Ok, can we talk about that comment about Bruce ditching Talia for cat woman real quick? Cus everything about his relationship with that woman is suspect, and not at all healthy for anyone involved.

Bruce doesn't -have- healthy relationships. The man is absolutely toxic and manipulative, even to people he likes.

That aside, you're completely correct. Talia Al Ghul is coocoo for cocoapuffs. She's not Kodachi Kuno Krazy, but she's not too far off.
As has been brought up several times, her son Damian was conceived when she drugged and raped Bruce. She saw absolutely nothing wrong with this, and did not consider the violation to be something to worry about in the slightest.

Unless you were talking about his relationship with Selina Kyle? That one's healthier. Not healthy. Just healthier.
 
I was so tired of the good guys being bigger assholes than the villains, and now we've jumped all the way past her training and rehab phases and she can join the team dynamic early.
The heroes aren't bigger assholes, they are mostly Jocks in a way, all the SCHOOL SPIRIT! stuff, don't get why you aren't excited, also they have had chance to dissappoint. Meet a villain and it would be worse.
 
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That was hilarious, tho it came from the left field. Unless once again, Im forgetting something?
When did Alchemist mess with batmans rep?
Pretty sure near the beginning of the story, Alchemist helps Batman against Bane by curing Bane of all the drugs in his system. He then shortly after talks to a cop and basically calls Batman a furry and Bane his leather daddy. Or something similar will have to reread the beginning to find exact wording. But pretty sure this is a callback from long ago.
 
to find exact wording.
When did Alchemist mess with batmans rep?

Here? I'll edit the later reference in later, if I spot it.

"Alright kid. This? You're gonna have to explain this." Bullock was flummoxed. Confused. Off center.

They'd gotten another nine-one-one call, seventh one today, but this one involved two things that managed to get everyone in the station moving all at once.

Police were canvassing the entirety of the alley the kid had been in, and Commissioner Gordon was busy talking to some paramedics.

"Well, I was in here playing with a bunch of stray cats." The kid, Leslie, waved in the general direction of the alleyway. "And then I heard a kind of fwumping noise. Like someone tossed a bag of trash in the dumpster. Except heavier? Denser maybe? Anyway I went and took a look since it scared the cats off of me. And I forgot this is Gotham."

Bullock dutifully wrote down what he heard. The kid was even using descriptions, which were going to be helpful when he had to explain this to the chief.

"Turns out it'd been a person instead of trash. Tall, but I'm not sure how tall. He was laying down and his fursuit had ears on it." There was a sharp click as the detective pushed down on his pencil hard enough to snap the lead.

"Could you repeat that last bit?" There was no way the kid had called the caped crusaders costume a-...
"I suppose I should head back to the mission room, mission control, whatever. Pretty sure Batman's not gonna be happy I stood him up." Green Arrow was the next up, and then Speedy as well.

"Yeah, maybe not my best idea. He tends to get surly if things don't go his way." Oliver said as he started walking to the door.

"Surly? I'm betting he's going to send me back to Gotham to catch stray cats or something for his dominatrix furry side-chick." One, two, three...

"Hold on, what?" Green Arrow actually stopped in the middle of the hall as he processed that statement....
 
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Binding them as familiars had been... Interesting. The puppies had seemed smarter, more lively afterwards.

It had also done something weird in the status screen. Just under her name there was an indentation and then the words- Fam. Hellhound and in the party screen her name, and Alchemist's too, now took up two spaces each.

She sort of wondered how he felt about the situation. About her. She got bonus stat points to intelligence and will at every level from being 'Homo-Magi' and one random stat point at level up just from being a 'Metahuman'. She had a more balanced build with higher stats than him before she'd even reached his level, and she'd gotten all of that without actually participating in the fighting he was doing! Without leveling any of the attack spells he'd taught her.
Dinah's words caused the smile on her wards face to turn brittle, but it took a moment for M'gann to figure out why.

The puppy was focused on Dinah, almost ready to pounce when it stuck its nose up in the air and howled.

And everyone in the room could feel the healing magic. Exactly the same as Alchemist used, albeit weaker.

"Um... Well? Technically yes?" Jinx answered softly.

It went mostly unheard. Dinah.exe had crashed, and so had M'gann.

The super cats will either be enthralled, envious and/or frustrated these puppies got to learn the magic that they've continued to watch Alchemist develop/practise after leaving the party.

Though part of that could be the apparent intelligence boost binding them as familiars had.
 
I doubt people reported the chapter, and even if they did, depictions only count as rulebreaking in certain specific circumstances.
 
You have more faith in random internet strangers than I do. God bless your sweet little heart.

I see it more as an effort type of thing. Unless something is incredibly heinous, reporting it is an effort. Far easier to just ignore it forever more.

Then again if their sensabilties are so insecure that the dog comment has them clutching their string of beads then maybe the internet as a whole is a bit much to deal with.
 
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I would be very dis if it did. That sounded exact like a slighfly off color comment a divorced man in his 50s might say. Which… I need to go back and reread but that's how I see Alchemist
I remember him being happily married to a woman he loved to death. Part of why he didn't want to do the whole reincarnate Gamer deal Terra was pulling.
 
"The crickets are acceptable. I especially enjoy how they crunch." Red Torpedo blinked once, slowly. "Expelling waste is also a very unique experience."

