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Chris Dee.gothampm	CT31: An Arkham Tale		Lead	[-]
Posts: 3929 07/24/03 18:37 Gothamite	Chapter 1, which you might consider a brief preview of the tale, as it is a little short... At FanFiction.net or the Cat Tales Website Admin note: this thread only partially restored after the 5/31 server crash. Apologies to those whose messages were lost.
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ThornSilver	Re: An Arkham Tale	#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 116 07/24/03 19:48	Christ, you rock, I just wanted you know know that. Arkham works out quite nicely as a subset of Gotham, doesn't it. "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett
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Jarissa Paxton	Re: An Arkham Tale	#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 551 07/24/03 22:08	Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeheeeeeee.... I can't wait to see what Hugo Strange, if it is in fact him might be up to. Jarissa knight of the Cat-Tails Discussion Roundtable
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Star Ranger4	Re: An Arkham Tale	#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1384 07/25/03 02:06 Adrift in Space	Hmm... Not much to say yet, but the scene is set and the pieces are in play... It can only get... well.. STRANGE-er from here. "I was an Otaku before those kids came along and changed the meaning of the word." -- HM "Howling Mad" Wilson to more than one team-mate.
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Unregistered(d)	Re: An Arkham Tale	#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 0 07/28/03 06:01	This was an interesting start to a new chapter. It was neat seeing how the employee's at Arkham reacted to Poison Ivy's mood. In all honestly I can't believe that the inmates are cooping with the smell as well as they are.
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Chris Dee.gothampm	Re: An Arkham Tale	#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3929 07/29/03 16:11 Gothamite	Chapter 2: Dr. Jerry's House o' Fun is now here! At FanFiction.net and the Cat Tales Website “Do you, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle promise to forsake all others and reserve your warped, angst-ridden, dysfunctional nincompoopery for each other, thereby saving at least two innocent people and providing untold hours of fascinated diversion to the rest of us who might otherwise think WE have screwed up relationships!” --Dick Grayson in a moment of clarity
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ThornSilver	Re: An Arkham Tale	#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 116 07/29/03 17:12	The thing with provoking Catman, is hilarious. I can never get enough of rogues interacting. And Croc... even Croc had come up with a way to deal with Joker and the octopus joke! "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett
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TwoFace275	Re: An Arkham Tale	#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2455 07/29/03 17:52	CORKING chapter. Very funny - the writer obviously enjoyed writing it as much as I enjoyed reading it! Were there ever to be an Oscars style CatTales awards ceremony, might I nominate 'the octopus' for the best supporting actor category? "Harvey is Fate's bitch, it's that simple." - Chris Dee that seems to be your tagline. "harvey 'two face' dent...d.a.: this won't end well." - Query "Ooh, sounds good Query. If he ever runs for another office, we can handle his campaigning. Big huge signs saying "This Won't End Well"... bumper stickers... I see it All..." - Lady Dien
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ThornSilver	Re: An Arkham Tale	#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 116 07/29/03 18:21	For best "metaphysical supporting actor". Heee. "Ponder shook his sleeves to leave his hands free. For a wizard, this was equivalent to checking the functioning of a pump-action shotgun"--_The Last Contintent_ by Terry Pratchett
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katfairy	Re: An Arkham Tale	#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 769 07/29/03 21:27 Ballistic Soprano	Damn. I never thought Croc could do anything to impress me. Looks like I was wrong. Now I wonder who this new villain could be.... They sing choruses in public- that's mad enough, I think.
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Unregistered(d)	Re: An Arkham Tale	#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 0 07/29/03 21:52	It was neat seeing the just how much corroption their is in Arkham. I found Croc's response to Joker funny. Out of curiasity how does Hugo Strange know that Bruce is Batman? I don't read the comics so I don't know how he figured it out. Every time this is mentioned in the stories it always bugs me to find out how but for some reason I never think to ask.
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Jarissa Paxton	Re: An Arkham Tale	#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 551 07/29/03 21:59	Go, Croc! That was brilliant! Meanwhile, someone ought to pass Hugo's latest theory to the Tattler. Someone slightly stupid. Vics, maybe? Nurse Chin could help him package it properly for the sale, in return for a modest percentage. Jarissa knight of the Cat-Tails Discussion Roundtable
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Catwoman Meow	Re: An Arkham Tale	#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6454 07/29/03 22:05 Feline Fatale	The Hugo Question: It depends on which version you prefer: pre-crisis, post- or the cartoons. Pre-Crisis I'm going to let Rob or ussentinel handle, because it is THE classic Batman arc and I wouldn't want to get it wrong. It's been a while and I'm a tad fuzzy on the details. Post-Crisis arc is Doug Moench's LoDK run: Prey (the sequel Terror is about to come out in TBP!) in Prey, Hugo is brought in by city bigshots shortly after Batman's debut as a crimefigher. He is certain Batman had a loved one that was the victim of a violent street crime and begins searching the records, looking for surviving spouses that fit a profile. Eventually he thinks to go further back. Zany hijinx ensue. In the cartoon they bypassed the psychobabble and went straight for a gadget. Hugo was set up in a spa (the evil health spa was very popular in that series), and the stress management program involved a machine that could read thoughts. Bruce went undercover. Zany hijinx ensued. In both the pre-crisis and cartoon version, Hugo assembles rogues to auction off Batman's identity to the highest bidder. That is an element of the cat tales history as well - and why it is more of a sore spot with some than others.
