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“You’re coming to desert?” she asked.

“Naturally,” he replied. “Roderick’s magical aptitude is woefully inept. Only one with sufficient training and knowledge of the Winds should walk into close proximity of the artifact. Why do you frown, Miss See...

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“By the Gods’,” Roderick sighed, flicking his final dice away. “What am I supposed to do with just one dice? How can I bounce back? This game’s unfair.”

“Perhaps you should try not losing all your dice in the first few rounds,” Wilfred suggested with an amused chuckle.

“Or stop being a bad liar,” Skyseeker added, joining Wilfred as she giggled.

“Laugh it up, both of you,” Roderick m...

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“You do realise if the captain sees you with a weapon, we’re both doomed, right?”

“Will be doomed-dead without my knives,” she countered. “A Skaven without a knife is like a… like a… Skaven without a knife! Yes-Yes! Only matter of time before I get paws back on weeping blades…”

“I thought you said you agreed to be disarmed.”

“Temporarily!”

“You never cease to amaze me, Skyseeker,” Roderick sighed, rubbing his tem...

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“Exactly!”

“Be wary, miss Seeker,” Wilfred warned, raising a crooked finger. “Von Kessel’s tolerance has its limit, and there are those on this ship who hold nothing but disdain for your kind. Until we make landfall in Arabia, you won’t be safe.”

“Just how Skaven like-likes it,” she tittered, unfazed as ever.

“Come,” Wilfred added, gesturing with his staff. “I shall show you around.”

They followed the wizard towards the s...

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“Greetings, captain,” Roderick replied, and although he’d not had to address a superior in years, his arm snapped up in a prim salute all the same. Old habits die hard, he supposed. “I hope my delay did not cause too much idleness for you and your crew.”

“I was looking for an excuse to give the boys some shore leave,” Von Kessel replied, returning the salute after a moment. In Roderick’s peripheral, he could see Skyseeker tilting her head, watchi...

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“Salutationings,” Skyseeker began, waving a paw. “I… am Skyseeker of Clan Mors, Master Assassin, chosen of Lord Gnawdwell, and disguise extraordinaire!”

She gripped the lip of her hood, peeling the fabric back just enough to expose the tip of her furry muzzle. “See? Not actually a beard-thing!” she announced, snickering like she’d just pulled off the greatest scam of all time.

“Now this, I did not foresee,” Wilfre...

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Forming a crescent shape was a stone foundation, thick jetties and wharfs jutting from the cobbles at various spots along its curved length, spearing out into a panoramic view of an azure ocean. Bobbing in the water were ships of all sizes, from small dinghies and private yachts, to commercial liners and cargo haulers, their sales flapping in the harsh winds. There were bright markers in the water to help keep the docking lanes clear, the buoys sporting small glass or...

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The guards dragged him around the corner and out of sight, Roderick shooting Skyseeker a frown, the rat woman shrugging in response. “What? Could mean other Skaven in city! Best keep eyes peeled.”

“What part of being discreet don’t you understand?” he sighed, rubbing his temple with a hand. ...

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“Oh, we aren’t helping you, manling,” the female interjected. “We are simply letting you march to your death even quicker than you would otherwise. Falsely claiming to be a companion to a friend of the Glade is punishable by death. Death from afar. We’ll be watching.”

“And smelling, I should think,” Roderick said, taking that as his cue to leave. He ordered some breakfast from the innkeeper, then retreated back to ...

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“We could… share the bed, lass.”

Skyseeker opened her mouth in a mix of surprise and horror. “Scandalous!” she exclaimed. “Man-thing can’t SLEEP with Skaven! W-What would Horned Rat say?”

“Keep your voice down,” he hissed. “You want the whole tavern to hear you? If you don’t want to share, at least sleep on top of the floor, not beneath it.”

“Hmm…” Skyseeker mused, chewing on a claw, fixing ...

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He delved his fingers into her coat, starting at her neck. Her fur was so fine, the strands indiscernible from another at a touch, almost making it feel like soft velvet. Her tension seemed to have melted away along with her tangled fur, Skyseeker slowly relaxing with each stroke of his fingers, her head lolling forward as he worked the suds in deep.

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“Take it slow on the beer, lass,” Roderick said, placing a tankard in front of her, pouring her drink until the foam reached the rim. “It’s not a competition.”

“Why can’t it be?” she asked, knocking the drink back until half of it was gone, only pausing so she could take a breath. “Bet three warpstone Roderick can’t match thirst.”

“Oh-ho, you want a drinking game?” he chuckled, pouring his own. “Sure, I’ll bite. Whoever conc...

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“The… Crippled Gryphon?” he muttered, chuckling to himself. “Now that’s ironic, isn’t it lass?”

As they moved up to the tavern door, he pulled Skyseeker aside, the pair stepping into a nearby alleyway. “Here’s what we’re going to do,” he started, keeping his voice down. “You wait here, while I head inside, buy us a room for the night, then we’ll figure out how to get you in. Shouldn’t take two minutes.”

“Counter scheme,”...

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Roderick tilted his head in a nod, silently brushing past the procession of guards, the men narrowing their eyes at him. These Tileans were all the same…

He crossed beneath the raised portcullises, sconces mounted on either side casting a flickering yellow glow across the masonry. The ceiling was rounded and mostly bare, save for a massive trap door built towards the inner gate, the mechanism split into two halves. Roderick had been in more than enough sieges...