"It is, isn't it?" Red Inferno chirped. "Much more enjoyable than draining fouled fluids from a coolant reservoir."
Wow. That's an unexpected angle and yet completely sympathetic.

"I shall become the Flying Fox and meet him on his terms! These furries may be disgusting, but if that's what must be done, then it shall be done!" It was... Good that she sounded so certain?

But he was going to have to try and dissuade her from some of her... Accessory choices.
Okay, we sort of new Talia was a little cracked. But furry Talia is somehow further off the deep end than homicidal Talia.
How did you make the Dragon's Dogma survival training from hell seem so tame in comparison?
 
The super cats will either be enthralled, envious and/or frustrated these puppies got to learn the magic that they've continued to watch Alchemist develop/practise after leaving the party.

Though part of that could be the apparent intelligence boost binding them as familiars had.

If I remember correctly Alchemist reversed what he did to the super cats and returned them to normal when all of them refused to help him.
 
I for one am curious to read, word for word, the observations of the Detective.

That it is so obvious to the Villains now.

Edit What do the following refer to in Batman canon?

One over the graveyard, another over Arkham and finally he set one up over a city block with an old Victorian home that just creeped him out.

To try and offset the perpetual rainfall, he also enchanted a couple dozen drainage grates throughout the nearby city blocks with the Destroy Water part of the spell.

Would it be better to do the Destroy Water at the treatment plants?
 
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I for one am curious to read, word for word, the observations of the Detective.

That it is so obvious to the Villains now.

Edit What do the following refer to in Batman canon?



Would it be better to do the Destroy Water at the treatment plants?

Arkham is cursed in a weird way.
Calling it a curse may not even be accurate.

The Arkham family, the people who owned the estate before converting it into a sanitarium, would constantly complain of night terrors where they were being chased by a giant bat. Mind you, this was decades before Batman even came into existence in the DC timeline.
Whatever is under Arkham is either evil and prescient, or has orange/blue mentality that drives people around it insane. Doctors becoming patients isn't a rarity there, it's a common occupational hazard.

The graveyard is more or less just a general precaution. Zombies and vampires and countless other creepy crawlies exist.

The victorian home though? That's just Jason Blood. Poor bastard will need to figure out how to get around the environmental hazard that actively hurts him because he's housing a demon in his soul.
I mean, an umbrella would do the job... But he's a warlock in DC.

As to the treatment plant: That would first require finding it. Then being disgusted at the general level of disrepair it's suffered and spending a few hours hitting everything with Repair. And accomplishing all of that without being caught.

The drainage grates may be less efficient, but they were nearby and he had other things to do.
 
I don't know if anyone posted this here yet, so I will do it.
This Story, by the author: Mister Ficser/Axel is being posted in parts ahead on the CaerAzkaban Group, with a second thread here, things are on chap 1.0.3 over there, if you guys are impatient like me and really want to know things.

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I don't know if anyone posted this here yet, so I will do it.
This Story, by the author: Mister Ficser/Axel is being posted in parts ahead on the CaerAzkaban Group, with a second thread here, things are on chap 1.0.3 over there, if you guys are impatient like me and really want to know things.

(b'v')b

Fish_Brained_Idiot
Thank you! I've been reading ahead, but didn't realize there was a new thread, thought the Author had simply stopped posting on that site.
 
Never going to understand burying the death bodies instead of cremation in a place where zombies exist.
 
So wanna bet that Black Canary will probably hate Alchemist even more for "corrupting" Jinx?
 
Arkham is cursed in a weird way.
Calling it a curse may not even be accurate.

The Arkham family, the people who owned the estate before converting it into a sanitarium, would constantly complain of night terrors where they were being chased by a giant bat. Mind you, this was decades before Batman even came into existence in the DC timeline.
Whatever is under Arkham is either evil and prescient, or has orange/blue mentality that drives people around it insane. Doctors becoming patients isn't a rarity there, it's a common occupational hazard.

The graveyard is more or less just a general precaution. Zombies and vampires and countless other creepy crawlies exist.

The victorian home though? That's just Jason Blood. Poor bastard will need to figure out how to get around the environmental hazard that actively hurts him because he's housing a demon in his soul.
I mean, an umbrella would do the job... But he's a warlock in DC.

As to the treatment plant: That would first require finding it. Then being disgusted at the general level of disrepair it's suffered and spending a few hours hitting everything with Repair. And accomplishing all of that without being caught.

The drainage grates may be less efficient, but they were nearby and he had other things to do.
Also said "curse" is very closely tied to the DC reality causality, and as such would be supremely difficult to remove. Why hasn't it been shut down? The curse.

But also it makes a good story and changing it after 70+ plus years of comics is just not possible. With how narrative causality works in DC, it may well be impossible to remove it without some serious OCP juju, not to mention the greater problem with Gotham in general.
 
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I'm half convinced the Joker anymore isn't so much a character anymore as he is an avatar of whatever lies under Arkham.

Something happens to him and he dies? (Suicide by cop is always a favorite)

Well, just pick another patient! Load 'em up with all that sweet, sweet outsider madness and you've got yourself another Joker! Hell, why stop at one?

I'd have to change a lot of story tones to make it work, so I probably won't be going there. But if another, more talented author thought they could do something with that? Send me a link :)
 
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