Session 30

Session took place on the 18th of November 2023.

Notes were taken by Respawn.

## Downtime and Down Tim

### Team Meeting

Donna has a dream of Devastation, of her anger and death, and meets with Nia (Dreamer), who tells her about a friend she had, who also died a violent death. Donna has had this dream before. Nia tells her she’s before a crossroad, and needs to choose a path soon.

Rhys is asked to come home by Rick, they have to talk about something. After a quick scream into the void, Rhys goes home, and Rick reveals that he is now retired, and there is nothing to fear from Waller for him or Alyssa and Rhys. By making a deal with the Devil. After Rick dies, he will have to keep an eye on Hell in Lucifer’s absence. Rhys takes a moment to process, but is ultimately positive about the deal, getting to see his dad after he dies? Vacation days? Sweet! They have pancakes for breakfast together.

Julie is bartending at the Oblivion, and sees a face she hasn’t met before. The two talk, and the person introduces himself as Tristitia, and greets her as “One in Eight”, identifies the two of them as “Two in Eight”, implying they are siblings, in the same sense that Julie and Raven and Gula are.

Rowan comes knocking on Alyssa’s door. He has news – there’s been a jailbreak and his mother [THE AUTHORITY], and Alyssa’s dad who is apparently a time traveler, have broken out of space jail. They both agree this is shitty, and prison should be more secure wtf guys. It happened about three days ago, and Rowan is worried, not about himself, he’s clearly gonna be fine (ducks and avoids knife being thrown by Damian). Rowan tells her to warn Vee.

**HARD NO'S**

* Killing children
* Conspiring to harm
* Egregious violation of trust
* Serious physical harm or aim to maim or kill towards teammates (unless under special circumstances)
* Genocide / ethnic cleansing
* World domination

**IF THIS IS A VIOLATION**: probation, team meeting, debrief and evaluation to determine whether they can remain on the team or not

**HARD YES'S**

* Free will
* Protecting the innocent
* You are permitted to have your privacy unless it can lead to harm to the team
* Halcyon-based, stopping crime and improving the city (saving old town) in touch with community
* Public Statement (social media) of goals for city
* Save People, stopping people from doing harm

**Short-term goals**:

* be friends with locals or whatever, bond with the community, make sure Halcyon knows we’re there for them.
* Reach out to the Paragons and possibly befriend our fellow heroes, while also being mindful of their benefactor.
* No lone wolfing, we are not Batman! We can rely on our team, MUST rely on our team.

### Riddle me This

Alyssa’s “Help me right now” beacon system goes on, It’s Red Robin’s, and Rhys doesn’t let her go alone. They teleport to Tim’s office in Gotham, where he shows them a newspaper clipping of an anonymous “poet” claiming they know the identity of 12 masks, and will reveal them, hopefully leading to .. Deaths.

> “TWELVE MONTHS, TWELVE MASKS
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> HOPEFULLY MORE THAN TWELVE CASKS
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> I’LL REVEAL THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE
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> STARTING WITH THE FORGOTTEN SON
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> IN GOTHAM’S NIGHT A HERO FLIES
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> WITH CAPE AND COWL HE FIGHTS THE CRIES
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> A FEATHERED FRIEND, A VIGILANTE
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> THIS HERO’S NAME, WHAT COULD IT BE?”
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Alyssa teleports to some tent in a desert, where two dead people are. Tim’s parents. Tim goes detective mode. Respawn returns to the Renecave to share the news, and the team offers help to the Bats, through Oracle.

Alyssa, Donna, and Vee attend the funeral, Julie patrols Gotham while the Bats are at the funeral, and Rhys is in a building with a rifle, keeping a watch on things. A shot rings out, and Tim goes down during his eulogy. Respawn finds that the shot came from a convenient blind spot, but he sees some familiar colors leaving the spot – Orange and black.

Vee flies Tim to Gotham General. Tim lives, but it will be a while before he can walk again. The team bring Ricky to him and he gets healed, but his alibi is that Tim Drake in injured, has the medical records, but Red Robin is still patrolling, so clearly the identity reveal was wrong? Tim admits he hired Deathstroke to non-lethally shoot him for his alibi.

The Bats call the Renegades to the Batcave and tell them the 12 masks whose identities are threatened is the Batfam. They’re working on finding and apprehending the Riddler, and setting up plausible alibies for them all, and ask the Renegades if they are willing to help, which they all are.