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Anonymous asked:
#OnlyInGotham do you see a rogue use ASL to sign “Get on the ground” to a deaf customer at a jewelery store robbery.
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Modern Pirate Sentence Starters
as requested by anon
- “I’m not about to lose the ship…”
- “What do we do, captain?!”
- “As your captain, I order you to shut the fuck up.”
- “It’s time for you to walk the plank. It’s not an actual plank, just get off the boat.”
- “We’re getting so close to the treasure, I can almost taste it.”
- “A storm’s brewin’.”
- “What the fuck do you think a pirate looks like? Should I have an eyepatch and a talking parrot?”
- “The journey was NOT the real treasure. I want gold.”
- “I TOLD YOU NOT TO SNAPCHAT, NOW EVERYONE IS AFTER US.”
- “There’s no way I’m letting them find the chest first.”
- “It’s an old legend…”
- “How are you already seasick?”
- “Get out your gun.”
- “Don’t ask questions; just hold the map.”
- “No, you can’t steer the ship.”
- “We’re pirates. Stealing is kind of our thing.”
- “Crap, the navy is after us.”
- “I’d let the stars guide the way, but there’s too much goddamn pollution.”
- “Murder is a hobby by now.”
- “I’ve been looking for this lost artifact for so many years and I don’t think I’ll ever find it.”
I MEAN LOOK AT THIS
I NEED TO GO THERE!
Anybody know at least the plot? I want to know so bad
Post mortem doc
NOT MINE
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The Department of Occult Research
Founded at the end of the 19th century, DOOR began as a humble association of professors, students, explorers, artists, and intellectuals whose morbid and esoteric curiosities and brushes with the unknown - the OtherSide - eventually attracted the government’s attention and patronage.
Bent to military and espionage purposes, the newly formed Department’s existence and accumulated knowledge was archived and classified. The old fellowship of curious occult hobbyists was soon transformed into a modern state bureaucracy, operating under the official mandate of national security and the pursuit of knowledge the public was neither prepared nor permitted to know.
With the dawning of the nuclear age and the birth of new scientific paradigms, the Department’s methods shifted away from shady and circumspect ‘old magicks’ and towards cutting edge technologies to study what awaited in the crevices between realities. Though the Department has developed a new secular vocabulary for occurrences like possession or daemons, rare as either may be, even scientific approaches to the occult have yet to yield a greater understanding of the nature of Other-dimensional entities and the eldritch realities they inhabit.
Despite all the power of modern science at our disposal, we are still children fumbling in the dark.
Department Branches
The Class System
In its infancy, the Department was an egalitarian society of the inquisitive, a meeting of like minds that had no care for the ranks and hierarchies of the outside world, nor any interest in replicating them. The common pursuit of occult knowledge was all that bound this fellowship together, and all that its members needed to cooperate and collaborate on joint research projects and expeditions into the unknown.
The machinery of government and its hunger for information and power, however, required that humans be organized efficiently. The Department is not a place of free study or pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, it is a regimented, controlled workplace whose mandate is to leave no stone unturned, and every tool available must be applied toward that end.
Organization implies hierarchy. For decades now, the Department has become socially and economically stratified into two classes of personnel.
Class A members enjoy access to more sensitive information, research funding, interns and occasionally even their own staff and subdepartments to manage. Class A membership is limited and highly prized, offering more money and privilege as a reward for dedicated service to the Department.
Most members of DOOR who have remained beyond their probationary period are Class B members. The hands-on engineers, paper pushers, bureaucrats, field agents, and support staff that keep the Department’s day to day operations afloat and alive all fall into this category. As opposed to their Class A superiors, Class B personnel have only had the barest glimpse of the strangeness and horror of the OtherSide; a rough sketch of the depths which the Department plumbs.
New Rationalists
The shot-callers of the Department, New Rationalists by and large present as hard nosed atheists with science backgrounds who believe that the OtherSide is simply an unexplored realm of physics that can be quantified, calibrated, controlled and exploited. To the New Rationalists, so-called ‘daemons’ are simply extensions of nature, and nature is something to be exploited for humanity’s gain.
For decades, Class A membership has mostly belonged to New Rationalists. These individuals oversee DOOR’s grand scheme and direction, prioritize and organize Reaper assignments, and control the Department’s pursestrings.
New Rationalists are often viewed as arrogant, smug and dismissive, but they are well aware that these perspectives are shallow misunderstandings of their beliefs and that people will always resent those on top. In their view, what is arrogant is to hold to absurd and fantastical notions of the OtherSide that cannot be substantiated; what is dismissive is to believe that science will fail to quantify the universe, known or unknown.
New Rationalists optimistically hold to values of enlightenment, empowerment, competition and critical thinking and engagement, believing that the future belongs to those who have the insight to understand. Amongst each other and those they consider their equals they engage in lively but respectful academic and intellectual disputes and skirmishes, jostling for position within the closed ranks of Class A. DOOR’s class system is deemed a necessary feature of its existence and is instrumental to the organization’s application of strong social pressures and groupthink, both to maintain the Department’s clandestine existence and control its personnel. Entry to Class A tends to be the carrot dangled before the eyes of Class B, often snatched away at the last moment but constantly held up as something to strive towards.