It reminded him of the stories of his great, great grandfathers. How they attained great wealth...
By taking anything that wasn't nailed down during the crusades.
This is the funniest thing and it also explains his great collection of stuff in the bat cave. Giant penny, t-rex, obviously it was batman's inherited drive to loot stuff. If it happened to have helped him fight crime by having useful info or technology then that's just a bonus.
 
He'd always struggled learning foreign languages, literally spending years to attain just enough fluency to order food and ask where the bathroom was. Tongues would let him speak any language, comprehend would let him read them. He was out of luck on writing, but that still put him ahead of where he had been.
True Strike was... Well, a low-level cheat to guarantee a hit. Not terribly useful for a wizard, but it basically guaranteed an arrow, a blade, a bullet would hit the target, even through partial cover. Provided it wasn't behind full cover or an illusion.
Or a speedster. Or non-physical. Etcetera and on and all.
True Seeing would allow a person to see through illusions and falsehoods, even see in the dark out to about forty meters.
Serren's Swift Girding... Serren's Swift Girding was his answer to needing to strip or else wear ludicrously oversized clothing for the dragon transformation. He could inventory his clothing and just use that spell when he turned back to put his clothes back on.
Or armor. He was going to have to figure out some armor soon. He had an idea... But it was about three or four steps out. At least.
Finally, Arcane Sight. It would make magic visible, and it could be made permanent with the Permanency spell. It wouldn't tell him -what- the spell was it was making visible, but with enough experience he could hopefully figure that out himself.

Just one question, why is this glued together???
 
everything (And then some) of cultural significance the three of them could think of.

Thanks to 'Mending' and 'Make Whole', antiques and broken items can be restored to mint condition.

Anything worn down by time or rough usage is now good as new: scratched vinyl records, worn out VHS tapes, books damaged by moisture/insects/tears, old movie reels damaged by heat and corrosion, etc.

Items normally too old and fragile to be taken out of special storage containers can now be used as they were intended. Cue Batman playing with Gray Ghost toys that he'd normally be too afraid to risk breaking.

Possible silliness if Impulse (or whoever comes back from the future) says Batman/Alchemist ensured the post-invasion survival of 20th century pop culture.

Alchemist: "So I'm remember as a historian and preservationist?"
Impulse: (singing) "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP! NEVER GONNA SAY GOODBYE!"
 
He'd asked him to explain himself and he just... Did.

Had it always been that simple?
This may be my favorite part, the realization that sometimes it really is that simple. Although admittedly, it can be something that's easy to overlook even if you've seen it a million times in other media (example: Just ask for the pebble/to go through the gate/etc.)
 
This may be my favorite part, the realization that sometimes it really is that simple. Although admittedly, it can be something that's easy to overlook even if you've seen it a million times in other media (example: Just ask for the pebble/to go through the gate/etc.)

I'm reminded strongly of a certain scene from a movie starring Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie, and David Bowie's pants.


View: https://youtu.be/3y7UE-nY0m4
 
This may be my favorite part, the realization that sometimes it really is that simple. Although admittedly, it can be something that's easy to overlook even if you've seen it a million times in other media (example: Just ask for the pebble/to go through the gate/etc.)

The funny part of those "trick" solutions is that they completely fall flat if the person actually just does it.
If they try a hundred complex solutions, then finally the simple one, it turns into some profound lesson.
If they just go up and do it?

"You must get this pebble from me." :cool:
"Please give me the pebble.":p
"...here you go. When I learned this, it took me three weeks, dammit." :(
 
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Just a thought but couldn't Alchemist learn earthbending or something similar to it and make hidden safe houses all across America? Like the biggest problem for Batman really is he needs to hide his pay trails for the workers he hires to furnish his place. So alchemist making caves and then the two of them raiding the bat cave and other schizotech locations they can make secret fallback bases only they know about with no records of it ever being made
 
The funny part of those "trick" solutions is that they completely fall flat if the person actually just does it.
If they try a hundred complex solutions, then finally the simple one, it turns into some profound lesson.
If they just go up and do it?

