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Equiping an armor tutorial

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Jason exhausted and stuck babysitting: Oi demon brat bed time

Damian still in his Robin costume typing away at the bat computer: Tt

Jason sighed: what needs to happen for you to go to bed

Damian: tell me a story of Ghost Princess and Dead Robin

Jason: if you brush your teeth and are in bed in five minutes I'll consider it

Part 2

(Ooh, wait, I LOVE this HC!!)

“You’re reading him a story?” Tim asked curiously. “You’ve never done this before.”

Jason hummed. “I’m not “reading” him a story. I’m telling him one.”

Tim snorted, “Like I said, you’ve never done this before.”

“I did when we were in the League,” Jason replied and Tim fell silent. Jason ignored him and finally entered Damian’s room, where Titus and Alfred the cat were already staying. Damian stared at him in his bed, clearly trying not to look too eager but still bright with attention.

“Todd, you promised! The Ghost Princess and her Robin!” Damian said.

Jason’s lips quirked. He wasn’t sure if Damian knew that the so called stories he told were actually his broken memories of when he was dead.

His precious, fragmented memories of his Princess. He could still faintly recall her bright smiles and cheerful laughter, the way her hair shone a bright crimson, and her tall, black crown.

He had been her Robin, her loyal bodyguard and assistant.

“Well? Start,” Damian demanded.

Jason gave him a lighthearted glare. “Brat,” he muttered before he cleared his throat. Behind him, he could hear the door open and Tim, Bruce, and Cass poked their heads in. In Cass’ hand was her phone, where Jason could faintly hear Dick on the other line.

Jason rolled his eyes but as he looked at Damian’s wide, anticipating eyes, he just sighed and began.

“It was a cold day as always in the Ghost Zone where the Princess and her Robin were staying. As usual, she slept in her bed while her Robin watched over her. It was her brother, Wraith, who had woken her up and brought her to breakfast. That day, she faced a particular dilemma.” Jason paused for dramatic effect.

“Don’t tell me it’s breakfast choices again,” Damian sneered. “That was only funny when I was 7.”

“Shut up and listen,” Jason said sweetly. “The Princess had to travel to the southern regions of the Ghost Zone in order to mediate between two minor vassal kingdoms. The dilemma was that she also had to attend a social gathering that night where she had to convince the officials to allow her to build a library. Do you remember her siblings? Why do you think this was a problem?”

It had been years since Jason had ever told stories of his days down under in the realm of the dead. He hadn’t even been sure if Damian had remembered those bedtime stories until today.

Damian answered, “She has Wraith, the oldest and the wisest.” Jason snorted at the thought of Dan being the most wise. “Phantom, the crown prince and the strongest. And Spirit, the brightest and youngest.”

“What’s the name of the Princess? And why is she in charge if there’s a crown prince?” Tim asked from the door.

Jason glared at him. “First of all, you’re supposed to be pretending like you don’t exist. Secondly, she was the Queen Regent, I just call her the Princess because she didn’t enjoy the title.”

“And her name?” Cass asked.

Jason ignored her. After all, he had long since forgotten the name of his princess. He continued, “The problem was that the Ghostwriter was attending the social gathering and he had a nasty feud with Phantom. Meanwhile, Wraith wasn’t the right person to either negotiate deals or mediate between people, and Spirit was too young to know how to navigate ghostly society. Only twelve, like you.”

Jason thought about the memory fondly. “So the Princess was torn between two choices. This was her only chance to gain the support of the nobility that could help her build a library or build two alliances between two kingdoms that could help stabilize her rule. She was already distrusted and looked down upon by her citizens, so this was her only chance.”

Damian’s eyes lit up. “She called on Robin.”

From behind him, he could hear Dick’s soft call of “Robin?”

Jason smiled. “Yes. She called upon Robin, her most trusted. She entrusted him to attend the social gathering with her little sister and gain the support of the officials. So he and Spirit went to the event while the Princess went to the south with Phantom. Robin was a protector spirit, like Phantom, so he was respected and powerful. He was able to easily schmooze the poor suckers and they all agreed to give money to the Princess’ project. Meanwhile, the Princess’s mind was eased from her worries and she was able to break the fight between the two kingdoms. They all worked together and were able to accomplish both goals. The moral of the story? Always try to depend on the people around you because you can do amazing things if you’re together. The end.”

Cass snorted softly. “Hypocrite.”

Jason graciously ignored her again. He stood up but stopped when Damian got out of bed to grab his hand with a light glare. “Another! I want to hear another! That was too short!”

Jason just sighed and ruffled his hair. “I only promised one story. That’s all for today, Dami. Go to bed now.”

Damian pouted but still got back under his covers. Cass darted over to tuck him in and Jason walked past her and the gazes of both Tim and Bruce, who were staring at him with narrowed eyes.

