Arkham Chapter 5

[b]Thanks. Now back to Azumi and a few others, mostly centering on her perspective. Thanks to The Doctor for the enigmatic figure's dialogue.

[center]Chapter 5: A History of Violence[/center][/b]


Azumi tensed up, reaching instinctually for her handgun as she turned. She didn't need more trouble. Her mouth spoke before she really saw the person. "Who are you, and why are you watching me?"

There he was. His armor looked oddly similar to that of Ezio Auditore in a sense, albeit with a red hood and white mask that was painted red for the bottom half and had a breath filter on said bottom half, a katara blade attached to each of his gauntlets. There was body armor on him, white with a red cross painted on, red armored plates over his arms. His skin looked dark under the mask if the little she could see meant anything, but the woman did not care that much. Not as he spoke. "We are known by many names. But you will come to know me as Azrael, loyal servant of the Order of St. Dumas, Interference."

She frowned at that. He knew about them? Well, she supposed someone would, anyway. Best to ask him what he knew about other things before she left, so she could get a good look at this world. Without Batman's help, she would need to work on what to do. Not to mention she needed to figure out how to decrease Crane's credibility. "So you know who I am. Big deal. Tell me what you know about anyone else."

Azrael was silent for a short time, and then nodded, as if considering her worthy to hear whatever information he knew.  "The most important thing you should know is about the warring factions within this city of crime.  The bird and the diseased clown have gone to war, both feuding over their precious poison, the one that they believe will make them stronger, especially for the clown.  Only poison could cure one whose soul itself is poison.  The next is that the gunman who never misses has come to Arkham City, and will be chasing down his targets, one of which is close to you.  Also, take advantage of the crow, for he will be at ends with the enigma.  His mind will be clouded by frustration.  Lastly, there is the strange man, who believes he is orchestrating everything, but is merely a puppet guided by a greater master."

"..." Azumi remained silent for a few moments. "It's kind of hard for me to quantify how little help you just were, aside from some basic information. I'll figure things out, but thanks for the advice. Now I--"

There was not another word from this man, who raised one katar, carving into the roof, smoke coming up before she could speak. Instinctually, she activated her omnitool on her left hand, beginning to scan the weapon for a schematic...

...nothing. He was gone, the smoke rising to nothing, a glowing symbol on the ground. Fantastic, really.

[i]Well, that was pointless,[/i] she thought. Momentarily she wondered why she would scan it at all, but dismissed the tool. She could get some leeway with Rikka if she got her a real weapon, after all. And she didn't have training with it yet anyway. In any case, this "Azrael" did have the right idea. She would need to play Scarecrow, not to mention anyone else here [i]and[/i] get Batman himself to decipher those words if she couldn't do it herself. She just hoped she could get in contact with him here.

As she changed her outfit (as quickly as she could, doing her best to ignore the [i]freezing[/i] cold in this winter night) and put her ODST armor in her etherspace pouch, she thought on what there was in the message. Okay, Two Face was one player, but they also had Cobblepot and the Joker in a turf war over TITAN, since this was her known Scarecrow's universe. The Joker was "diseased" somehow... and would that mean he would have Quinzel with him? She would figure that out soon enough. She needed a map and a plan. And the rest still needed work to figure out.



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- Changes into "Wraith" outfit, and puts on voice filter to male.

- In Steel Mill, tells Joker and Harley that Scarecrow stole his cure and that she's working with him. Does the "Terry" speech before escaping.

- Outside, changes back into ODST armor in the Subway

- Finds TITAN container in subway and calls Dark Knight, asking for info on Deadshot and Strange and telling about Azrael, and saying to leave the container for Penguin alone for a little while, but that she can use her omnitool to help him out.

- Finds Jessica on a rooftop, teaming up to take on some armed thugs, then pass out from gas as they're arguing.