Steam Community :: Guide :: Story Teller achievement

Store Page

Batman: Arkham City GOTY

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Batman: Arkham City GOTY > Guides > Lutra's Guides

192 ratings

Story Teller achievement - Calendar Man

By Lutra

Quick guide to get the "Story Teller" achievement in Batman: Arkham City GOTY.

Award

Created by

Lutra
Offline

Category: Achievements, Secrets, Story or Lore, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

Posted

Updated

21 Jan, 2022 @ 1:41am

5 Feb, 2022 @ 1:22am

8,463	Unique Visitors
298	Current Favorites

Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

How to

Dates

Completion

Credits

Comments

Introduction

In order to get this achievement, you have to visit the Calendar Man in his cell at special dates.
Starting New Years Day, he will more or less tell you which is the next date you should to visit him.

How to

You can complete this by adjusting your computer's clock.
Start by setting your year to 2012. This is because some holidays change dates from year to year, to correspond with a certain day of the week or similar.

His cell is in the basement of the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. You can enter through the backdoor.

Enter the courthouse, and go down talk to the Calendar Man.
After he finished telling his story, go back outside, alt-tab to change the date, alt-tab back, enter the courthouse and talk to him again. Rinse and repeat.
I don't know if going out and in is necessary, but I wanted to give the game an opportunity to save the interaction and to load the area with the new date set.

The dates does not appear on the calendar besides his cell prior to the date being "completed", at least during my playthrough. But as mentioned, he will tell you when next to come see him.

Dates

The dates, in order, are as follows:

1st January - New Years Day
14th February - St. Valentine's Day
17th March - St. Patrick's Day
1st April - April Fools Day
13th May - Mother's Day 2012 (moving)
17th June - Father's Day 2012 (moving)
4th July - US Independence Day
16th August - St. Roch's Day
3rd September - Labour Day 2012 (moving)
31st October - Halloween
22nd November - US Thanksgiving 2012 (moving)
25th December - Christmas Day

Completion

After the final date/getting the achievement, Batman can go back to check on the Calendar Man, only to find he's escaped custody, leaving another guy hanging there.

Credits

Inspired by a few other guides found online, which I pilfered dates from to try completing this achievement. Notably, (this, by Moritz_M05, which got me started, and a few others. The (minor) issue was that other guides were not always clear on the process or that some dates would only be accurate for a specific year. So cred to anyone that made a guide for this prior to mine ;)

19 Comments

< >

blebsmc99 20 Mar @ 4:53pm

thanks for the guide it worked like a charm

Jensen 14 Feb @ 12:15pm

just got the valentine's story from him. I plan on doing this through this year to christmas

Skizuki 22 Jan @ 3:23am

"nirsoft run as date" + this list = archivement
I allways left the building, changed date, attatch to process, sort by name (b is early), tab back in enter talk repeat. Was done in about 20 min

katharsis 1 Jan @ 10:39am

spoilers.........

xXx_ju5tan0th3rb1gb0y_xXx 30 Nov, 2023 @ 4:09pm

For anyone still trying to do this on steam deck:
-Go into Desktop Mode
-Open calendar in bottom right of desktop
-Click the settings icon
-Open Region Settings
-Open Date and Time and turn off automatically set time.

Now launch Arkham City with "-windowed" added to settings>properties in steam. This helps with easily switching back and forth on deck as I had run into issues with it not allowing keyboard control in fullscreen.

You can then follow the guide, switching dates as needed.

Hope this helps:)

munkwaz 24 Nov, 2023 @ 8:20pm

Yes, you can change the date on steam deck through BIOS and selecting setup utility, then going down to system date. Completely shut down your steam deck, then hold the power button and volume up button until it beeps to get there.

HenIchaer 8 Oct, 2023 @ 3:10am

Is it possible to change date on Steam Deck?)

Bagheera Magaro 14 May, 2023 @ 9:18am

I was hoping to not have to do date fiddling to get this (as a challenge to my forgetfulness), but it turned out that the tracking for the dates in the programming stopped some time ago. Something about only tracking 10 years after launch? Anyway, Mother's Day turned out to be inaccurate (or just not even there) so I had to change the date clear back a few years to get the tracking to work right. You can tell if you also have this problem by whether or not there's visible circles on the calendar nearby. If there's circles then that means either the tracking got fixed or you changed your comp's year/date because currently if you did nothing you won't see any circles.

Side note (SPOILERS): anybody else think it creepy that Calendar Man is probably the one putting fresh scribbles on the calendar? (idk if it's based on actual calendar progress or event triggers, but he's totes doing it right?)

jevar 29 Apr, 2023 @ 7:01pm

Very nice

TransparentFLU 14 Nov, 2022 @ 5:07pm

Thanks for the guide!

< >