Memories of that beautiful, kind, gentle girl entered his mind, but all of it felt like smoke through his fingers.

He wished he could’ve had more to tell, more to say about his time down under, but it was impossible.

Danny has gotten very good at getting into and exploring the internet. Not only from having to follow Technus through it, but also because it was fun!

So it shouldn't have been a surprise that when the time came when he had to escape Amity Park for good, he did it through the web. He had never gone outside the city's servers before, so he did get a bit lost, but soon he was exploring all around the world.

He knew he had to get out of the web eventually, but the persecution had left him a little traumatized. It was safe in there, and he was healing well, or at least his pixelated body seemed okay. And okay, maybe online food was a little tasteless and numbed his tongue, but it was keeping him fed, so who cared.

Just as he found Babs via those subtle hidden traces of Oracles Network Everywhere, her setup and network now also have inescapable Vibes and traces of Being Haunted. Maybe not strongly anywhere but the Mains, yet, but if he starts helping enough?

Yeah, O already vibes the creepy green glow effect On Purpose when taking over other systems (like the Watchtower) and talking to people over them, he fits right in. Lean into the Vibes, Danno. Pick a suitable related Theme/Title to use with Strangers, even if you are Just Lil Danny Phantom to Babs herself. Something spooky but Flavored to match her.

Part 1

(Omg yes)

“You know, I never knew that Red Hood told Little D bedtime stories at the League,” Nightwing said to Batman. “I need to visit home more often. I keep missing out.”

Phantom slightly turned his head towards them, interested in gossip. He had heard of the Red Hood before, but hadn’t ever met the guy, since he seemed antisocial and volatile from Batman’s words.

“Oh, you’re going to visit the Manor?” Batman asked, extremely casually, even though everyone and their mothers could see that he was standing at attention at Nightwing’s words, like a dog hearing the word “walk”.

Nightwing rolled his head in a physical imitation of rolling his eyes. “Sure, B. I’ll visit this week.”

“Hnn,” was Batman’s extremely overjoyed, jumping-in-glee answer. There was a pause before he asked, “What do you think of his stories?”

“Of the Ghost Princess and her Robin? I think it’s super cute, but I’m curious as to how he makes up stories with characters like Phantom or Wraith. Seems rather detailed, no?”

Phantom stood up then and everyone turned in his direction at the sound of his chair scraping against the floor.

If there was one thing that Phantom loved most in the world, it was his sister. And if there was one thing that she liked and mourned the most, then it was Robin, one of her most dearest and best friends while she was Queen Regent. However, he had been taken away by her by unseen forces that resurrected him in another world, rendering him unable to be found.

Phantom turned to the two standing in the corner and floated over. “Did you mention a Ghost Princess? I want to hear this.”

Nightwing and Batman shared a look and the former said, “Hmm. You and the character Phantom share the same name, huh?”

“I’m also a ghost, y’know?” Phantom said, his hands behind his back in an innocent pose. He looked at them with big, sparkly green eyes, already able to tell that both of them were softening. He wasn’t much older than Red Robin and he loved taking advantage of that. “Can I hear about the Ghost Princsss?”

“It’s a bedtime story that my son created in order to soothe my youngest to sleep,” Batman replied. “It’s a story about a ghost queen and her loyal subject, Robin, as they handle and take care of things in their kingdom.”

“Robin?” Phantom asked, pretending to be confused. “Like your Robin?”

Nightwing shrugged. “I asked our Robin and he thinks that “Robin” was more like a literal bird creature than an actual person like us, since Red Hood would mention golden wings.”

Phantom’s mind flashed back to the Robin he knew, whose yellow wings covered him like a cape as he protected Jazz. It was sounding more and more like this Red Hood was telling the story of Robin and Jazz together.

“Huh,” Phantom said. “That sounds interesting. What about the Ghost Princess and the character Phantom?”

Batman replied, “The Ghost Princess seemed to be queen regent, but preferred to be called princess, while this “Phantom” character was her crown prince. The two were a pair of siblings with two others, Wraith and Spirit.”

Phantom’s eyes widened.

Spirit was a name that Dani had chosen for herself when she was still figuring out her identity. However, what made it special was that she had never revealed her name to the public population in the Ghost Zone, meaning that only a few individuals knew her name. A few individuals that included Robin.

Phantom smiled. “That sounds interesting! I love ghost stories, I’d love to hear this story in person!”

Wally has successfully got himself a date. A date that was not relevant or even close to the hero society. Look he loves all his friends and all those people in that community but to get a date with a normal girl was probably his biggest achievement.

Jasmine or Jazz as she likes to be called was the funniest person ever. She was kind sweet and overall really cool to hang out with so when she accepted his date idea he felt like he won. Of course he got the rundown from both his mentor and his friends about dating a civilian but can he be blamed for not paying attention.

