Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham City

"Storyteller" requires you to talk with Calendar Man on 12 specific days of the year. He is located in the basement of the Solomon Wayne Courthouse which is where you save Catwoman at the beginning of the game. The Calendar on the wall outside of his cell has each date that you need to visit him circled.

Since this game came out in October 2016 thats where I'll start. Not that anyone reading this is going to wait to get this legit lol.

Edit: I've updated the dates for 2021 and only listed the dates that change for 2022.

2021
-January 1st, New Years Day
-February 14th, Valentines Day
-March 17th, St. Patricks Day
-April 1st, April Fools Day
-May 9th, Mother's Day*
-June 20th, Father's Day*
-July 4th, Independence Day
-August 16th, St. Roch's Day
-September 6th, Labor Day*
-October 31st, Halloween
-November 25th, Thanksgiving*
-December 25th, Christmas

2022
-May 8th, Mothers Day*
-June 19th, Fathers Day*
-September 5th, Labor Day*
-November 24th, Thanksgiving*

*Every Year these dates will change so verify with the calendar next to his cell for dates beyond whats listed.

Now onto how to get this Achievement in about 30-45 minutes by changing the date manually, instead of waiting a year like intended.

- First go into your Settings , Network Settings and click "Go Offline"- Afterwards power your console down (mine isn't set to instant on) otherwise the console won't let you change the date.
-When your Xbone is back on go into Settings, System, Time -
You can now change the date to one of the days listed above and your ready to go.

Once in game enter through the back of the courthouse. This will be the load zone that we will use to save our progress each time we talk to Calendar Man. Go down, listen to what he has to say (some of its pretty messed up lol) then exit the building out of the same door we came in through. Once it saves hit the dashboard button , then , click All Settings and change the date to another one of the specific days. Once done hit and you can go back to Batman who will just be chilling outside the door to the courthouse. Never even needing to save/exit your game to change the date. Rinse and repeat. The game will track your progress by crossing out the months on the Calendar next to his cell.

Final note, I did this on Halloween, so I left that date for last and connected back to Xbox Live to automatically change the date before popping my Achievement. If your trying to do this on a day not listed then connect back to Live after hitting to talk with him one last time. The Chievo should pop before he's done talking.

Good luck and Happy Hunting!

EDIT: Credit goes to NapoEarth for pointing this out as a solution to some issues people are having while visiting Calendar Man on the correct dates but being told to come back another day.

It appears, after looking at the comments, that the date goes by GMT and your local time zone means nothing. This means that, depending on the time of the day, it will either work or you will be one day ahead or one day behind depending on where you live in relation to GMT.

So essentially it seems that the game doesn't go by the players time zone and instead sticks to a standard time no matter where you live. Which is causing issues with Holidays not falling on correct days for some.

I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier but thanks to The Dawn of Don heres a link to a website that will give you the current time for the GMT Timezone. You can also look up Holidays on this website.
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/gmt

I'd like to add something just in case people are still having trouble changing the date on their console.

I contacted Xbox customer support, and I had the representative walk me through this process that I will share with you now:

Step 1 - Turn off your console and unplug the power cord from the console AND the wall outlet
Step 2 - After a few minutes, plug everything back in and turn your console back on
Step 3 - Go to the Blu-ray settings, and select the "clear storage" box 3 times.

After you do step 3, you should be able to change the date without any trouble.

If this works for anybody else, please let me know.

Since 2022 it is impossible to unlock this achievement legitimately, so the only option is to use the strategy where you set your xbox to offline in your settings, power off your xbox, power it back on then manually change your dates in the time section.

The way the achievement is supposed to be won is by talking to the calendar man inside the underground prison cell he resides in the court house where you saved Catwoman from Two-face near the start of the game. The easiest way to find him is by entering through the back entrance and taking the first left you come across, down the stairs and to taking the first right to the end of the corridor.

*Important*
In order to ensure that the game has changed your date after talking to the Calendar man you must exit the courthouse first and THEN change the date, where you can then enter and talk to the calendar man again.
ALSO, in order to actually unlock the achievement, since your xbox will not be connected to the internet and it won't unlock, you have to change your date to whatever the final date you decide to do, then enter the courthouse, walk directly in front of calendar man and then set your xbox back online, then talk to the calendar man in order to unlock the achievement.


