2015.04.19 - Chaos in Arkham



"Chaos in Gotham this morning as the Joker, recently escaped from Arkham after a ten day incarceration, assaulted Blackgate Penitentiary with a bulldozer rigged with explosive devices and a small cadre of Arkham escapees. A presumed female identifying herself as 'Knightfall', along with a small force of mercenaries, arrived, and did battle with the Joker while he blew the front gate with the bulldozer bomb. Batwoman arrived to chase both away, but it did not end there.

Three and a half hours later, at nine thirty AM, Superlass encountered the Joker in Bludhaven. He turned himself in, suffering from knife wounds, and was incarcerated in the Blackgate prison infirmary. He escapes with a piece of metal hidden in his teeth, and caused a full containment breach that took guards, with Superlass' vital help limiting casualties, ten minutes to clean up. No escapees were reported, although Joker's whereabouts were unknown. The estimated toll of damage to the prison is in the hundreds of thousands, and will take months to fully repair. In the meantime, inmates are being transferred to Riker's and Sing Sing, as well as Arkham where possible. The Joker remains at large, and Interpol has posted a two hundred fifty thousand dollar bounty for a tip leading to his arrest.

