Ripperdactyl
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Xavi motioned the air recovery team downwards.
To Sue and the companions relief, they were finally returning to the solid ground again.
The Ripperdactyls, swooped in gracefully to land in a flat farm field.
The companions dismounted.
"I'm still alive!" Chadsun said incredulously, jumping up and down on the solid earth.
"Hard part, now" Xavi said to Chadsun.
"What do you mean?" Sue replied instead.
"Need cross Tendril Sea." Xavi said, as he pointed to a field full of cows.
"Need feed rippers, meat, long journey, no stop. Meat make Rippers... difficult!" Xavi said handing Walter a gold ingot.
"Buy six cow."
Eligbert watched with wide eyes, as he saw the chunk of gold change from Xavi's hand to Walters.
"Peter, Rudolph!, You heard, go find the farmer and give him this." Walter felt the heavy lump of gold in his hand.
It must have been about ten years worth of wages for an officer, he thought to himself. He handed it to Peter Frankfurton.
"When you find the farmer, tell him it's military concern. Don't let him see this." Walter said pointing to the primordial air crew.
Rudolph and Peter ran off to find the farm house.
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Maw-gritch finally caught up with the Gutter Runner. Following its scent with his keen nose.
He ran to where the Gutter Runner lay dying from exhaustion, propped up against a tree.
"Which, way? quick" Maw-gritch snapped with little concern for the Gutter Runners plight.
"South-we .. west." The Gutter Runner said weakly.
"Go-go, now" Maw-gritch directed two clan rat's to dispose of the Gutter Runners body, and then ran as fast as he could back to the entry tunnel, that lead to the Vagulchden.
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Maw-gritch ran as fast as his hands and feet would carry him, through the narrow tunnels that lead into Clan Vagulch's main burrow.
He finally emerged, squeezing himself though a tight hole, into a huge cavern. Endless Skaven toiled, some pushing great carts full of soil and others carrying food of various descriptions.
The smell sat like treacle in the air. It was thick and heavy.
Maw-gritch tussled through the teeming Skaven crowds, making his way towards Plague Seer Malgrix's personal burrow.
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Claus Dukemhausen, was in the barn tending to his pigs, when Peter and Rudolph found him.
"Hello soldat's? can I helfps?" Claus said to the red faced Peter.
"Yes" Peter said, breathlessly.
"We are comen here, to take six of your cow." Peter finished.
"VHAT!" Claus said furiously.
"Wait, wait, we will compensate you." Peter said extending his arms, to calm the farmer down.
"How?" Claus said.
Peter handed Claus the gold ingot.
Claus took the gold block suspiciously. He bit into it and scratched at it.
"Oh mein heavens!" The farmers attitude had completely transformed.
"Please I insist take ten cow!"
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Walter watched as the Skinks stretched and rubbed the Rippdactyls wings.
"Eligbert, tell me. vhat the hell happen? how did you find my mutter's farm?" Walter said to the sitting wizard.
"Well, it all started with that idiot over there" Eligbert said looking at Chadsun, who had gone to be sick in some trees.
"Yes, continue please" Walter's curiosity making him impatient.
"Well, he slapped one of the ladies at Shanty's lost Knickers across...." Eligbert said remorsefully shaking hie head.
"And her coconuts flew off, and one of them hit another patron. And a brawl did take place."
"The next thing I knew, the town guard appeared. And it was Peter and Rudolph. They were unsure what to do with me and Chadsun.
So they decided to go and ask you."
"How did they find me?" Walter asked again.
"They went to every coach on main street, until they found someone who had given a yellow lizard a journey."
Walter cursed teaching his men to use their own initiative, as he watched them returning from amongst the farm buildings.
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"Sir, the farmer said to take those cows in the field nearest to us. He said he was going to town,
and would clean up tomorrow when he gets back, any mess." Peter Frankfurton said pointing to the grazing cows.
Xavi stood up "Mount up!". The Skink pilots walked back to their Ripperdactyls and climbed on. The air troop took to the skies.
Walter watched as they circled slowly around the grazing cows.
"EERRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKK" Xavi's Ripper let out a deafening shriek as it dived down claws extended. The cows started to run in panic.
The Ripperdactyl was on them, tearing and biting at the cow. There were more shrieks as the rest of the beasts descended on the other cows.
The Ripperdactyls seemed to come to life, eating with voracious appetites, great slabs of beef.
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"Great se.. seer" Maw-gritch snapped urgently, to the robed figure who was standing at a large round table with a huge map of southern Ghyran on it.
