Gotham Encounter

A Gotham City noir-tale of pursued vigilance, an 'alien' nemesis, and a crusader with a 'voice' for modern dating!

I think I'll retire with this Gotham (DC Comics) fable. Enjoy, 

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When Ra's al Ghul got to town, I thought he was just a strange/eccentric evil genius who'd used his Leviathan group to create a nefarious mind-warp program in Gotham City involving the insidious insertion of subliminal messaging using pirate-radio to create the eerie Halloweentime feeling of overwhelming street-traffic insecurity helplessness/inevitability and was categorized by me as a sort of brainwashing 'minion' of the Third Reich or something obsoleted to oblivion like that, but I quickly discovered this guy was more like a Martian with a larger blueprint to make everyone in the challenged dark city feel like strangers in the night encountering a humanoid ghoul.

Of course, Ra's al Ghul the ghoul didn't anticipate the city was watched-over by a prowling night-vigilante like myself, a caped-crusader or 'dark-knight' who was intent on using cyber-nets and social night watches to create traffic-IQ 'rings' for patrols/monitors just to ensure that a mind like Ra's couldn't be able to infiltrate the street-fabric/labyrinth of the city's subconscious culture, to protect the youth from a deformed/depressing MTV-like radio-screen of capitalism-eschewed 'rebelliousness' counter-productive to my success-mission for engaging darkness with Facebook-IQ and social-media creative nerdism!

RA'S: You little idiot of the night-vigilante world of masks/cowls; you'll fail!
ME ('Batman'): Forget it, Ra's; I'm chasing your daughter Talia and will rescue her.
RA'S: My darling Talia belongs to me; you'll never convert her dark-spirit!

ME: Gimme a break, Ra's; we can resolve all this mind-education with a chess-game, eh?

RA'S: Aha, so if you achieve a stalemate-condition against me, perhaps we'll concede peace!

ME: That's what I'd been thinking, and I think you'd not pass the change of such Facebook-IQ lore.

RA'S: You want us to 'hype' the game contours for Facebook-IQ for some kind of 'democratic' ad?

ME: Why not...are you afraid of 'mainstream' jargon?

RA'S: Oh, very clever dark-knight, but do you not doubt my Talia won't be drawn by such capitalism?

ME: What my bond is to Talia is between me and her; nevermind that --- let's play chess.

RA'S: And if you successfully draw a stalemate-game (tie/draw/no-win decision) against me here?
ME: You concede to allow a Talia-Batman blossom-romance to hype the 'imagination' of underworld peace!

RA'S: Alright; I suppose you 'believe' some rook-bishop tandem-maneuver you use will outmatch my queen/knight.

ME: I did have thoughts about the elegant swiftness of chessplay drawing human insights into choreographed equilibrium.

RA'S: Let's proceed dark-knight (ha)...

I didn't win that darn chess-match against Ra's al Ghul, which we hyped in the end for Facebook-IQ in Gotham City, poor Gotham, but I did achieve a 'marvelous' stalemate which resulted in Ra's 'condoning' a test-romance between Talia and me, since I'd already started courting her as a Bond-antiheroine of sorts in the dark city! The lessons learned concern the 'magic' of stalemate-chess, of course, but also of my eventual 'revelation' that Talia's nothing like her dear-daddy Ra's --- she's charming/charmed, but he remains...an 'alien' of the city-distance(s).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)