His Robin was so worried that she might be a villain which how she was like the most beautiful girl in the world. Wally brushed it off as dick just being paranoid after all he was the best protege so that kind of tracked. All that aside he ended up making sure that he was on time for this date.

It was pretty basic going to a movie then going to a dinner after and yet Wally wasn't going to be paying attention. Jazz had this beautiful dress on and his attention was all over the place. Could he really be blamed though she looks amazing?

They went to go see a cheesy romance movie and she kept whispering jokes in his ear. They weren't allowed enough to bother the other people in the theater so it was fine. Even though he was trying really hard not to just laugh at everything that she said.

Afterwards they ended up at a diner that was actually less crowded than he thought it would be. He wasn't quite sure why that was and for the most part it was pretty okay. They both ended up getting their meals and sitting down and just chatting about anything and everything.

One normal date is all he asked for.

Jazz and Wally agreed on going on a simple date in her hometown even though for some reason she wasn't so adamant about doing that at first. He wanted to compromise but she said it was fine and that they could go on doing it anyway. Wally didn't think there was anything wrong with her town for that to be a worry.

Turns out he was wrong.

Their meal was cut short when a loud bang came from outside as a cloud of green started forming in the middle of the City. Wally's first thought was to get her to safety so he grabbed her, paid for the meal and dipped to the car. Since it was her car he asked to take the keys and for some reason she was actually willingly giving them over.

That should have been the first flag. The second flag was before she even got into the passenger seat she was spending a lot of time and her trunk. When she came to the front of the car she had a duffel bag in her lap and while he was just going to ask as he backed up and hit the gas.

He was going to try to get him away from the situation. He didn't know the city very well so he had to ask Jazz for directions. So why exactly was she leading him towards the Green cloud? .... Why does she have a gun?

"Jazz?!"

"I'm sorry I know that we really just wanted a normal date but the universe likes to spite me. And as a hunter I can't just let this happen as my family is kind of out of town right now and I did make a promise to my brother. I'll explain everything later just get as close as possible do not worry if you start feeling nauseous that's just a side effect for people who don't usually get close to radiation."

"WHAT?!"

Well, this particular blob ghost hangs aroung Gotham, bouncing imperceptibly around Crime Alley and feeding on all the startlingly arrayed emotions there. It latches onto one source in particular, a recently moved-into-the-neighborhood Halfa and honorary Outlaw Danny Phantom, who has a huge goopy crush on the Red Hood.

As it turns out, that huge goopy crush has a transformative impact on how our blob ghost manifests. Hence: Fatson Todd.

Whether Danny, Jason, or some Bat finds him first, it's going to be a fun time.

Danny will just have to figure out, though, how he can spin this very damning turn of events into something less mortifying.

Ma Kent: you know you should really teach that boy to tie his own tie, he’s almost thirty

Pa Kent: aw but I like seeing him every morning ):

Ma Kent: so just invite him over for coffee!

Pa Kent: he doesn’t have time for that, he’s a big city boy now ):

it’s only when a heavenly artifact is found and starts saying a prophecy in said language that it starts clicking.

shang qinghua is called and translates the prophecy before nodding and muttering how he already knew that and now he’d have more paperwork when he got back to his peak.

all the peak lords and their disciples now think shang qinghua is a god from the heavens sent down to help them? was he able to predict the future? was that why he claimed to have already known about the prophecy?

LBH traveling to the sect to fulfill his mother's wish when he meets SY who transmigrated as young lord of nearby town, just canon fodder NPC (SY doesn't mind much there's loads of books to read about monsters and some cultivation texts and he's used to paperwork so not to bad really plus no system)

When SY meets baby bun Binghe tiny, tiny starving with bleeding feet from how far his walked already on his way to the mountain where he'll have nothing but horrible backstory well SY can't have that he offers Binghe somewhere to res, after all mountain won't be doing selection for a while and they can drop him off at mountain nearer the time after Binghe has had some rest.

SY I will give little bun some respite before his awful treatment by this plot, i'm going to spoil him so much.

LBH suddenly at estate being doted on by SY and he's fallen hard and fast for his Yuan-ge and...well he knows he promised his mother held cultivate but Yuan-ge has texts on cultivation and she told him there were good and kind people and no ones kinder than Yuan-ge

SY hears Binghe wants to stay and well, the protagonist wants to stay he can always do test next time and that means less traumatic back story, plus Binghe's already leaning so well just the texts he's got. SY has already ordered more texts and a sword and Binghe will be OP without mountain suck it airplane.

Years later Peak lords are traveling and SQQ/YQY hear gossip of local lord who took in a slave who he is now apparently engaged to.

SQQ and YQY are having flashbacks and instantly go to estate whoa re happy to host cultivators. Both have hands on their swords until tyhey meet pair.