"Yes yes? information?" Malgrix raised his head from the map, his eyes focusing on the Plague Monk.
"South-West" Maw-gritch confirmed.
The Plague Seer went back to study his map. He placed one finger with a large curled nail on a point on the map.
"S so.. they reach the coast at her-hernia Promontory, cross sea." Malgrix traced his nail across the canvas map.
"Has to be hot, for lizards. Hot-hot and wet." Malgrix pondered.
"There!"
Magrix turned to his attendee's.
"All tunnelling operations to be redirected to-to the Dearth Coast!"
Maw-gritch spoke again, "Your excellency, I poi-poision their flying mounts."
"Good-good work, Maw-gritch" Magrix turned back to his map.
"So-so let's see. five hours to cross the-the sea. Stomach Rot takes 8 hours to work-work." Malgrix plotted out an estimated
zone on the map.
"Need-need get there before them!" Magirx said snuffling his whiskers, as he tried to solve the difficult problem.
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"The Rocket Train!" Skit-warp-tail said enthusiastically, motioning with his hand, towards a mining cart with four rockets welded to either side of it.
"Skit, is-is there any possibility, this will work-work?" Magrix said, trying hard to be optimistic.
"Why, yes-yes of course my horse!" Skit said, a knowing smile exposing his big yellow rotten teeth.
"When-when Skit-warp-tail, ever let Malgrix down?"
Malgrix looked around Skit's workshop at various other destroyed contraptions.
"Good-good. How many, that thing carry?" Malgix asked looking at it again.
"One safely, two less safely." Skit replied.
"Great, Maw-gritch for your great reward, for-for good work, you can go-go with Skit in Rocket Train!." Malgrix said rubbing his hands.
Maw-gritch, passed his eyes over the suicide train. "Thank-you" He said.
"When-when we going?" Skit asked Malgrix.
"Now! this very moment! you must arrive at the other side, before they do. Follow them, mark trail."
Malgrix watched as some slaves were employed by a burly looking Stormvermin to drag the Roket Train towards the entrance of the exploration tunnel.
The rat men began to head towards the main tunnel hub of Vagulchden.
"You arrive first-first, Night runners arrive tonight. Rest-rest of rats arrive tomorrow."
"Main tunnel complete in 5 days. Then we all arrive." Malgrix said to Skit-warp-tail.
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The rat men stepped into the bustling rail network hub of Vagulchden. The great mouths of the tunnels that linked Vagulchden to the continents of Ghyran shot off in all directions.
Malgrix headed towards the tunnel heading south west. There was a constant stream of Skaven carrying carts of clay and rock exiting the tunnels mouth.
He approached the foreman, who was distributing orders to the worker rats.
"When-when, last rat down the exploration tunnel-tunnel" Malgrix asked.
"three hours, group of twenty going out" The foreman answered.
"Skit your journey on Rocket Train might be bumpy" Malgrix said.
The slaves brought the Rocket Train to the entrance of the small exploration/service tunnel at the side of the main tunnel.
"Left-left! right, back there!" Skit told them, lining up the Rocket Train's wheels on the small gauge tracks.
"Get, ready go - to go!" Skit handed Maw-gritch a padded helmet with some goggles.
Maw-gritch looked at the exploration tunnels entrance as he climbed in the Roket Train, it was barely as tall as the cart. He ducked down further as Skit climbed in as well.
"Ok good luck-luck!" Malgrix squeaked, asthe slaves pushed the Roket Train to the mouth of the very snugly fitting exploration tunnel.
A muffled voice replied back "stan woo bark."
Malgrix waited for a few moments... Nothing was happening.
"Go see what problem" He pointed at the foreman.
"fizzzzisssss" The foreman went to poke his head into the mouth of the tunnel.
"ssssssiiissssssssss."
"WHHOOOOSOSOSOSOSOSOSSHHHHHHHHHH"
The warpstone powered rockets on the Rocket Train finally ignited. The foreman was caught in back blast, and killed instantly, his fur singed and the whip falling from his smoking paw.
The sound the Rocket Train made shooting off down the tunnel was deafening.
Malgrix smiled, as it began to grow fainter.
He looked at the mouth of the exploration tunnel. The tracks were glowing red from the warp rockets.
"Wait for twenty min-minutes, for tracks to cool, then rest of you go." Malgrix said to the five hundred or so rat men, he had ear marked for the advance scouting mission of the Dearth Coast.
