Jailhouse Rock (but not too hard or it'll fall down)

[mostdangerousbird]

Who: Robin/Tim Drake mostdangerousbird and open. Can also be used as a sort of mingle for your own toplevels.
What: A massive jailbreak of lowlevel, non-meta criminals from CCPD headquarters, after Loki removed all the walls and cage doors.
When: On a clear December night, during the mistletoe mania.
Where: Downtown Central City
Content Warnings: Please keep the damage minimal and the takedowns non-lethal.


The Central City PD are located downtown, taking up a lot of valuable ground with a stupid architectural design that wastes as much space as it does money.

It's normally foreboding griege brutalism, but everything is looking a little Jetsons at the moment. The sections were the cells are? Don't have any damn walls left. Or cell bars. It looks like something out of the Jetsons - floating concrete and rebar discs for floors and roofs. Pipes spraying water out and up and everywhere because the walls are gone. Don't worry, you won't get shocked because all the wires are gone too.

Those inside the building will have to make do on emergency lights (if they're in an area that still has walls). The circuit is obviously so badly damage that it's stopped working - a too-smart-to-be-a-cop secretary very quickly realizes the danger of an electric file and trips all the breakers on purpose.

The prisoners? About a third of them immediately make a run for it. Another third move away from the open walls, but sit quietly with visible hands because this is crazy, suspicious shit and they are not going to make it worse on themselves. The rest wait to see how far the first runners get and begin peeling off in small groups in the next two minutes.

The missing walls and bars will reappear at dawn like nothing ever happened, but there’s no way of knowing that.

Comments

[robintohood]

[Jason's already dressed as Red Hood and is on a rooftop, ready to start the chase]

Can't. Things feel a little dangerous in my area. Seems like it'd be best if I stay in

[qualityfriend]

[That does not sound like Jay. Not the guy who all but warned her that he was expecting to attract a rough crowd at the bar. ...crap. The bar.]

what do we do if one of them shows up here?

[robintohood]

Keep them distracted. Act like it's a normal night until you can warn security

If they make any aggressive demands, don't be a hero and just do what they say. I want you guys to be safe

[qualityfriend]

gotcha. dont call cops or guilds?

[She almost types and sends "hope cass is in tonite", but thinks better of it. Guilty of it, too. Cass is a Bat, she should be out there dealing with the crisis, not protecting one building.]

[robintohood]

Don't get the guilds involved no matter what. Call the cops as a last resort

[Central City has enough corrupt cops that one can be bribed to turn a blind eye at some things. Guilds are much more difficult to handle though]

[Text, sent next day, afternoon]

[qualityfriend]

[Luckily none of the fugitives decided to visit the Descendant, and other than staff shortages, it was a quiet night. Though Dana has noticed a pattern in those staff shortages, along with reports of which outsider meta heroes were spotted catching criminals. She's not sure how to broach the subject, but she won't let it fester, so she sends a text, hopefully late enough in the day that Jay is rested, but with enough time before business starts that they can have a long talk.]

hey boss. need 2 talk 2 u abt last nite. now a good time?

[robintohood]

[After he was done catching escapees, the first thing Jason did was knock out at one of his safehouses. By time he gets Dana's text, he's gotten plenty of rest]

Sure. I'm free

[qualityfriend]

in person. ur office?

[robintohood]

Sure. Give me about 40 minutes to be there?

[qualityfriend]

sure. ill be there

[And indeed she will, sitting in a bar chair where she has a good view of his office door. Has she been like that the whole time? Probably. She has her phone out but isn't really looking at it.]

[robintohood]

[As promised, Jason arrives about 40 minutes later, dressed in his usual work clothes of a button-down shirt, slacks, and dress boots]

Hey, Dana.

[qualityfriend]

H-hey.

[She stands up, shifts from foot to foot.]

We should probably- go somewhere private.

[robintohood]

Sure.

[Jason continues to pretend he doesn't have an idea of what this might be about as he leads her to the back of the building to his office]

[qualityfriend]

[She follows and waits for him to close the office door, casting almost-guilty looks behind her until he does.]

[robintohood]

[Jason calmly shuts the door behind him once they're both in the office]

What's up? Glad to see you okay after last night's craziness.

[qualityfriend]

[She does a few false starts before finally getting a full sentence out:]

I- The police reports say several vigilantes were involved in rounding up the criminals. Including ones from Gotham, like Robin and Red Hood.

[robintohood]

Yeah, I heard about that. No Batman though.

[qualityfriend]

[She gives him a Stare.]

Jay. Is that short for Jason?

[robintohood]

Yeah. What about it?

[Jason's a common enough name. Maybe he can still play it off]

[qualityfriend]

Tim was also out last night. And I don't think it's because his area was too dangerous. Just like I don't think yours was.

You two had more important business, did you?

[robintohood]

[Calmly]

I can't speak for Tim but I was telling the truth last night, Dana. What do you mean by "more important business?"

[qualityfriend]

Catching the criminals. As Red Hood.

[robintohood]

[Snorts]

Red Hood? The weirdo with the helmet? What makes you say that?

[qualityfriend]

[She clenches her fists.]

You know, Cass didn't bother to insult my intelligence.

[robintohood]

What'd she do?