2021
-January 1st, New Years Day
-February 14th, Valentines Day
-March 17th, St. Patricks Day
-April 1st, April Fools Day
-May 9th, Mother's Day
-June 20th, Father's Day
-July 4th, Independence Day
-August 16th, St. Roch's Day
-September 6th, Labor Day
-October 31st, Halloween
-November 25th, Thanksgiving
-December 25th, Christmas

These are the dates that you will have to input into your xbox. Happy Hunting

Hey everyone

For those of you, like me, have the digital edition and not physical, you can still change the date and access the game offline!

All you have to do is set your xbox as your "Home Xbox" and this enables you play your installed games offline. I just tried this and it works! Set the date to new years and went and talked to Calender Man.

To set your Xbox as your "Home Xbox", be connected to XBL and go to:

Settings > General > Personalisation > My home Xbox then hit the checkmark.

After that, go offline, restart your Xbox and change the date.

Good luck!

If it's 2024 and you're on an Xbox Series S or X, have a digital copy of the game (Return to Arkham), AND/OR Calendar Man has disappeared (see final paragraph), etc etc:

Lots of great advice and guides for this one already, but I just spent a few days trying every which way to unlock this after Calendar Man disappeared (see last paragraph for everything I tried) and finally got it so I figured I'd put that all in one spot for anyone in the same boat.

#1 - "go offline" mode and physically disconnecting your Xbox from the internet are not the same. At least 4 of my attempts were made by just unplugging the Xbox from the internet and none of them worked, then I tried the same steps after using the "go offline" option in network settings and "achievement unlocked." Seems like online prompts might be queued differently when the Xbox knows it's just in offline mode as opposed to not connected to the internet at all.

#2 - I did this NOT on an actual holiday so for the very last date I waited until Calendar Man was finished with his entire story, he sat back on his bed, and the " Talk to Calendar Man" prompt had reappeared. Then I went to settings, hit "go online," then went back to the game. I never saw the achievement pop but when I checked my achievements it was finally unlocked.

#3 - And just to be thorough the steps from the beginning are: go to network settings, go offline, completely shut down the Xbox (I did it from settings, power options, shut down), turn on the Xbox, switch the time to UTC (so you don't have to worry about the whole GMT thing), and change the date to January 1st 2021 (I used all the 2021 dates). Go to the courthouse, talk to Calendar Man, wait until he's done, step outside the back door so the game saves, go into settings and change it to the next date, and repeat the process. The 2021 dates are:

• January 1st
• February 14th
• March 17th
• April 1st
• May 9th
• June 20th
• July 4th
• August 16th
• September 6th
• October 31st
• November 25th
• December 25th

Because I think Reagan Oliver might be right in that it's impossible to legitimately unlock this now. If you look at the calendar next to Calendar Man's cell in 2024, where there would usually have the dates circled when you have to visit, there are now NO dates circled. Also it's currently April and when I talk to him he makes a remark about independence, like July 4th is the next day I should visit him even though chronologically the next holiday is Mother's Day, so maybe there's a chance that July 4th (or one of the other static holidays) still works, I'll edit this in July and let you know.

If Calendar Man has disappeared: this happened to me at least 4 times: on my first game, on my ng+ save, and on 2 more saves where I started the game over entirely from the beginning. Basically if you talk to him the last time and then exit the courthouse it'll cross off all the dates, save the game, and Calendar Man will be gone (creepy!). I tried reconnecting to the internet right after hitting to talk to him for the last time, I tried reconnecting after, and I tried fighting guys outside until another save triggered. I tried coming back after a day, signing my profile out and in at different stages, and I even tried deleting my save, going offline, and starting over. Tried it all and no achievement. If that's where you're at, Calendar Man has disappeared on your og an ng+ saves, and nothing is working, I unfortunately don't have better advice than "just start another game and try again," but luckily the courthouse is the very first place you go to as Batman so it only takes 5-10 minutes to get there from the beginning. And again, use "go offline" instead of physically disconnecting your Xbox from the internet, that's probably what finally did it for me.

Good luck!