Participants were given Domino’s pizza boxes that contained code words and clues to a locked box in a secret location. At this box more clues were uncovered, leading to a 2-way radio, with which directions were given to a specific spot for the perfect view of The Dark Knight bat signal, projected onto the Woolworth building and Sears tower.

NYC:

Chicago:

/Film have also posted their report, relaying some off the bad feelings and hindrances that surrounded the poorly executed Chicago event.

“I believe in Batman” — “I am a citizen for Batman“
July 8th.

Thanks Pierre.

Poster: BriDog72 — Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 00:12
Seems there’s been a bit of a slipup with the project me and Batfan73 have been working on. BatFan’s in jail and I need everyone’s help. He left me a voicemail, it was kinda garbled, but he said he was picked up by the cops for trespassing, so he needs some help getting everything activated. He’s not sure when he’s going to be able to extract himself from his situation.
He said he needs someone to get some sort of key off of an invoice, number 38272899 (geez, I hope I copied that down right), but he got cut off before he could tell me what this invoice is or even where to find it. We need this key to activate everything.
Can anyone figure this out? We’re going to need to fix this or the whole thing’s ruined! Anyone?

In an email to Glenn Barhyte, Jim Gordon made reference to Maroni Imports, leading us to a new viral site, www.maroniimports.com

With the invoice number from the forums post and the sruname “Craston”, which appeared in a small news update to the Gotham City Rail website:

ALERT: The STCS will undergo initial fine-tuning of its software on the evening of July 8th. This routine maintenance may result in temporary intermittent system delays. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. — C. Craston, Sr. Elec. Engineer, GCR

With this information the aforementioned invoice can be downloaded, at the bottom of it there is a key for a signal booster, Key: 5D45C08AA6C3638D7829C0D5183FDB14B0CDBF1DCB12. With this key, the signal booster was activated and CFB was updated to show two sets of co-ordinates in New York and Chicago. Hence the two locations for the big event this July 8th are now known:

New York and Chicago

CFB has since been updated to include a new mission statement:

Sometimes, you have to take a stand. You have to fight for respect. You have to let the entire world know you’re here.
On July 8th, nobody will be able to ignore us. Gather at the above coordinates at the appointed time, and help us take a stand in support of Batman!
If you can’t join us on the ground, we’ll be providing a way for you to watch what goes down, live on this website.
Defend Gotham! Defend Batman!
Key: 5D45C08AA6C3638D7829C0D5183FDB14B0CDBF1DCB12
Signal Booster status: ON

Thanks Pierre!

Three future tasks have yet to be ticked off:

12. Be good to my guests
13. Gather all my fans
14. Leave a big mark

Reports

Some of the viral links on WSS contain reports on the viral event, with date, a list of occurrences, the end result, pictures and the aftermath — providing a succinct review of how we’ve got this far:

Citizens for Batman

Where a page originally stood we now find a countdown, heading ominously towards July 8th. CFB have also been sending out their propaganda to lucky Gotham citizens,

Including the letter:

Citizens for Batman!

It’s time to go public. To really defend Batman, we have to show the world how big our movement is. So check out the goodies inside and show your pride in CFB!

And get ready for a MAJOR show of force July 8th. (check out citizensforbatman.org for the latest.

Defend Gotham. Defend Batman!

Brian Douglass
Founder, Citizens for Batman

Thanks Dioz, Csam and Pierre!

The words were:

midnight/Nyctalus/threat/plerotes/history/euderma/fear/myotis/underestimation/

Login with username: nycticeious, password: merritt

Why We Fight:

I’ve been patrolling my neighborhood for several weeks now. I’ve seen crime happen in front of me. It’s obvious City Hall doesn’t care, so why should we? I think that’s an important question to answer before we set out to DO SOMETHING about crime in Gotham. The answer might be different for each of us. For me, I want to fight because I lost my sister to violent crime. She was attacked and brutally assaulted when she was leaving a group of friends at a restaurant early one Sunday night. Someone was waiting for her by her car. She screamed and yelled “fire,” but no one came to help. Unlike many victims, she went to the police, but they didn’t do anything. They gave her the runaround for months until she found her own peace. I fight for my sister. I fight so bad things don’t happen again to anyone. I fight because the police won’t. I fight to take back the city I used to be proud to call home.

Gotham City Pizzeria has updated for its 16th June special promotion. There is now a map of the US with locations marked out in green and red — green means that there are free pizzas to be grabbed, red means they’ve all been taken. The “order your free pizza” link takes you to a dominos page with a store locator. 245 pizzas available in total!

