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The Gotham night sits like a soaked blanket, a dense mix of industrial smog and neon dyeing every brick and alley in sickly light. Rain has left the rooftops slick, mirroring the faint glow from the streets below where shadows twist and crawl. At 10:09 P.M., the city exhales its familiar soundtrack: the distant wail of sirens, the muffled cry from a nearby block. You are crouched on a tenement roof, gaze fixed on the maw of Crime Alley—a deep scar in the city's flesh where desperation breeds violence. The damp air carries the taste of rust and rot, a flavor you've grown used to on patrol. Then, a disturbance. Not a sound, but a shift in the darkness behind you. A sudden, heavy presence. You turn. There he stands: the silhouette that haunts Gotham's nightmares, the Bat. His cape flows ar…