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To Sue and the companions relief, they were finally returning to the solid ground again.
The Ripperdactyls, swooped in gracefully to land in a flat farm field.
The companions dismounted.
"I'm still alive!" Chadsun said incredulously, jumping up and down on the solid earth.
"Hard part, now" Xavi said to Chadsun.
"What do you mean?" Sue replied instead.
"Need cross Tendril Sea." Xavi said, as he pointed to a field full of cows.
"Need feed rippers, meat, long journey, no stop. Meat make Rippers... difficult!" Xavi said handing Walter a gold ingot.
"Buy six cow."
Eligbert watched with wide eyes, as he saw the chunk of gold change from Xavi's hand to Walters.
"Peter, Rudolph!, You heard, go find the farmer and give him this." Walter felt the heavy lump of gold in his hand.
It must have been about ten years worth of wages for an officer, he thought to himself. He handed it to Peter Frankfurton.
"When you find the farmer, tell him it's military concern. Don't let him see this." Walter said pointing to the primordial air crew.
Rudolph and Peter ran off to find the farm house.
----------------------------------------
Maw-gritch finally caught up with the Gutter Runner. Following its scent with his keen nose.
He ran to where the Gutter Runner lay dying from exhaustion, propped up against a tree.
"Which, way? quick" Maw-gritch snapped with little concern for the Gutter Runners plight.
"South-we .. west." The Gutter Runner said weakly.
"Go-go, now" Maw-gritch directed two clan rat's to dispose of the Gutter Runners body, and then ran as fast as he could back to the entry tunnel, that lead to the Vagulchden.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Maw-gritch ran as fast as his hands and feet would carry him, through the narrow tunnels that lead into Clan Vagulch's main burrow.
He finally emerged, squeezing himself though a tight hole, into a huge cavern. Endless Skaven toiled, some pushing great carts full of soil and others carrying food of various descriptions.
The smell sat like treacle in the air. It was thick and heavy.
Maw-gritch tussled through the teeming Skaven crowds, making his way towards Plague Seer Malgrix's personal burrow.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Claus Dukemhausen, was in the barn tending to his pigs, when Peter and Rudolph found him.
"Hello soldat's? can I helfps?" Claus said to the red faced Peter.
"Yes" Peter said, breathlessly.
"We are comen here, to take six of your cow." Peter finished.
"VHAT!" Claus said furiously.
"Wait, wait, we will compensate you." Peter said extending his arms, to calm the farmer down.
"How?" Claus said.
Peter handed Claus the gold ingot.
Claus took the gold block suspiciously. He bit into it and scratched at it.
"Oh mein heavens!" The farmers attitude had completely transformed.
"Please I insist take ten cow!"
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Walter watched as the Skinks stretched and rubbed the Rippdactyls wings.
"Eligbert, tell me. vhat the hell happen? how did you find my mutter's farm?" Walter said to the sitting wizard.
"Well, it all started with that idiot over there" Eligbert said looking at Chadsun, who had gone to be sick in some trees.
"Yes, continue please" Walter's curiosity making him impatient.
"Well, he slapped one of the ladies at Shanty's lost Knickers across...." Eligbert said remorsefully shaking hie head.
"And her coconuts flew off, and one of them hit another patron. And a brawl did take place."
"The next thing I knew, the town guard appeared. And it was Peter and Rudolph. They were unsure what to do with me and Chadsun.
So they decided to go and ask you."
"How did they find me?" Walter asked again.
"They went to every coach on main street, until they found someone who had given a yellow lizard a journey."
Walter cursed teaching his men to use their own initiative, as he watched them returning from amongst the farm buildings.
------------
"Sir, the farmer said to take those cows in the field nearest to us. He said he was going to town,
and would clean up tomorrow when he gets back, any mess." Peter Frankfurton said pointing to the grazing cows.
Xavi stood up "Mount up!". The Skink pilots walked back to their Ripperdactyls and climbed on. The air troop took to the skies.
Walter watched as they circled slowly around the grazing cows.
"EERRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKK" Xavi's Ripper let out a deafening shriek as it dived down claws extended. The cows started to run in panic.
The Ripperdactyl was on them, tearing and biting at the cow. There were more shrieks as the rest of the beasts descended on the other cows.
The Ripperdactyls seemed to come to life, eating with voracious appetites, great slabs of beef.
--------------------------------------------------
"Great se.. seer" Maw-gritch snapped urgently, to the robed figure who was standing at a large round table with a huge map of southern Ghyran on it.
