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SO LET'S TALK CAMPAIGN 2 and the first mention of Barbara was when the Aerie 1 was found, having not been able to take off from Gotham. This was like, week 7. There were signs that bad stuff had occurred for the Bird of Prey, and as a casual observer of the session, I just sat back, took notes, and fretted a bunch. After all, most of the heroes, especially the women, all got a pretty bad turn of events due to Darkseid, so I didn't have the most hope that things were going well, but seeing the signs just helped settle in the despair.

Fast-forward to like, week 30 or so, and one of the parties explored the Gotham Zoo in session. It was a place Batcow suggested to visit (yes, Batcow), and the party had to work through some OMAC's to get to where Bud and Lou (the hyenas that belong to Harley Quinn) had been guarding - a Batcave in the zoo that we visited in campaign 1, which was really a Spoilercave. And lo and behold, it was not just Batcow and Ace the Bathound and Alfred the cat who were in the cave, but also human Alfred, a shattered Nightwing... and Oracle.

The amount of emotion that everybody experienced upon meeting Oracle in campaign 2 had to have been through the roof. And more, the relief that everyone felt that she was OKAY. After all, the world is shit, but she held everyone together through No Man's Land, she could do it here!... That wasn't quite the case, but the catharsis that came from seeing her was just huge.

The interactions were a little over the place - Spirit and Data 7 seeing her again was great. Roz'etta and her had some junk to sort out about Roz'etta leaving Earth before the campaign because she saw Waller smooching President Luthor... Brennus (MI), who is the son of MI's campaign 1 character Varra, that was a good meeting. It was just different. Cathartic, but different.

She was also totally in despair. She is a hooked-in girl - without internet, satellite, she was completely broken and that was really sad to experience. However, somehow by getting Nightwing to agree to it, we started bandying a resistance in Gotham together under the leadership of Batman (Harvey Dent), and running organization again, Oracle has managed to stamp out her pathos in the usual way - by being an unhealthy workaholic.

We don't pop in to Gotham as much as some of us would like, but she's waiting there at the least. For me, for Saoirse, there isn't quite as much reason to talk to her. We got a satellite phone hooked up where we can, but Saoirse doesn't have an association with her. Just mutual friendship with Roz'etta, and a mutual interested in the Bleed - see, the Bleed is the space between dimensions, which was also spawned by Oracle's best friend and Fields's sister, Trish. We will get to Trish in an honorable mention at some point. But Saoirse has been interested in the Bleed since we found the Fountain of Youth, and it's becoming apparent recently that the Bleed is important as the story in space seems to be that Thanagar is trying to create a universal empire and bring all energy and matter into a singular point to create a new universe, which is all linked to the Bleed in some way. So yeah, important stuff. Also, last anyone heard about Fields and Trish, they got lost in the Bleed.

It's a bit of a shame for me not to rp with Oracle more since I did it so often in campaign 1, especially since I used her when designing Saoirse. My goal in designing my current character was to try to be opposite of Fields, but also take some influence from Oracle, so I have ended up with an intelligent redhead who wears glasses and has divorced parents. In fact, last I spoke to her, I tried to fight a bit, play around with a negative relation... but Oracle is in work mode and Saoirse is a little too practical to bring a fight into things, so it ended up going in a more productive direction, which was interesting.

Anyway, Oracle who was number 1 or 2 at any given moment in campaign 1 is sitting lower for me now. Still high - not just because of campaign 1, but because she is still the multi-faceted character who has been shouldering the burden of responsibility, to the point where it's all that keeps her sane. To where her interactions with characters are still always ace. And where, if I find out she had something romantic with Ted Kord, she is dropping like 20 rankings. But she is still The Oracle, and if we had more interaction with her, maybe just maybe, she'd be climbing back up.

<3 Babs

Hint for 33: This is one of the younger heroes of Z'onn Z'orr.