Gotham City is the birthplace and residence of the fearsome vigilante known as Batman. It is a large bustling city located on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, in the federated state of New Jersey, only across the bay from its sister city, Metropolis, Delaware in the District of Metropolis. Always a literal cesspool filled with criminals, corruption, pollution and vermin infestations, Gotham is considered by some to be the most dangerous and criminally corrupt city in the world. By day, it is an attractive and alluring tourist location, while by night, the place transforms into every decent person's worst nightmare.
Midtown Gotham City is also where Gotham Tower, Wayne Tower, Gotham Pier and the Prewitt Building are located.
Robinson Park is established in 1782, Robinson Park is the largest park in Gotham City, covering an area of three hundred acres in central Gotham. The park includes a statue representing the faceless civilian heroes of Gotham rests within Robinson Park as well, as a silent inspiration to the citizens of the city. The park also possesses a Greco-roman amphitheater. Containing a reservoir that feeds from the Finger River which runs through Midtown, the park features a memorial/dedication site to many of the city's servicemen, such as police, firemen and medical teams, who have helped save the city from some of its many catastrophic events. Many names of those who died in service protecting the city are engraved in the stone wall surrounding the park.
It is here, in Robinson Park, that this adventure begins.
SHADOWS in the SEWERS!!!
The newspaper's title was trying to tear itself off of the paper it was printed on to leap in the readers face to scare them. In big, bold, black letters, the headline was followed by a singular, grainy picture of some thing skulking around in one of the multiple tunnels that mazed beneath Gotham City. With a place made of multiple islands and surrounded by rivers, The Gotham City Sewers was one of the most complex municipal water systems in the country. It relied on a combination of tunnels, aqueducts, reservoirs and distribution pipes built underneath Gotham City to meet the daily needs of the city's residents and visitors.
And apparently, there was something down there. The article explained that for the past few days, sanitation workers had been hearing strange noises in the sewers. Which was almost normal, for a place like Gotham City where one could potentially see Killer Croc stepping into an AA meeting with both criminals and heroes to speak about their consumption problems.
But yesterday, someone was able to snap a picture of the thing. And whatever the hell it was, it wasn't something that had been seen before in the city. It didn't look like anything other than a very large, very tall biped. A Sasquatch that got lost? Swamp Thing that was sucked in through a vent pipe and got lost down there? Teen-aged, mutated ninja tortoises?
None of the workers had been maimed or killed, so that was a nice start. Maybe the thing wasn't too dangerous, or wasn't hungry.
Whatever was going on, there was only one way to find out. Go down there and find it! Luckily, a relatively well-known (to the costumed folk of the city) entrance to the sewer system was behind the Wayne Botanical Gardens in Robinson Park. The place was pretty much the center of the city and was as good a place as any to start searching for tall, wide creatures shot in low-quality pixel photos.
But who in their right mind would step into the Gotham City sewers on such a bizarre quest?<|im_end|>
People often asked Harley how on earth she didn't get cold in that red and black latex. Especially when she was out on a crisp autumn evening, delving into sewers. Depending on her mood, she'd either joke that she liked the cold making her nipples all perky, or that her alabaster white skin acted like polar bear fur. In truth, she barely ever got cold. When she spoke to other feminine costumed characters, they said something similar. Could it be that some higher power was conspiring to keep them scantily clad? Who knows.
What she did know is that you should never look the other way when weird things pop up in your sewers. If that weird thing came from someone's rear end, they should go see a doctor. If it came from anywhere else, someone in a ridiculous get-up needs to delve into the sewers and beat some sense into it! And today, out of all the sirens, Harley had picked the short straw. With her trusty toolkit of hammer, baseball bat, pistols, and nose plugs, she crept into the sewers, ready to go monster hunting...<|im_end|>