LBH has hearts in eyes not looking away from SY who doesn't seem to notice and is just praising LBH and his cultivation and sword fighting skills and how talented he is ect ect ect...

When he mentions about cultivation potential hinting about him maybe joining sect LBH finally looks away form SY to shoot YQY and SQQ a look of pure venom making it very clear they should NOT offer anything and if they do he will end them. Before looking back at SY completely innocent.

YQY and SQQ are pretty sure who started the rumor lord was engaged... that or any of the other servants (who are all very well treated and seem to be watching whole exchange a mix of exasperated and amused ...apparently they have a betting pool on when SY will realize)

As peak lords leave they hear SY asking if LBH wants to go with them and LBH teary eyed 'does Yuan-Ge want me to leave?' and instantly SY tripping over himself assuring No Binghe never has to leave but if you want to join a sect ect

SQQ...is mildly impressed by the manipulative little beast.

Only he finds out quickly.... Bingge kinda sucks at actually running a kingdom...multiple kingdoms.

Basically with court if it's something dramatic airplane could make money off Bingge is not good at it.

Administration is chaos, order is being held together buy a thread.

SY tries to talk to protagonist but he's just an NPC and Bingge won't even look at him. So SY tries to sort things out...

Basically SY ends up running the entire kingdoms while Bingge is off doing the plot stuff fighting or fucking or both .

It becomes an open secret that if you want to actually get stuff done talk to SY, if the emperors here you aren't going to get shit done. In fact if you have any female relatives don't interact with the emperor unless you want them to most likely join the harem.

If the emperor is there odds are there's going to be a fight, or papapa, most likely an assassination attempt and odds are someones going to die.

SY loved reading Bingge he's so cool best protagonist he deserves the world... but in the world he really really wants to yell at him and get him to actually fill out paper work a d have one proper court session without starting papapa with multiple wives.

SQH has transmigrated as well working in the North and MBJ listens to him... or well he just lets SQH do everything but at least he pretends to listen and looks at SQH (MBJ is never not looking at SQH)

Eventually either

A) Bingge realizing people are going to someone else, that someone is usurping power and running his kingdom. Suddenly he is paying attention to SY seeing what this usurper is planning.

Or

B) The Bingge Vs Bingmei extra happens Bingge is sulking qi deviating and using resources into some other world research?? He's destroyed SY budget he isn't going on adventures or gaining wives. He tore through the vaults of treasures that SY just finished organizing. Usually Bingge leaves for plot reasons and SY can calm down and put things in order but Bingge is still here and SY snaps and ends up charging into rooms and finally giving Bingge piece of his mind.

Mu Qingfang doesn’t like keeping such a secret from the sect leader, but he’s also familiar enough with Yue Qingyuan to know he might kill this child.

Shizun told Luo Binghe he was from another world a few months ago, but Luo Binghe doesn’t have the details of what that life was like. He’s trying his best, but it’s hard when child Shizun seems repulsed by the idea of their marriage. Luo Binghe doesn’t know any of the foods child Shizun wants. He can’t bring child Shizun to his family. He feels so completely helpless.

Mu Qingfang doesn’t like keeping such a secret from the sect leader, but he’s also familiar enough with Yue Qingyuan to know he might kill this child.

Shizun told Luo Binghe he was from another world a few months ago, but Luo Binghe doesn’t have the details of what that life was like. He’s trying his best, but it’s hard when child Shizun seems repulsed by the idea of their marriage. Luo Binghe doesn’t know any of the foods child Shizun wants. He can’t bring child Shizun to his family. He feels so completely helpless.

When Luo Binghe finally makes sweet potato fries that don't make Xiao Shizun puke, Luo Binghe starts openly weeping with relief, prompting a flailing Shen Yuan to try cheering him up via force feeding him fries. It's the most Xiao Shizun has willingly touched him since he found out his older self married this man, which only makes the happy crying worse.

Shang Qinghua manages to pry Shen Yuan away before a full meltdown can occur ("Come play Pokemon with Hua-gege!") but only because he has been threatened promised to help Cucumber-baby-bro with the homophobia issue.

Through child level metaphor, Shang Qinghua talks about Dittos. Both he and Shen Yuan are Dittos! They took the forms of another person! Shen Yuan even transformed into a child! But y'know something else cool about Dittos? They can pair up with anyone at a Daycare Center, right? Because if you can be anyone, you can be with anyone, yeah? Like how Hua-gege has his own Demon Lord Husband (who is an ice type)

Does this work? Not really. But does it help? Yeah.

Because Shen "Notice A Genre And Run With It" Yuan comes away with the message that all transmigrators here end up marrying demon lords. That's just How It Is. So he'll be the Best Transmigrator, which means he has the Best Husband!