"Yes yes? information?" Malgrix raised his head from the map, his eyes focusing on the Plague Monk.
"South-West" Maw-gritch confirmed.
The Plague Seer went back to study his map. He placed one finger with a large curled nail on a point on the map.
"S so.. they reach the coast at her-hernia Promontory, cross sea." Malgrix traced his nail across the canvas map.
"Has to be hot, for lizards. Hot-hot and wet." Malgrix pondered.
"There!"
Magrix turned to his attendee's.
"All tunnelling operations to be redirected to-to the Dearth Coast!"
Maw-gritch spoke again, "Your excellency, I poi-poision their flying mounts."
"Good-good work, Maw-gritch" Magrix turned back to his map.
"So-so let's see. five hours to cross the-the sea. Stomach Rot takes 8 hours to work-work." Malgrix plotted out an estimated
zone on the map.
"Need-need get there before them!" Magirx said snuffling his whiskers, as he tried to solve the difficult problem.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Rocket Train!" Skit-warp-tail said enthusiastically, motioning with his hand, towards a mining cart with four rockets welded to either side of it.
"Skit, is-is there any possibility, this will work-work?" Magrix said, trying hard to be optimistic.
"Why, yes-yes of course my horse!" Skit said, a knowing smile exposing his big yellow rotten teeth.
"When-when Skit-warp-tail, ever let Malgrix down?"
Malgrix looked around Skit's workshop at various other destroyed contraptions.
"Good-good. How many, that thing carry?" Malgix asked looking at it again.
"One safely, two less safely." Skit replied.
"Great, Maw-gritch for your great reward, for-for good work, you can go-go with Skit in Rocket Train!." Malgrix said rubbing his hands.
Maw-gritch, passed his eyes over the suicide train. "Thank-you" He said.
"When-when we going?" Skit asked Malgrix.
"Now! this very moment! you must arrive at the other side, before they do. Follow them, mark trail."
Malgrix watched as some slaves were employed by a burly looking Stormvermin to drag the Roket Train towards the entrance of the exploration tunnel.
The rat men began to head towards the main tunnel hub of Vagulchden.
"You arrive first-first, Night runners arrive tonight. Rest-rest of rats arrive tomorrow."
"Main tunnel complete in 5 days. Then we all arrive." Malgrix said to Skit-warp-tail.
-----------------------
The rat men stepped into the bustling rail network hub of Vagulchden. The great mouths of the tunnels that linked Vagulchden to the continents of Ghyran shot off in all directions.
Malgrix headed towards the tunnel heading south west. There was a constant stream of Skaven carrying carts of clay and rock exiting the tunnels mouth.
He approached the foreman, who was distributing orders to the worker rats.
"When-when, last rat down the exploration tunnel-tunnel" Malgrix asked.
"three hours, group of twenty going out" The foreman answered.
"Skit your journey on Rocket Train might be bumpy" Malgrix said.
The slaves brought the Rocket Train to the entrance of the small exploration/service tunnel at the side of the main tunnel.
"Left-left! right, back there!" Skit told them, lining up the Rocket Train's wheels on the small gauge tracks.
"Get, ready go - to go!" Skit handed Maw-gritch a padded helmet with some goggles.
Maw-gritch looked at the exploration tunnels entrance as he climbed in the Roket Train, it was barely as tall as the cart. He ducked down further as Skit climbed in as well.
"Ok good luck-luck!" Malgrix squeaked, asthe slaves pushed the Roket Train to the mouth of the very snugly fitting exploration tunnel.
A muffled voice replied back "stan woo bark."
Malgrix waited for a few moments... Nothing was happening.
"Go see what problem" He pointed at the foreman.
"fizzzzisssss" The foreman went to poke his head into the mouth of the tunnel.
"ssssssiiissssssssss."
"WHHOOOOSOSOSOSOSOSOSSHHHHHHHHHH"
The warpstone powered rockets on the Rocket Train finally ignited. The foreman was caught in back blast, and killed instantly, his fur singed and the whip falling from his smoking paw.
The sound the Rocket Train made shooting off down the tunnel was deafening.
Malgrix smiled, as it began to grow fainter.
He looked at the mouth of the exploration tunnel. The tracks were glowing red from the warp rockets.
"Wait for twenty min-minutes, for tracks to cool, then rest of you go." Malgrix said to the five hundred or so rat men, he had ear marked for the advance scouting mission of the Dearth Coast.
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