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Verminous Fang at Hergig
Topic Started: 30th July 2004 - 07:02 AM (386 Views)
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Verminous Fang Sat on a hill, watching the defenders of the man-thing town called Hergig as they prepared for another wave of assaults. The acrid smell of burned gunpowder stung his nose, and the smoke from countless fires filled the sky, turning the noon skies to black, interspersed with the red of still raging fires. In the distance, approaching the city from west, a cloud of dust rose, signifying the arrival of reinforcements. At a sound of irritation, the grey seer turned back to Warlock Engineer Shiva, standing at his side. "Yes-yes, you need warpstone. You need gunpowder. You said-said all this. What I don't know-know is why!"

The ancient Engineer merely snorted softly to himself, unphased by the utter contempt he recieved from the grey seer. "The council..."

"Yes-yes, we know the Council says. The Council doesn't say why! My tunnelers arrived in Struhelspan at MY command, not the council. Now the Council says turn to Hergig. Now the Council says to listen to you. Now I ask, why?"

The Engineer again snorted, then bared his teeth. He jumped, startled, when Wilhelm the Rat jumped to the top of the Grey Serr's staff and hissed, exposing a full row of sharpened teeth. The, resigned, he said, "You are to test-test the new weapon. It is Project Supremacy. We shall help-help you with this."

Verminous Fang, less than accepting of this answer, turned to watch the dust clouds appraoching, seeming almost silvery against the red and black sky. He called out to his forces, and they began to marshall on the fields. He then returned his attention to the mysterious Warlock Engineer, "So, we shall-shall test this new weapon? On them, perhaps? And what of Helna, and the other twisted-half-things?"

"No! The weapon is too strong-strong! We would be killed-killed along with them! Lady Helna left. She not-not liking Strykaar. Much fighting there. Not our concern, unless we can use-use this..."


Sighing, the grey seer began moving off the hill, mumbling about a weapon's effectiveness if it can't be used in a battle. Soon enough, all the grey seer's attentions were directed solely on the upcoming battle. As the last of the clanrats filed into position, the dust parted enough for Verminous Fang to note that these reinforcements from Schoppendorf weren't the man-things he had expected, but the elf-things, marching arrogantly in their gleaming armor, all but ignoring the row upon row of skaven, chittering so loudly that it could even be heard over the sound of the hooves beating the ground in rythmic time. 2 Great Eagles accompanied the elf-things, and Verminous Fang could feel a tugging sensation upon the winds of magic, sure proof that there were wizards among the elf-things. With Hergig behind the Vermintide, the elf-things finally took notice, and seemed to find displeasure at the mere idea that there would be a fight. One of the elf-things, clad in flowing robes, even went so far as to take what seemed a lifetime to place each step, as though he might die if his robes were soiled.

The elf-things, evidently impatient to get to Hergig, immediately began charging forward, the support from their bolt throwers and archers singing in the early after noon. Few of the skaven fell to those vollies, and as Verminous Fang was beginning to order his troops forward, the crazed disciples of clan pestilens surged forth, intent on killing one of the Great Eagles, which simply flew off, laughing at the rats below. The censor bearers of clan pestilens had not fully recovered from chasing of the eagle when one of the chariots plowed through them, and into the main unit of plague monks. Seizing upon the opportunity provided him, the grey seer ordered the clanrats to charge the flank of the chariot, and they tore one of the elf-things free and tore him to pieces. Seeing this carnage, the remaining elf-thing fled, but was run down by the clan rats and plague monks.

On the other side of the battlefield, the Dragon Princes, armor shining brightly despite the dim light, charged forth into engineer Krikit's rattling gun, which chose that moment to jam. The valiant engineer and his assisstant bellowed forth their war cries and managed to spook the horses. When the dust of the initial assault settled, Krikit and his assisstant still stood, waving their arms and holding the Dragon Prince's attention until the large block of clanrats slammed into their flank, and group of cloaked figures assaulted the rear of the dragon princes. The chittering wave of fur and steel was just too much for the elf-things, and the fled, only to be cut down by the pursuing rat-men.