"You must get this pebble from me." :cool:
"Please give me the pebble.":p
"...here you go. When I learned this, it took me three weeks, dammit." :(
I remember a Naruto fic where he takes the Chunin Exam again in another country and one of the tests is that they have to come back with the correct token and there are five possibilities.
When they get to the part about "Any questions?" Naruto plain asks "Which is the correct token?"
The proctor is taken aback and says "Do you really expect me to answer that?" and Naruto said "Why not? I had nothing to lose by asking, and I thought this might have been one of those tests about not over-complicating your solutions when trying to figure out the correct token when all you had to do was ask."
Looked it up, it' this.
 
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The funny part of those "trick" solutions is that they completely fall flat if the person actually just does it.
If they try a hundred complex solutions, then finally the simple one, it turns into some profound lesson.
If they just go up and do it?

"You must get this pebble from me." :cool:
"Please give me the pebble.":p
"...here you go. When I learned this, it took me three weeks, dammit." :(
Thing is, I actually got caught in one of these situations in a game once, trying to get past a guardian, sneaking, running, and then finally asking. I really did want to hit my head on the table for not figuring it out sooner.
 
So will they find a small zombie following them around with a camera? Not attacking just snapping pictures of them. Or has he been following them all this time?

Alchemist: It's an event creature so it should stay non hostile, don't attack.
Batman: That looks like... I think I need to investigate out neighbours.

Vintage wines would sell well.
Hitting up mines or other places for resources would also be good. Rare resources like padparadscha sapphires are insanely valuable for their weight. But that might take some more specialised equipment to get too.

They could cheese it by storing valuable or useful items in their world and raiding it in zombie world. It would certainly make more pricey things like advanced aircraft like the Javelin more affordable and usable.

If the League pull advanced aircraft out of nowhere in decent numbers it would cause the light some concern and headaches.
 
So. Question. How far does this instance extend? Because the League does have several members capable of instellar flight and Zombie Darkseid probably has all kinds of neat swag on his hell world.
 
Well, you'd probably need to fight zombie darkseid to get it
So. Question. How far does this instance extend? Because the League does have several members capable of instellar flight and Zombie Darkseid probably has all kinds of neat swag on his hell world.

...You know what, I'm actually not sure how to answer this question.
Gaia's a Primordial, her limits are hard to define so I usually don't bother trying.

I'd kind of like to say that if you get far enough away from her seat of power (Earth) then you physically leave the I.D. and transition to real space. I'm not sure how to give it a sanity limit.

Maybe as far out as the moon? Would that make sense?

That's actually a really good question.
 
...You know what, I'm actually not sure how to answer this question.
Gaia's a Primordial, her limits are hard to define so I usually don't bother trying.

I'd kind of like to say that if you get far enough away from her seat of power (Earth) then you physically leave the I.D. and transition to real space. I'm not sure how to give it a sanity limit.

Maybe as far out as the moon? Would that make sense?

That's actually a really good question.
All Alchemist would need to do is take one of those instant quests that take him to a Final Fantasy world and while there pick up some Revivify (FFVI), X-potions, and Phoenix Down items. Then use the Revivify, Phoenix Down, or X-potion on zombie-Darkseid for instant-kill.

Although, has Alchemist tried casting "Life" on any of those zombie bosses?
 
Vintage wines would sell well.
I would tend to be wary of food from zombieworld, especially zombie-food*.

*What? That grape-juice is well-and-truly deceased. Likely buried. Quite possibly buried on blessed ground. Reanimated by a parasitic fungus... . It isn't really possible to deny that wine is zombies.
Maybe as far out as the moon? Would that make sense?
I may be completely off-base here, but I feel as though Sol is far too closely linked to life on Earth for it to be left out? How much influence do planets have over the tides? Comets have an appreciable acknowledgement from historical accounts...
I am not convinced that comic-book deaths happen outside of cutscenes, so given that revival items from those games almost always fail to belay cutscene deaths...
 
Batman not-so-secretly being a Collectaholic is great. I love it! And he was so happy! :lol::rofl: That's probably the closest he's been to giddy since childhood.
 
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