An ordinary man who had slept less than two hours all night was woken again by the violent noise caused by several people fighting an agent. His resentment ran so deep that he needed a drink to drown his sorrows.
Of course, drinking alone was not Schiller's style, so he went to find his former drinking buddy, Joker Jack. Troubled by insomnia, Schiller inadvertently told Jack about what he had seen at the Metropolis Mayor's Mansion.
Jack, forced to stay home without work because of Gotham's traffic accidents and snowstorms, was bored out of his mind. Upon hearing about something so interesting, he could not wait to get involved.
But there was one very practical problem: how were they supposed to get Jack to Metropolis?
Of course, DC had a particularly strange law known as the "Batman-Joker Convergence" law.
Wherever there was Batman, there was Joker; wherever there was Joker, there was Batman. If the two were separated, the other would ignore all laws of physics and suddenly appear wherever the first one was, delivering a devastating blow to whatever plan had been progressing smoothly.
Simply put, Batman lived at the headwaters of the Yangtze, Joker lived at its mouth, and the next day, the Yangtze would turn into a highway. A true marvel of national engineering.
But Schiller discovered that this seemed to follow the observer effect. As long as he kept an eye on Batman here while watching Joker in the dream, neither of them could ignore the laws of physics and meet up.
So the simplest method was actually to return by the route Schiller had taken: descend through Joker's dream, travel all the way to the Dreamscape, pass through the Dream God's realm, and then return to Schiller's dream.
Setting aside the Dream God's expression—a mixture