The grey seer, so far happy with the offensive, raised his head and screamed at the sky, making an uplifting gesture with his arms. Soon, the very earth trembled with the masses of rodents pouring forth, climbing over and devouring everything in their path. The vermin crawled over the silver helmed knights of the elf-things, but failed to find their way past the armor. They then crawled over a solitary figure in robes, hundreds of furry, biting things climbing over the figure before moving on, to disperse in their random directions. Dozens of rat corpses littered the ground, but the elf-thing did not move. The warlock engineers, thrilled with this turn of events, unleashed their warp energies upon the enemy. The elf-things fell about the battlefield, charred and blackened by the disruptive forces of chaos.

At that moment, the ground near the bolt thrower opened up, spilling forth the agents of Clan Eshin, intent on killing the crew of the bolt thrower, who mercifully obliged.

Darting about the battlefield, Grey Seer Verminous Fang suddenly found himself next to a large unit of the silver-helmed elf-things, trudging past on their horses. Caling forth the winds of magic, the grey seer drew a deep breath and exhaled sharpely upon the elf-things, who retched and vomitted before succoming to the effects and dieing, their bodies in twisted in agony upon the ground.

With the majority of the elf-thing army dead or dieing, the Grey Seer raised both paws above his head and howled. The remaining elf-things fled back the way they had come, abandoning the supplies that had been headed to Hergig. The Clanrats will eat well tonight!
Go forth my brethren, that we shall nibble at the roots of the old world!

We are the rats in the shadows. We hold the blades of corruption, aimed at the very heart of the Old World. We are The Council of Thirteen.

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Eshin Adept
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Good-good, You do have this creative writing thingo worked out dont you. Ever thought of authoring a skaven book (one where a dwarf doesnt kill us) and proposing it to black library?


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Thanks for the kind words! :D

I have considered writing professionally. Maybe I'll start something up.
Go forth my brethren, that we shall nibble at the roots of the old world!

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Yea i think you should, cos that work is ratastic! :D
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I suggest writing up a short skaven novel, and seeing if Black Library will publish it or if they like your stuff.


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It has indeed made its way to the SoC forum.

The fluff war is ours! :D

We shall inherit. :D
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i really need to read a good skaven book so if you do get it published (if you do write it) i would buy it. could you perhaps make a compilation thread of all the verminous fang stuff (and pehaps mention the great rat assassin thrask vilepaw master of the mordheim attack group)
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You know, I haven't been using assassins.

It may be a part of my wicked plan to lure my opponents into a state of confidence, so that then I can strike out and slay them. :D

If that turns out to be the case, Thrask Vilepaw has a job to do.
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thanks :D by the way hes uses weeping blades, and likes to kill anyone armed with crossbows, v good at doging bullets and bolts (in mordheim he survived three turns of combat against a person armed with two pistols who shot them both every turn and hit , he dodged them all :ph43r: ) you of course dont have to use this but its a bit of his history EDIT: and get working on that book i need a good read :lol: (not being pushy)
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The ladder style campain started today, and I won a game against Chaos Warriors. It litterally came down to the last combat on the last turn (it was a lock for him until the WFT killed a chosen knight and panicked the unit with his general :D ). The Rat Ogres actually performed (taking down 2 units of chaos warriors - once with slaves and once with clanrats providing the ranks and size).

It was very fun, and a real write-up will come (working on a reason why we fought chaos at Hergig, and right now all that I can come up with is that hey were just in the way).
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Heres a reason:
Chaos is Chaos. If your an ally, they attack. If your an enemy, they attack even more. It could be that a few clan rats strayed and killed and few chaos warriors...or vice versa.
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It could be that a few clan rats strayed and killed and few chaos warriors


Ummm, have you played against chaos? This may be the unlikeliest thing of all. :D
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Jackety
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I actually used to play chaos...
And that could happen easily.
That is, if the Warrior was unarmored. And asleep. Possibly drunk. Or mortally wounded.
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or perhaps if he was very badly crippled or had no limbs, then they might have a slim chance. Warpfire works well though.
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