As I walked up to the man I could see his name displayed next to him, the help screens were useful, but they failed in more than one way.
I had tried to see where their information stopped so I had some of the children in the orphanage put on masks, run around and exchange them, the help screen only showed masked child name unknown.
It was only after the boy or girl removed the mask and put it back on that their names appeared next to them, exchanging their masks in front of me did nothing, their names were displayed forme to know who they were.
Everything from age, height, blood type and whatever skills the children had was shown for everyone to know, this was true even for the adults.
I felt everyone's eyes on me as I walked to the man that controlled this place, he turned and greeted me with a smile.
"Welcome Batman"
"I heard that the lands are dangerous, I was planning to see if I could get some help from you" I said to him, yet the men smile never wavered.
"Straight to the point then, pick whoever you want, this may be a jail, but everyone stays here because they want to, so good luck finding anyone that wants to travel with you"
We looked at one another, no words needed to be asked, our conversation was only understood by those that had experience with things like this.
"No' was his answer, there was no room for arguments.
I had wanted him to order his men to accompany me, but from his one-word, he proved that he wouldn't risk the lives of those under his control without any real reason.
"Any suggestions" I asked him.
"Don't move at night, only do so if you have a big group accompanying you" he went back to doing what he had been doing before he had noticed my presence.
"Is there a way I can pass some time here before I go into the forest and explore the outside?" I asked him and the man turned to look at me once more, his blue eyes seemed to glitter.
"So you are as smart as the others say you are, sure go ahead."
He completely ignored me after that and signaled to a nearby woman with red hair she wore armor similar to that of a spartan or an amazonian would wear.
I walked to a nearby table, one that had familiar faces, wordlessly they all served a bow filled with stew and placed it in front of me.
"Eat it, you're going to need it" the penguin said to me.
"I already ate" I answered him.
"This isn't food for a hungry person, this is food to prove your trustworthy, eat and pass it to the person next to you, we all eat from it and you finish what's left." he explained
I looked around and I noticed that everyone else's eyes were on me, I lifted the bow and drank from it, some vegetables filled my mouth and I had to admit the vegetables weren't bad at all.
"Your one of us, now" Crock said to me as he passed the bow to someone I didn't know, she at least I think it was she took the bow and ate from it.
'I didn't know there were orc's in the ark" I said as I looked at it.
"They aren't, she was handed over to us by her clan or tribe, shes an exile just like the rest of us. Just like you" two face answered me.
"There are a few rules you have to follow, one everyone bathes at the same time, keep your weapons with you even when you're in the water and if you're going to fuck, tell people before doing it"
"We've already had to save some idiots before they were eaten by the grass" crock said scratching the back of his head.
The bow was placed in front of me and I found that there was barely anything left, I lifted the bow and ate what was left.
"Welcome to the Gotham Exil, everyone here has the name Exil or Exiled in their names, for example, I'm Harvey Dent of the Gotham Exil clan"
"Welcome Batman, I have heard stories of your greatness, from this clan as well as others" the orc woman said to me, her voice was strong yet as soft as any woman's voice.
"Listen bats, there's one thing you have to know before you follow us on patrol, don't save anyone that isn't an Exile."
"I don't matter who they are, folks around here see someone helping them as, the same as them being seen as weak" Harley Quinn said to me before she picked up a machine gun and several extra rounds of ammunition.
"Here" Pinguin said to me as he handed me several bottles of potions, my help screen immediately told me they were different versions of explosives.
"Use them to burn everything around you" I noticed that everyone was arming themselves.
"Alright let's go, Pyrrha, Diana I'm counting on you two to hold down the fort until we get back" Jaune said to the two women that had stayed behind and I found an old friend standing next to the red-haired woman, however, Diana signaled to me not to leave the group.
Our reunion will have to wait.
"Word of advice bats, stay away from married women. We may know you, but others don't, and they'll think you're making a move on the bosses wife" Harly said to me, as she pointed at the group of orcs nearby.
As we walked, one by one small groups began to separate and head into different directions, some stayed inside the barried, others didn't.
Even when the group was large I could sense the danger around us, now that our group was becoming smaller, that feeling was only growing, finally, we separated from the group.
Not even twelve steps away from the barrier, I noticed that a few plants that were around us had begun to move, flowers that walked on their own and small trees that seemed to stare at us with hungry eyes.