Gotham isn’t built on stone. It’s built on secrets.
That’s the idea we chase in this week’s episode of The Gotham and Beyond Podcast. No punchline. No villain of the week. Just a question: what’s underneath? Not under the GCPD. Not under the subways. Beneath all of it.
Because old cities stack up. You build over fire damage. You bury neighborhoods that didn’t fit the new zoning plan. You tell everyone it was condemned. And then you never speak of it again.
In comics, we’ve seen the hints.
The Court of Owls with their tunnels and their roosts.
No Man’s Land, where people made homes in spaces no one remembered.
Arkham’s old east wing, sealed off after something moved in the walls and a priest went missing. They boarded it. The blueprints were revised. No more questions.
But the story isn’t in the panels. It’s in the gaps.
What if there’s a city under Gotham that isn’t ruined? What if it’s waiting? Or worse...what if it still functions?
Imagine your players stumble into a corridor that shouldn’t be there.
It’s too long. Too dry. The walls are hand-laid brick. And when they reach the end, there’s a street. An entire street. Gas lamps. Numbered doors. Maybe even a newspaper stand.
But no people.
Just the sense that someone left the room before you entered it.
That’s where the session starts.
And the more they dig, the less they understand.
The dates don’t match. The architecture is wrong. The gravity feels off.
Maybe it’s an old Gotham that got covered up.
Maybe it’s something else entirely.
A memory. A punishment. A promise.
Because in Gotham, nothing is really lost.
It’s just waiting in the dark.
And sometimes the door opens on its own.
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