locate and dismantle these bombs.