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[Woods]

Er...cough

[Pies4shaw]

Indeed. Far Er...cough

[MagpieBat]

That's how it starts.

The fever.

The rage.

The feeling of powerlessness.

That turns good men... cruel.

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[Woods]

Thank you, Mr. Bat.

May the Magpie of Happiness nest in your Bat Cave.

[MagpieBat]

They surrendered without a fight.

The warehouse was filled with enough illegal weapons to wage a war on a small island country, yet was guarded by two-dozen of the weakest willed foot soldiers you could possibly imagine. I almost laughed as they dropped their rifles and started running. I haven't seen a team fold so easily since Collingwood last visited the SCG...

While searching through the various crates, I came across what I first thought was a shipping manifest, but it turned out to be (you guessed it) another batch of letters and numbers strings. Everything was falling into place just so perfectly. You couldn't make this shit up!

Here's what I found...

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Now, to find out who sold these rats their guns. One of them will probably spill his guts if I give him some sympathy and a nice cup of tea, and hauling two hundred pounds of sociopath up the side of a skyscraper is harder than you might think, but the scream when I take off his blindfold alone will be worth it...

[piedys]

[MagpieBat]

Bizarro.

No, it's not how I describe the last two Saturdays (well, not just, anyway), but rather the name of one of Superman's adversaries. The product of a failed attempt to clone the Man of Steel, Bizarro is a twisted inversion, one who has an annoying habit of doing and thinking the opposite of the real Superman.

In this case, I can only assume he thought 'Metropolis', because he flew into Gotham right as I was taking a well earned break with Catwoman in her uptown apartment, where she was demonstrating to me her... eh, whip cracking technique. As tempting as it was to just wait for Superman to come and stop Bizarro, after about a minute's thought, I decided on dealing with the creature myself. I contacted Alfred back at the 'Cave and had him airdrop in a canister of Blue Kryptonite gas grenades, the one thing that can take Bizarro down...

...yes, Blue Kryptonite. A variant of Kryptonite that came about from an unsuccessful attempt to synthesize the real stuff, which has taken me years and cost a fortune. Luckily I have both. Anyway, after bombarding Bizarro with the Blue Kryptonite grenades and kicking him around using the Riot Control cannons on the Batmobile (that remote control function is so handy), Clark finally got around to locating a phone box to change in and arrived to pick Bizarro up. He'll probably go find him an uninhabited planet or something like that. I could care less...

Before leaving, Clark left me an envelope. Said that someone had dropped it into the Daily Planet but he thought that I could make more sense of it. And he was right, because scrawled in crayon on a piece of paper inside was another four line collection of letters and numbers...

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Now, where were we, Selina...?

[piedys]

[FootyMonster]

Thanks again Magpie Bat - I can't get the first quarter to work. You sure that one is correct? It is after all the one I will be watching again every day this week!

[MagpieBat]

Works for me, FM.

Are you using VLC? Or possibly Firefox?

[FootyMonster]

Ack, the ruddy thing is working for me now. PEBCAK! Thanks again for always posting these. I attend all the games so it's great to see the action close up after. Nice work mate!

[stui magpie]

[MagpieBat]

Depends which Crisis you mean. There's more crises in the DCU than a bad day in the Collingwood coaches box...

[MagpieBat]

It was a hard night at the office.

Scarecrow had seized control of City Hall. And seeing as the GCPD hasn't had a competent, well-resourced Tactical division since Brandon tried to hunt me down all those years ago, that meant I had to call in my own troops to take Crane down. And if the measure of success is whether or not we brought the maniac in, then we definitely succeeded. But it came at a heavy cost.

I'm nursing a concussion after Crane got a lucky one in and smacked me around the head with that staff of his (it's a mystery just how he managed to get in under my defences, though). Robin pinged a hamstring after he tackled one of Scarecrow's goons to the ground (the boy needs to work on his technique, I think). Nightwing is currently being treated by Alfred and Leslie Thompkins for fractures to his collarbone and scapula, after two of Scarecrow's heavies ganged up on him. And Batgirl? Well, she copped a face full of Fear Gas from Crane's sleeve-mounted aerosol dispenser as she tried to help me.

As the cops were leading Crane away, I picked up the wooden staff he hit me with and noticed that it was a bit hollow at one end (obviously not the one I copped in the head, but!) I broke it in two, and found hidden inside, rolled up in a cylinder, a piece of paper. And written on the paper, in what looked to be cheap biro ink, was yet another four line sequence of letters and numbers. But, seeing as concussion can mess with your perception, it's entirely possible that I imagined the whole thing.

Nevertheless, here's what I think I found...

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Now, to get back to the 'Cave and check on Barbara. I can't imagine what nightmare she's currently enduring, but we just have to let the toxin run it's course. Maybe when she's out of the woods, I'll pay a visit to Crane in Arkham and break a rib or two, just for good measure...

[Tannin]

Have they shut down the Bat Cafe?