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“Ah, almost forgot about that,” Roderick said, glancing down at her. “The gates will be guarded, and if word has reached Portomaggoire about the Skaven invasion, which it likely has, they’ll be inspecting anyone who comes through. Assuming the city’s still open to visitors of course. You might be able to pass off as a dwarf –  keyword being might –  as long as you don’t speak, and we find something to cover you up.”<...

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“Skyseeker! It’s me, lass!”

She blinked, a dark shape poised above her drawing into focus, her weapon trembling inches from its face, the voice’s odd accent sparking recognition. Her heart beating like a drum, she turned the flat of her left dagger, the magical glow of the weeping blade lighting the grizzled features of a man-thing.

“It’s just me,” Roderick said again. His gauntleted hands were on her shoulders, and now he raised them, his mo...

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“How tiny-small you are,” her parentrat mused, and she was certain this was her parentrat, as what other conclusion could she come to? “No need-need to fret, pup, you will grow big-large one day.”

She wanted to ask if she would be as big as her one day, but all that came out was a quiet chittering sound, one that her parentrat seemed to take great interest in, craning her long neck over to nuzzle at her small face, replying with a wordl...

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Rough, cold rock. That was the first sensation she comprehended, how the crumpled stone dug into the soft, underdeveloped flesh on her paws, her fingers wiggling in odd directions as she tried to comprehend the world around her. The lack of a world was a better way to put it, for she was blind, swirling darkness greeting her wherever she flexed her delicate neck.

Warmth, that was the second sensation she recognised, a heat radiating from som...

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“Until you told me about your mission, I assumed all these vermintides were just coincidence that they’re happening now of all times, but I see it’s not just the Empire who’s after the relic. If the Skaven sensed its presence, then surely other pwoers have as well. Wouldn’t be ...

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Hey everyone I am sorry about the big old delay these past couple days. Having some real life inconveniencies rn, but that's not all I've been up to! As Skyseeker would say: I am hatching up an evil little scheme. Keep an eye out for it in the coming days.

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What followed was four days of hiking through deep woods, the scenery changing little apart from a few winding rivers and steep gullies. The weather remained clear, a serene breeze cooling the fur on Skyseeker’s arms, the way it filtered through the leaves creating a quiet ambience she’d not experienced since first setting foot onto the blighted marshes.

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“Look! See thing!”

Roderick squinted, but saw just the same stretches of forest. He asked her to describe what she saw, the Skaven shielding her goggled eyes with a paw. “It looks like… thing!”

He didn’t bother asking her to be more specific, since ‘thing’ seemed to be her favourite word in her vocabulary, but he did wonder just how good her vision was, even without that fancy gadget over her eyes. Moving that way to investigate me...

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“Fresh out,” he said, his companion sagging her shoulders at the news. They wouldn’t exactly die of thirst, but sprinting for so far in such a short amount of time had taken the wind out of them, his mouth as dry as the hills they crossed to get here.

“Listen!” Skyseeker suddenly said, cupping a pink ear beneath a paw. “Sound like water-drink!”

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“What is it?” she asked curtly, her neck bending at an odd angle as she followed his gaze. “Is that…”

The shadow came and went in the time it took to blink. Through the haze, behind and above them, was a dark spot, framed against the cerulean heavens. It was travelling in a wide circle, swooping around to their east, then to their south. It was steadily losing altitude, and it began to dip, there was a sharp sound, and then the spot rose up in he...

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“But… need to gaze at stars to see moon!”

“You know what I mean,” he muttered, though he wasn’t quite certain she actually did. Still, he couldn’t pass down her volunteering to take first watch, closing his eyes and letting his dreams take him.

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The forest was only a brief respite, the patch of woods ending after less than an hours walk, Roderick and Skyseeker delving back into the bleached, exposed ground of the hills. The...

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“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” he grumbled, lifting his visor and rubbing his temple, still dizzy from his headbutt with the rat. “We should make a hasty retreat, the shots and the smoke will draw more of your ilk. Mine too, no doubt.”

He made to move, but Skyseeker stopped him, pointing a claw at his arm, Rod...

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“Man-thing! Look!”

Roderick had just finished off the dazed Skaven, plunging his stolen sword into his chest, following her pointed finger as he freed it. The second group of Skaven was halfway down the hill, around ten ratmen sharing a wordless warcry, but two of their number stood out. They were taller, wearing the Skaven equivalent of a knight’s armour, flanking the procession. They were both wearing full-face masks, two breathing canisters jutting from...

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“Scouting party, likely from that vermintide we saw earlier,” he muttered, backing down out of sight.

“Man-thing don’t say?” Skyseeker asked sarcastically. “Hear I think-thought Skaven skitter hills for fun!”

“Could mean the Skaven are heading in the same direction as us,” he said, ignoring her comment. “What’s that thing they’re passing around?”

“Maybe new weapon,...

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He tossed the stick into the fire. “Eight hundred people called that village home, and by the time we’d taken control… barely two hundred lived through the night. I should have known the honourless traitors would have no qualms killing the innocent, but a part of me thought they’d still have some humanity in their hearts. It is as the elves say – above all the races, it is we humans who are the most easily seduced by the whims of Chaos.” He looked up at he...