Chat here as the game unfolds

The Site

The Pizza boxes

The Packages

Pictures thanks to CerealKiller:

The authorities are after us, so we had to be a little secretive about our hide-out. Here is a little something to point you in the right direction:

/myotis

You need to share this information with other concerned Gotham citizens like yourself. I’m sure you can figure out how.

When you put the pieces together, join us — and help us fight back against the enemies of Gotham City.

Never give up,

Paul
www.citizensforbatman.org

Picture thanks to Pennyworth

This package comes with a different letter and a username.

Words so far

/history
/threat
/myotis
/midnight
/euderma — This is a species of bat
/underestimation
/plerotes

Usernames so far

nycticeius — species of bat

Passwords so far

merritt

This URL leads to a blank page: http://www.citizensforbatman.org/midnight/. Maybe it will have content at midnight?

With guess work I have built up the second part of the URL by going through various species of bat, I hit lucky with Nyctalus. Then, alternating species and normal words I have got this far:

http://www.citizensforbatman.org/midnight/nyctalus/threat/plerotes/history/euderma/

OK clowns, are you ready for some laughs (y/n)?
You put a smile on my face. Hope you’re not superstitious

Superstition relates to the day — Friday 13th June. We already know that’s when “Gotham Tonight” will premier, maybe The Joker has something in store for them?

Other Viral Updates

A new email from Harvey Dent:

It’s been an incredible last few weeks. Ever since the vicious smear campaign collapsed and Harvey Dent’s remarkable courage at the hostage crisis at Rossi’s Deli, our campaign has ridden a wave of support I have never seen in all my political life.

Our Headquarters reopened and thousands of volunteers show up here every day, every night, fighting for change. Fundraising has reached incredible heights, with over 100,000 Gotham citizens contributing their hard-earned money in support of Harvey Dent’s vow to take back Gotham.

We’ve expanded our reach, opening branches in neighborhoods that haven’t seen political campaigns take them seriously for decades. And we’ve harnessed the incredible grassroots support by sending volunteers to knock on doors throughout the city. Amazingly, we will achieve our two millionth door knock sometime in between now and Election Day.

Harvey Dent has committed himself to lead the charge to take back our city, face down the criminal and corrupt and restore hope for our future.

Now, we need your help. We need to get out the vote!. And we need you to vote yourself. If you can’t make it to the polls, go to http://www.gothamelectionboard.com and find out how you can vote online. Working together, we will take back Gotham!

Allan Cypes Media Manager

Maiden Avenue Report — Shuts Down, writer sells out

Gotham City Rail:

Gotham City Rail Announces Satellite Tracking and Communications System

To better serve our customers, GCR has completed its transition to a satellite tracking and communications system (STCS). Using cutting edge ultra high frequency technology, STCS will give GCR the real-time ability to track exact positioning of all its trains. This will allow for more accurate scheduling and should increase GCR’s already impressive safety record.

Citizens for Batman — Introduction updated:

For the first time, we have hope. Batman proves we can fight back against the sociopaths, thugs, and scum that have ruled Gotham for too long.
And now, City Hall wants to arrest Batman!

Gotham Police — Annual Policeman’s Ball
Gotham USD — News area updated
Internal Affairs of Gotham Police Department — Internal Affairs Officers of the Month added
Trust Garcetti — Updates with info about election
Dana Worthington — “Yes for Batman”

And of course you can still vote in the elections.

Thanks Pierre!

Poster Reddy-Steddy has started a topic “I got a picture”, which contains a blurry Batmobile shot taken by him at “5th street”:

And here is an interesting extract from the topic “Garcetti is wrong”:

I support Batman but Garcetti, as a representative of the established civil authority really has to take that position. Batman exists outside the established authority and is therefore a threat to it. Think about it, there are over four hundred citizens for every cop, so the system works only if 1. the police are the only ones to enforce order and 2. most of us follow the rules and the police only have to deal with a few people who deviate.

The alternative is a world where anyone who has a grudge takes care of it themselves. That means that a person who feels wronged deals directly with his neighbor, shoots them if they feel its necessary. You get feuds and lawlessness and a survival of the fittest. The strong dominate the weak. By taking the law into his own hands, Batman threatens the police monopoly on maintaining order and could be seen as taking the first step towards that kind of lawlessness.

The problem is that the police are not keeping their end of the civil contract. We give them power with the understanding that they will maintain order. But anyone who lives in Gotham can see that order and safety are breaking down. We are already in a state of lawlessness. Batman is responding to the increasing disorder. And so are we by joining Citizens For Batman.

Pierre has also spotted that the name “Larry” posted in the Neighborhood watch thread refers to Larry Coniglia, entering this name in the record search at St Swithuns reveals his marriage certificate — which we have previously discovered by searching for Salvator Maroni (he is the witness)