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[levelshift]

[It's the default request to leave a message that comes with every voicemail. Accelerator hasn't bothered to change it.]

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[levelshift]

No, but I'm from a city like it. I can handle whatever the hell technology they want to throw at us.

[robintohood]

Good. I’m thinking we gotta take the stealth approach. Apparently someone name Felicity Slaughterclaws has also been eyeballing that toy

[levelshift]

Goddamnit.

[Stealth is a lot harder for him with his ability and the crutch. He's never a fan.]

I hope that's a person and not a literal cat.

[robintohood]

If the Baron is any indication, I’m guessing an alien cat person

According to him, she’s “Scourge of the Stars, Whisker of Trinkets” and his “sworn enemy”

[levelshift]

An alien?

[.......... Oh, that's kind of cool? He's never run into an alien before.

Of course, Accelerator being Accelerator, he can't just text that back.]

Well, whatever. If we get into a fight I'll be able to take her.

[robintohood]

Hopefully it doesn’t happen but good to know

Recon on the place first so we have an idea of what we’re getting into

[levelshift]

Alright. Anything I need to bring for that?

[robintohood]

If you got anything for stealth, use it. Otherwise, nah

We’ll see how a typical night shift looks like for the place from when they switch and close to when they open again

[levelshift]

Got it.

[Black clothing it is! Good thing most of his wardrobe is black.]

That sounds really simple. I'm guessing you've done a lot of these before?

[robintohood]

Yeah. In this kind of work, you spend more time intel-gathering than actual action

It’s how you don’t get caught

[levelshift]

[That sounds so boring....]

Didn't have to worry about getting caught back home. Everything my group did was signed off on by the city's board of directors.

[robintohood]

Lucky. It’s the dead opposite for me. You develop a healthy sense of paranoia if you got a life like mine

[levelshift]

I wouldn't call it lucky.

[He was still doing horrible things, killing people and the like.]

Were you ever caught?

[robintohood]

Nope. I’ve only gotten “caught” when it was on purpose

[levelshift]

So you've never been to prison?

[robintohood]

Been to juvie but that’s it

[levelshift]

What was that like?

[robintohood]

It’s kiddie jail so it’s exactly as shitty as it sounds like. I wasn’t even 10 yet when I went

[levelshift]

Fuck, you were still a baby.

[That's Last Order's age. That's nuts. It's almost impossible to picture a kid that young getting locked up....]

What'd you even do?

[robintohood]

Got caught stealing. I was also mouthing off at the cops so I was charged for resisting arrest too

[levelshift]

And they thought juvenile hall was the best place for a kid that young? The American law system doesn't have anywhere better?

[robintohood]

There’s a lot of things wrong with the system. How kids are handled is only part of the problem

Also, there’s a lot of corruption in Gotham

[levelshift]

Fuck.

I guess I can't say it's that surprising. Shit's fucked back home, too.

[robintohood]

How bad?

[Besides experimenting on kids and making them child soldiers…]

[levelshift]

Because it's a closed city a lot of parents like to take advantage of that system to dump their kids. The kid gets assigned to a school, and their parents just disappear. Guardianship is supposed to be taken over by the city and their school, but it's common for certain research institutions attached to the schools to grab those kids and use them for prohibited experiments. Usually they end up dead, or worse.

No one's going to miss them, so who gives a shit? The city definitely doesn't.