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TwoFace275	Re: An Arkham Tale	#13	[url]	[-]
Posts: 2455 07/29/03 22:28	Pre Crisis - Hugo lures Batman somewhere only to use an adder or some other snake to knock him out. When Bats awakes, he is maskless and Hugo is cackling. Hugo then sets about pretending he is Batman (complete with impressive six pack - I always remember thinking how daft Hugo's face looked on top of the Bat suit). Fortunately for Bruce, Hugo is later beaten to death by a Crime Lord he has got on the wrong side of (and later haunts). Marvellous story - highly recommend (even if my synopsis makes it sound a bit cheesy) "Harvey is Fate's bitch, it's that simple." - Chris Dee that seems to be your tagline. "harvey 'two face' dent...d.a.: this won't end well." - Query "Ooh, sounds good Query. If he ever runs for another office, we can handle his campaigning. Big huge signs saying "This Won't End Well"... bumper stickers... I see it All..." - Lady Dien
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Nam El Baronoh.gothampm	Re: An Arkham Tale	#14	[url]	[-]
Posts: 353 07/30/03 00:58 Wonders	Which makes me wonder... isn't Strange dead? And if not, could this be corrected? Please?
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Unregistered(d)	Re: An Arkham Tale	#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 0 07/30/03 01:33	Thanks for the info about Hugo Strange.
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Chris Dee.gothampm	Re: An Arkham Tale	#16	[url]	[-]
Posts: 3929 07/30/03 01:40 Gothamite	*Quote:* isn't Strange dead? And if not, could this be corrected? Please? You mean you - you want me to - to hire somebody to - eh, er, well I do have Hitman Tommy Monaghan's IM but eh, I really don't know about actually having someone snuffed, even a cockroach like Hugo. But to answer your question, SPOILER ALERTS!...Hugo has undergone about as many comicbook deaths as Joker. Precrisis he died the one time Rob mentioned, then haunted boss whoever, but then I'm pretty sure he came back in non-ghostly form. Post-crisis, I THINK he survived Prey, but nobody seems quite sure. Then in Terror it looked like he died (fell thru the floor, impaled on a sewer pipe) but then in the last act he wasn't dead afterall, and he had, I believe, one of those ambiguous washed out to sea (in another sewer pipe?) and never found the body. I COULD be wrong about that, I'm just piecing it together from what I remember. Long story short: Hugo is harder to kill than a cockroach. “Do you, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle promise to forsake all others and reserve your warped, angst-ridden, dysfunctional nincompoopery for each other, thereby saving at least two innocent people and providing untold hours of fascinated diversion to the rest of us who might otherwise think WE have screwed up relationships!” --Dick Grayson in a moment of clarity
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JasonBloodOfGotham	and another death	#17	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1611 07/30/03 02:22	Bit of pointless trivia: I believe my writer once stumbled across a fanfic wherein Etrigan got the (not-so) singular honour of killing Strange... and then proceeded to guilt-trip a certain Bat quite nicely over it... but damned if we can remember the link. Edit: On the very, very slim chance anyone cares, we found it: dark_mark.tripod.com/apokolips22.html ...oddly enough, it is both slightly worse than we remember it and the 'guilt trip' scene seems to have disappeared. Perhaps Dien imagined it.
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Nam El Baronoh.gothampm	Re: An Arkham Tale	#18	[url]	[-]
Posts: 353 07/30/03 07:07 Wonders	Longevity is not the only characteristic of a cockroach that he shares. How freaky do you have to be when Harley, not noted for her taste, can't stand you?
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Catwoman Meow	Re: An Arkham Tale	#19	[url]	[-]
Posts: 6454 07/30/03 15:01 Feline Fatale	Dien, Since it was fanfic, it could be that the link you found is an earlier version of what you read and it did in fact get rewritten/improved and the guilting scene added once the author matured a bit. Or, as Jason suggests, maybe you imagined it. (I swear, you two bicker more than Hugo & Crane!) Anyhoots, the only thing I wanted to add is that Prey also marks the appearance of that other character which, like Nocturna and Anton, Chris sometimes gets credited for inventing but didn't: Hugo's mannequin.
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Allaine	Re: An Arkham Tale	#20	[url]	[-]
Posts: 1789 07/30/03 15:53	Years ago I saw Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects) do a skit where he was Albert Brooks doing Batman. Him in the Bat-cowl made me think of Hugo. I think Nurse Chin should thank whatever god she prays to that there is no Query in Cat-Tails. Great stuff. Sincerely, Allaine P.S. You make it sound like Ivy is the only woman who turns into a violent, disagreeable harpy when you disagree with her.
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